The Lafayette City Council held a regular meeting on April 15, 2025, beginning at 5:30 PM. The meeting included public input, consent agenda approval, a presentation from the Latino Chamber of Boulder County, first readings of two ordinances (budget carryforwards and history museum lease), approval of a memorandum of understanding with the history museum, staff reports, council reports, and two executive sessions. All votes were unanimous.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I will call to order the Lafayette City Council meeting for April 15th, 2025, and we will begin with the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God. Liberty and Justice for all. Mayor Pro Tem Wong. Here. Councilor Barnes. He will be present by running a few minutes late. Councillor Friedland. Here. Councilor Gallegos. Good evening. Councillor Sampson. She will also be present and running previously. And Councillor Tapia Vega. Here. Mayor, we have a quorum. All right. Thank you so much. Okay. We will begin tonight's meeting with public input. If you wish to speak during this time, please grab one of the white speaker forms. That you can access to the class doors in the back and pass it over to the clerk's back. And we can get you on the speaker list. You'll have five minutes to speak. Please state your name and address before you do. And we will begin with Barbara Patty. Good evening, Council members. My name is Barbara Padden, 2389 Indian Peaks Trail in Lafayette. And I'm joined with my friend and co-board member Marion Hammond tonight. I am the pres current president of the Master Indian Peaks Masters Association, and Marion is the vice president. And we're coming here tonight to ask the council for help with an issue in our neighborhood that we think is sort of important. We have over the years uh Indian Peaks was developed by a PUD, and the PUD required that the perimeter we were the golf course wraps in and around Indian Peaks uh homes, and the PUD requires that there be a split rail fence between any homes and the golf course. We have a unique situation now, while it's been going on for 30 years, where there's a uh it's called Tract A. It's along Indian Peaks Trail. If you were to drive down Indian Peaks Trail, you would think it was part of the Master Association, but the but the land was never deeded from McStain to either the Master Association or the subassociation, which is right there. McStain retained the ownership of the lot, and he himself they themselves tried to build a house on it, uh, apparently. This is this is like 25, 28 years ago. And um the Lafayette turned them down. The my understanding is because the angle of the uh fairway 13 there would send the balls into the homes, and there had already been a lawsuit, I understand, I've been told, at hole 18, because so many of the balls were hitting people's houses, and at first nobody adjusted the golf course, and so they had to sue the city to have hole 1818 redone. So my guess is this is a guess that they didn't want to do it in that situation again. So they denied the building on this lot. Well, um, it's been not maintained for 30 years, including the fence, which is now 30 years old. The fence is probably 30 percent falling down, and the golf course wants a fence there for the protection of both the people on our side and and the golfers. In other words, they don't want when the balls come onto this empty lot, and I call it an orphan lot because um in the McStain um bankruptcy, they went bankrupt. Uh many many lawyers forgot to include this parcel of land. So the bankruptcy was settled and closed, and now this lot belongs to no one. It is an orphan lot, and the fence is falling down between the uh the this lot that's owned by no one and the golf course, and the golf course wants the fence, and our neighborhood would like the dangerous broken down nailed fence removed, but A, that would be trespassing, and B, when I was growing up, if you went and took something off somebody else's property, that was called stealing. So we can't do that. And we have tried everything.