Boulder County sales tax extension
Rocky Mountain News
Published November 7, 2007 at midnight
Voters passed a measure to extend a penny-per-$10 sales tax for another 20 years to maintain and expand one of the most ambitious open-space programs in Colorado.
Approving the measure authorizes the county to issue bonds that would raise $40 million between 2009 and 2029, with a repayment cost of up to $73 million.
Revenues from the sales tax would repay the bonds.
Boulder County first purchased open space as a way to preserve land from development in 1975, when it bought a 773- acre ranch six miles west of Boulder.
It now owns or oversees 89,000 acres of open space.
About two-thirds of the county is protected from development.
That includes city open space and federal- and state-protected lands, along with conservation easements and land leased back to farmers.
Boulder County voters also handily approved extending a 0.1 percent sales tax through 2024 for road improvements, bike paths, trails and transit equipment.
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