Residents sue Boulder County Commissioners over paving plan – Boulder Daily Camera.
Eight owners of properties in unincorporated Boulder County’s residential subdivisions filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the county’s authority to bill them for rehabilitating paved subdivision roads.
The eight — most of whom are steering committee members of Boulder County Fairness in Road Maintenance — are seeking a temporary injunction to prevent the commissioners from creating a Subdivision Paving Local Improvement District to allocate the costs.
FIRM co-chairman Chuck Wibby, one of the plaintiffs, said Wednesday that he hopes a hearing on the temporary injunction request will be scheduled as early as next week.
Wibby and the other plaintiffs contend in their lawsuit that the work the county wants property owners to pay for is maintenance that’s the county’s responsibility. Colorado’s Local Improvement District law allows LIDs to be created for a number of road-improvement purposes, but not maintenance, according to the lawsuit.
Cindy Domenico, chairwoman of the Board of County Commissioners, said she hadn’t read the lawsuit but that its filing was not a surprise.
Way to go BoCo FIRM. The party has started, I’m pessimistic that an injunction will be granted but optimistic that BoCo residents will get a clear picture of the underbelly of how their government works when all is said and done.
Let’s call this Day 1!
