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City Council · regular
Boulder City Council Meeting 9-15-22
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AI-read · unreviewed55 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a person8B will become the response to open comment on psilocybin
which helps avoid power plant emissions that can harm our health pollute our air and warm our climate
the city is a leader in climate action adopting clean energy and energy efficient programs and we have pledged to reduce greenhouse gases
I would like to address the occupancy limits I know that this is a Hot Topic in Boulder
consider these things as they go forward and re redefining the occupancy limits in Boulder as well as the zoning
as part of the 2019 Transportation Master Plan update in the TMP initiative 4 is prioritizing The Pedestrian
climate change is the cause of this but Boulder's climate action is more focused on growing a bureaucracy with little cost benefit analysis
declaring enforcement of laws regarding psychedelics to be the lowest law enforcement priority in Boulder
the high-end condos are driving up the cost of affordable housing and so there's more an affordable housing demand
and the CU South is going to do that in the biggest way possible
support for your guys's City priority of amending the land use codes in support of Zoning for affordable housing
when reviewing the density calculations for my understanding changing the parking requirements will not affect
many critical community members cannot afford to live within the city limits right now
moving through to support Zoning for affordable housing because it's important that if you want
a lot of other folks in our community interested in occupancy limits just to clarify or just so that they know
a new 139 330 square foot Life Sciences building Pearl East Innovation building
consistent with the Boulder Valley comprehensive land use designation since the IG zoning
the board had concerns that the principal use would be professional offices rather than the life sciences and lab
the concept of life science uses which we're seeing more of in Boulder
the proposal does not meet the energy and climate goals or Transportation goals of bvcp
I mean we have a transportation master plan does this project meet that
upcoming conversation about boards and commissions generally so we can certainly continue to talk about it
tonight on our comprehensive flood and stormwater master plan
there's been so much discussion about CU South and the South Boulder Creek flood project
the framework will then be used to develop a 20-year Capital Improvement plan beginning with the 2024 budget cycle
develop the 20-year CIP projects will then be addressed in the Department's annual work planning efforts
boards and Council will have the opportunity to consider proposed projects as part of the annual budget cycle
it's really just the bvcp summary language and so I do have a slide with that on there
we also have um an emergency rental assistance program currently up it was a partnership with Boulder County
what we do in in utilities is Dam safety and and we do exercises
certainly as we're in the midst of budget conversation not that it happens now
how we cycle through all of our systems and water and wastewater and storm and flood
the plan is recommending to use nature-based Solutions like the one described there as much as possible
the idea behind the nature-based solutions is how can you get nature to help you do what you need to do
the best way to move water is to move it in the most natural way that it moved in the first place
we could have major destruction down to the water treatment plant with it with a CU South for a hundred year flood claim
that we prioritize funding that's going to make us safe from from the floods that we know will be coming
we pivoted and decided that we wanted to focus on a city-wide outdoor dining program
we've had issues with snow removal and Ada accessibility in the winter time
there are Six Ada parking spaces in this area that is the highest concentration of ADA parking spaces in our whole on-street parking system
five businesses that have applied and are continuing their their outdoor dining extensions in some of those parking spaces
the Civic area master plan and Pearl Street revitalization each have upcoming implementation efforts
there's no public art all these types of issues have come up because it was done
we help with Capital Improvements we work with parking
our uh pilot outdoor dining program Citywide which does as has been mentioned allowed allow operators to opt in
if there are higher vacancies on West Pearl that will lead to lower lower sales tax revenues because there are vacancies
like the e-bike rebate program that we were talking about
I counted six vacancies between 9th and Broadway and you know that that is not good
Ada access emergency access delivery and bike access and snow removal are all issues that we need to address
of planning and revitalization efforts planned for the downtown and Civic area that will largely take place in the street right of way
I don't think it's good governance for us to individually direct board work or to favor certain boards over others
8A on tonight's agenda is the the 2022 County and Boulder Valley School District ballot measures
then the county has a 0.1 percent Transportation sales tax that they would like to extend
I was really disappointed to see this put forward as a sales tax initiative
my understanding of the ballot measure at the state level is that while it's focused on these Healing Centers