ARCHIVED December 1, 1995 12:00:00 am

Metro-area communities creep into Weld County

Boulder County cities that sit on or close to the Weld County border are dealing with growing pains.
At issue for the cities of Broomfield, Erie and Longmont is finding where to expand their borders and how to create buffer zones to separate the communities.
Two cities, Broomfield and Erie, already straddle the border between Boulder and Weld counties.
Broomfield, with a population of 31,700, is in the most precarious situation because it has expanded into four counties. The city with 15,353 acres sits on the county lines of Boulder, Jefferson and Adams. More recently, Broomfield annexed 941.61 acres in…

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Christopher Wood

Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.

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