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9-8-25 Transportation Advisory Board Meeting
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AI-read · unreviewed47 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personRelocate the large stone trail marker. Marker is helpful, but being a milestone at the beginning of the Goose Creek Greenway Trail.
you might be wondering what your role and that of other boards, commissions, or policy-making bodies are. Well, most boards and commissions are advisory to the process, including TAB.
here's a quick overview of the discussion questions we have for you tonight. They're included in your memo, but we just want to remind you
zoning and the, land use code, or just the revised code in general, sit at the ground level of that planning.
those directly influence our operating budget, capital improvements program, and zoning and development standards
those directly influence our operating budget, capital improvements program, and zoning and development standards
Integrate climate and environmental strategies into plan designations.
is largely a category that is meant to, kind of preserve our government campuses, university, and industrial areas for the future.
the Comprehensive plan should, at the very least, support the efforts of the City of Boulder with the, parking reforms. the TDM ordinance
that's where this gets to go beyond the city's Transportation Master Plan and other kind of local documents
That's something that's, that's big in my work, is really focusing on accessibility, on people's capacity and capabilities to move as they, as they wish
it may be accessible in the sense that it's there, it's available. But it's not sufficient to meet the needs.
increase access to microtransit, micromobility options, you know, scooters and e-bikes and all the things.
residents from 30 Pearl, which is the, Boulder Housing Partners building in that community, come down, and many of them using mobility devices
grab a B-Cycle, or a Lime scooter, or pick up their bike from the bike shelter, or walk to where they're going.
where the South Boulder Recreation Center is right now, and I know that's going through a lot of changes, that's an ideal mobility hub.
look at North Boulder Park, for example, I mean, it's very close to Broadway. And so there's accessibility to transit there.
is, are accessory commercial units going to be specified in the plan? Like, is there an opportunity for accessory commercial units and not just accessory dwelling units?
BVSD does have its own, like, sustainability plan with some of those goals specified in it.
bringing some of the comp plan ideas into a local transportation and mobility plan?
there was so much specificity in the previous or, you know, current comprehensive plan that that became a challenge
A fully connected core arterial network. Obviously, transit with bus and rail, and car-like neighborhoods
like the Folsom Street, changes that were just, approved. you know, that's really exemplifying, I think, where we're going
this is something that came up in our community conversation on August 19th that we held at the the Chamber
the lack of affordable housing in and around Boulder continues to exacerbate that.
We successfully advocated for RTG to return Routes such as the Flatiron Flyer, additional airport service
The coalition retains state lobbyists to help guide positions on state legislation
the map you see at the left illustrates the bikeway underpasses to be constructed, at J Road, Highway 52, Nairat Road
one of the questions I had is in that, the NAMS, one of the NAMS slides it showed that Arapaho was going to be one of these bus
through the Safe Streets and Roads for All federal funding, we secured nearly $10 million for safety improvements along Arapahoe
CDOT's resurfacing project between 28th and Cherryville, which also incurred… includes curb or ADA ramp upgrades.
with the passage of recent state legislation and leadership by Governor Polis. We are seeing pretty exciting opportunities
along with potential RTD funds and federal funding that's already been secured. To build and operate this first phase
the bus service on Arapaho being a county-provided service, not RTD. How did that happen?
with state legislation now allowing RTD to serve areas outside of their district, it could be a service that RTD would take on
If implemented, the transportation maintenance fee's revenue would be used to essentially kind of fill in the gaps that we have in maintenance.
we need to, in many ways, look at additional revenue sources, to help maintain the city's economic vitality.
we have integrated the transportation maintenance fee into our 2026 budget process, with our colleagues in the finance department.
We've also been engaging with the University of Colorado, the Boulder Valley School District, and the federal labs.
our business community with support from the Boulder Chamber and Boulder Chamber Transportation Connections.
on Thursday, September 11th, we have the budget study session. So this is a study session with Council, led by our finance team
Each year, fees, with the city go through a process to be updated. Many of them change annually, and so the TMF is part of that
The TMF will free up a portion of existing sales tax revenue to provide the required 20% local matching funds for federal and state
TAB endorses the City of Boulder's proposed transportation maintenance fee, recognizing that the TMF provides a stable and predictable source of funding
enabling investment in core arterial network projects, Vision Zero safety initiatives for all modes, and comprehensive multimodal system improvements
advancing not just the fee nexus study, but the orchestration of all of the armature of documents that have to come forward
We will have a presentation from Parks and Recreation on the Civic Area Phase 2 Conceptual Design and Community Engagement Update.