Redstone January / February 2021

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VOLUME 21, NUMBER 12

LYONS, COLORADO

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JANUARY 20 / FEBRUARY 17, 2021

B •R •I •E •F •S The ice rink is open LYONS – Thanks to Mother Nature and cold temperatures, the ice rink is open – as long as it stays cold. For the 2020-2021 winter season masks are required when you cannot maintain six feet of space from another person outside your household. Please adhere to COVID safety protocols when using the rink. Skate rentals are available on weekends, when rink is open from noon to 4 p.m. The ice rink is weather dependent. Check out all the info online. The town is also offering ice skating lessons. Beginner, intermediate lessons for kids. Private lessons for adults.

Winter reading program LYONS – Start the new year right by signing up for the library’s first winter reading program: Warm up to Great Books. The program will run from January 15 to March 15, 2021, and features challenges for early literacy, K-12, and adults. Simply log your reading and activities and unlock badges to earn tickets for prize drawings.

Help the library name its bear LYONS – Lyons has a new resident whose address is the corner of Fourth and Railroad Avenues. Created by local artist Anita Miller, the sculpture, depicting a large bear with a book-reading boy in its lap, was installed at the library in November. Dave Papuga of Lyons Lawn and Landscape generously donated his time, a lift, and a trailer in the effort to relocate the bear from Miller’s garage to the library. Help the library name the new sculpture. Submit your suggestions at https : // lyons. colibraries. org / name- that- sculpture /. Continue Briefs on Page 7

A pair of sandhill cranes touches down in the flooded fields of the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. In the late fall, large flocks of greater sandhill cranes migrate from the northern Rocky Mountain region to fields near the Rio Grande in central NM. Their distinctive croaks and whistles punctuate the winter season along the river. Photo by Jane Selverstone, a retired geologist who now divides her time between hiking, photography, music, and knitting.

Town Board hears new development plans for Main St. and High St. and other issues

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By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor

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LYONS – New development may be coming to downtown Lyons. Developer/Realtor Andy Sepac from Boulder asked the Lyons Town Board if they would consider his proposed redevelopment of the Soda Fountain and Red Canyon Art building, 400 Main St. and the metal building at 425 High St. where Defined Motion is located, as economic development so he could use Lake MacIntosh water shares in lieu of Colorado Big Thompson (CBT) water shares for his development project. The town requires developers to dedicate water shares to the town as part of their development package. Lyons buys its water from Longmont and Longmont requires dedication of CBT water shares along with water tap fees for new development. Longmont has agreed to accept Lake McIntosh water shares for affordable housing and economic development projects.

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Town Clerk Delores Vasquez said the last time the town purchased Lake McIntosh water, the shares cost between $10,500 and $11,000 per share. She said that Lyons has not purchased CBT water shares for over a year, but at that time shares cost about $71,000 per share. Seapac said that the owners of Defined Motion were interested in either developing their building themselves or working with Sepac to develop the site together. He said that they were very sentimental about the site and their connection to the community. At the 400-402 Main St buildings Sepac said that he would keep the existing sandstone façade and perhaps add new large windows or a Bistro garage door. The upper portion would be replaced or painted and 3 new condos would be added. If the project at 425 High St. is included in the Main St. project, the High St. building would be replaced with four live/work town homes with shop spaces on the

street level and living spaces above. Sepac continued to refer to the owners of Defined Motion Dance Studio, 425 High St., Jasmine Lok and Ali Kishiyama, as “the girls” until Trustee Miller asked him not to, saying that they are grown women. Technically girls are age 16 and younger and over age 16 they are referred to as ladies or women. Trustees Miller and Hollie Rogin said they did not think this development met the economic development qualification. Trustee Kenyon Waugh said that CBT shares were ridiculously expensive and if Mr. Sepec is willing to make an investment in the town he should be supported. Mayor Nick Angelo said to the board that all development requires risk. “When somebody comes to town and is willing to take a risk we should give them every opportunity to be successful.” But he added that he wanted to hear what Longmont had to say. The two businesses at the 400-402 location already have water shares and water taps. It would just be the three new condos that would need water shares and water taps. The condos would be market rate housing, not afContinue Town on Page 4


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