Longmont will collaborate with Boulder County on responding to an that could lead to eventual drilling on a 2,720-acre area southeast of the current city limits city, officials said Thursday.
That area, which lies between Quail and Oxford roads, mostly west of East County Line Road, includes a 70-acre property where the city eventually plans to develop a community park, according to Dale Rademacher, general manager of Longmont’s Public Works and Natural Resources Department.
He said the area also includes about 20 acres of land owned by the St. Vrain Valley School District, including a site where the district is building a $20 million Innovation Center and one where the district may someday locate a new elementary school.
Boulder County commissioners and their staff announced on Wednesday night that the county had learned that 8 North LLC, a subsidiary of Extraction Oil and Gas LLC, has applied to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for a “drilling and spacing order,” the first step in a process that could lead to the company applying for permit to drill in the 2,720-acre area.
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