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Boulder staff outline major comprehensive-plan update and ask utilities board for input
Summary
City planning staff briefed the Water Resources Advisory Board on the Boulder Valley comprehensive-plan (comp plan) update — a 50-year visioning process that will shape growth projections, land-use maps and policies affecting utilities, flood risk, housing and climate resilience — and solicited the board’s input on policy areas to explore.
Planning staff presented the scope and timeline of a major update to the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan on Sept. 15 and asked the Water Resources Advisory Board to identify topics it would like staff to examine in greater detail.
Sarah Horn, senior planner on the comprehensive-planning team, and Kathleen King, principal city planner, described the comp plan as a high-level, 20-year policy guide that informs subsequent plans, capital-improvement priorities and development rules. The team said this is a 50-year-scale update process that began with community engagement and will produce a draft for review in early 2026, with adoption hearings to…
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