May 22, 2024 — Boulder Junction Access District Regular Meeting

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Captions from City of Boulder YouTube recording.

[0:04] We are recording. It is Wednesday, May 20, s, 2024. Welcome to the Boulder Junction Access District Commission meeting. I will call role. Susan Grant pushed here. Hello, Button! So we are having a hard time hearing you to muted right now. Can hear me now. Kind of you cut. You're cutting out somewhat buttons that they when you're closer to the microphone that helps. Okay, I'm here reading the backend. Jennifer Shrover. Huh! The bank is not coming. Stephanie Pike, you're here. Ryan cook. Present. Kevin, now.

[1:01] Present. And Robin Rodin. Present. I will now hand the meeting over to the chair for procedural items. Thank you. I we believe we have 2 meeting minutes to approve. Think the March sixth one is Tdm only. but I don't know if we have a quorum for Tdm, do we. We do not. Okay? So we can skip that one. Then and then for parking. I believe we have a quorum we can approve. Unless there are questions or comments or revisions for the march twentieth meeting minutes. Anyone have discussion items for those? Would someone like to make a motion. I moved to approve the minutes for March twentieth.

[2:07] Do we need a second for that. or do? Can we? Can we just vote. I got a second from Kevin. Okay, thanks, Kevin. All in favor of approving the march minutes from the twentieth. Okay. so unanimous approval. There, thank you. I believe that moves us to the welcome to S. Daphne. I don't see an attendance. Oh, Stephanie's present in person. Yes. Hello! Pardon me. Sweet. So, Stephanie, we do have an oath of office for you. If you don't mind standing up, and you can be in the camera so everybody can see you clearly. Yeah, excuse me, I am so just repeat after me, and you don't have. You could raise your right hand, if you'd like, but we're not super formal here. It's not the United Nations. Yes.

[3:08] so I staged your name. You saw only square or firm. Hi, Stephan, I will support the Constitution of the United States of America, and the charter and ordinances of the city of Boulder and the Charter, and faithfully perform the duties of the office of a member of the Boulder Junction Access district. and, oh, gosh! The office of a member of the Junction Access district

[4:00] in Chris Jennifer string register. Oh, great! And we don't have Jennifer. Mr. Chair, if you'd like to go back and group the minutes formal intro of Stephanie. Okay, great Jennifer, welcome Before we go further. We just wanted, while you're here, to do an approval of the March sixth meeting minutes. This would be a vote for the tdm, commission. Did you have any comments, questions, or revisions for those minutes? Okay. if you'd like to make a motion. Then our Tdm members should be able to to vote to approve those. Move that we approve the march sixth minutes.

[5:08] I think I saw you say second, Sue, but we're we did not. That did not come through in the audio. So if our all in favor from Tdm for approving those minutes. If you can raise your hands. Okay. Yeah. That. I saw approval there. And then the same would go for the march twentieth minutes. Did you have any revisions for, or suggestions for those? Okay. we could do another motion then and vote to approve those. I move that we approve the march twentieth minutes. So Sue, I think I heard maybe heard you say, second, okay, I saw it at least, yeah.

[6:02] And all in favor for the twentieth minutes. Okay, we have approval for those as well. Thank you. Okay. Then, jumping back forward, welcome, Stephanie, very happy to have you here. Thanks for joining us. Appreciate it. Happy to be here. Chris, did you have thoughts on any other discussion points for Stephanie's joining us. If you were so inclined to be glad to have Stephanie share a little bit about herself. And why she's interested in participating in the commission. If if you don't mind. Absolutely. That's a great idea. Thanks. Go ahead, Stephanie. Sure I haven't met anyone else on the Tvm Commission. So that would be nice to have that connection. I live in Boulder Junction, and I bought my condo there about 2 years ago. I don't own a car. And so part of the transportation piece was interesting to me. And I've always been interested in getting more involved in city government. I'm a business executive.

