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Resident criticizes Boulder growth and subsidies during Planning Board public comment
Summary
During open public comment at the June 17 Planning Board meeting, resident Lynn Siegel urged the city to stop subsidizing development, warned of infrastructure shortfalls and called recent densification policies "the end of Boulder."
During the City of Boulder Planning Board’s public comment period on June 17, 2025, Lynn Siegel urged the board to stop subsidizing private development and warned that city infrastructure — including water systems, recreation facilities and open space — cannot support continued high‑density development.
Siegel spoke during the meeting’s open‑comment segment (which was explicitly for items other than the agenda’s public hearing) and attributed infrastructure shortfalls and budget pressures to a string of development approvals and subsidies. She said the city is “$10,000,000 in debt now in our budget” and raised…
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