Boulder District Court Case 2020CV031049

Three Boulder County residents seeking to protect the integrity of conservation easements and Open Space lands have sued Boulder County to prevent it from deceptively erasing taxpayer-funded perpetual protection and developing the land.

Stating a false purpose of preserving the Rainbow Tree Farm forever, the County used a first-right-of-refusal provision in the Conservation Easement it purchased years earlier to disrupt a private sale of the property. Instead, the County swooped in and purchased the property using restricted Open Space funds in a duplicitous bait-and-switch transaction designed to destroy the perpetual protections paid for by taxpayers so the County could instead develop the pristine property into an industrial-scale sewage, manure, and waste composting factory.

You may follow the ongoing legal proceedings here:

  1. Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint - click to download

  2. The County’s non-substantive Motion to Dismiss - click to download

  3. Plaintiff’s response to County’s Motion to Dismiss - click to download

  4. UPDATE - JUDGE DISMISSES CASE - click to download

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