[7:05] and I will be down shifting out of that life in the next one to 2 years, and so I'd love to get more involved in city of boulder and helping boulder be a better place. So this is like the first step in that transition, so very happy to be here and thank you for booking me. They say. Wonderful would the other commissioners like to do just a brief in intro of themselves? For? To Stephanie. I'm happy to go first. I'm my name's Ryan Cook. I'm a resident of the City of Boulder. I do not live in Boulder Junction, I've been participating on the commission for 4 or 5 years. Give or take. and also have similar motivations to you, just interested in participating in supporting city government as well as seeing you know the the Boulder Junction area

[8:10] develop and and trying to bring perspective and and support to that to that effort. So glad to glad to have you here, and and nice to meet you, Robin. Hi! I'm Robin Ron men like Brian. I am also not above Boulder Junction directly Resident. I'm a resident of of folder as well. I have been I've been on the parking commission for the past year. and we're really delighted to have you on the team, always happy to have. I don't live in Boulder Junction, but I live super duper close. and I bike through your neighborhood all the time. Like you. I do not have a primary car, so I'm happy to have somebody else on the team who's a primary biker. and I work at sea boulder and I worked in the parking department there for 2 years prior to my current work. My current role. So just really, really happy to have you on board.

[9:12] Jennifer. Yeah. Hi, Stephanie, and welcome, and Hello, everybody. So I'm Jen Shriver. I am a resident of the City of Boulder. I live on Thirtieth Street, down at Baseline. So sort of the other end from you. But I am excited about Boulder Junction and the Transit Village and and long time environmentalists with a focus on transportation and love that you don't own a car. I have a car light. I still own one, but just one for the family, and we supplement with biking and bus and So I am just really interested to welcome you and to see what what we can do to improve transportation, demand management and options at Boulder Junction

[10:00] and through the city. Ideally. Nice to meet you, Jennifer. Okay, hey, Stephanie? My name is Kevin Knapp. I'm spend my days in an affordable housing development, and it developed a few projects in the northern part of Boulder Junction. I do not. Yeah, I don't live in the Junction, but I live in Boulder and Then participant here on on both boards, I think. Probably past chairs of both boards right? Probably assistant care of of both vice chair of both boards as well. And no, I'm just on the the parking board and transitioning out this year, so try to bring in new energy into the commissions. Nice to meet you, Kevin. Family. Ryan. Okay, I'm super annoyed. I feel I was on both boards. And then there was just all this. Tdm.

[11:02] so maybe like 7 years. I'm also the executive director for me cycle. I don't live in the Junction, but I live very close, like 20 Ninth of Belmont, so and nice to have you here. Awesome. Thank you, Sue. and well, you're welcome to introduce yourself. If you'd like. Little audio Chris, was that directed to me. It was. Do you wanna introduce yourself. Yeah, I'd be happy to. Hi, Stephanie, welcome to the crew. I'm part of the Boulder chamber in the transportation connections division with my supervisor, Karen Warminghouse. a big part of my role on the team is managing Tdm programs for Boulder Junction residents and employees. So I'm very happy to hear that you live there. We might have some conversations down the line regarding an Eco pass in the new digital. My route app. I can also share a little bit of an update if it pleases the group for today. But that's sort of my role in in the participation here is specifically the Tdm. For employees and residents within Boulder Junction

[12:14] as as transportation connections. We also offer that across the community, and then, as part of the chamber we offer even more specified support to our members. so happy to be here and welcome aboard. Thank you. Wonderful thanks, Will. I think that moves us on to welcoming Lauren to our to our group. Yes, thank you so much. Brian. Wanna get Lauren on camera. Lauren has joined the community vitality team as a board specialist. To assist our business services, team and Lisa and all of you. You've been getting emails from Lauren. So she is

[13:01] taking the lead in the the regular commission management for our 6 5 admissions. Sorry. It's hard to keep trust and so Laura, would you like to introduce yourself so a little bit more about it. Yeah, Lauren. I've been with the city for about a year and a half in this position for about a month. And I'm really enjoying getting to know all the districts and what you all are doing in them. So really glad to meet you all. Who's this. That's great. Thank you. Lauren. Welcome. Okay. I see a note here next about elections for chair or and vice chair. Yeah, now that we have a new commission member typically, we've added this to the agenda at the commissions discretion to with the new person available. To vote on new leadership.

[14:03] This is an opportunity, if you so desire. Well, we don't have Rebecca here today, and I believe, since Stephanie's joining Tdm, only we might want to postpone discussion to a future meeting for that. Does anybody else have comments? Other commissioners on on that idea. I completely. I completely agree with you. I really think that that she should be present for them. Okay. okay. Sounds good. Is that? Alright, Chris. If we postpone till future meeting. Absolutely. Okay. Alright. That moves us into public participation. Do we have any members of the public here today? We do show one member of the public who has raised their hand.

