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Water Resources Advisory Board · regular
9-14-25 Water Resources Advisory Board Meeting
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AI-read · unreviewed24 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personArea 3 Planning Reserve, CU South, all these are just gonna skyrocket the demand for water
Area 3 Planning Reserve, CU South, all these are just gonna skyrocket the demand for water
Also, gray water wasn't around when a lot of the water rights in Colorado were established
A local entity shall not install, plant, or place, or allow any person to install, plant, or place any non-functional turf
Council identified water-wise landscape policy and wildfire hardening as, priorities for 2024-2025.
The non-functional turf applies to street right-of-way, parking lot medians, commercial land uses, industrial land uses
Addressing wildfire threats and urban heat island effect, overall durability of landscaping and use of native species
Addressing wildfire threats and urban heat island effect, overall durability of landscaping and use of native species
this is where we would integrate the use of non-functional turf per the state bill
the next item on the agenda is an information item on the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan
So the comprehensive plan sits at that 30,000 foot level, and it's a general guide that influences the work of most departments.
Some of the key areas of interest for this group include annexation and urban services provisions.
So we use growth projections that are established in the comp plan, to
so that we're not outgrowing our facilities and infrastructure
there's a lot of interest now in the, you know, developing more
how are we designing around our floodplains, our floodways?
we're still in the building the first round of major infrastructure in the floodway
remembering that the floodplains is a relatively young utility compared to everything else
but also how's the climate change? How do these intersect?
Changes in vegetation up in the watershed, or whatever else there may be runoff, you know, kind of events
very interesting to think about the levels of utility service and annexation
To extrapolate that out, I think, by doing the math right, again, 7%, in 10 years, you're doubled.
A lot of budgets and how those are applied in the billing process
an overall rate study is something that we have in mind