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To The Editor: I am opposed to the parking lot, which will be located along Murray Street, on the strip of land currently owned by BNSF railroad. Reasons for my opposition: The parking lot will change Murray Street from a rural setting to a city setting. Traffic will increase in the neighborhood. According to the Sept. 2016 traffic study done in Niwot (Fox, Tuttle and Hernandez), ten spaces were removed from downtown parking for striped parking spaces and bumper blocks between 2014 and 2016. The study recommended that employees be encouraged...
At its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 3, the Niwot LID Advisory Committee formally met new Niwot Economic Development director Catherine McHale, considered one funding request, and discussed proposed Boulder County land use changes that could impact tentative plans for a parking lot north of old town Niwot. McHale introduced herself and spoke briefly of her plans going forward, especially as they relate to use of social media to promote Niwot businesses. She also indicated that she would be...
Howard Treppeda, founder and chief organizer of Niwot’s Jazz on 2nd Ave, was more than pleased with the seventh edition of the event, held in downtown Niwot, Sept. 16. “Fantastic, fantastic,” was Treppeda’s quick response when asked how the event was going. The day opened with cloudy skies and cool weather, but Treppeda was not worried. “I feel confident with the tents and the fanbase. There’s a jazz family, and they’re going to come out rain or shine.” As the day warmed up, so did the music....
The Niwot LID Advisory Committee held its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 5, where members considered funding requests for the upcoming holiday events, as well as an outdoor community seating area in on the west end of 2nd Avenue. The committee also heard an update on the search for Niwot’s new economic development director. The committee heard first from Mike Hagerty, Suzanne Jurgens, and Adam Sirois, representatives of Powder Keg Brewing Company at 101 2nd Ave. in Niwot. They requested $...
Letter to Left Hand Valley Courier We are writing in reference to the article in the August 16th edition of the Left Hand Valley Courier titled: “Niwot LID approves funding for Cottonwood Park West open space”. The headline should have read: “Niwot LID approves funding for community area”. The headline as it was published suggests that the property is not private and could be misleading. There is no “open space” in Cottonwood Park West, only private common areas that belong to and are reserved for the residents of CPW and their guests. The prop...
On Aug. 30 at the Left Hand Grange, residents from Old Town and other interested Niwot residents met with members of the Niwot Futures League (NFL) and the Niwot Business Association (NBA) to discuss details of a proposed 50-spot public parking lot along the railroad tracks west of town. The 2-acre parcel, which is approximately 80 feet wide by 1,100 feet long, is under contract with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad for $170,000. The parking lot would be located on the southernmost 306 feet...
Several years ago the Niwot Local Improvement District had a transportation and connectivity study done through Boulder County that identified a need for a dedicated parking lot in or near the business district downtown. Bruce Warren, who participated in the study, said that when parking usage downtown exceeds 74 percent of the available spaces open to the public, it’s time to explore options for a parking facility, and when it reaches 85%, it’s time to act. Anyone who frequents downtown Niwot can attest that often times it is hard to find par...
The Niwot LID Advisory Committee held its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 1, and reviewed the budget reports prepared by county liaison Pete Salas and LID treasurer Harris Faberman. According to their figures, the LID has disbursed just over $41,753 in expenses so far this year and has committed to spend another $64,839, not counting the pending application, leaving about $26,408 in the budget for the year. This does not include the $192,025 recommended for approval last month for the purchase...
On Monday, Aug. 7, the Niwot Local Improvement District (LID) Advisory Committee held its annual joint meeting with the Boulder County Commissioners to provide them with a first-hand account of the state of affairs in Niwot. Commissioners Cindy Domenico and Deb Garder (Elise Jones was out of town) along with County staff Peter Salas, Michelle Krezek and Mark Ruzzin were joined by LID Co-Chairs Laura Skaggs, and Carrie Wise, Vice-Chair Jim Eastman, Treasurer Harris Faberman, and members Tony Sant...
The Niwot Local Improvement District Advisory Committee held its monthly meeting on Tuesday, July 11, with several large expenditures on the agenda. Before hearing funding requests, members reviewed the July budget reports prepared by county liaison Pete Salas and LID treasurer Harris Faberman. According to their figures, the LID has disbursed just over $25,500 so far this year and has committed to spend another $39,806, not counting the pending applications, leaving just under $68,000 in the...
The Niwot Local Improvement District Advisory Committee held its monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 6 at the Niwot Fire Station. After the meeting was called to order, members reviewed the June budget reports prepared by county liaison Pete Salas and LID treasurer Harris Faberman. According to their figures, the LID has committed to just over $66,000 in expenses so far this year, including about $11,000 in pending requests, and has nearly the same amount remaining in the 2017 budget. The...
