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City planning manager outlines Boulder Valley comprehensive plan update; proposes moving open‑space 'OSO' marker into an overlay
Summary
Christopher Johnson, the city’s comprehensive planning manager, briefed the Open Space Board of Trustees on a major update to the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan and a proposal to simplify land‑use categories by moving some open‑space designations into an overlay to reduce map confusion and improve responsiveness.
At the Sept. 10 Open Space Board of Trustees meeting, the city’s comprehensive planning manager presented an overview of the major update to the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan, explaining the project scope, timeline and proposed changes to how open‑space values are shown on the plan’s land‑use map.
Christopher Johnson, comprehensive planning manager for the city’s Planning and Development Services, told trustees the comp‑plan update is a decade‑level project meant to set a 20‑year community vision and to align with the city’s sustainability, equity and resilience framework. “Comprehensive plans are aspirational plans that are intended to describe a community's long term vision over about a 20 year time horizon,” Johnson said.
Johnson said the current comp plan contains roughly…
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