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Residents urge Boulder council to strengthen renter protections, tax vacant homes and oppose bill cutting tipped wages
Summary
Multiple residents used public comment to ask council to expand the tenant advisory committee, explore a tenant bill of rights or relocation-assistance policy for rent increases over 5%, and to pursue a tax on vacant residential properties; several speakers also urged council to oppose a state bill to reduce tipped wages.
During the meeting's public-comment period, a series of residents urged Boulder City Council to study and adopt stronger renter protections, to tax vacant properties and to oppose state legislation that would lower hourly wages for tipped workers.
Multiple speakers asked council to expand the city's Tenant Advisory Committee (TAC) beyond its current membership and meeting frequency, and to study tenant protections modeled on Tacoma, Washington's relocation-assistance requirement for rent increases larger than 5 percent. "We should tax vacant homes and fund protections," said one commenter who said thousands of…
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