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Staff outlines major update to Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan; commissioners ask for clearer neighborhood definitions
Summary
County planning staff presented a major update timetable and a simplified set of future land-use designations (neighborhoods 1–3, open space, rural lands). Commissioners praised the direction but asked for clearer names, a balance of qualitative and quantitative guidance, attention to transportation and ADU policy, and an "areas of change" vs "stability" framing.
County planning staff told the Boulder County Planning Commission on Sept. 17 that the major update to the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP) is entering a phase of drafting and will incorporate community-change requests and a statistically valid survey before a March 2026 draft and mid-2026 adoption hearings.
Hannah Hebley, Longmont Planning Division manager, summarized the schedule and scope: the public community-change request period is open through Oct. 3; staff are refining land-use content and maps now; and adoption hearings are anticipated in mid-2026. "We are in this phase 3 section where we're really working on, taking everything we've heard and making updates to the content of the…
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