Boulder is primed to add, for a total cost of $2.7 million, two new parcels to the city’s Open Space and Mountain Parks’ roughly 45,000-acre portfolio.
Both sites sit near the city’s outskirts, and both have long been on city staff’s radar.
The larger of the two covers 25 acres just east of the intersection of 55th Street and Baseline Road. Boulder is prepared to buy this land for $1.7 million from the Suitts family, pending City Council’s approval on Tuesday.
Twenty-two acres on the Suitts parcel are part of the South Boulder Creek floodplain, and the city’s interest in the purchase has mostly to do with a general desire to buy up the few properties in the floodplain that are still privately owned.
This site is adjacent to other open-space land, with the Bobolink Trail being the nearest recreational space. It’s unclear whether there will be any public recreation in the future on the Suitts acreage, as city staff develops management plans only after purchasing land.
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