[15:00] So let's see, Travis, Hugh Pulley, if you can allow him to unmute. That's great welcome, Travis. Thank you. Hi, guys, can you hear me? We can. Okay, I I don't have much to say. I'm this, so far has been really fun. And I wanna add into the cheer. I'm really just introducing myself. I'm also a resident in Boulder Junction. I live in depot square. I'm I've been in Boulder for 22 years, non consecutively. I guess he was 6 years in Jefferson County as a kid. let's see. I I receive benefits. From HUD. I'm I'm a housing choice voucher recipient with Bhp, I hope to be helpful, Justin encouraging. What's going on? Yeah, let's see about myself.

[16:03] I've I've I've traveled. I've I've seen many different kinds of cities. I love bicycles. I I don't know how you'll top this. I've been car free for 34 years. and I've always been part of an urban experiment of some kind. Let's see. I kind of feel like as a resident coming into this Boulder Junction area that we're really looking at an urban boulder. So if there's room for discussion on that well, that'll be fun. If there's any 2 things off the top of my mind that I would say, I I hope to see down the line I mean 5 years down the line is you know, some 24 h. business zoning in this area. That's point. That's one thing I raised and the other is cobblestones on the train line between phase one and phase 2.

[17:00] Thank you. Look forward to the meeting. Thank you for joining Travis and for telling us a bit about yourself and what you're interested in. Curious when you think about 24 h zoning! If you could just clarify a little bit more. Is there specific types of businesses that you're that you're thinking about? Well, you know I missed a point back years ago, when Twitter was Twitter and Google had a empty lot, Caddy corner to it. I really hoped for. You know a confluence of housing to occur. So it's been really in harmony with my opinion. All of the changes that I've seen in the last 10 years. Seeing the complexity of such a dense environment coming together here, I think, will just down the line.

[18:00] be a good host to a dense residents. environment. people who are not used to living in an urban environment like this. You know. I felt it myself need to take a walk, and that walk happens at any time. So you know we there's certain conveniences, spots around, but like the gas station on 20 Sixth Street and and and 7 11. But these are very far out from from a, you know. 10 o'clock to 6 o'clock perspective. We are looking at a very dry zone. So I wonder what others may think to about that. and I don't mean dry in in a in a in a specific sense, I mean, there aren't conveniences available to people. I prefer it to be dry. That's just my opinion.

[19:03] I, I would say, as a resident. I feel that, too, like I don't go out much at night, because well, as a single woman. There's some safety things that I share with you when we were recruiting me. But then, in addition, like there aren't a lot of place to go and to just socialize and such. So I I know that that's not part of the transportation group, but like, what could we do to build like like a abilities to reach back up to business stakeholders, that where they would be incented to establish those kinds of places where people like him could could walk at night, you know, similar, or me, and like sometimes it's like 1030 a night. Last night I was kind of head, Insania. It'd be nice to feel to go out for a walk. But it I didn't really feel like I could do that. So I I I understand what you're saying. Yeah, for sure. Am I still on Mike? Here. Can hear you. Yes.

[20:00] Yeah, I I'm I'm only adding to what would really be required is, in, you know, creating some sense of space. From that third shift sort of perspective where there could be you know. Surveillance. A a an employee. You know some place where emergencies can be handled at those hours where someone can turn to that place for help, etc. Thank you. So. Sharing. Yeah, deal any other comments or questions for Travis. I have a question for Travis. First of all, Travis, thank you so much for for coming on today is always nice to have member, the public. I feel like we're probably all wish that members of the public would join more. Do you mind if I ask how you heard about today's meeting. So maybe we could. We can tell people where to find us a little bit more.

[21:03] I found you on the calendar of the Boulder City Council site. Great. I pay attention to City Council. I'm part of the Residents Advisory Board for I guess the new generation of it for Php, and so I'm I'm really trying to learn how my participation can be most suitable to my environment. Thank you so much for sharing that. Sue. We can't hear you. So you're you're muted. Sorry. As far as the the retail, like. I know that. I'm I'm also better boulder that we that the developers on that group talked about how the retail and phase one kind of wasn't set up that great cause. It's not really close to each other, and that one of the comments for phase 2 was, make the retail more viable by punching it.

