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8-29-23 Planning Board Meeting
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AI-read · unreviewed39 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personNow, it looks like East Boulder Rec center needs a 50, 7 million dollars getting.
but in any case they have oh, for the civic center. okay, they need 18 million.
And Cap Ceu's enrollment. this is just outrageous.
for 112,600 square foot, 2 story life sciences, facility at 36, 75 and 38 25 Wallace Street.
The site is impacted by the 100 year floodplain of the boulder slew, so the proposal is required to flood proof or elevate the lowest floor
The proposal has provided a Tdm plan to support alternate modes and provide last mile connections.
is supported by the applicant's Tdm. Plan, that provides many efforts to improve those last mile connections as outlined
aiming to be Colorado's first net 0 carbon and all electric life sciences building.
And this development replaces an inefficient industrial warehouse that currently sits on our site
we're up 5 feet 11 inches just from the start of the building to get to that flood plain elevation
There's no water quality or stormwater detention. That will be improved significantly.
We have some ev charging stations as well as Ada Parking, adjacent to the building
Here we have local art to be curated by
let me clarify that it's not only an all electric building, but some net 0 carbon building.
In response to that we put the street, the trees in our properties on the setback to make sure that at least we have some tree canopy coverage
Finally, we have a project that's asking for height exceptions. That's that's interesting for the city
improve our visual world and and and and make a dent in our climate goals, our transportation goals
Public hearing and recommendation. The City Council regarding proposed ordinance 85 99 to amend title 9, land use code.
before the board tonight is ordinance 85, 99 the project is called zoning for affordable housing.
I realize it says Occupancy. It's the zoning for affordable housing ordinance.
So before we start, I just wanted to touch on what is affordable housing. What do we mean when we say that
also taking a look at at parking requirements, see if those could be relaxed to to get allow more housing.
I think the Board is aware of the State Bill, the Senate Bill that we were considering several weeks ago.
there's actually been State legislation that requires additional housing, loosening up occupancy restrictions
it would have to be done first through a comp plan update process, and then the zoning would have to follow after.
It was more mixed when it came down to reducing parking requirements, because there were concerns that
We're proposing to allow residential parking reductions up to 25 through an administrative review.
We're proposing to update the parking reduction criteria to have stronger Tdm requirements.
of more attainable housing, more housing units would be more deed, restricted, permanently affordable housing.
I understand that the Boulder Valley comp plans density, intensity standard is what's guiding this
for annexation and and annexation is different than than just site, review, and stuff
with 80 use it allows an accessory dwelling unit on a lot. That's, you know, 5,000 square feet and up
we got inclusionary housing, basically on site or adjacent to the site.
city council adopt ordinance a. 5, 9, 9 to amend title 9. Land use. Code BRC. 1 81 related to the site.
we're gonna get inclusionary housing out of the market, adding more units one way or the other.
units instead of more smaller, modest size, more affordable units.
You could also make a recommendation that this be considered in the Bvcp update?
there was actually a urban renewal board that existed in Boulder was the Boulder urban renewal authority.
Planning board recommends that city council adopt ordinance, 85, 99 to amend title 9. Land use code ERC. 1 81 related to the site, review, process