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Lafayette goes electronic as LEAF event returns with "performative" art lineup
3+ hour, 1+ min ago (380+ words) The Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival is back, bringing a lineup of artists to venues in the city to celebrate visual, audio and interactive works rooted in technology-based media. Known as LEAF, the multi-day festival focuses on what founder and director…...
Everything was peachy at Lafayette's annual Peach Festival
9+ mon, 6+ day ago (410+ words) In Old Town Lafayette this weekend, peaches were all the rage. 2025 Lafayette Peach Festival brought out the stone fruit enthusiasts " The annual Lafayette Peach Festival brought fruit vendors and fruit fans to Boulder County on Saturday. Attendees could buy peaches…...
Plaque to be placed at Lafayette Cemetery in honor of unidentified graves
11+ mon, 3+ day ago (548+ words) The City Council unanimously approved placing a memorial plaque at the northeast corner of the cemetery, with the information gathered about the names and unmarked graves to be housed at the Lafayette History Museum and Lafayette Public" City officials expect…...
Lafayette in final stretch of zoning rewrite as council weighs "key policy issues
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (726+ words) Lafayette officials are moving closer to a final draft of a sweeping rewrite of the land use code as the City Council weighs topics including housing density, small-scale commercial uses and building height. Zoning is a local government's rules for…...
Lafayette leaders will weigh water park tax extension, ranked-choice voting for November ballot
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (631+ words) Lafayette city staff has presented one potential ballot measure for the November election " a potential tax extension to support the aging Great Outdoors Waterpark " while council members separately raised interest in pursuing a ranked-choice voting ballot measure. Each year, Lafayette…...
Lafayette council raises familiar concerns over U. S. 287 development plan
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (509+ words) The Lafayette City Council echoed familiar concerns Tuesday night over an early-stage plan for a proposed development at the southwest corner of Arapahoe Road and U. S. 287, requesting that future phases of the development application better align with the city's comprehensive plan....
Lafayette official calls state laws costly as lawsuit filed against Polis moves forward
4+ mon, 7+ hour ago (617+ words) Lafayette announced in May it would join the court fight alongside Aurora, Arvada, Glendale, Greenwood Village and Westminster. At the center of the dispute are state House Bills 23-1255, 24-1304 and 24-1313. The city has called HB23-1255 "one of the first of now many…...
Apartment buildings next to a big-box store: Lafayette planners criticize early plans for major development
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (738+ words) Discussion stretched more than 4" hours Wednesday night as the Lafayette Planning Commission reviewed a sketch plan for a proposed development at the southwest corner of Arapahoe Road and U. S. 287, with commissioners and residents raising repeated and wide-ranging concerns. The project, known…...
Lafayette moves ahead for $74 M bond-funded city facility upgrades
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (236+ words) The Lafayette City Council'in early January is slated to discuss beginning the initial phases of project development, including design work and pre-construction planning for the three facilities, according to a city announcement. But the bond issuance will not occur until…...
One Lafayette doles out $29 K to local orgs as program shifts from city oversight
6+ mon, 2+ day ago (464+ words) The Community Foundation Boulder County has awarded about $29, 000 to 12 nonprofits through the One Lafayette fund, supporting organizations that provide food assistance, safety-net services, youth support and community programming in Lafayette. This year's recipients are Coal Creek Adult Education Center, Coal…...