[22:13] So. But the other thing that you know just kind of personally, they kept saying with, when they're building Boulder Junction, like housing, housing, housing. and housing is great. but I think this is kind of the other side of housing, housing, housing is that there's not really anything to do but housing there. and I mean, I don't know. We don't have the place to do anything about it, but I think that was kind of directive counsel. But I don't know. Maybe Kevin doesn't stop, although we're getting sidetracked. I'll I'll only make the comment that there is plenty of vacant retail space there for any business that would would like to come in and operate their

[23:00] So there you go! District. That's why, as a resident, I'm curious of why, like, what's the root cause analysis to why people aren't occupying that space like I would absolutely love it. I would go there all the time, right? And you know, but it seems like there's something like systemic that's causing them not to fill in that space, whether it's Mac, or economic or otherwise. Is it too expensive? Yeah, I don't know what the cut. Hmm. I I don't know what the exact cause is. I know from a ownership. Intention, I mean, we'd feel the same way as residents at the last thing that you would want is A is a dark box, you know, as far as you know, empty empty space there. So nothing's activated. And and there's there's no no revenue or any vitality really being created there. I've you think that you know. The lack of the lack of direct parking probably plays into it to some regard. I I don't know how much that is.

[24:06] but I I think it's a special sort of it's a special. a tenant that that needs to get some of these spaces. So that's something that I've been trying to figure out. We've been trying to figure out why it's been been less active. We we certainly had more interest when it was being developed and and excitement in the just, in both a junction in general. And yeah, I don't. I don't have the formula quite figure it out yet to figure out why that hasn't leased more. I mean, I mean, the activation is certainly certainly there, I think, having one at least in Spark speaking to the the Northern Mo. Most project having one empty office building hasn't helped. I think that that project in particular was designed around having sort of all day activation as far as office workers there during the day, getting lunches, getting coffees, and then residents moving in at night, and that, you know, together, you know, create more

[25:02] more hours of activation. It was also. you know, based on. or at least very initially, you know, based on, a thought of a of a train coming, and you know we we know where that is right now. always off into the future. So I don't know now that we have more. More the district is built out, and there is more housing, cause I'll always say that you know you can't have. You can't have the re retail without the housing and the people there to support it, or at least at least the offices. And now, with more of the district coming to more complete, build out. My hope is that it'll become a more attractive place for some of the business owners to to come in. run their business. We're hoping for that, too. Thanks, Kevin, and thank you, Travis, again for for joining today. Welcome! I think we'll move forward to the update from you will.

[26:06] Great. Yeah, I'll echo Travis's comment. This has been a jubilant and a very enjoyable meeting so far so happy to be here. As I mentioned, I work on the transportation and Connections team administering specifically the Eco Pass program in Boulder Junction, as well as advocating for overall Tdm. With emphasis on Boulder B cycle, which provides a free annual membership to all residents and employees, as well as Colorado car share. which provides a substantial discount of a hundred dollar value. Anyone within the qualified housing of 30 per depot square in Spark West gets an even better deal with car share. And I'm emphasizing that just so, the group is aware, because at the Chamber we certainly feel that affordable and equitable access to shared vehicles, particularly electric vehicles that have recently been installed and put into reservable access at 30 per in the underground garage is one of the most effective means of mobility. Inclusivity, multimodal parts. So we're we're we're fans of car share. And I also try to help that along.

[27:12] For a bit of context, we've but just today I had 22 new staff members from Splunk added into the Ecopas program. I've talked with transperfect and Rmi, who are businesses that are based within the Boulder Junction Buildings, and they're navigating. Return to work plans. Net app. We hosted a lunch and learn they actually hosted. I attended their lunch and learn 2 weeks ago, and they're having a a quite clear return to work plan that's phasing in over the next 2 months. So I'm expecting 80 to 120 staff from that individual large company to start frequenting places like Cassie's Cafe, which I highly recommend. It's really great. She's also building out a new boutique which I'm I'm hopeful for. We're planning to set up a bike to work day station there. So anyone who lives in or frequents the neighborhood. Please come by.

[28:09] The the the Tdm uptake, I see as incrementally growing, at least from the enlistment standpoint. I don't quite have statistics on usage in terms of how many people are actively taking the bus, how many times! But I do regularly get requests from property managers at the timber and platform housing developments as well as companies such as uplate and net app. We're pretty actively hiring into the district. So it's it's very positive for us to see. We're also supporting Regan Brown and Lynn Landrith with a commutify program that rewards folks for clean commutes that would not be driving their own vehicle by themselves, and some of those rewards can be redeemed within Boulder Junction. We've already got Curtis Park Deli Zeal Restaurant and Cassie's cafe in the queue to receive those rewards so downtown. Employees who are at participating businesses can frequent, or, I should say, redeem their rewards once they have those

