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Council approves rezoning and land‑use plan for Palmer High School but fails to vacate Boulder Street
Summary
Council approved rezoning the Palmer High School site to a form‑based T2A zone and adopted the land‑use plan, but a proposal to permanently vacate a block of East Boulder Street failed on a tie. Debate centered on student safety, traffic impacts, historic neighborhoods and unfunded athletic phases.
The City Council on Tuesday approved two of three related applications from District 11 to remake Palmer High School’s downtown campus but declined to permanently vacate a one‑block section of East Boulder Street that would have been occupied by athletic facilities.
On three separate votes the council: approved rezoning the roughly 8.27‑acre site into the form‑based zone T2A (11A) on a 5–3 vote; failed to approve the vacation of East Boulder Street between Nevada and Weber (11B) on a tie vote; and approved the Palmer High School land‑use plan (11C) by a 7–0–1 vote.
Project proponents — including District 11 leaders, the superintendent and students — argued the consolidated campus would reduce the number of daily street crossings required of students, permit on‑campus athletic facilities and better connect students to downtown internships and partnerships.…
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