At its May 2 meeting the Niwot LID Advisory Committee heard a preview at what’s shaping up to be another busy summer around town. Before considering the four funding requests on the agenda, the Co-chair Laura Skaggs reviewed the February 2017 revenue report. According to figures from Boulder County, LID sales tax collections for that month were $15,898, which is nearly 40 percent higher than the same period last year ($11,390). Members were surprised and pleased by the sharp increase, but m...
This month’s First Friday Art Walk kicked off a juried art show spread throughout various businesses. Michelle Henzel, with Osmosis and other Niwot Cultural Arts Association board members, launched the Why Not Niwot Juried Art Show in eight different businesses for the May art walk. There are a total of 22 pieces — all have to feature Niwot in some way — displayed in eight different businesses around town. Those businesses are ShopGirl, Pebble Art Jewelry, Painted Primrose, Niwot Inn, Niwot Jewe...
When we first started the Courier I had the distinct impression that we were like one of those 1940s Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney movies, where the kids put on a show in a barn and then decide to take it to Broadway. We were seven people with diverse backgrounds – a lawyer, an architect, a paralegal, a photographer, a teacher, a banker and a FDA investigator. Not quite the butcher, baker and candlestick maker, but close. Our main goal was to highlight the academic and athletic accomplishments of area students that the two local dailies t...
*Editor's note: The survey is already live and running at www.niwot.com/survey. Residents do not have to wait for the reminder card that will be sent next month. The planning survey is to get feedback from the public on ways to spend LID funds allocated to Niwot. We apologize for the confusion. Everyone living in Niwot will soon be receiving a survey card in the mail regarding downtown planning. Julie Ankenbrandt, Niwot economic development director and marketing director for the Niwot Business...
The Niwot LID Advisory Committee held its monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 7, and once again, sales tax drove the discussion. Through two months of 2017, the LID has committed to $19,687 in expenses, including half of the Economic Development Director’s salary ($11,250), according to Treasurer Harris Faberman. His report also included an estimate of the LID’s current capital purchases reserve balance ($265,945), based on his calculation of net revenues over the past nine years. The com...
The Link Building at 7916 Niwot Road in Niwot is now an official link between Cottonwood Square and Old Town. The Boulder County Commissioners approved a petition by owners Anne and Jim Postle to add the property to the Niwot Local Improvement District (LID), which collects a one percent sales tax on retail sales in the Niwot business district. Bruce Warren, representing the property owners, told the commissioners that the Link Building was an office building back in 1992 when voters approved creation of the LID, and no one seemed to know why...
At its Feb. 7 meeting, the Advisory Committee to the Niwot Local Improvement District (LID) got a preview of the expense side of the 2017 ledger when the Niwot Business Association (NBA) unveiled its budget for the year. Members also reviewed the final treasurer’s report for 2016, considered two funding requests, and heard updates on a new LID merchant and Jazz on 2nd Avenue. The meeting was called to order by co-chair Laura Skaggs. The committee heard from LID treasurer Harris Faberman who p...
The Advisory Committee to the Niwot Local Improvement District (LID) held its first meeting of 2017 on Tuesday, Jan. 3. District revenues dominated the discussion, as members welcomed representatives from the State of Colorado Department of Revenue to respond to several concerns related to sales tax collection in Niwot. They also reviewed budget projections for 2017, and considered three funding requests for upcoming streetscape expenses. Co-Chair Laura Skaggs called the meeting to order...
In its final meeting of 2016, the Niwot Local Improvement District Advisory Committee (LID) turned its attention to administrative matters, including a look at the final 2016 budget figures and revisions to the Niwot Strategic Plan. The meeting was called to order by Co-Chair Carrie Wise. After approving the minutes from last month’s meeting, the committee reviewed the final financial figures for the year. In total, the LID approved 22 funding requests for more than $130,000 during 2016, e...
Several transportation projects are on tap for the Niwot area in 2017, and additional downtown parking may be one step closer to reality. That’s what the Advisory Committee to the Niwot Local Improvement District (LID) heard from George Gerstle, Boulder County’s Director of Transportation, who spoke at the Committee’s Nov. 1 meeting. The LID also approved funding for two projects, got an update on negotiations with BNSF, and finalized details of an upcoming Strategic Plan Update meeting sched...
On Oct. 4th, the Advisory Committee to the Niwot Local Improvement District (LID) met to consider funding requests for the town’s upcoming holiday events, as well as urgent repairs to Spear Lodge Man in the Tree Sculpture Park. The committee also got a look at the preliminary results of a recent parking utilization study, and heard a report from Howard Treppeda on this year’s Jazz on 2nd Ave event. After dispensing with various housekeeping matters, the committee heard first from Sarah Cioni, ow...
