From today’s letter to the editor…
Are land sales open to everyone?
Doesn’t it strike anyone as being a little questionable when Boulder County open space sells 32 acres of sacred open space to a private company to develop as a dairy? I harbor no ill will toward the company owner, but I just wonder how he worked it at a time when the county is telling the owner of private land that she cannot board horses on her land and makes the suggestion that she go co-op.
I get the feeling something’s missing here but either way, you get a idea of the power welded by the Boulder County Commissioners. However, I’m bothered by two things:
1. The letter writer thinks open space is “sacred”.
2. The County Commissioners bullying the land owner regarding the horse boarder (who bought the land with the intention of boarding other people’s horses just as the previous owners did).
Open Space is land bought by the county to be preserved for whatever reason the Commissioners think is important. Some reasons are good, some are bad. However, the local citizenry has bought into the “purchase and preserve open space” idea so heavily that to speak out against open space acquisitions is blasphemy. This same thought process has somehow made open space “sacred” (right behind the prairie dog). I’m sure the County sold the land because it no longer fit into their plans and they could purchase another piece of land with the proceeds that better fit into their “vision”. More than likely (as in almost a certainty) whomever bought the land has all sorts of regulations about what can and can’t be done on that former piece of open space.
The horse boarding case is more complicated and some of the details are here, although I don’t appreciate how the author presents the case. Also, a letter from the present owners sister.
