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Boulder City Council Study Session 7-10-18
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AI-read · unreviewed26 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personforty-two percent of the boulders the general fund budget is derived from sales and use tax
our comp plan actually has an economy section and there is a policy specifically about retail
sales tax being such an important revenue engine for the city and providing for the services that
boulders consider to have a healthy concentration of retail within the downtown business district your vacancies are low
not just how are we making sure that our budgets are funded
like you know we started to look at commercial affordable commercial and how do we foster that
we're investing a lot in public art and I would like to see the synergy between that and downtown
I am NOT a big fan of the art in the garages
just select based on who's gonna give you the most rent and you know what kind of business you want in your location
stuff like the parking requirements on East Pearl it my understanding is that it really it limits the ability
one of the reasons that we haven't been getting housing was the downtown density bonus for office space
the comprehensive plan asked us to develop a retail strategy we are pursuing that in two ways
we feel like this might be a tool that we could use for affordable commercial it may be something that could be used in affordable housing
making sure that we don't displace say small businesses that might be there
that's where it lines up with some other comp plan goals
we said several of us on council said we're not interested in any annexation if you have any dist displacement
I know that when the Ponderosa mobile home park came before us we said several of us
how do we bring folks who have different perspectives into a collaborative community dialogue
I think actually modeling the kind of civil discourse we're trying to achieve it's really important
we talked a lot about climate change and we talked about carbon emissions
one of the main reasons we talk about doing this is because of climate change
I carried on the Civic area plan we got the kids involved we got CLC a business school come down
should be some Cu classes that are actively engaged in this civil discourse
it's not rotating like any of your other boards and commissions are they were all appointed by the city manager
I would translate though that attorney doesn't agree with me into reducing greenhouse gas emissions
having some of these funds pay for affordable housing energy I think there's a nexus