The trustees’ objections are the latest to the plan to use the abandoned 40-acre Rainbow Nursery as a site for a composting plant, a plan over which three property owners are suing Boulder County. Their suit alleges the county used sales and use taxes to create a conservation easement at the site, then changed gears in 2018 to announce the parcel would support an industrial-type structure to receive and process human and animal waste for use as compost.
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