Hard road for planning regionally

This is no time to be pointing fingers.

For whatever reason, people and companies are moving to Boulder County in droves, and now cities in the county with fundamentally different views on growth and development must work together on a regional growth management plan.

The Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) got the ball rolling about seven years ago with Metro Vision 2020. According to population projections released in July, DRCOG, a voluntary association of local governments including all of the cities in Boulder County, found that the county accounted for 19…