April 25, 2024 City of Boulder City Council Meeting

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• Zoning for affordable housing0:05:04at this moment

  our second item is related to the Zoning for affordable housing phase two project before we go into our work items

• Boulder Housing Partners0:55:02at this moment

  we've received correspondents from Boulder housing Partners uh who have concerns based on the services

• City budget1:22:01at this moment

  prepare um for 2025 budget if the team after

• Eviction prevention and rental assistance1:28:01at this moment

  we do have um mediation we do provide rental assistance we have um programs like building home

• Homelessness1:28:01at this moment

  programs like building home that are helping people who have for example become unhoused and are now housed

• Human rights ordinance1:37:00at this moment

  what I'm not seeing is enforcement at the same level as it relates to bias and discrimination

• Human rights ordinance1:39:00at this moment

  it still doesn't address the racial right and other types of bias and discrimination right so you're talking

• Eviction prevention and rental assistance1:44:01at this moment

  to not be a chronic nuisance if they have can prove that they've issued an eviction notice

• Eviction prevention and rental assistance1:45:02at this moment

  just because I don't want to see us having an unintended consequence of increasing evictions

• Occupancy limits1:47:02at this moment

  we've told the community that we didn't want them to conflate occupancy with um chronic nuisance

• Homelessness1:49:01at this moment

  as we think about the high system utilizer uh program that we're about to embark on

• City budget1:54:01at this moment

  when the budget is coming to us uh the in the summer and fall

• Zoning for affordable housing2:03:03at this moment

  last we talked about the Zoning for affordable housing project was fall of last year when Council adopted

• Zoning for affordable housing2:04:00at this moment

  the purpose of tonight is to come back to Council on phase two of the Zoning for affordable housing project

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan2:06:01at this moment

  you can look in the bbcp and see that we have a number of different land use designations

• State housing laws and compliance2:07:01at this moment

  the state has also gotten involved on this topic uh in recent years uh folks will remember

• Accessory dwelling units2:08:01at this moment

  there's one on Accessory dwelling units allowing them more broadly

• State housing laws and compliance2:08:01at this moment

  the state has passed something a bill that actually requires removal of occupancy rules that relate

• Affordable housing policy2:09:00at this moment

  permanently affordable housing which is deed restricted in perpetuity

• Inclusionary housing and cash-in-lieu2:09:00at this moment

  we have it in our land use code under inclusionary housing a certain percentage of projects has to be deed restricted

• Affordable housing policy2:12:00at this moment

  looking at other ways of getting deed restricted affordable units rather than just adding housing Alone

• Affordable housing linkage fee (nexus study)2:12:00at this moment

  there's many that feel that Boulder should be focusing more on just increasing inlo fees or commercial linkage fees

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan2:22:01at this moment

  our comp plan was even updated in 2020 took an approach to the city where it did label certain areas

• Historic preservation and affordable housing2:26:01at this moment

  did they have a vers of the historic preservation ordinance like what we have today

• Historic preservation and affordable housing2:27:01at this moment

  the historic preservation or landmarks process has become more robust in recent years

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan2:31:00at this moment

  the comp plan talks about the area having a Max density of 20 dwelling units per acre

• Downtown vitality2:34:01at this moment

  it adds having housing opportunities around the downtown will add to the Vitality of

• Parking and access management strategy2:36:01at this moment

  we are embarking on a new parking project this summer

• Disability access in city policy2:59:00at this moment

  I'm not sure of use accessibility as that has some really specific connotations

• Family-friendly neighborhoods2:59:00at this moment

  I think this does really explicitly match up very well with um sort of the familyfriendly vibrant neighborhoods

• Heat, cooling and nature-based climate solutions3:11:02at this moment

  I just went to a really fantastic session by the climate um team on uh the nature-based solutions

• Climate action and emissions3:12:01at this moment

  the city has very important and rigorous goals around carbon reduction

• School enrollment and city-school coordination3:45:01at this moment

  if we're trying to increase our school enrollment how do we get families

• School enrollment and city-school coordination3:46:01at this moment

  one of our goals as a council is to increase School enrollment and I think that if that is something

• Affordable housing policy3:57:00at this moment

  or more deed restricted um permanent affordable housing

• Accessory dwelling units4:04:00at this moment

  it's pretty common for owner occupancy requirements to be applied to adus

• Disability access in city policy4:06:00at this moment

  we were also asked to reach out to the centers for people with disabilities

• Simplifying the land use code and review process4:06:00at this moment

  last time we did the ordinance we staff had proposed um maybe exempting missing middle housing from the site review process

• Disability access in city policy4:07:01at this moment

  based on what we heard back from the centers for people with disabilities and how the the building code

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