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Boulder City Council Study Session 8-25-20
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AI-read · unreviewed24 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personwhen the comp plan was updated in 2017 it included some new policies that set the expectation that for any projects
it also added the alpine balsam site it also put a sunset date on the map
as well as the commercial linkage fee so if they were doing a commercial building anything that's bonus floor area
outcomes improve the clarity simplicity and predictability of the site review process and also looking deeper
the form-based code goes into a little bit more detail by having specific percentages of masonry materials
there just would be new criteria that would relate to community benefit and would relate to the updates
did staff consider linkage fees on this square footage that would have the reduced um
so for instance you know the form based code has fenestration requirements so a minimum percentage of windows per floor
we can we can look at a better site review process um you know better criteria and and more certain standards
the reason that the affordable commercial became a part of 30 perl is because we had been lobbied by several different groups
that commercial linkage fee was adopted specifically to support affordable housing as brought in on the order of five million dollars
if you do commercial we have a linkage fee and that commercial linkage fee was adopted specifically to support affordable housing
i think that that we need to look at between the business that's going in there and the proximity of the affordable housing
the soul of the program is supposed to be very small business
do we need a penalty if we simply bar the leasing of the space outside of the program
the use table maybe out of alignment with the goals and policies of the bvcp initial goals of the project
some of the ideas discussed there was the idea of a pilot project that's kind of laid out in the boulder valley comp plan
that east boulder sub community plan would help inform you know more holistic changes to that particular industrial area
was there any effort to look at how affordable housing existing affordable housing fits into that string of pearls puzzle
vehicle emissions sort of um you're breathing it in as you walk
this will be completed with the collaboration of the independent police monitor with community input
understand and produce some type of quarterly or biannual report on how the police department is responding to mental health requests
and really gave us a meaningful mental health co-responder program several years ago
we've been wearing body cameras since 2015 which puts us well ahead of the curve