The good folks up in Longmont are still working to establish open space on their eastern boarder as well as make sure the 4C/LifeBridge development doesn't cost their taxpayers millions of dollars.

From the Longmont Times-Call:

LONGMONT — Firestone and Longmont leaders might be ready to start negotiating an end to their border war.

Firestone Mayor Chad Auer gave a letter to Longmont Mayor Roger Lange on Tuesday pitching a possible deal that could end two months of wrangling over land on Longmont’s eastern boundary.

In the letter, Auer outlines a plan to allow Firestone to annex LifeBridge Christian Church’s Union property but still allow Longmont to keep a buffer between Firestone and Longmont.

It’s our best work to date. I really feel like it has a lot of win-wins in there,” Auer said Wednesday.

LifeBridge’s business organization, 4C, is willing to negotiate with Longmont to sell the church’s 120-acre parcel — land that surrounds the former Concepts Direct building on the northwest corner of Colo. Highway 119 and Fairview Street — to the city as open space, Auer wrote.

If the city buys that land from LifeBridge, then Dale Bruns and the six other owners of the Firelight Park parcel across the street — on the northeast corner — would be willing to negotiate to sell their 74 acres to Longmont, Auer said.

And if Longmont buys Firelight Park, the current owners also would be willing to drop their plans to annex into Firestone, Auer wrote.

But Longmont would need to halt its current efforts to annex right of way along Colo. 119 and Weld County Road 26, Auer wrote, “and agree not to pursue any further annexations or actions that will hinder the ability of the Union property to potentially be annexed or developed within Firestone.”

The owners of Firelight Park applied in February to annex into Firestone. LifeBridge’s application to annex its planned 350-acre Union development into Firestone followed within weeks.

Longmont leaders in turn took steps to keep Firestone town limits from reaching Longmont’s eastern edge.

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