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Boulder planning board narrows work-plan priorities for council and assigns drafters
Summary
At its Nov. 18 meeting the Planning Board compiled and prioritized topics to recommend to City Council for the coming year, selecting site-review evaluation, middle-housing/code/fee review, and ground-floor retail activation as top items and assigning board members to prepare short draft paragraphs for a Dec. 2 drafting session.
The City of Boulder Planning Board on Nov. 18 compiled a list of possible items for a letter to City Council and used a facilitated n/3 voting process to prioritize the boards near-term work-plan recommendations. Laura (board member and facilitator) framed the task: Council requested items that are achievable in roughly a one-year work plan or concrete first steps on longer-range priorities.
Board members proposed a broad set of topics. Kurt outlined a slate of technical and procedural suggestions, including a site-review evaluation and streamlining (with a staff-led evaluation of how the recent code changes are working), changes to discretionary community-benefit processes for incremental height and benefits, reductions in water-intensive nonfunctional turf/setbacks, updates to the citys street design standards (DCS), creation…
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