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10-15-24 Planning Board Meeting
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AI-read · unreviewed53 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personas part of the implementation of the East Boulder subc Community Plan number one um first we'll hear about the amendments to the east Boulder sub community plan
by adopting form based code standards uh for parts of East Boulder moving the form based code from appendix m to chapter 9914 form based code BRC
does the board support recommended amendments to the east Boulder subc commmunity plan and then additionally does planning board find that the proposed ordinance
so the first amendment that we're going to look at is the East Boulder sub community plan land use map so this map is intended to guide future
these are the Valmont Park West neighborhood and the 55th and a rapaho station area so those are in the red boxes
is a new North South Street just west of 55th um as we further studied these connections
it is today a vehicular bridge is it publicly owned or privately owned
there was discussion about how the bike lane the protected bike lane may not be built at the same time as the transit Lane gets installed
the property ownership uh does does vary within there there are different property owners and some of them may still be interested in in pursuing a residential
uh housing numbers that Laura was asking about so just wanted to add to that great uh Laura I saw your hand pop up
Boulder Junction phase one and Alpine Balsam were the first two areas where the form base code applied
the current standard of a 55% trip reduction that applies to Boulder Junction would also apply to East Boulder which we feel like is an unfair burden
there is still some discussion around a possible General improvement district in this particular location particularly around 55th and arapajo
our community Vitality department is going through really an audit of all of our Improvement districts throughout the city
that similar to Alpine Balsam right that that's quite a jump from where um I thought we landed as a community
the 55% um application you know was really specific to Boulder Junction itself um particularly because of the location of the of the transit station
one of the things that we are preliminarily understanding in our review of TDMs in the context of the broader uh amps work plan item is how do we actually Implement
the General Building form you know is a more traditional type of of building that would allow up to four or five stories
some of those are are likely to already be required through our energy code updates and other um Cod code updates
the building codes which include energy code and maintenance and all those types of things are going to deal with
our economic Vitality um group does sort of maintain a a list of businesses that leave um the city
some of those conversations will uh come up so like they might say um like would we be able to tell that it's because of the decisions
allowed to be um on a sidewalk it would be consistent with the posos so that brings in micro Mobility
so the board recently adopted a new rule that allows pulling of time during public hearings
our four primary concerns with the current draft were summarizing hen heart's uh 14 October 2024 letter include mandatory housing mandatory production business space
higher density development that incorporates a substantial amount of affordable housing in proximity to multimodal corridors and Transit centers
the existing Boulder Valley comp plan since 2015 already has called for quote higher density development that incorporates a substantial amount of affordable housing
just this year the governor signed a number of housing related bills aimed to address the housing shortage that's House Bill 24-3
Golden West and Lotus and a lot of University Housing and um this is just predatory um basically hedge fund style housing
crisis people are evicted they get on drugs they get homeless they get on the street they get in the mental care situations
why aren't we just showing lines on the TMP the way we ordinarily do in order to show where midblock Pathways should go
the main difference I guess from what we ordinarily draw in the TMP is as I understand it that these can have buildings over them
it would make you go quite a ways out of the way it also I it seems like it's an odd um choice to if there is going to be a street
those industrial areas are where a lot of those murals and some
I wouldn't want to make it harder for small businesses to remain in this area
there's San Lazaro which is actually in the county um and hopefully will be annexed but right now that housing is not part of uh the city of Boulder
then you have to walk instead of walking pretty directly to this to the Goose Creek path on as the connection is currently shown in the connections plan
transportation and Mobility has informed us that that is very far out on any kind of capital Improvement list
that extension of Sterling Court essentially all the way south and then across the Goose Creek Greenway to Pearl Street that would be a new road
that likely would be some type of um Capital Improvement borne by the city so right now it's it's it's being proposed
I raised the question of both the 50% residential requirement and the production business requirement in large buildings
forget that part of our both Boulder Valley comp plan and plans in general um to encourage Innovation
it makes sense in the the context of historic preservation to distinguish between the building that was built the part of the building that was built in 1900
I move that we recommend adoption of proposed ordinance 8669 amending Title 9 land use code brc1 1981 by adopting form-based code standards for parts of East Boulder
comprehensive plan kickoff this Saturday from 1 to 44 at the um Dairy Center uh obviously not required
what is the subject of this joint um meeting that is the oh help me out uh Thomas it is the area three planning Reserve service area expansion
the joint meeting allows for a single presentation of course but also for the public to come one time and give feedback on that
we have the natural medicine ordinance update to meet state law and
we have the natural medicine ordinance update to meet state law and
the psilocybe in natural medicine one does have a kind of a a Time sensitivity because of the state law going into effect
making a land acknowledgement statement at the beginning of board's commission the only uh you know certainly in Concept in principle everybody appreciates
especially as indigenous day as declared by the city was yesterday um I did I did attend that and dance with the indigenous people
I mean it would be more effective going forward to do that right after the boards and commissions are selected um because sharing meetings