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proposing a separate management agreement. In that separate agreement between the County, Lafayette, and Louisville, although Lafayette is not interested in us disposing of our sledge right next to their city limits .... What they propose to do is to grant us an option to buy whatever land we need in the future for expansion of the City Shops or the sewer facility at $11,000.00/acre, but they weren't willing to do that for the sledge. Lathrop: That points up the inherent danger of this arrangement. I would make this akin to buying a house with three other people. Things change over time, but still four people own that house and four people have to get together to do something. Anytime we put ourselves in the position to having to negotiate with the City of Lafayette, Superior, or Boulder County, we are putting ourselves in an inferior position for today, tomorrow, and forever. That is my inherent problem with this agreement. Mayer: Is there a chance some land closer to Louisville and further away from Lafayette, because one of the things that makes this agreement worthwhile is the expansion of sewage facilities, that includes where we can compost our sludge? Davidson: The City Administrator and the Mayor of Lafayette looked at it more as a political issue, that their residents would not favor Lafayette buying land for Louisville to dispose of its sludge. Paul Wood, Director of Planning, stated that his only concern was whether they be entered into the management agreement or under uses by right, in terms of the City agreement, for zoning would be a consideration of those uses by right that would be currently in place under Boulder County Regulations for open space. In light of a recent decision by the Council for Martin Exploration Oil & Gas is a use by right. He was sure that that would be a use that would 23