[29:14] accumulated at Boulder Junction businesses. So I see that as a positive way to drive more traffic into the district, and we're really promoting the alternative modes such that if they are coming to Boulder Junction they can try a B cycle. Take the hot bus. and a quick news flash to share with the group. The Bustang system run by c.is now doing estis park shuttle, starting this weekend and they will be stopping at the terminal in Depa Square. So this is still rarely fresh, fairly fresh news. But if it benefits the group, I can put that link into the chat for the news release. and I'm happy to field any questions that might come up. Thanks. Well, definitely, would love a link in the chat

[30:03] related to the busting announcement. Any other comments or questions for will go ahead. Jim. This actually ties back to the previous question about activation. When I was thinking about the there's the roadhouse at Boulder Junction. There's seal. Not sure coffee shops? Or are there options to invite those businesses to stay open later? I guess I'm wondering if there's city code issues or other constraints. That's a good question. I don't know that they're they don't serve alcohol. Then it I don't know that there's specific constraints other than they do need to go through a licensing process and communicate what their intended hours of

[31:10] operation are. And if you want to be open later than Olympia. There is a use review component to that. Oh, and yeah, do you want to serve alcohol after 11 pm. Then? I'm sorry. Didn't hear correctly the the location. So yeah, roadhouse wants to stay open after 11 pm. They have to go through that but I don't know of anything that would prohibit them outright. But there is process especially given concerning the zone that they're in and you know how their business went up, wants to operate late night. Right. Yeah, thanks very much. Chris. Thanks, Jen. will. Do. You know if the use of the Boulder Junction station means the underground pullaround, or if it means the On street.

[32:07] That's that's a great question, Ryan. I'm not actually sure. I'll put a quote into the chat which I see that C. Dot busting is referring to this as Boulder Junction at Depot Square Station. which to me infers underground access, which would then explicitly require unlocking security. And so I think staffing. I'm not sure if Rtd. Would actually staff a station there, because most of Bustang's ticketing is digital looks like $15. But I'll put that as well in the chat for context. Thanks. Okay. Any other questions or comments for Will before we move forward.

[33:01] Great. Alright, we have A couple of opportunities for questions from commissioners about the consent agenda items or the fund financials. Did anyone have discussion points for those? Okay? I see a hand. Yeah. Sorry. It took me a minute to find the raise hand. I'm just wondering I'm in the past. Someone is kind of walked us through those numbers. Is that gonna happen this time? Or did we just need to understand from the the packet. So the the intent of providing the Fund financials is the we include these in every packet we certainly go through in more detail when we're actually doing our budget planning process. And so at our next meeting, as we're contemplating the 2025 budget, there will be a more detailed presentation. But then, in your packets will include these updates just to see how the years going.

[34:23] Great thanks, Chris, very helpful. So, yeah, I have no questions. I had just a clarifying question, and I don't know if this is I mean, it's part of the financials, but it's really the Q. One year over year. Report on the visits. I guess I was just kind of curious about the way I was reading it. It looks like we have a slight decrease in unique visitors to the district, but that the people that are coming to be coming more frequently are staying longer. Am I reading that correctly? So. Yes, and that's actually our next 10 item.

[35:00] Okay. Sorry. Never mind. never mind, cause. I thought that was interesting, and I wanted to know if we had some breakdowns about why, that was the case. Sort. Sounds like we'll get right into that. With Elliot here in a minute. Any other questions about the consent agenda or the financials. Okay, thanks. So much. Great we can dive right in. So included in your packet was order one report for Boulder Junction that we produced using a new tool that we have access to called placer.ai. this is an online platform that utilizes cell phone data. To make some assumptions about the number of folks who are visiting certain places. And you get to Geoffense those places where those folks live and where those folks work. And using that information, make a lot of other assumptions about the demographics of users, the, you know, income level, their commute style.

[36:15] Things like that. But we are just starting to use this tool. Elliot has, volunteered to be our departmental expert. All city employees are able to have access to this tool. If you have a city of boulder or boulder Colorado email, address. and so we're just starting to use this tool. Looking forward to being able to provide quarterly updates to each of our commissions on how things are looking from this visitation standpoint. And Elliott's here to to yeah, certainly talk through what we've presented in the Q. One report and answer questions. As we are all learning more about this tool together. Really. thanks, Chris.

