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Downtown Management Commission · regular
10-20-25 All CV Commissions Summit Meeting
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AI-read · unreviewed46 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personSundance was really involved in it as well. They had a lot of Sundance staff, our local staff.
how do we make this something that will appeal to them so that it does succeed when it does reach the ballot
like changing the way that we eat outside, in Boulder, and how that looks, and the look and feel of that
there's 7,500 square feet of affordable commercial space. Anyone knows? They're very beautiful.
looking for ways specifically to address commercial vacancies and help support small businesses
which gave the initial, recommendation to explore a downtown development authority. That was well received
We are moving forward on some activities related to the Boulder Urban Renewal Authority, or BURA.
we are also considering possibility of using metro districts in certain targeted cases
the DDA and Urban Renewal are similar in that, they are, there's a city role in, the management of those.
Metro districts use that as well, but the control is fully the developers, the property owners, and so Boulder hasn't used metro districts in the past.
with the plan of development, and ultimately, the voters have a role in kind of setting some parameters
and then the board of directors of the Downtown Development Authority, is mostly businesses
Council or staff really talked about Converting office space to residential. And, like, losing office space.
to make sure that that is, very successful. Someone said once I heard
like events and activities, that continue to drive that type of general economic activity
especially thinking ahead of the Arts Blueprint, which will be, finalized in Q1 of next year.
Arts and culture, which will look a lot like it does today, continuing the work to carry out, the arts blueprint, direct grants, our public arts program.
Creative Neighborhoods Mural Program, all that good stuff, will continue to live there.
That is reflective of anticipating having an arts blueprint that guides some of those funding decisions.
arts and culture is the amount of money that we're spending on Aren't increasing, decreasing, or staying the same?
Listed a few of those, talked a lot about those economic development, conversations, certainly the arts blueprint, work forward.
also a more collaborative forum across the general improvement districts. I think there's some benefits
This is the planning context. We exclude Phase 1, because in 2012-2014, there's a Civic Area Park Plan.
The conversations around a historic district in the civic area provided amazing research on what happened in this area before it was a park.
If you walk through the civic area on a summer, especially the minute CU is out of school, this area is really popular
including community members with disability, is access to the nature and the creek, and we're not doing that at all right now.
Folks, we want vibrant park and urban spaces here.
like, some of the things we're interested in is having, like, a year-round presence at the farmer's market somewhere there.
So, one of the other big nonprofits other than the farmers market that's in development is KGMU's building
I mean, we have a budget shortfall. Is the $18 million a portion already?
So, the great thing about the North Boulder Recreation Center is it's still on the skip line
We're transitioning now into the Boulder Valley Comp Plan. workshop, but
And, a note that there are four adopting bodies for the Comprehensive plan.
So, let me tell you about the comprehensive plan. The comp plan is Boulder Valley's long-range vision.
Right now, we have a North Boulder subcommun, an East Boulder sub-community plan, area plans for different smaller sections of town.
Right now, we have a North Boulder subcommun, an East Boulder sub-community plan, area plans for different smaller sections of town.
every year we go through an annual budget process, a capital projects, planning, zoning standards, work planning
every year we go through an annual budget process, a capital projects, planning, zoning standards, work planning
the folks over in public art have deployed experiments in public art to embed, artists in residence with different aspects of the comp plan
one of the things Sundance has found is that, like, people would rent their facilities only during Sundance
Another point is, we eliminated parking minimums, but there's not enough transit.
kids are not riding a bus because of the homeless population
I think they should have a program, get a license to ride an e-bike.
The question specifically came about with the Lime scooters.
But they're being, you know, ridden against traffic, in the street, on the sidewalk, a bunch of places that get abandoned
We don't think we have the votes to do with the Hill, let's just focus on downtown, and we can be removed from the boundary.