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03-23-26 Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Meeting
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- regular
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- past
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AI-read · unreviewed41 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personThey get a financial forecast on city revenues and funding, and they'll talk about ballot measures for 2026.
the impending loss of CU South, and conversion of many existing public tennis courts to pickleball use.
I would like to be able to get all available information on budget and what money is spent on South Boulder courts.
There's so much coordination with, the other project, with Alpine balsam.
what he's proposing is actually, in that piece, is to use Indigenous knowledge to counter these intergenerational effects of genocide and climate change.
The international standard for this is called prior informed consent.
as someone who cares deeply about keeping our core amenities, you know, the pool, gym, and the South Boulder Rec Center.
But in 2024 and 2025, CU South was being leased to the Rocky Mountain Tennis Center.
About 50 or 60 people were here in support of a lap pool and gym at South Boulder Rec Center that night.
They are part of our joint use agreement with the school district.
Residents want stronger local food systems, from farms to markets
Local ag and food systems, our natural infrastructure, social connection, and the overall future land use strategy.
These include 15-minute neighborhoods, urban natural infrastructure, nature-based urban cooling and heat management.
as we think about our rec centers, the resilience hubs during emergencies.
within the policies of the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan, there's tensions with some of them, right?
The Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan further unpacks those 7 goal areas with the 97, 99, 102.
what that would cause in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.
possible consolidation of rec centers and making people drive to get to other locations.
In the definitions section of the community hubs, the resilience hubs.
But in a maybe not so worst-case scenario, you've just got a really bad smoke day, and it's super hot
You know, resilience hubs during emergencies, reducing reliance on cars, 15-minute neighborhoods.
Power outages, the voluntary power outages, so that, again, you have these hubs that can be
the permanently affordable housing goal, the reason that you do see this and not a lot of other metrics
Those are not being included in the comp plan, because I think that's the opportunity
this plan opens with a very, detailed and thoughtful land acknowledgement
let's pull some of that water away from agriculture and put it towards density
with several flooding events impacting the playground, the project team sought to protect
a security camera that communicates with the Boulder Police Department will be added
I remember it's, like, several people from BVSD, Boulder High in particular, who provided input.
a Phase 1 capital improvement project that you're seeing the plan for.
all of the drainage eventually goes to the space on the upper right, where Alpine Balsam connects to the park.
the drainage work that's happening in tandem and funded largely by utilities to the tune of, I think, a couple of million dollars
City Council unanimously approved the annexation of the former Hogan Pancos property
we really couldn't start some of those processes and have those conversations until we had the property annexed.
The annexation happened just last month, or just actually in the last few weeks.
we did some additional infiltration testing, for stormwater and things to confirm
that would then have to be looked at in our broader CIP to see if it even kind of fits
I think it's the Downtown Development Authority that they're discussing.
It might be feasible, in May, we have penciled in coming back to you on the civic area
we could talk to you about both the DDA and the East Bookend Partnership process.
And interesting information about the tree canopy in Boulder, which is good for