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City updates council, planning board on housing innovation track and Boulder Arts Blueprint
Summary
Staff from Housing & Human Services and Community Vitality briefed the joint meeting on a Bloomberg Harvard housing innovation track and the Boulder Arts Blueprint, both intended to feed into the BVCP update.
At the May 22 joint session, Housing & Human Services and Community Vitality staff briefed council and the planning board on two complementary projects that staff said will inform the BVCP update.
Holly Hendrickson, senior project manager for Housing & Human Services, outlined the city’s participation in the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative innovation track. Hendrickson described the initiative as a year‑long, facilitator‑led program that uses research sprints and ideation sessions to generate and test housing solutions. She said the team’s “North Star” aim, established in October, is: “By 2035, we will expand and sustain innovative, attainable housing options so that Boulder becomes a more vibrant and inclusive community reflecting people from all backgrounds.” The project team held four ideation sessions that produced more than 800 ideas; staff said they will prototype and test a small portfolio of concepts over the spring and summer and deliver a portfolio of ideas in July for potential follow‑up by the city and partners.
Lauren Click, manager of the Office of Arts and Culture in the Community Vitality Department, presented a brief update on the Boulder Arts Blueprint, describing it as a long‑term initiative that will translate high‑level comp‑plan policy into concrete tactics, programming and funding priorities for arts and culture. Click said the arts blueprint work began in late 2024 and is aligned with the comprehensive plan update; phase 2 of the arts blueprint is expected to run through early 2026. Staff noted that voters approved a 20‑year arts, culture and heritage tax that will run through 2045 and said the blueprint will help steward that funding and inform cultural policy and program priorities.
Staff described both projects as inputs to the comp plan update: the Bloomberg Harvard work is testing housing innovations and potential prototypes for attainable housing; the Arts Blueprint will help embed cultural objectives and funding stewardship into plan implementation.
