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Comprehensive Plan is a milestone to celebrate

By Hollie Rogin, Mayor of Lyons Redstone Review

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LYONS – For more than a year, you’ve been hearing about our Comprehensive Plan update. The Comprehensive Plan is the guiding document for our community for the next ten or more years; it outlines our values and priorities, and how we can become an even more vibrant community. After countless Zoom meetings, well-attended in-person education and input events, and the exceptionally hard work of the Comprehensive Plan team, I am happy to let you know that we are at the finish line.

When the plan is officially adopted, likely over the next weeks, we can then begin negotiations with Boulder County to update our Intergovernmental Agreements (IGAs). IGAs may sound boring, but bear with me if you will. IGAs are agreements made between governments. They guide those governments in addressing issues of mutual concern, such as land use and future growth areas.

Our 2012 IGA with Boulder County was set to expire in 2022; we received a generous extension to re-negotiate

it while the Comprehensive Plan was in process. Now, we can finally look forward to conversations with Boulder County about how we can work together in the best interest of our community. I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Mayor Pro Tem Farrell, who has worked tirelessly and relentlessly to get us where we are today. Planning and Community Rogin Development Commission (PCDC) Chair David Hamrick has likewise led the charge, enduring seemingly endless meetings and conversations with the can-do, pragmatic, and even cheerful attitude he brings to all of his work on the PCDC. The members of the PCDC likewise made the Comprehensive Plan their priority, and deserve our thanks and gratitude for their immeasurable contributions. Deborah Scott, Barney Dreistadt, Neal Evers and Megan Kram, thank you. Staff Liaison Alexander Painter jumped right in when he joined Staff last summer, and his expertise, hard work, and attention to detail have been invaluable to the success of this Comprehensive Plan process. I hope everyone enjoyed the Starry, Starry Night parade of lights this year and wish you all a peaceful, healthy, and happy holiday season and new year! See you at the ice rink.

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Hollie Rogin was sworn in as Mayor of Lyons on April 18, 2022. Before that she was elected to serve on the Board of Trustees for the term of 2020 to 2022. In 2015, Rogin created the foundation for what is now the City of Boulder’s Commercial Affordability program on a pro bono basis. While serving as a Trustee, she was the Board liaison to the Economic Vitality Commission and the Historic Preservation Commission.

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Dairy Arts Center: Outlandish Redux

BOULDER – The Dairy Arts Center in Boulder will host the re-installation of works produced for Outlandish Redux by Natascha Seideneck in the Caruso Lounge, West Entrance. This is a two-person exhibition with Regan Rosburn and is a playful composition of works from two bodies of Seideneck’s work Uncanny Territory and Terra Incognita. The show runs from January 17 to Febebruary 23, 2023.

About Uncanny Territory: “How much fiction have these imagined worlds? Natascha Seideneck has developed a work process that, in a way, approaches natural processes and cycles of formation, as well as human manipulation and transformation.

About Terra Incognita: Terra Incognita are images of small ice objects representative of fictional planets yet undiscovered. These small frozen objects are made of water, oil, debris, pieces of maps and discarded paint and photographed while melting.

For more information contact the Dairy at: office@thedairy.org. The Dairy Arts Center is at 2590 Walnut in Boulder.

Boulder County Motor Vehicle moved to appointments-based service model

LYONS – This month, to better serve Boulder County residents and to reduce public wait times, the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder’s Motor Vehicle Division moved to an appointments-based service model for all in-person services. Additionally, annual vehicle registration/license plate renewals will need to be completed online, by mail or drop box, or at a self-service kiosk.

For over a year, the three Motor Vehicle branches – Boulder, Lafayette, and Longmont –have continuously faced wait times that average an hour or longer. This is partially due to staffing shortages, similar to what other employers are facing, and partially due to a large increase in the number of transactions residents need to complete in one visit. These wait times have persisted despite implementing numerous scheduling and process efficiencies over the last year.

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS

By Joe Neguse Redstone Review

LYONS – With the end of the year, and the start of a new Congress on the horizon, I want to take this opportunity to provide you all with an update on our work over the past two years. The 117th Congress was busy for folks in Washington D.C. and for many of us here in Colorado.

From securing the single-largest investment in climate action in this country’s history to ensuring significant resources for rebuilding America’s infrastructure, we’ve had some monumental accomplishments.

In fact, this Congress, we secured the enactment of several critical bills, including the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the American Rescue Plan, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

For the people of Colorado, we’ve taken action to lower costs for families, support small businesses, invest in education, and provide access to critical programs for our nation’s veterans. And as a result of this hard work, I am proud to announce that we’ve had 13 of our bills – and counting – signed into law. We’ve also taken key steps to address the Western wildfire crisis, and this past August, passed my land-

mark legislative package, the Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act, which encompassed over 50 standalone pieces of legislation. In looking to the future, I’m excited that in the new year I will have the opportunity to represent Colorado in Neguse House leadership, having been recently elected by my colleagues to serve as the Chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. Through this leadership position, I will continue to prioritize the interests of Coloradans and further House Democrats’ work to put people over politics. A new Congress brings new opportunities, and just as we did in the years before, we will continue our efforts to lead locally, listen to our communities in Lyons and beyond, and work to solve problems for our district and Colorado. Wishing you all a happy holiday season, and here’s looking to the new year!

Congressman Joe Neguse represents Colorado’s 2nd District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was elected to his first term in November 2018, becoming the first AfricanAmerican member of Congress in Colorado history. He serves as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, the House Natural Resources Committee and the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.

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