Boulder County would pay $1.8 million to buy a 38-acre parcel of farmland in the Gunbarrel area, under a proposal up for review during Thursday night’s county Parks & Open Space Advisory Committee meeting.
Boulder County’s Parks & Open Space Department staff is recommending purchasing the now-vacant land at 6553 Jay Road, along with water rights associated with the property, from its current private owners, David and Joseph Clark.
The Clark property is just east of the northeast corner of 63rd Street and Jay Road.
Adjacent to the Clark parcel are two other publicly owned agricultural parcels, the 31-acre Johnson Trust property and the 30-acre Coen property. Both are owned by the Gunbarrel Public Improvement District, a special district formed by the Board of County Commissioners in 1993 and managed by the county, Boulder County Parks & Open Space staff said in a memo for Thursday’s advisory committee meeting.
Boulder County’s proposed acquisition of the Clark property furthers the improvement district’s and the county’s goals for the area and would preserve as open space one of the last remaining vacant agricultural parcels within the improvement district area, county staff said.
Boulder County is likely to keep the Clark property in its present agricultural use, county staff indicated in its memo, and Its purchase would make the overall open space farmland area larger.
Staff said the Clark property is subject to a 1981 oil and gas lease, but there is no evidence of production on that lease, so it may be expired. The closest wells that were drilled lie about half a mile away and weredry and abandoned. However, Boulder County would be taking over ownership of the property subject to any such pre-existing property rights, and staff would investigate the lease status further during the due diligence process before completing its acquisition.
At its 6:30 p.m. Thursday meeting, the Parks & Open Space Advisory Committee is to consider whether to recommend that the Board of County Commissioners approve the purchase. Commissioners would then schedule a public hearing and possible action on the acquisition at their own future meeting.
People can watch and arrange to speak during the advisory committee meeting through a link on that panel’s website, tinyurl.com/nf66f37k.
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