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City Council · regular
Boulder City Council Meeting 1-18-22
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AI-read · unreviewed55 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personwe are better trying to understand how the community is utilizing psilocybin and so this initiative to decriminalize
we're experiencing a Renaissance in the field of Neuroscience regarding psychedelics
we believe it is human right for people to have the right to have Equitable access to these natural medicines
occupation tax a carbon tax in an equitable way my previous presentations prove that it is a carbon tax
combining solar incentives with wind incentives we could get to 100% Renewables either today or very soon
we have item under item four 4A is the callup consider consideration for the landmark alteration certificate to
next we have item 4B which is also a callup check-in for a callup consideration
over 1100 units of affordable housing have been created in the city and um I believe it's 423 units
purchasing existing um affordable units and um uh bringing them up to standard and reselling them
there's also um things that we're doing to look at annexations where um we often get um affordable housing
per year um out of annexations and small um uh um projects that have home ownership
the next one is a a review of inclusionary Housing and um the inclusion or housing ordinance
the next one um uh where it talks about uh decreasing the average size of um Market units um looking at inclusionary housing
we're actually um creating a great deal of affordable housing right now um we've got about a th units in the pipeline
the inclusionary housing update we did a community engagement around that
and every year I know that it's a priority for him to want to do adus
overseeing sort of the the development of the housing um components at Alpine Balsam
I think we have ideas on how that could be done
when you kind of look at adus and you say well if you were to say to me
I just really quickly looked up the the comp plan item on the mixture of housing types
our budget is building back and I would say that we have monies that have been allocated for vacancies
I'd love to move on and hear some thoughts from staff on scoping on the homelessness items
particularly the mental health component of that um so we're we're um actually working on a agement
what can we do about unsheltered homelessness um you know and how can we um this I think ties into
how can we create spaces where people can be throughout the day um and sometimes at night if needed
looking at our occupancy standards I know that there has been some talk of that
we're moving towards um the adoption of the East Boulder sub community plan
in regards to the east Boulder sub community plan implementation is there any way that you can
we have already identified the the need to have meaningful participation in that planning process with the three tribal government Nations
in working with tribal governments they have a lot of efforts that they're asked to participate in
it being time to take a look at the planning Reserve
many people people have raised it in the context of um the CU South annexation
associated with the public infrastructure that would be required to um serve the planning Reserve
and then we going roll into the comp plan Revision in 2024 if we don't start this until 2023
a major update to the comp plan um probably the you know the first year frankly of our major update
it's actually Tethered to see you South it's it's an independent project
The Preserve or area three has nothing to do with C South and we don't intend to correlate the two
The Preserve or area three has nothing to do with C South and we don't intend to correlate the two
we had anticipated or in the process of doing a transportation Master Plan update
rle making happening at the state level around um greenhouse gases
we don't have a lot of extra budget but the budget that we had identified for consultant assistance
as part of the transportation Master Plan update in order for us to accelerate that work
any budget adjustments we do anticipate in the first adjustment to the base 20122 budget
we'll start uh with a living wage issue for residents
raising the city minimum wage in in collaboration with some of our potentially our neighboring cities
there has been a boards and commission subcommittee engagement committee that's been looking at kind of boards and commissions
all of the Cities boards and commissions and whether they should receive some sort of uh monetary compensation
we're making a concerted push out there for interface homes
the building code piece is something I'm I'm actually not prepared to speak to um tonight
Beyond sort of traditional Land Management work such as thinning and prescribed Burns and prescribed grazing
who is already actively working on outdoor dining
we don't have the um expertise in house either in um the Coo's office or at the airport
we do know that with this co-responder program we usually end up there anyway
the main person in PDS is the person who is also working on Alpine Balsam
landmarks in particular um there's that 14-day um period for call-ups