The Boulder County commissioners voted 2-1 on Tuesday to move forward with a senior housing North Broadway campus purchase proposal that was developed in conjunction with the community with a goal of preserving Iris Fields.

Commissioner Claire Levy said one of her goals was keeping the fields intact, but not under county ownership.

”I know it was hard for the community to know this really important piece of property in Boulder is going to change hands and is going to have a different use. … We need to do right by county taxpayers and the public trust, but we also need to make a decision that is good for the community,” she said.

North Boulder Little League, which has used the baseball fields on the campus as a home base for close to 70 years, worked with a senior housing developer to cr

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