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Deputy city manager presents Community Development annual report; council presses on housing, permits and historic preservation
Summary
Deputy City Manager Michael Maze told Boulder City Council the Community Development Department maintained steady permit activity, outlined historic-preservation work and said a new full-time building official will be hired to speed permit reviews; council members pressed staff on allotments, retail vacancies and use of RDA and grant funds.
Deputy City Manager Michael Maze presented the Community Development Department’s annual report to the Boulder City City Council on Oct. 28, summarizing building-permit activity, planning and zoning work, economic development efforts, code enforcement results and progress on historic preservation.
"For fiscal year 25, we had 11,760 inspections. We did 280 plan reviews. We issued 552 permits, and the permits issued had a valuation of $123,000,000," Maze said, adding that the department aims to turn around initial plan reviews within 15 days and is pursuing ways to reduce current review times.
The report stressed five primary departmental functions and several active initiatives: a…
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