Boulder City Council Meeting 8-17-23

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• Boulder Municipal Airport0:13:00at this moment

  the airplane noise has exponentially increased over the last six years

• Local food and farming0:13:00at this moment

  we are part of an important community of farmers providing local food

• Boulder Municipal Airport0:14:01at this moment

  the FAA does not enforce any rules or recommendations regarding flight patterns that affect people and homes on

• Boulder Municipal Airport0:15:00at this moment

  we absolutely must get rid of the FAA involvement so that a small group of people cannot operate without regard

• Indigenous peoples, tribal relations and Indigenous arts0:18:00at this moment

  bringing indigenous voices into Political spaces such as these since I've been stepping into city council

• Indigenous peoples, tribal relations and Indigenous arts0:19:02at this moment

  how do we replace what was taken without displacing more people and so I feel like

• Support for immigrant communities0:22:06at this moment

  immigrants are among the lowest paying workers in Boulder we Are Witnesses um to how much many of the families we serve struggle to stay afloat

• Minimum wage0:39:04at this moment

  I'm here to speak in support of the minimum wage and urge you guys not to put it off another year

• Minimum wage0:40:01at this moment

  I definitely support raising the minimum wage to 15 an hour it's necessary for us to have a livable wage

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan0:43:00at this moment

  without following baldler Valley comp plan and it's egregious

• Homelessness0:47:01at this moment

  we are still enforcing the camping ban and providing the appropriate notices and taking um the measures

• Annexations at the city edge0:55:01at this moment

  let's see the annexation item um that's 3H sorry so I'll just make

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures0:57:00at this moment

  on August 3rd Council took no action on three of those five ordinances and that was the safe zones the charter changes and the tax extension

• Arts grants0:58:01at this moment

  direct and grant funding for Arts and Cultural nonprofits professional artists Arts education venues and workspaces

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures0:58:01at this moment

  so that the city clerk can certify the ballot to the county clerk by the deadline so that these ballot measures are on the voters ballot in November

• City budget1:01:00at this moment

  had a chance to review the 2024 recommended budget yet and that opportunity is coming up here in in September

• City budget1:02:03at this moment

  we have crafted a budget that when you see it in full with the 2024 recommended budget

• City budget1:03:00at this moment

  we're highlighting the the overall picture of the general fund and and focusing on fund balance after Reserve

• Arts funding and the 2A tax1:19:01at this moment

  Arts organizations and Human Service organizations feel like they're pitted against each other to fight for funding

• Landmark designation and call-up process1:21:01at this moment

  any interest in calling this up seeing none we can move on

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan1:25:03at this moment

  does the city council find that the proposed ordinance implements the adopted policies of the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan

• State housing laws and compliance1:25:03at this moment

  the state legislature actually brought forward a Senate bill

• State housing laws and compliance1:26:00at this moment

  that related to zoning and land use which is not too common here in Colorado

• State housing laws and compliance1:27:00at this moment

  there's been some State legislations and court rulings that have made occupancy based on familial

• Affordable housing policy2:28:00at this moment

  this helps the city reach its affordable housing goals

• Occupancy limits2:31:01at this moment

  I want to urge you to vote to raise Boulder's occupancy limits to allow up to five unrelated people to live together

• Parking and access management strategy2:41:01at this moment

  creating parking permit programs across the city and really and then and eliminating parking minimums should be the next step

• Shared housing and home sharing2:43:00at this moment

  I'm one of the fortunate few who has the right friends to be able to live in shared housing

• Student housing near campus2:43:00at this moment

  a friend um who lost their job on campus and had 72 hours to vacate their student housing

• Minimum wage3:01:00at this moment

  to raise the minimum wage as soon and as quickly as is legally possible

• Occupancy limits3:07:01at this moment

  I do urge you to increase the housing occupancy limit to five unrelated people

• Shared housing and home sharing3:10:00at this moment

  because we've been working on shared housing for so many years here there are a lot of folks

• Shared housing and home sharing3:12:00at this moment

  you can finally make it legal for five unrelated adults to share a five-bedroom home anywhere in the city

• Occupancy limits3:25:00at this moment

  increasing the occupancy limit to five is a positive step

• Student housing near campus3:32:01at this moment

  why can five adults live together if they fit the government's description of a family unit but not five unrelated students

• Student housing near campus3:38:00at this moment

  we share a neighborhood with a lot of student housing sadly there are whole blocks in our neighborhood

• CU South4:01:02at this moment

  especially because of Cu South which is going to drive up the double the population of Boulder

• Affordable housing policy4:11:00at this moment

  I want to see more affordable housing units both for ownership and Rental I don't want to live in a rich Enclave

• Climate action and emissions4:18:02at this moment

  this is full-blown climate emergency this town is full

• Affordable housing policy4:21:03at this moment

  the city's goal of more affordable housing can be achieved

• Water supply and drought4:30:00at this moment

  if we stretch towards that there's water supply issues

• Parking and access management strategy4:34:02at this moment

  we need to look at investment properties sort of writ large parking minimums and the gouging of renters

• Parking and access management strategy4:45:00at this moment

  the these cannot be um brought up to be non-conforming uses under the current ordinances mostly due to parking

• Accessory dwelling units5:03:00at this moment

  we could have simply done with occupancy what we've already done for accessory dwelling units also referred to as adus

• Accessory dwelling units5:04:00at this moment

  the second type of accessory dwelling unit that we planned in 2018 was guaranteed to be affordable

• Accessory dwelling units5:05:01at this moment

  affordable adus that was 73 new units of housing that are contractually guaranteed to be affordable to renters

• Climate action and emissions5:12:01at this moment

  lighter resource usage in greenhouse gas emissions without putting a shovel on the ground

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