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Open Space Board backs converting Bartlett development-rights agreement to conservation easement and recommends city buy remaining oil-and-gas interests
Summary
The Open Space Board of Trustees voted 5-0 to recommend that City Council convert a 1987 development-rights agreement covering the 7.04-acre Bartlett property to a conservation easement and that the city acquire remaining oil and gas interests from the current owners.
Trustees voted unanimously to recommend that City Council convert a 1987 development-rights agreement on the 7.04-acre Bartlett property to a conservation easement and to acquire remaining oil-and-gas interests associated with the site.
The board approved two motions: one recommending council approve the conversion of the Bartlett development-rights agreement to a conservation easement under the disposal procedures of Article 12, Section 177 of the Boulder City Charter; the second recommending council approve acquisition of the remaining oil-and-gas interests from owners Zach and Kelsey Nassar. Both motions passed 5-0.
The change replaces an older development-rights agreement (DRA) that limited the property to a single-family home and allowed farm buildings. City staff said DRAs from the 1970s and 1980s…
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