[37:00] so I hope you all can see that. Okay, say, it's coming through. Yeah. Chris's Point Place Area guide allows us to geopense areas. In other words, take a geographical location and kind of put a fence around it and get some data drawn behind that. We kind of use the Boulder Junction area. Not really specifying parking or Tdm, but just it's probably Tdm, because it's bigger but it would incorporate parking as well. And we're looking at a Q. One report on that from 23 versus 24. Excuse me. and you can kind of see here. In blue is our 24. So on the left side of the screen and in red is 23 so you see some of the changes and visitations and you know how that's kind of changed in the last quarter over quarter, quarter over quarter quarter compared to the 2. Wow! That's a tongue. Twister

[38:04] and it's some of the the things we're getting into. So I know, Robin, you had a question about some of the changes in the unique visits. But it does look like our overall dwell time of people who are actually staying in district or staying in district. And and a lot of this is aggregated data that is then also compared with census data and kind of projected. So it's not necessarily a 100 accurate in terms of this is the actual thing that's happening. But it's a very strong estimate on on what we're gathering. And basically, if you have GPS tracking on your phone turned on for any of the apps or anything like that. It will ping in here. It's all anonymous. So it's not collecting personal data. But it does help us. Just kind of understand the flow of of traffic in and out of the district, and unfortunately, we do not have unique visits for

[39:01] bicycles or pedestrians. It's all aggregated. So I know Tdm. Would be very interested in bicycle movement and pedestrian movement. We're not quite there yet. But we do have at least some aggregate data. Before I go on the further Sue, I saw you had your hand raised. Did you have a quick question. How does this different from? Don't we do like travel studies? With how many cars running we still do that. Yes, so this is a much more, a higher level tool. We still do the travel study where we actually physically put people out and count comings and goings of vehicles. This, that's still part of our charter for the Tdm district, specifically and I think our cadences every other year on that so that will still happen. This is just a bit more general. Okay. Thanks.

[40:00] Great question. Thanks, Sue. So kind of going in. You can kind of see this report breaks things up in terms of like the visitations, but also time of visitations, the duration of visitations. And then the time of day. So not just the time of week, but also the time of day, and you can see here that the the peaks changed a little bit. Over that 90 day period looks like in 23. We had a little bit more of a peak, and I believe if I know this is Q. One sorry I was thinking of some of the activations that we did at Boulder Junction, but that's not till later in the year. So we can see some. There were changes here. This could been due to weather this convin. Just. There's a few variables here that's it's really hard to know exactly what's going on. And there's not a significant amount of change that, you know, there's anything correlated to. But it is interesting to see that some behaviors do change as they do over time. We also again, using that census data, collect some of the demographics that would be used in some of this information.

[41:04] So you can kind of see what the demographics would be to our normal visitor then to bow the junction. and then kind of looking about that distribution of those demographics in terms of income and education as well as ethnicity and household sides. So you can see there's a large population. Of visits coming from that one to 2 persons for households. So that's kind of the the difference. That we're seeing here. Some of the other districts have a little bit different distribution, and I see that there's a question in the chat. We have a comparison between these demographics versus bolder in general. Yeah, so we certainly can do that with this. We don't have it in this report here. This is kind of like a a teaser, if you will, of the data that we can start pulling so we can start comparing this

[42:05] across folder as a whole. Compare this across our other improvement districts and and see how that compares to to the movement of folks. This here is a time. Compare so this is the market landscape that we're seeing within Boulder Junction. So it's basically where folks coming from into the district, and you can see the bulk of people coming into the district are coming from the boulder area. But there's also quite a bit of people coming in outside of the boulder area, especially long Highway 36 corridor, and also in the the Denver Metro area. And this map here. Just kind of gives a little bit of insight into where people are coming from, so that prior location, and then where people are going to that post location. So majority of it's coming and going from home. Which makes sense because there is a lot of residential and boulder Junction and it is a community that's kind of built around. The idea of you don't really have to go that far outside of the district.

[43:13] But that second one is work, and then you can kind of see it goes down a little bit interesting enough target happens to be a prior location that made it up on this list outside of the other category. So a lot of people from Target going back to Boulder Junction aside. So one of my things is I again don't own a car. So I get deliveries from target like. And so there's just a general. There's actually one guy in particular who's like my name delivery guy now, and he comes and goes, but he's only there for, like 2 or 3 min in a week. I'm not surprised to see. That's for myself. But like it's like, because it's so convenient. And it's like a community store. In a way, I think that goes to Travis's earlier comment about what else could we build closer like? I would totally walk to a community like corner store if there was one. There isn't one.

[44:13] Yeah. And that's that's a good point. This isn't. These visits can be. They could be delivery drivers as well. Right? So it doesn't necessarily have to be people who are staying within the district. But that is where that dwell. Time comes into the picture of like, how do we understand the types of visits that are happening here. And with that well, time being so high, you can see how the home prior and post makes a lot of sense. So here's a little bit of comparison of the week. So the distribution of visits across a week typical week Monday through Saturday. And you can see here that again. 2024 is just a little bit lower than 2023 although on Wednesday we did have a little bit of a pickup. So maybe there's something happening on Wednesdays. Jennifer, did you have a quick question.

