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2-21-23 Planning Board Meeting
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AI-read · unreviewed37 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personSo now we are moving to a discussion of dispositions and call ups. We have one item tonight to consider, and that is a final plan to subdivide the property
There's a housing crisis in Boulder, a severe one. Wake up.
So in terms of the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan, Landy's designation, the landing designation for this site is light, industrial.
The site is also within the boundaries of the recently adopted East Boulder Sub-community plan. The land use designation.
parking requirements, or one space per 400 square feet of floor area. Research and development uses are allowed by right
The proposed access regarding transit the site to serve by access to Rtd. Along both Arapaho and 50 Fifth street trip. Generation study will be required
You mentioned in your presentation that 516 parking spaces were required. They produce, or they provided, 560 to staff.
So the fact that this site is in the 100 year and high hazard flood plane. I guess we adopted a new modeling software for this portion of boulder.
They'll have to go through the floodplain development permit process to build anything on the site.
there are probably a number of water rights associated with the pond and the irrigation. The dry Creek ditch number 2 that could be of concern
I can say that in terms of the the water rights and the ditch. I don't think that we mentioned anything there
I mean there's occupancy standards. Those are more kind of building code related. So you know, we have maximum occupancy for buildings
Thank you. Yeah. I I see how I has appeared. Usually that happens when she has some wisdom to share with us.
and the garage, and some of the comments around that are questions to a flood zone at all.
We're exploring innovative sustainable strategies, including sensitivity t0 0ur carbon footprint, energy efficiency measures.
We could, you know, we can have our own bike path that people can stop short of that and connect
Part of the initial understanding of what was an appropriate use here is looking at what the east boulder sub-community plan has proposed as areas of change
getting, you know, the biggest pad area they could out of the floodplain that could be developable.
a flexible working campus. That's not just an old tilt up building that was repainted, and a food trucks parked out from
In a 100 years this building is going to be surrounded with housing, so it has no right to go up t0 45 feet.
Where are you going to put all the storage for all the little compartments that people are living in downtown boulder.
a linkage fee against a commercial project like this that will obviously impact our housing stock and a very deep level.
if the linkage fee was double the price, they would probably still be building this project here
So now this this question that we're confronted with is about the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan. and so sure in concept.
I have no problem with putting an in an industrial life. Sciences lab on on this property, which has been developed before
the city would be taking over most, if not all of the shares of Dry Creek Number 2 ditch. and so the city.
that the city code in regard to the required Tdm plans is very flexible. It's not very specific, and it's pretty subjective.
Tdm: which has been covered in depth. But you know what what other ways can we have, and what robust things you know.
I don't feel like. The building at this point is is meeting the sustainable urban form Definitions in the Boulder Belly comp plan.
The East Boulder Subcommittee plan, said
the comments that were made when we talked about updating the Site review criteria that we don't tend to deny projects on these aspirational bases.
We should take a look at the policies around the linkage fees, because we know that there's a high degree of profit in this development
and our linkage fees should be higher. And this is an example of a project maximizing irrespective of linkage fees that exist today.
you know, getting more affordable housing from our commercial development by increasing the linkage fee. Absolutely
and the changes that come before us to the legislature. so that we better understand what the outcome is going to be.
I can update the Board about with regard to the airport community conversation. so that if folks are interested that process is moving forward.
I did get confirmation from Staff that this community conversation is intended to to begin the response to Bvcp t0 6, point 2 3