Boulder County OKs terminating Kanemoto conservation easement, with conditions

BOULDER — After a debate that lasted nearly four hours on Tuesday, Boulder County commissioners voted 2-1 to terminate a 41-year-old conservation easement on the southwest edge of Longmont, clearing the way for annexation of a 40-acre tract into that city and eventual construction of up to 426 “affordable” and “attainable” residential units.

However, driven by the caution of commission chair Claire Levy, the panel added conditions designed to compel Bestall Collaborative Ltd. to keep to its commitments to provide that lower-cost housing in its proposed Somerset Village development along the east side of Airport Road about a half-mile north…