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A controversial plan to put a car dealership near South Kipling Street and C-470 has been withdrawn by the developer. 

The proposal, which targeted 11 acres next to the Chatfield Bluffs South and Chatfield Bluffs Condominiums at West Ute Avenue and Kipling, had drawn resistance from surrounding neighborhoods. The Colorado Alliance for Responsible Development was formed to fight the rezoning application. 

A controversial deal between Jeffco, Boulder and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service involving 640 acres of the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant was finalized Dec. 31. 

The deal transfers ownership of the land to the federal government to be used as a wildlife refuge. In exchange, Boulder has ended its longstanding opposition to a 3-mile, 300-foot transportation corridor being granted to the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority east of the refuge.

 As Colorado makes plans to implement Amendment 64, which legalizes small amounts of marijuana for recreational use, Jeffco might be forging its own path. 

County Commissioner Don Rosier spoke out at the last commissioners’ meeting of 2012 about what he sees as the conundrum of Amendment 64, saying that if the county accedes to provisions of the law, it might be in conflict with his oath of office. 

Rosier said that when a county commissioner takes the oath of office, he swears to uphold the constitutions of Colorado and the United States.

The garden-level room at Hope Crossing Church on South Wadsworth Boulevard has become a home away from home for clients of the Seniors’ Resource Center’s Southwest Adult Day Center.

But on Friday, the center will be forced to close after $400,000 was cut from the SRCs’ 2013 budget by the Jefferson County commissioners. The Southwest Center’s eight staff members are being laid off.