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City presents draft Boulder Valley comprehensive plan to Landmarks Board; public comment open through April 6

Boulder Landmarks Board · March 5, 2026
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Summary

City planning staff presented a draft Boulder Valley comprehensive plan that reduces land‑use designations from 25 to 12 and policies from ~210 to 102; staff emphasized integrating historic preservation and adaptive reuse across plan values and encouraged advisory‑board feedback during the March 3–April 6 public comment period.

Christopher Johnson, the city’s comprehensive planning senior manager, told the Landmarks Board on March 4 that the draft Boulder Valley comprehensive plan posted March 3 is intended as a 20‑year vision for the Boulder Valley and is open for public comment through April 6.

Johnson described key changes: a reduction of land‑use designations from 25 to 12 to emphasize broader place types rather than parcel‑level categories, and a reduction in policy count from roughly 210 to 102 to simplify the document and make it more usable. "The comprehensive plan is live for community review…

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