Milestones Icon: Open Space
Long before Boulder’s slow-growth policies of the 1960s and 1970s, its citizens championed preserving land in what has become known today as open space.
Boulder’s first open-space preservation came 1898, when the city put together a bond issue to purchase the land at present-day Chautauqua Park. Back then, the land was used for alfalfa fields and apple orchards planted by the Batchelder family.
Additional open-space purchases came in 1907 – 1,600 acres on Flagstaff Mountain – and again in 1912, with another 1,200 acres on the mountain.
As Boulder’s population doubled between 1950 and 1960, citizens looked to curb growth by preserving land…
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