[45:05] Yeah, I was just curious about I saw, and maybe it was a past slide of the long dwell time of how long people stay? And is that, do you think is that correlated with the residential. Yes, absolutely. Yep. So yeah, kind of going back to that prior and post being like one of the the main places people are coming from are from home and main. People are going back to the district is home, and that's a big increase of the dwell time there, and hotel and hotels. Absolutely. And then here's the time. Compare. So this, that first one here is over course of a week. This next one here is kind of over the course of a typical day, and how that gets distributed. It's pretty active throughout the entire day, which makes sense, because that dwell time is so high, and that there is so many residents living in that district that you would have a distribution.

[46:01] A lot of our other districts have, you know, kind of that peak around lunch and up into dinner, and then starts to fall off in the evening time. So it's quite a bit different in Boulder Junction, and that we have that stability throughout. And then here's that visit, duration. You can see again that full time how long people are actually staying within the district is is quite high. And it's majority of it's over that 150 min. And this map here is pretty interesting. This kind of compares the routes that people are taking into the district, and kind of gets us a little bit of insight. You can kind of see if I can zoom in a little bit here. You can kind of see the distribution of those lines. The the red is, gonna be more visits the green is less visits. So you see that a lot of people are coming from areas that are pretty close to the district. So I think it kind of

[47:01] answers or kind of plays on the fact that it is a district, that is, you know, pretty tight knit great. That's the end of the report. There's any other questions you have to answer. So thank you all, we'll continue to update those reports, and if there are specific things that you are wanting to look at. By all means, certainly. Let us know. You can email Lauren and pass along us. And we can figure out how to best incorporate it. Thanks much. Thank you. Thanks. Elliot. Very good. Regan. Alright, yeah. Regan is not able to join us today. So matches Anski is pensioning before his next item. Yeah, great thanks. Everyone. I just wanted to give you an update about program that's coming to

[48:02] Boulder Junction soon. We've been collaborating with music project on concert series many of the events are taking place on the hill, but we wanted to make sure that we had a signature event and Boulder Junction. It's a program. That's all. On the rise celebration of past, present, future Boulder Music Roots Music Project, which is very near the district. They have their their site over in Belmont Park, west venue, and a music engine incubator that has been serving the community in bringing musicians to town and helping them with their business. And so deploying some art of the funds and bringing out these programs to activate the streets. We'll be doing event in Boulder Junction on September 20, eighth 5 pm. And the concerts are all going to feature older musicians emerging and established, as well as some regional acts. And we have a flyer. I'll make sure that that gets circulated to everyone. And you can help us to

[49:04] spread the good news and make sure that's a really good event. And hopefully, we're still working on. If we can do a little bit of an unveiling of the way, finding totems that are out there in in around the district. At the same time. So we'll have more of a celebration of neighborhood at that times. Just wanna make sure there weren't any questions about that. And obviously, when we give you the flyer if you have any questions you can most select. Great thanks, Matt. Well back to Matt. We have an update on the work that we shared with you at the last meeting. regarding our look at all of our general improvement districts. As it relates to city council priority that's been established around commercial area connections and quality of life improvements. And so Matt is the lead on the community fatality team. And that work. And so as a brief update for you today, yeah, thanks. And we did have quite an extensive update on the last meeting, if you would like to, you know, sit down and hear that later on. But the brief overview was that

[50:12] the district outlook analysis is a project that's about setting some vision and the tools we need to achieve the vision over the coming decades, both looking at the current state and future state in all of our general recruitment districts. Some of the developments. And the big one is that city Council did identify. If they're retreat, that connections between our commercial areas and quality of life in them is on the list of the 11 city council priorities for the next 2 years. and this project intersects with that pretty strongly. And so community vitality is gonna serve as the lead and all city departments on moving that work forward, and that priority does apply a lot of different things that are happening across city not the least of which is the update of the Bowl Valley. Comprehensive plan the Civic Area master plan as well our own affordable

