Local tax issues head for a ballot box in your neighborhood

Transportation projects, flood-repair work and more in the lineup

Voters in the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado on Nov. 4 will decide on numerous requests by local governments to increase sales and use taxes to fund everything from open space to transportation projects and flood-related repair work.

In Larimer County, the Help Preserve Open Spaces sales and use tax of a quarter-cent, if approved by voters Nov. 4, will extend for 25 years beginning Jan. 1, 2019, when the current sales and use tax expires. The amended measure would evenly split proceeds to cities and Larimer County, while…