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City Council · regular
Boulder City Council Meeting 5-4-23
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AI-read · unreviewed37 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personyour decision is a much bigger one the decision you are actually making is whether you will increase Community involvement in police oversight
one approach to providing affordable low and middle income housing would be a public private partnership
on land owned by the city example Boulder airport planning Reserve
the police oversight panel has a very important role to play in our community there's enormous value in continuously examining and optimizing our policing practices
a primary cause of pollinator decline is the decreasing availability of biodiverse habitat due to the simplified Urban Landscapes such as turf grass Lawns
sequestering CO2 and helping to lessen the effects of our warming climate
alternatives to turf grass include trees shrubs and flowers which create a more diverse landscape and provide habitat for pollinators birds and other Wildlife
and now there's Alpine Balsam no drugstore oh we don't want any drug stores in Boulder
I'm here to ask that you make Public Safety your top priority as a long-term resident and business owner
I'm asking that you please prioritize the discussion of Public Safety with our Municipal Court
that kind of talked about how we're not enforcing the camping ban
council when we were finalizing the pop ordinance I fought for city council to not weigh in on oversight panel selection
call up and check in the first item is Landmark alteration certificate application
I move that we call up um item 4A The Landmark alteration certificate with respect to the nurse's dormitory
certificate application C5 I see two against the motion passes our second call up
looking forward to going through ordinance 8571 with you tonight on the accessory dwelling unit regulation updates
the ordinance does help to implement several policies in our Boulder Valley comprehensive plan related to the built environment and housing
we talked through many of the code clarification and process improvements with support from Council for those as well
the evaluation helped reveal the changes that had had shown to reduce the barriers to adus in Boulder
the saturation limit has been in place since Boulder's first adoption of Adu regulations in 1983
the number of unrelated people on site is slightly slightly more flexible on adus in that more dependents can live on site
there's a number of other improvements just to the language and organization um of the overall standards just simplifying language
the next steps would be to spend the summer working on the process Improvement changes
the rush towards creating greater housing density in Boulder is a questionable goal that will not achieve its stated objective of increasing affordable housing
Goss Grove already does its part on affordable housing and building Community to include the less fortunate
one other factor to consider much of gosgrove is in the flood plain laying down more concrete and roof shingles means the next flood will be worse
we know the fate of Senate Bill 213 which eliminates both parking requirements and compulsory owner occupancy
the student ghetto north of college will overtake most blocks south as well
that's fueling declines in the Boulder Valley School enrollments your Adu plan would worsen this
it's definitely been a part of the conversation and we've been discussing it with residents over all of this process
in the next four days we're gonna have a pretty good idea some of the things that the legislature has talked about doing with adus
I want to at least give us the option of discussing uh anything we might want to do to cope with overriding State legislation
we've been receiving a number of emails with regarding South Boulder rec center and rumors of its imminent closure
they're starting to roll out the role of government training that I think most if not all of us have taken
sending out an email to recommend board and commission members take this training and if so how would we like to do that
the reports of the demise of the South Boulder Rec Center are greatly exaggerated that it's not what is happening
repurpose and perhaps folks have taken that to mean that we are doing something away we're doing away with the building