An almost 325-acre portion of the 3,000-acre Great Western Industrial Park could soon become a part of the city of Greeley, if recent annexation requests are approved.
Dean Brown, senior vice president of industrial development for the GWIP owner Broe Group, would not discuss the “why” of the annexation requests.
“As Great Western Industrial Park works to meet the needs of prospective manufacturing and industrial tenants, we are in constant discussions with local and county officials to align the resources needed to bring new jobs and new investment into the region,” Brown wrote in an email response to questions.
The motive behind the annexation requests — to be accomplished by a flagpole annexation via a 20-foot strip of land — remains unknown.
But it’s a move that is not sitting well with the town of Windsor, where officials have vehemently objected to the annexation request.
“We’ve worked with the landowner for many, many years on their plans for the property,” said Scott Ballstadt, planning director for the town of Windsor. “The state requires one-sixth of the property boundary to be contiguous, and it’s almost 100% contiguous with Windsor, and it has to go through a very gerrymandering flagpole annexation to even meet the category requirements for Greeley. I really don’t know the details behind why the property owners are pursuing annexation through Greeley.”
The 3,000-acre Great Western Industrial Park — part of which includes land formerly owned by Eastman Kodak Co. — includes Foreign Trade Zone and Enterprise Zone designations, with portions of the park occupied by Owens-Illinois, Lineage Logistics, Vestas Wind Systems and Gotham Greens. Portions of the park are annexed to Windsor, with the rest in unincorporated Weld County.
The town of Windsor has been working on a master plan for years that would improve the area with a mixed-use commercial developer, with some residential tucked in.
Ballstadt authored a letter objecting to the annexations, citing a variety of reasons that the annexations should not be considered good community planning. The town has an intergovernmental agreement with Greeley, but it doesn’t cover this specific area, Ballstadt said.
“The reason it doesn’t cover this area is because everybody assumed for decades that this would eventually be part of Windsor,” he added.
“We’ve shared boundaries with all of our neighboring communities for more than 20 years,” Ballstadt said. “It would be unprecedented for another community to annex into our growth management area. … I think just from a land-planning standpoint, it really flies in the face of all of the statutory requirements for annexation.
“It’s not consistent with our sewer plan. It’s not consistent with our comprehensive plan, and so it’s just really, like I said, unprecedented that we haven’t ever seen. this kind of a use proposal that is contradictory to so many different adopted plans and agreements,” Ballstadt said.
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