Council gives final OK to annex roads

3/11/2009 - Brighton, Colorado

Efforts to bring Vestas to Brighton are proceeding at their whirlwind pace after the City Council approved an intergovernmental agreement with Fort Lupton on Tuesday and Weld County Commissioners earlier in the day approved the petitions Brighton needed to annex the nine segments of Weld County Roads 4, 6 and 27. Fort Lupton’s City Council was expected to approve the agreement at its meeting today. The agreement between the two cities establishes growth boundaries
for each community, with Brighton’s northernmost expansion reaching Weld County Road 61/2, at the Vestas site at Weld County Road 27 (northern extension of Main Street) and immediately east of U.S. 85. It was agreed that Brighton can provide utility services to the annexation areas, which includes annexation of a trailer court at U.S. 85 and Weld County Road 6. Public Works-Streets Director Joe Smith said Brighton is able to provide those services to the trailer court and Fort Lupton can’t provide them. Smith said part of the trailer court property can be used for access from Vestas to U.S. 85, but the sewage services were the primary reason for the annexation. The city also accepted a $2 million grant from the state Department of Local Affairs for roads and utilities serving Vestas. Brighton and Weld County will each add $250,000 to the DOLA grant, and that $2.5 million is expected to be matched by a $3 million federal Economic Development Administration grant for the road
improvements and infrastructure. The council will hold a special meeting Thursday or Friday to accept that federal grant. “We are on our way, people,” said Mayor Jan Pawlowski, who made the motion for the final piece of road annexation after the council suspended its rules to allow her to make the motion.

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