Thornton’s new pipeline plan to be heard by April

LARIMER COUNTY — If the maximum amount of permitted time is used, Larimer County’s Board of Commissioners will hear the city of Thornton’s new plan for a water pipeline by April next year.

Thornton submitted a new application for a pipeline route on Monday in a massive document intended to comply with so-called 1041 regulations — a process that the city was required to traverse previously but was not successful in securing a permit to build the pipeline. In 2021, Larimer County denied the permit, and courts confirmed that the county was within its authority to deny.

Thus began a new…