$3.5 million dollars for 24 acres in Boulder County?-- That's $146,000 per acre for prime, downtown Lafayette real estate (that doesn't have pre-existing oilfield development beneath it).  Something is amiss with this story-- and voters should be asking a lot more questions.  Any for-profit developer would gladly offer FlatIrons a much better deal.

Are high taxes in play here, enticing FlatIrons to consider dumping their ownership to Boulder county?    Perhaps more affluent/influential parts of Boulder (city), are under some kind of pressure to build slums in out-of- site reaches of Boulder County like Lafayette, in order to receive federal grant money for something else?   Perhaps Lafayette residents view the choice between FlatIrons Church and a big welfare housing project as a choice between the lesser of two evils?   Perhaps affordable housing is just banter until the deal is sealed, and the aquirer has alternative plans?  There has to be a REAL story here, Denver Post, go get it!