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Ballot measure to close Boulder airport withdrawn amid FAA lawsuit, shifting 2024 election landscape

by Tim Drugan | Published on 8/28/2024

Ballot measure to close Boulder airport withdrawn amid FAA lawsuit, shifting 2024 election landscape

 

Organizers have pulled two controversial ballot measures that would have decommissioned Boulder Municipal Airport and redeveloped the land into affordable housing, largely due to a pending lawsuit with the FAA over the city’s obligations to keep the airport operational.
by Tim Drugan

Boulder’s 2024 local election just became much less contentious.

Organizers with the ballot measure committee Airport Neighborhood Campaign announced Aug. 27 that they have withdrawn their controversial measure to decommission the Boulder Municipal Airport from the November ballot. A separate but related measure to redevelop the land into affordable housing, which had also qualified for the ballot, is also being withdrawn.

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