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Environmental Advisory Board · regular
9-6-23 Environmental Advisory Board Meeting
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AI-read · unreviewed29 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personStarting with the University Hill General Improvement District update.
So it was established in 1 70, at the request of property owners who wanted to tax themselves in order to purchase land
One of those parcels of land is the Fourteenth Street Service parking lot, which I'll be re referencing and is the only remaining general improvement district owned lot in the commercial district.
So the General Fund transfer helps offset. You did expenses related to general fund activities such as the Eco path program
There's limited capacity to fund general improvements within with the district's property tax revenues, which amounts to significantly less than any boulders.
some funding strategies that have been raised in discussion to tackle this issue include establishing a downtown development authority
Dda, for short. is a strategy used to revitalize commercial districts and can provide for a variety of funding options
Reinvesting those funds in 2025 would actually result in a negative fund balance for you, jet by 2,027.
Reinvesting those funds in 2025 would actually result in a negative fund balance for you, jet by 2,027.
as it stands today, there's a 14% commercial vacancy rate. and the business mix is depicted on the right hand side here.
Given the current regulatory environment and the healthy ordinance related to permanently affordable housing.
do you know how much control we would have over like ebike station placement?
and require them to allow 80 news and eliminating occupancy standards
as well as affordable housing, because that is only the goal of the Government seeking
It might be time with occupancy standards making it more controversial.
let's address our affordable housing crisis by getting rid of artificial constraints on the market
And this is also a really important way to achieve our greenhouse gas objectives, and it's important for our transit
Carbon emissions by 2030 they have to be at least 80 that they are going to release
Finally, wildfire mitigation resources. I understand that this would be an issue that would be again.
that we wanna cut down the trees as need be to avoid the disastrous wildfires.
everything's important emissions as well as carbon capture so that can take place in terms of our state policies, our greenhouse gas roadmap.
But then, how does that balance with cool boulder like wanting to have more trees.
And I wanna make sure that our Pdf version is accessible regardless of what parents?
this idea of updates to our energy code, which I referenced a little bit earlier.
So the city just released its 2024 budget. Of course, that includes my department's funding
There is an item called Boards and commissions, assessment, initial recommendation.
So that's looking at the land use map updates as part of the Boulder Valley Comp plan.
Why are we doing update to the energy code? Why is it insufficient right now?
we use the energy code specifically around efficiency. Right. It's about consumption of electricity within our billings