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Boulder launches lottery-based community assembly, seeks 48 residents to shape updated comprehensive plan
Summary
City officials announced a large public-engagement push for the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan update, including a 48-member community assembly selected by lottery, 10,000 mailed invitations, stipend payments, translation services and multiple public events this spring.
Vivian Castro Wildrich, public engagement coordinator for the Department of Urban Planning, said the city is launching a lottery-based community assembly as part of the largest update to the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan in decades.
The assembly will select 48 residents by lottery to meet seven Saturdays between May and October and produce consensus recommendations aimed at shaping policies such as 15-minute neighborhoods, housing types and transportation. The city will mail 10,000 invitations in yellow envelopes; participants chosen by household must be at least 16 years old. Selected members will receive a $1,000 stipend, and the city will provide interpretation, transportation and childcare support as needed, Castro Wildrich said.
The assembly is part of a broader outreach campaign to update the comprehensive plan, which is on a roughly 10-year update cycle and sets long-range goals for land…
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