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Capital Development Committee
The Capital Development Committee signed off on a solar-and-cattle land lease at the state's Sage Ridge property, then ran short on time and pushed questions and a vote on a 14-acre Lakewood affordable-housing redevelopment to the next morning.
Key Actions
·Sage Ridge solar-and-grazing land leasePassed
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“we're losing ag land all the time. And the the solar developers will tell you is like, well, we don't need that much of land. Well, I mean every little ounce of Graz is calories taken out of the world's supply of food.”
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Capital Development Committee. Committee will come to order. Mr. Almsada, please call the roll committee members. Henriksen here. Lindsay Excused. Elton B. Present. Winter. Good morning. Story excused. Mr. Chair here members. First up on the agenda this morning we have the consideration of the Sage Ridge land lease request. We have folks here to present to us. Who wants to start us off? Please just introduce yourself and just for the record, Good morning committee. My name is Caitlin Casassa, Director of Sustainability for the state. I work in Department of Personnel Administration. I would love to give the opportunity of my colleagues here to introduce themselves too. Good morning. My name is Byron Kamenek, Executive Director of the Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center. My name is Josh Bennett. I'm with HUA Enterprises. We are a land reclamation company in Weld County. We also own HUA Cattle and HUA Farms. I'm Christy Wireman, Project Development Manager in Colorado for Sunshare Community Solar. Good morning. My name is Alan Knapp. I'm a professor of biology from Colorado State University. Thank you so much. Let the record reflect representative Story is with us. Who wants to start us off? Kaylin Casasa, Director…
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