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Landmarks Board · regular
02-25-26 Landmarks Board Meeting
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Unlike quasi-judicial demolition or landmark designation hearings, initiation hearings are legislative, so the board may consider any factors in its decision at this step in the process.
draw a reasonable balance between private property rights and the public interest in preserving significant buildings by ensuring that demolition is carefully weighed with other alternatives.
The redevelopment will be reviewed through the quasi-judicial site review process, which evaluates projects for consistency with the comprehensive plan and other adopted plans of the community.
However, other projects will need to be delayed, and the application processing times may be impacted while the application is in process.
The redevelopment will be reviewed through the quasi-judicial site review process, which evaluates projects for consistency with the comprehensive plan and other adopted plans of the community.
While looking at alternatives to demolition, the constraints identified were the floodplain height and cost of repair. This property is within the 100-year floodplain
And it is consistent with the goals and policies of the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan.
The house at 986 Arapaho is associated with the Stoffel family, including Merton and Wave Perrine, who operated a number of local businesses, including the University Hill Grocer and Stoffel Sandwich Shop.
the buildings are eligible for landmark designation and will be approved for demolition unless the Landmarks Board initiates the landmark designation process before the stay of demolition expires
staff recommends that the Board initiate the landmark designation process to prevent the loss of significant buildings and provide the time for the planning board to comprehensively review the concept plan application.
Boulder's potential, historic districts were mostly identified in the 1980s, when there was a major effort to Survey and a goal that we achieved to survey everything built before 1940.
If you vote to approve demo today, President Manor can move forward, Concept Peering can move forward, but also the partnership to help relocate the houses can move forward over the next year.
It also shows this light blue, and this light blue is that 100-year floodplain. It's most of the property.
Because all four of these houses flooded in 2013. They'll flood again, we don't know when, but they will.
Required at least 73 parking spaces. Per the partnership agreement. And we went and asked the investor, can we change that?
They have occupational therapists, they have physical therapists, they have home health aides, they have food services, they have laundry services that come in and use those parking spaces
But if they were… incorporated into LIHTC, they'd need to be ADA, and they'd need to be much more energy efficient.
And so, if you were to attach those to the building, and make them accessible from the building, we'd have this Complicated system of ramps needed to make those spaces accessible to the building.
And we'd love to help create the density that decreases greenhouse gases in an urban core.
Second, imbalance. Does the proposed designation… is it consistent with the comp plan? And the comp plan is really important, we're rewriting it now.
And I don't think it surprises anybody that there's an affordable housing, and certainly a senior affordable housing crisis that's evident, and it continues to grow.
I want people at different income levels to be able to experience that same sense of community that I know Presbyterian manor offers.
I appreciate the opportunity to speak in support of Presbyterian Manors being able to remove or demolish the four houses on Arapahoe to add affordable senior living.
landmarking this location without the support of the property owner will add a burden to city staff, creating more work hours in a time when the City of Boulder is facing budget constraints.
I also think building more housing so close to Pearl Street can help revitalize our downtown that has many businesses struggling right now.
From the Chamber's perspective, this is not simply a land use decision. It is an economic sustainability decision.
We are the only 100% free clinic. nonprofit organization in Boulder County. We're a mobile clinic. We go out into the community, caring for the most vulnerable. The unhoused, low-income, older adults.
I know that they would do the same for these new 60 units of proposed affordable housing that is much needed.
More than 80% of those that we see who are unhoused in Boulder are older adults.
So I encourage you to please allow the demolition permit to go forward, so that more of our unhoused seniors can be housed in Boulder.
This will allow me to agent place in a walkable area near the Boulder, Maine Public Library and downtown Pearl Street Mall.
I worked for the Housing Authority of the City of Boulder, now called Boulder Housing Partners, for 23 years.
Senior buildings in Boulder County. from north in Longmont up to Nederland, out to… The edge of Superior.
It's next to the AgeWell Center, the library, and a short walk downtown where folks can access healthcare services and many of the amenities we all enjoy.
The board can consider any factor in its decision this evening. And that's very different than every other hearing you all see, whether it's a landmark alteration certificate, demolition hearing
If we could get rid of parking, we would. Sorry, if we're allowed to consider all of the things, and we are no longer restricted
I'll move that the Landmarks Board not initiate the process for landmark designation. on 976 Arapaho, item 5A
into the, you know, recycle bin, because we recycle these buildings piece by piece in Boulder.
No. Abby. Aye. Michael. Aye. Hmm. And… I vote… I… And I vote aye. Motion passes 4 to 1.
Finding that it does not meet the criteria for such initiation pursuant to Section 9-11-3, initiation of designation of individual landmarks in historic districts