LYONS – Despite a certain amount of unease between Lyons and Boulder County, Lyons is forging ahead with the process of creating a new Intergovernmental Agreement, IGA, with the county. The current IGA expires in December 2012.

“We need to renew the IGA to match the current comp plan,” said Mayor Julie Van Domelen. “The current IGA is not reflective of our current comp plan.”

LYONS – After a somewhat complicated process, the Lyons Farmette, east of Lyons on Colorado Highway 66 and owned by Mike Whipp and Betsy Burton was finally annexed into the Town of Lyons.

“We started this process in January,” said Burton. “We were the first ones (to annex in under the town’s new economic incentive plan); we were the newbies. It took a while for us to get our application finished and then once that was done, it was about 90 days until the final vote with the Board of Trustees. That’s the amount of time that they said it would probably take and we were pretty much on schedule.”

LYONS – The Lyons Town Board continues to soldier on with medical marijuana issues. The board considered three medical marijuana ordinances at the first April town board meeting and voted on two of the three. The first two ordinances, one covering business licenses and one covering zoning, passed the board on first reading by a five to one vote with Trustee Ed Bruder casting the dissenting vote on both ordinances.

Redstone Review Staff Reports
LYONS – Boulder County finally has decided to approve an amendment to the current Intergovernmental Agreement, IGA, with Lyons to include three properties in the Lyons planning area. The properties are partial or complete properties that were inadvertently left out of the planning area.
These parcels are Gywnne’s Greenhouse, Dave Hawkins’ property, and [...]

LYONS – “I won’t be retiring with my feet up watching TV,” said Larry Badker, Lyons public works director. Badker’s last day on the job will be Friday, April 29.

LYONS – Music and festival fans flock to Planet Bluegrass events in Lyons every summer. The two biggest festivals hosted on the Planet Bluegrass Ranch are the bluegrass festival RockyGrass in July and the Folks Festival in August. This year, the tickets for all Planet Bluegrass events are selling out at a record pace, before the complete musical line-ups have been announced.