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Fort Lupton council approves last of 4 marijuana licenses BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Fort Lupton City Council, acting as the city’s marijuana local licensing authority, unanimously approved retail and medical marijuana licenses for Centaurus Farms earlier this month. The business is set to occupy land in the 9700 block of Weld County Road 16. The concern from Mayor Zo
Stieber-Hubbard was children’s possible exposure to the business. The other licensees agreed to fence their property. Applicant John Paolella told the authority he would be willing to help screen the property. Bobby Adams, who is a neighbor to the property, said he’d like to see privacy fencing. Adams also told the authority he had an issue with the drive-through portion of the business and “he doesn’t want it because
it’s in his neighborhood,” according to staff notes. Planning Director Todd Hodges told the authority this sort of business is a “use by right” in commercial and industrial zoned districts. Zoning for the land is industrial, and Hodges said “at some point” the zoning “would transition.” The applicant also has to go through the city’s land-use process, Hodges told the authority.
City breaks ground on Fort Lupton’s new library
Resident Dawn Massey wondered if the operation included growing. Stieber-Hubbard said the city doesn’t have a grow ordinance and that the license didn’t include that provision. Committee appointees Council appointed members to the new ad hoc committee to help SEE APPROVED, P7
United Power joins Southwest Power Pool STAFF REPORT
able to provide a space for the public and the students at the same time. It’s just amazing and wonderful.” The library has been attached to the high school, so library officials decided a separate library was the best thing for both students and library patrons. It is being built at 370 S. Rolla Ave.
BRIGHTON – Brighton’s United Power became the first distribution utility in the Western Interconnection to join the Southwest Power Pool, according to a press statement. SPP is a regional transmission organization, a nonprofit corporation mandated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to ensure reliable supplies of power, adequate transmission infrastructure, and competitive wholesale electricity prices on behalf of its members, the statement said. United Power is planning to leave its present supplier, Tri-State Generation and Transmission, in 2024. “It is important that we seek out memberships and partnerships that will help us assure a reliable power source at the lowest cost possible,” according to a press
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Fort Lupton Public and School Library board members shovel the dirt in celebration of a new library.
Facility set to open in spring 2023 BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A few shovels full of dirt and work on the new Fort Lupton Public and School Library is underway.
Library staff and board members, Weld RE-8 School District and City of Fort Lupton officials and the community gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony June 20 to celebrate the new library, which has been in the works for four years. “We’re thrilled, and I honestly can’t believe this day has come,” said Thomas Samblanet, director of the library. “It’s so exciting to be
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