6-4-25 Environmental Advisory Board Meeting

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• Heat, cooling and nature-based climate solutions0:15:05at this moment

  I'm the senior division manager for the nature based Solutions team, which is a part of the Climate Initiatives Department

• Wildfire-resistant building and landscaping0:20:00at this moment

  The Wui codes. The Wildland urban interface codes will guide any new development or redevelopment in these designated 3 areas.

• Wildfire-resistant building and landscaping0:22:12at this moment

  the the Re, the the Wui code requirements apply as requirements only to properties that are in the Wui zone.

• Wildfire-resistant building and landscaping0:23:07at this moment

  These guidelines, or these requirements, only apply to new development or redevelopment.

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures0:31:01at this moment

  We have already heard back from our bond Council that that has had a positive effect on our bond rating.

• Non-functional turf rules0:33:05at this moment

  the State passed a law requiring local government to develop landscaping codes around non-functional turf

• Water supply and drought0:33:05at this moment

  it makes more water available for water supply when certainly on on one level.

• Power outages, reliability and Xcel rates0:51:11at this moment

  Not just Marshall, but the ancillary impact or the secondary impact of power. Public safety power shutoffs.

• Heat, cooling and nature-based climate solutions0:55:00at this moment

  And a lot of the reason that we created cool boulder was to engage the community in that discussion

• Non-functional turf rules0:58:10at this moment

  It's not a it's not a big turf battle in general

• Flood mitigation and stormwater1:04:01at this moment

  For both wildfire and flooding. It's been part of our DNA for quite a while to understand the probability of those risks.

• Flood mitigation and stormwater1:05:02at this moment

  You have these compounding threats, these compounding risks where you have a hillside burn, and then, as we know, then you get a rainstorm, and then you have severe flooding.

• Climate action and emissions1:06:06at this moment

  the monetary risk that cities, particularly boulder, has, that you could equate or kind of connect to climate change.

• Power outages, reliability and Xcel rates1:07:16at this moment

  Looking at their 75 to 100 year old infrastructure. Looking at where those risks exist, starting to talk about where we might want to invest

• Climate action and emissions1:15:01at this moment

  We're gonna be talking about our embodied carbon work. And then, of course, pairing that with the next wildfire piece

• Energy conservation code1:15:01at this moment

  So in the energy code discussion we were working with Council to really address this idea of embodied carbon

• Climate action and emissions1:16:12at this moment

  It could be regulation of requirements around low embodied materials that are high carbon content.

• Healthy and resilient buildings1:16:12at this moment

  You've seen a couple of presentation presentations now of our healthy buildings roadmap that will be going to council

• Water supply and drought1:18:11at this moment

  we have a water update that we wanted to get scheduled with you as well.

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