May 22, 2025 City of Boulder City Council Joint Session with Planning Board

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• Arts and culture plan (Arts Blueprint)0:17:02at this moment

  I am so excited to share a very brief three slide update on the Boulder Arts Blueprint.

• Arts and culture plan (Arts Blueprint)0:18:02at this moment

  This will translate highlevel policies from the comprehensive plan into concrete tactics and work plans for our office.

• Sundance Film Festival0:19:00at this moment

  opportunities like hosting the Sundance Film Festival has elevated the importance of cultural investment and planning

• Local food and farming0:28:01at this moment

  the concept of food systems is a new focus area because we've received so much interest and feedback

• Wildfire-resistant building and landscaping0:29:01at this moment

  planning for wildfire being at the top of mind in a lot of engagement work we've done

• Local food and farming0:32:02at this moment

  is there enough farming land in the city of Boulder or we also really thinking broadly about the county land

• Local food and farming0:49:01at this moment

  I just want to thank um our community for lifting up their voice around food systems.

• Downtown vitality1:02:01at this moment

  how do we future vision our downtown core if the neighborhoods are supporting more of the community need versus downtown

• Disability access in city policy1:05:01at this moment

  I just wanted to make a plug for accessibility to think about coming back into the vision

• Historic preservation and affordable housing1:14:00at this moment

  We have an awful lot of our housing stock especially that is coming into its uh being 50 years old and would be eligible for landmarking

• Boulder Municipal Airport1:15:01at this moment

  We know we need to address the lead emissions uh from the airport. It's a serious air quality issue.

• Climate action and emissions1:15:01at this moment

  It also speaks to greenhouse gas emissions. So, having some more guidance in the BBCP

• Historic preservation and affordable housing1:15:01at this moment

  It may be helpful to have some guidance in the BBCP about how we see historic preservation for Boulder, right?

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan1:22:00at this moment

  this first concept is focused on the comprehensive plans future land use map

• Accessory dwelling units1:23:02at this moment

  what would allowing ADUs across area 2 look like and what what would be the infrastructure and services needed

• Area III Planning Reserve1:23:02at this moment

  the area 3 planning reserve, could potentially support our community needs

• Flood mitigation and stormwater1:25:01at this moment

  the 2022 comprehensive flood and storm water plan took a similar approach and and analyzed and ranked all of the

• Capital improvement program1:26:00at this moment

  if you think about our six-year capital improvements program process that also each of those projects are evaluated against the SER framework

• Sundance Film Festival1:28:00at this moment

  this obviously would have some relevance to uh related to the arrival of Sundance

• Heat, cooling and nature-based climate solutions1:30:00at this moment

  you need to provide those outdoor spaces for people to um to thrive and also nature-based climate solutions

• Urban trees and the forestry corps1:30:00at this moment

  thinking about our tree canopy, thinking about pollinator gardens and pollinator highways and all these other kinds of things

• Wildfire-resistant building and landscaping1:52:00at this moment

  do we have a false sense of precision in some cases when we look at maps as we as we currently understand them with with with wildfires

• Annexations at the city edge1:54:01at this moment

  would that effectively halt our pursuit of annexing and that process of area 3

• Area III Planning Reserve1:54:01at this moment

  We we have already committed to doing that community needs analysis the step two of the planning reserve

• Annexations at the city edge2:06:01at this moment

  we could look more closely at areas that are designated as area 2 currently that are directly adjacent to the city

• Area III Planning Reserve2:13:00at this moment

  then we don't need to develop a green field out in, you know, area 3, that would be a consideration

• Accessory dwelling units2:15:05at this moment

  And so I would be very cautious about for example allowing ADUs wholesale in area 2

• Affordable housing policy2:15:05at this moment

  devoted half of their land to multifamily, middle-income housing. I would not like to see our leverage

• Annexations at the city edge2:15:05at this moment

  Area 2 is already area that is able to annex if the property owner wants to

• Accessory dwelling units2:17:00at this moment

  And if the county were interested in allowing ADUs, which if they annexed, they'd be able to have them too

• Capital improvement program2:22:01at this moment

  implementation of uh our CIP projects and and where those are located where our major investments are located

• Indigenous peoples, tribal relations and Indigenous arts2:25:02at this moment

  I'm also thinking about the track the tri uh the tribal uh reconciliation education commission's report on the historic land loss

• Homelessness2:28:00at this moment

  the county to help us a little bit more with unsheltered homelessness specifically

• Homelessness2:30:02at this moment

  more help with uh those experiencing homelessness they would say well that's not fair we have all these other counties

• Homelessness2:37:00at this moment

  would also love to consider a regional collaboration on issues like homelessness and behavioral health

• School enrollment and city-school coordination2:39:00at this moment

  I would have some concern about doing something with the school district which has a separate governmental body

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan2:47:01at this moment

  how many of these things are either restricted by the comp plan or there's just not any information in the comp plan

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan2:48:01at this moment

  my sense is most of that lives within the zoning code and in landers code, not within the comp plan

• Disability access in city policy2:52:01at this moment

  if you're in a wheelchair, it's really hard to be out at night

• Heat, cooling and nature-based climate solutions2:56:02at this moment

  as you go east where we already have so many heat islands has always felt like a possible

• Water supply and drought3:04:01at this moment

  reminding us that we are in a mega drought

• Arts and culture plan (Arts Blueprint)3:07:00at this moment

  I don't know that I see this one as sort of especially outside of the arts blueprint

• Sundance Film Festival3:09:04at this moment

  have Sundance um in our future and I think a lot of part of the interest in Boulder has to do with kind of our local feel

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures3:19:00at this moment

  the out of Excel ballot measure has been withdrawn

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