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Environmental Advisory Board · regular
11-5-25 Environmental Advisory Board Meeting
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- regular
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AI-read · unreviewed24 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personbecause Landmarks Board is a priority for me. I don't like to see these properties going into the landfill, as I've seen many.
And you guys don't even have it ever involved with you. This is called carbon footprint destruction in a landfill for nothing.
I'm going to be talking to you about the municipal water supply, which is essentially water that we get from a source
If we do have surplus, then we will lease it out on an annual basis to farmers, and this is a way to supplement their water supply
The planning is based on population and employment projections and policies that are set forth in the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan.
We would like to update that plan with any policy changes that come out of the call plan update.
That would be a difficult endeavor, or an expensive endeavor for Boulder, because one, we're already a built-out city, so you'd be tearing up a lot of roads to run new pipes.
Following the comp plan, we will probably be looking at a 50-year planning horizon as opposed to a 20-year planning horizon.
Continued trends assumes climate change results in the Colorado Front Range as a whole, beginning to experience minor reductions in water supply.
Again, a lot of the research is showing that with mature tree canopies, as an example, you're actually conserving a lot of water.
So these water-sharing practices that continue to support both Agriculture and municipal interests.
When the demand bar is well below the water droplet, as it is in this case, that indicates we have a surplus in our water supply
Is this assuming water rates stay exactly how they are?
And we assume those would stay the same, there's no… they don't just randomly change.
How closely do you guys work with the nature-based team?
Maybe I misunderstood all the City Council debate about budget, but is there anything that's, like, we would want to keep
For me, nature-based solutions. Yeah. And the 5 square miles, that was very powerful, I thought.
Maybe put in, like, what we think should be A focus under the nature-based. Yeah. Solutions, right?
A lot of this is already laid out in the pact, which the mayor and the city manager signed last month, so
They also have, wildfire hardening and water-wise landscaping policies, which is related to
Another thing to consider, possibly, is with, planning 26… 2027 is, festival for Sundance.
Not just, like, oh, let's recycle cups, but how do we create a festival that is the model for how you do sustainable festivals?
Continuing on, pretty impressive trajectory, so where we, reduced emissions another 8% over 2023, it's our 2024 inventory.
Oh, but the emissions inventory web, it was a press release that also went out yesterday