December 08, 2010 06:26 PM UTC

Boulder Nearing Beltway Deal with Jeffco

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: Boulder County officials have approved the deal, according to The Daily Camera.

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According to the blog The Blue Line, Boulder may be nearing a deal that would get a Beltway, or Jefferson County Parkway, underway after years of fighting in Jeffco:

If it were up to him, said Commissioner Toor, there would be no Jefferson Parkway, but neither the city nor the county have veto power. Last winter, the City of Boulder and Boulder County, through the efforts of Macon Cowles and Will Toor (the city and county representatives on the Denver Regional Council of Governments-DRCOG) tried unsuccessfully to persuade  DRCOG to reject the Jefferson Parkway proposal.  The parkway and the associated Candelas development are looking more likely, according to Toor.  “Do you keep fighting and risk not stopping it, or negotiate for better mitigation?” asked the commissioner.  “It’s not perfect, but it may be the best we can get.”

Opponents of the Beltway who have taken a position of “No, and that means no,” may well take a lesson from Toor. After years and years of battling over the issue, it may be time for opponents to at least try to find something they can be comfortable with in the deal.