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Downtown Management Commission · regular
3-11-25 Downtown Management Commission Meeting
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And so all of that to say specifically with the larger encampment that tends to be just moving slightly around on the creek path.
we've started to purchase e-bikes for those officers which is huge, huge benefit response.
and the majority of the assaults were unhoused. Community members a lot of times assaulting other unhoused community members
But we did just fine for our budget in 2025.
There are 4 encampments on the Mall and around the Mall and our, we actually have experienced some vandalism.
who are concerned about rising minimum wage, about operating costs and about consumers changing habits.
we think that it represents a reasonable approach to kind of slow the bleeding over the next 3 years as the raise minimum wage goes into effect.
We've talked a lot about affordable commercial, also acknowledging that we want to make sure we're maintaining our access
what this team is thinking for this space really fits with a lot of our economic vitality goals, activations of more spaces in the downtown.
The land use does not require them to build any parking, and we're getting rid of parking minimums theoretically here pretty soon at the City Council level
how this competes with restaurants we already have downtown that are already struggling.
So with the concept of sundance coming, I assume you'd really lean into that.
Is the affordable commercial a requirement for this land for like land use,
The District Analysis project is a study of our existing general improvement districts, and recommended actions on how they should evolve
We also looked at the sources and uses of caged funds from 2019 again, as the baseline year before covid, through 2025.
and then also, Alpine balsam has been flagged as a key connectivity, opportunity and Boulder Junction as well.
the civic area and the East bookend redevelopment is also going to be very impactful on the Caju district.
We know there are some capital improvements that have emerged as priorities, including garage, repair some underlining of power lines
the flow of funds between the general fund and is a potential challenge looking to the future
We're looking at the hill we're looking at downtown.
downtown development authority is something we've heard from both ends of the barbells, if you will.
it creates a potential new revenue source through something called tax increment financing, and it allows us to capture future increases in property, tax revenue
identify revenue options for the number of planned capital improvements
the updating of Pearl Street, the civic area Bookend project.
because you folks are paying property tax to both entities, and we heard from some stakeholders.
special improvement district metropolitan districts. There are different financing districts that have not been used aggressively in boulder
You do have urban renewal, urban renewal is very site specific.
Some are owned by the city, and and their revenue goes to the general fund, others are within the purview of Kj.
the whole downtown Development authority is something that was new to me