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Environmental Advisory Board · regular
11-6-24 Environmental Advisory Board Meeting
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- regular
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AI-read · unreviewed33 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personI'm a program manager on the nature based climate solutions, team of climate initiatives
mostly prompted or largely prompted by a law coming down from the State on non functional turf
the State is assessing due to water use how in new development, non-functional turf will not be allowed
it was codified through Senate Bill 51, the last session, and it pertains to government operation
a lot of our our drought rules are based around the baseline use of like turf grass
About a 3rd of our excess carbon in the atmosphere is from degradation
one way we're thinking about cool boulder is in the context of systems change and systems drivers
attempted to write an impact report for cool boulder last year it was very, very hard
the Community Forestry Corps worked on were largely results of cool boulder projects
How are we discussing wildfire risk and forests like, and trees
Culturally, green stormwater infrastructure, low impact development.
Our water efficiency plan, our drought management, plan our grass lines
she has made connections and inroads with a couple manufactured homes communities
The city has kind of dipped their toe into this idea of food policy and food systems in the past
how do we encourage more opportunity for local food production when it makes sense to do so
an opportunity for the adjacent mobile Elm Park to actually teach and learn indigenous practices
There has been to regenerative farmers. So even some folks that aren't listed on our partner list.
there was information about the past land ownership, but no land acknowledgement or anything like that
coordinate with their own community to bring indigenous identifying folks to a program on open space
the board will have an opportunity to weigh in on updates to the Boulder Valley Comp plan
thinking about the way thinking about our urban tree canopy
80% of our tree canopies on private property. And this benefits everybody.
there's a huge community interface piece of Alpine balsam
recognize that nature-based solutions should be a part of their core climate work
I'm working a lot more on the green stormwater structure
I recently went through all of the restaurants in boulder and what their plant based options are
we will have a manufactured home strategy that obviously links to our
just thinking about parking issues, if that's something that the Board would like to see
amps and vision 0, I think, would would like align fairly well and do like a like a paired update
There was just interest in an amps update in the vision, 0 racial equity more broadly
Just the plans for the kind of yeah, the form and function of the building
you will get one on our manufactured home strategy and update on the building roadmap
how they're thinking about using it as wildfire opportunity