August 28, 2025 City of Boulder City Council Study Session

Agenda

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• East Boulder subcommunity plan and form-based code0:27:00at this moment

  There's also a hub type we're considering that comes out of conversations about the evolution of East Boulder

• Alpine-Balsam redevelopment0:31:01at this moment

  What you see on this slide is the land use map for the Alpine Balsam area at Broadway and Balsam

• Simplifying the land use code and review process0:32:00at this moment

  offering a more efficient, faster, and direct path through the site review process

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan0:33:00at this moment

  Does city council support the preliminary concept for revisions to the comprehensive plan future land use designations

• Simplifying the land use code and review process0:39:00at this moment

  allow for a number of different things to happen under a single land use category

• State housing laws and compliance0:43:01at this moment

  following HB 241313 on the transit oriented communities now that that's kind of state law

• Alpine-Balsam redevelopment1:01:01at this moment

  So thinking specifically about Alpine Balsam and East Boulder and how the time and effort that was invested into those processes

• East Boulder subcommunity plan and form-based code1:01:01at this moment

  So thinking specifically about Alpine Balsam and East Boulder and how the time and effort that was invested into those processes

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan1:07:03at this moment

  So, the um the comprehensive plan just establishes the policy to allow those types of things to occur

• Local food and farming1:17:00at this moment

  and then for the uh agriculture, it was wonderful seeing that component in there

• Zero waste, recycling and plastics1:17:00at this moment

  I didn't see anything around waste and waste management

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures1:18:02at this moment

  the financial and fiscal conversations, I would love to have a little bit more of a alignment between

• Community energy resilience hubs1:21:00at this moment

  as well as resilience hubs, places that can kind of exist um on their own if they need to

• E-bikes, scooters and shared micromobility1:27:00at this moment

  we've got this explosion of ebikes and this whole kind of range of tiny two wheel vehicles

• Healthy and resilient buildings1:32:01at this moment

  Really just a quick intro from me on the healthy building stronger community roadmap

• Climate action and emissions1:39:00at this moment

  Our buildings were not built for the climate we're headed for

• Manufactured housing and mobile home parks1:41:00at this moment

  We saw more than 400 um of our mobile homes damaged during the Marshall fire

• Energy conservation code1:44:00at this moment

  our energy conservation codes um which make sure that you know when someone is voluntarily

• Heat, cooling and nature-based climate solutions1:48:00at this moment

  about 25% of housing in Boulder is at risk to extreme heat right now

• Climate action and emissions1:54:00at this moment

  while climate and emissions reductions are important to some members of your community

• Healthy and resilient buildings1:57:01at this moment

  staff don't recommend proceeding with that at this time just given I think

• Power outages, reliability and Xcel rates2:11:01at this moment

  I understand you had a lengthy power outage

• Healthy and resilient buildings2:17:01at this moment

  Denver uh adopted their building performance standards. They apply um to a similar class of buildings

• Climate action and emissions2:30:03at this moment

  what are we doing to differentiate um between electrification using natural gas and electrical electrification using renewables

• Water supply and drought2:32:02at this moment

  we had that wonderful water supply conversation and and again I mentioned it at the our last agenda item

• Power outages, reliability and Xcel rates2:37:00at this moment

  I know in the power outage I had friends who used their cars to power their refrigerator

• City budget2:45:02at this moment

  that's that is not a feasible for us to contemplate um expending in in this manner

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