Halloween is the one day of the year children and adults can be anything or anyone else they want to be. Niwot has embraced this holiday for over two decades by hosting the Great Pumpkin Party, giving families the opportunity to dress up and walk in a parade; children can trick or treat at local businesses, take hayrides and visit a petting zoo. Pat Murphy of Niwot Real Estate has been organizing this event, put on by the Niwot Business Association, for nearly 25 years. Since its beginning as a...
Although there weren’t any funding requests for the Local Improvement District (LID) at its Aug. 2 meeting, the LID resolved to support a future development project in downtown Niwot. Anne Postle, owner of Osmosis Art Gallery, wants to update the site of the former Niwot Interiors building and asked for the group’s support for the project. Postle and her husband, Jim Postle, currently have the property under contract for purchase. She said the building, located at 240 2nd Avenue, will be left as...
Boulder County residents donated more than $10,000 in less than 36 hours to take their legal fight to the Colorado Supreme Court in a bid to force Boulder County Commissioners to rehabilitate and repave county subdivision roads without new taxes. Boulder County Fairness in Road Maintenance (BoCo FIRM) announced July 19 that they intended to appeal a June 30 ruling by the Colorado Court of Appeals, which said homeowners do not have legal standing to bring their claims against Boulder County. Along with that announcement, BoCo FIRM asked for dona...
Niwot’s Local Improvement District (LID) Advisory Committee met Monday afternoon, July 18, with Boulder County Commissioners to update them on the strides the Niwot business district has been making and discuss issues it’s facing. County Commissioners Elise Jones and Deb Gardner (Cindy Domenico was out of town) met with LID members at the group’s yearly meeting, which community members were invited to attend. The meeting started off with a presentation by Julie Ankenbrandt, Niwot Business Assoc...
Finding ways to provide more parking in Niwot’s business areas will top the agenda for a July 18 meeting between Boulder County Commissioners and Niwot Local Improvement District advisory board members. In recent years, LID members and commissioners have met to discuss mutual issues between the Niwot business areas and commissioners. In previous years, the two groups have discussed resurfacing Second Avenue business district streets, economic development in Niwot, pedestrian safety and loosening land use requirements for providing parking in N...
At Niwot’s Local Improvement District (LID) meeting on Tuesday, June 7, LID members heard from several different community members requesting funding from the organization. The first funding request came from the Colorado Jazz Group, headed by Howard Treppeda, who also owns Treppeda’s Italian Ristorante in Niwot. Treppeda requested $10,000 for the annual Jazz on 2nd Ave festival that takes place in Niwot later in the summer. While the event has traditionally been held in mid-August, Treppeda said the event will be later this year and will sta...
For the fifth year in a row Why Not Niwot?, a juried art show, is taking place in small-town Niwot next month. Owner of Osmosis Art Gallery, Anne Postle, and co-worker and artist Michelle Henzel have been putting the art show on for the Niwot Cultural Arts Association (NCAA) for the past five years as another way to bring people to Niwot and celebrate the town. “A part of the fun,” Postle said, “is [the art show] is something that gets people in all the businesses in town.” Twenty artists...
The Niwot Local Improvement District (LID) met on Tue., April 5 to discuss a funding request for flowers and the issue of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in Niwot. The only funding request for the night was for flowers, with the Niwot Business Association (NBA) submitting an $18,000 application. Carrie Wise presented the request for funds on behalf of NBA Streetscapes Chair Chuck Klueber, who couldn’t be at the meeting. Last year the LID funded the NBA request for $13,000 for the flowers along Second Avenue and Cottonwood Square, and s...
The Local Improvement District’s (LID) March meeting was an extensive one, as it covered several funding requests and discussed important new business. Chuck Klueber, Niwot Business Association (NBA) streetscape representative, attended the meeting on behalf of the NBA to request funds for snow removal, tree maintenance, district maintenance and repairs, and event banners. The funding request for snow removal was $1,500, which would cover all of 2016 and include the removal of snow along Second Avenue. The snow is to be cleared of parking space...
There are two main places to shop and eat in Niwot, but if you’re not familiar with the town you might just miss one of them. Property owners Anne and Jim Postle have a solution to connect these areas, Cottonwood Square and Old Town, which is the Link Building on the corner of Niwot Road and 79th Street. On Wednesday, Feb. 17, the Boulder County Planning Commission held a public hearing to hear from the staff, property owners and the public about the proposal, and to make a recommendation to the county commissioners. Both Anne and Jim Postle w...
Niwot’s Local Improvement District (LID), reconvened in the New Year at its January meeting on Tues., Jan. 5, where they returned to a quiet month. There were only two funding requests on the agenda, one for Let’s Wine About Winter and the other for the maintenance of the recent trees planted along Second Avenue. Anne Postle, of Osmosis Art Gallery, was present to request $1,191 from the LID on behalf of the Niwot Cultural Arts Association for Let’s Wine About Winter. Last year was the first...
