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Boulder planning board names urgent East Boulder form-based code update its top priority
Summary
At its Dec. 16 virtual meeting the Boulder Planning Board finalized a four-item letter to City Council, making an urgent update to the East Boulder form-based code its top priority. The board also prioritized ground-floor retail activation and a site-review evaluation and retained missing-middle housing as a priority.
The Boulder Planning Board on Dec. 16 finalized recommendations it will send to City Council on its 2026 work-plan priorities, naming an urgent update to the East Boulder form-based code as its top item.
Vice Chair Laura Kaplan, who chaired the virtual meeting in the absence of Chair Mark McIntyre, said the boards letter will list its four suggested priorities in order and include short explanatory text for each. The board settled on the following prioritized list: (1) an urgent update to the East Boulder form-based code, (2) a study and actions to strengthen ground-floor retail activation, (3) an evaluation and refinement of the site-review process adopted in 2023, and (4) measures to advance missing-middle housing.
Why it matters: board members said the East Boulder form-based code has produced outcomes that differ from their expectations and that provisions for project open space and residential amenities need improvement. "We also find that the form-based code requirements for…
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