Took awhile, but lawyers found a loophole.
https://www.greeleytribune.com/news/after-10-deal-once-defeated-weld-county-concrete-and-asphalt-plant-will-begin-operations-this-month/
My only skin in the game is sharing the road with all the lumbering trucks on US 34 and secondary county roads. The area is exploding in new home construction and the county roads are not adequate for overloaded truck traffic.
More popcorn please. This may get interesting.
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It's true in almost every place where there's a lot of growth. Government lags woefully behind in roads and infrastructure. The whole concept of no building permits until the roads are capable of meeting the increased need is lost on politicians who take contributions from developers.
Add all the oil field traffic and it gets worse. While the State Patrol has random mobile weight checking, the counties don't. With every driver carrying a cell phone, the enforcement job gets harder.
And don't forget the big movement to stop the Laporte Gravel Pit.
One of the new terms I learned after moving here is that they "mine" the gravel and sand the Cache Le Poudre has deposited over the eons. I never thought of "mining" that way, but I guess it's a form of surface-mining.
All the sand and gravel "mining" has left the Front Range with numerous small ponds/lakes. When I was a kid they were known as "borrow pits".
An unintended beneficial consequence is collecting water in the wet months that seems into the aquifers. Some are large enough for recreation uses.
Seeps!!!!!
That's gonna suck...
More jobs, big payroll, more competition. Good or bad?
I've seen two new "lakes" created since we started coming here in 2012. I think the main gripe in Laporte is (like you) concern for the increased amount of heavy truck traffic, and the amount of pounding the roads will take.
They are about to finally fix 287/287B intersection and 287 South to Terry Lake Road in time for more heavy truck traffic to return it to the dismal past 40 year nightmare.
When I need to go to Laramie I will drive the extra 22 miles via Cheyenne and Sherman Hill.
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