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B •R •I •E •F •S November General Election: What you need to know LYONS – Colorado Public Radio has all the information you will need for voting. Go to https: / / www. cpr. org / 2020 / 10 / 12 / vg2020 - colorado - voter - guide novembe r- election / for in depth information on candidates, amendments and propositions. Active registered Colorado voters are automatically sent ballots in the mail. Ballots for the November 3 General Election are being mailed beginning October 9. With the ongoing pandemic, voting at home is the safest way to vote in the November 3 General Election. Vote Centers will be available for those that need or want to vote in-person. The ballot drop box for voters in Lyons is located in front of Town Hall on Park Street. Take action now to ensure you receive a mail ballot: register to vote or check / update your ballot mailing address at www.GoVoteColorado.gov.
Level 2 fire restrictions are in effect for unincorporated Boulder County BOULDER COUNTY – Sheriff Joe Pelle has amended the Level 2 Fire Restrictions, effective immediately, Monday October 12, to include all areas of unincorporated Boulder County. The inclusion of eastern Boulder County is due to high fire danger caused by very low humidity levels and above normal daytime temperatures, with no significant relief in the forecast. In addition, we are still concerned about the firefighting and law enforcement resources while we have the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and continue to take proactive measures to protect the health, safety and welfare of our residents and first responders. The fire ban PROHIBITS: • Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire on private and public lands. This includes charcoal grills and barbecues, coal and wood burning stoves and sheepherder’s stoves and includes use in developed camping and picnic grounds. • Fireworks sales, use, and possession, including permissible fireworks. • Shooting or discharge of firearms for recreational purposes. • Smoking, except in an en-
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Town board discusses RV street parking, sewer tap request, 2nd Ave. Bridge and other issues
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By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor
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LYONS – Although the Lyons Town Board meetings are conducted on Zoom and there is no real face-to-face contact, the meetings remain as spirited and well attended as ever with the same amount or more of audience participation. At the early October board meeting, an ordinance (2020-1088) proposing a change to RV parking on town right-of-way brought numerous residents to speak out against the new proposal because it limited the time an RV could be parked out on a public right-of-way, and residents felt it was too restrictive if they had to keep moving their RV from in front of their houses. Residents complained they would not have enough time to clean out their RVs after a camping trip or might want to use the RVs for visiting relatives in this time of COVID. Trustee Hollie Rogin made a motion to continue the ordinance to December 2 so the board could have time to revise the or-
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dinance granting more leeway for residents to leave RVs parked in front of their houses. The original changes to the ordinance were recommended by Boulder County Sheriff’s Dept. to make enforcement of the ordinance easier and create more parking. The board voted 7 to 0 to move the ordinance and public hearing to December 2 and to hold a workshop on the ordinance on October 19 before the regular meeting. In other matters, Jon Calvin came before the board to request a sewer permit for his property at 407 Steamboat Valley Rd., which is outside the city limits and is over five acres. Calvin came before the previous town board on occasion requesting a sewer permit which that board denied. Town Planner Paul Glasgow said, “We decided he could not get a sewer tap permit without getting a water tap permit and he would need to annex the property.” Glasgow said that this property is in a Rural Reserve area, not in the Lyons Municipal area, which means that the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with Boulder would have
to be reopened and changed in order for this property to be annexed to Lyons. Rural Reserve areas are designed to remain rural until the IGA ends, which is 2034. Along with the fact that the property is over five acres, this means that it would require a vote of the people to be annexed according to town code. Another issue for this property is that 407 Steamboat Valley Rd. is above the blueline, an area into which the town is not planning to extend utilities. Any property above the blueline needs a variance to connect to water and wastewater services. In 2019 Mr. Calvin had a site plan approved with the County. The site plan entitles the property for the approved development for a period three years after 7/9/2018. The site plan includes a 3,5889 square foot residence and a 2,647 square foot barn. Calvin offered the town a right of way to his property to improve the water pressure on Vasquez Court if he was granted a sewer permit. The town board had no ordinance to conContinue Town on Page 12