Planning board debates East Boulder form-based code details after site-review vote

Following the site-review vote, Planning Board members and staff discussed how the recently adopted East Boulder form-based code implements the East Boulder subcommunity plan. Board members raised concerns that the code's façade-articulation 'pick list' can be met with minimal changes (for example small parapet treatments) that do not materially improve pedestrian-scale design; they also questioned whether internal courtyards used by tall residential buildings meet the subcommunity plan's public-open-space goals and discussed options for clarifying terminology around semi-pervious surfaces and maximum uninterrupted building-wall lengths.