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Boulder City Council Midterm Check-in 2-23-23
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AI-read · unreviewed81 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personthe priority area of police oversight that that shouldn't be new right we want to strengthen our police oversight
to be able to work on a long-term Financial strategy or a financial plan
reviewing all of our dedicated funds and what really are the restrictions on the uses for the dedicated funds
to then positioning us to be able to do that long-term Financial strategy work
our building a city-wide Ada transition plan we have hired a Ada coordinator
trying to figure out just not only the immediate but longer term what can we do our other big area is developing Financial strategy
put forth exciting climate initiatives climate goals as well as a council res resolution
with the deconstruction of Alpine Balsam becoming more apparent to people that drive up and on Broadway
the accessory dwelling unit updates so we'll be considering or you'll be considering an ordinance to remove saturation limits
Zoning for affordable housing so considering an ordinance to increase affordable housing by revising density
Zoning for affordable housing so considering an ordinance to increase affordable housing by revising density
looking at other zoning ordinance amendments that could better incentivize smaller more affordable housing
preparing the Boulder Valley comp plan land use plan amendments regulatory updates
and then the East Boulder sub-community plan so implementation plays of the plan including regulatory changes
lastly I'll mention the energy conservation code so considering updates to the city of Boulder energy conservation code
has to do with inclusionary housing updates and so you will be considering an ordinance to revise the existing
District Vitality that's our general improvement district support work downtown University Hill and Boulder Junction
a topic that you're familiar with access management and parking strategy implementation we are moving forward
Camp is Chautauqua access management program ramp is residential access management program
let's see next a topic again we've talked about a lot over the years affordable commercial program development
renewed Universal University Hill commercial reinvestment strategy so tied to the challenges the Hill's going through right now
there is a priority of the University Hill commercial area management commission you can see to revitalize the commercial working group
it's for us to do with public art and I know certainly I have a strong interest in seeing more of it
I'd say that we turn to the community cultural plan which would it's its Horizon is coming up at the end of this year
Open Spaces public spaces and public art are probably the the insatiable appetites in the city
Civic area Park designing construction the Arboretum design and construction the Pearl Street Mall refresh
a Civic area historic district designation and finally the East bookend Redevelopment plan
Downtown Vision plan implementation which through Community Vitality the downtown core arterial Network plan
the Adu regulation updates uh following the study session that we had on January 26th
the initiation of urban Services study for area three you'll recall from our discussion in November
in terms of getting that done prior to the comprehensive Plan update
really I'd like just for simplification to kind of make a distinction between two sets of things
pushed down to the administrative level with the opportunity for appeal or call up
the guaranteed income program is moving forward very well
the eviction prevention program was launched by voter initiative last year that program really solidified
it will be the largest affordable housing project in the city when it's developed
under housing we'll be partnering as we are on the Alpine Balsam development we're co-developers
we're co-developers with uh with BHP on that it will be the largest affordable housing project in the city
the inclusionary housing update that will be coming to you late summer early fall
HHS was simply relying on the budget of the city of Boulder
I'll hold most of my um more direct homelessness um questions
that study session we hope to be completely devoted uh to homelessness on that day
I've been getting a lot of emails how the Louisville Rec Center is so much better than ours
you have heard a lot about the core arterial Network we'll be continuing to implement that this year
we really haven't had trade-off conversations around our core arterial Network yet in the past
the amount of work that we do around implementing the our capital projects from design and construction standpoint
we're working on expanding our shared micro Mobility across the city
we're working on the airport Community conversation and to hear from the community
last November the climate tax passed and I think now we really have the opportunity
we're going to be working to repair and weatherize at least 200 manufactured homes in partnership with our colleagues in HHS
looking at our energy code and building performance ordinance so we'll be doing updates there this year
are cool Boulder campaign and our natural cooling strategy which is really starting to take shape right now
developing an approach really designing and expanding our Urban forests and other land-based cooling strategies
in the area of circularity and zero waste we plan to continue the conversation
helping small bowl small stores implement the Disposable bag fee
accelerating the work of the state's greenhouse gas roadmap starting to look at that
our partners for the longest time Boulder housing partners and the manufactured on communities have been great partners for us
a group of capital Improvement projects that are really important to us
keeping up with aging infrastructure is really our biggest challenge in utilities
the Albion dam is in our Silver Lake Watershed and doing repairs to that it's a multi-year project
we have a couple of water treatment plant projects important ones Electric System up upgrades
it's our South Boulder Creek flood mitigation project it's been an ongoing Council priority
our main sewer Improvement project all of the Wastewater collection pipes in the city
our water efficiency plan which another name for water conservation plan it's a regulatory requirement
in specific uh the tribal relations work that we're helping to lead along with City manager's office
developing a mitigation plan for restoring the 119 Acres of open space other lands on the CU South property
overall litigation plan for the South Boulder Creek flood project so our staff
our continuing work on restoring and reducing impacts on irrigated agricultural fields from the presence of prairie dogs
we are doing an assessment on eBay e-bike use on open space
where to possibly allow e-bikes on certain segments of open space
the resilient Landscapes portion of the topic of wildfire resilience
we're adding staff and budget to reduce fuel loads along uh key stretches of os P ditches
to increase the awareness around Wildfire resilience and Community responsibility on that
Wildland Urban interface code so there will probably be conversations about that
what about going to a year-round Forestry Crew instead of a nine-month Forestry Crew
technologies that other communities are using that we could look at in terms of detection
the camera detection system is something we did collaborate with them on and talked with them about putting in place
last year's budget process the funds were provided for us to lift up a second crew
which is how do we deal with the immediate crisis of
how do we prevent people from get from being homeless and unsheltered in the first place
I've heard from different boards and commissions they want an opportunity to weigh in