[51:03] commercial project. So there's a lot intersecting here. But for the purposes of the District Outlook Project, there's this real opportunity in that visioning step to come to some common criteria and understanding of what it means to have a great commercial area. And so we're gonna take advantage of this moment to make sure that we explore that but the priority also drives this work forward with a little more urgency. And so, as we have these conversations during our meetings in the next year or so. Some of the questions will ask are going to sort of move us forward in that, especially in that vision step, because we do need to understand what the residents, the business owners, the the landowners in Boulder Junction, who are paying the taxes and using the services what the needs are gonna be immediately and into the future that becomes really serious conversation. And it's gonna be exciting work, too, because we get to dream a little bit. That's that's a great thing to, you know, even in the conversation we've had so far today, and about the mix of businesses, the 24 h. Nature of them the the empty store

[52:08] right now, you know, maybe some attention needs to be paid on that. So conversations like that are going to be really important. in order to have those conversations to do them effectively. We're gonna be doing some pretty deep engagement. We talked about that last time. And one of the things as part of that engagement is to have a advisory team representing the different General Improvement District commissions. And so one thing that we'd like to ask today if there are volunteers, one from each commission would be great to serve on a group to serve that advisory function with the project. it's going to be not. Not a heavy commitment. We're thinking monthly or less to have a meeting with some homework to review documents and give advice. Staff and we will be sort of designing the the way that we use this advisory team together, so there'll be a chance to. You know, as as we ramp up to weigh in on how we can gather and use our time most effectively, so that both the commissions are represented directly in the detail of the work, and that we're coming back to each of the commissions with updates and including in the conversation.

[53:25] And then, as far as sequence it goes, I showed the timeline last time. That's pretty much still on track. We're looking at the Council study session in August. There's gonna be some other work that's done on the compensate plan and some other adjacent strategies that will feed that. So the the gathering of the advisor teams not to be immediate but maybe in the third quarter will ramp up significantly and work for about a year. So I'm happy to answer any questions that I've been is that the updates? That's pretty good right? I'm happy to answer any questions about the project generally, but would definitely look to the chair. If there are volunteers to serve on the advisory team. Thank you.

[54:09] That's great, Matt. Thanks for the updates. Sue. Please go ahead. We get little email explaining about that advisory committee again, because I didn't catch it. All that you said. Yeah, definitely, I'll summarize for everyone. So you know. That'd be great. Thanks. And maybe maybe that it sounds like if you won't, don't plan to start until Q. 3. Maybe we could choose volunteers at the next meeting. Sorry. Is, that is that acceptable Matt. Oh, it's fine with me if if your commissioners are good. Sure. Okay? Yeah. So if if we could maybe follow up with the meeting today with the email just describing what the structure is again just a repeat a short repeat of what you explained today. Then we can. We can pick one or 2 people in July for that.

[55:01] Yeah, we'll get that out to you. Anyone who has questions reach out when you receive that I'd be happy to answer. Make sure that if you're thinking it might be good for you that you really want to do it. Sounds, great. Well that concludes matters from staff. Thank you. any actually short, clarifying question about what we just discussed, Matt, this is related to the survey that we that we took about. You know the how well the boards are functioning, or is this a different effort. This is a different effort. Okay. Yeah, you you took a survey from the city protops. I assume that was about words of generally processing. There will be a component of this project which examines how we invest, be efficient and best govern that we do so slightly different context. But.

[56:04] Sure I wasn't sure if that was if there was overlap. Thank you. Sure this is, yeah, certainly much more closely related to the work that's been requested by the commissions regarding analysis of our current military rates and understanding what levels they need to be at to provide existing services. And and also taking into consideration future possibilities. So it's really largely tied to that council didn't jump on that the bandwagon of the way that you all phrased it in your letter to council. But we've worked to fold that priority of the Bj commissions into this work. Kind of in a different way. Thanks, Chris. Alright. Any other matters from Commissioners Sue.

[57:00] So training cycles. It is hosting with me. Vitality and state transportation. Or, yeah, the Transportation department. I'll put it in the chat. I'd like to work to Happy Hour, older. Junction. So it's June 20, sixth deal. Let me get the link so hopefully, you guys can all meet and bring your friends and It would be great to see Commissioners out there. Where's the link. Thanks. Soup any other comments or questions from commissioners.

[58:03] Okay. not hearing any. I believe that is the end of the agenda for today. Chris, anything else for us before we wrap up. Nothing further. Just look forward to hopefully seeing everybody in person at the bike work day, happy hour, and we'll see you at the next Commission meeting on July 20, fourth. Thanks. Everyone. Wonderful. Thanks, everybody. Have a good rest of your day. We'll we'll see you soon. Thanks. Everyone. Thanks. Ryan. Great job. Thanks, bye. Welcome, Stephanie. Thank you. Nice to see you all. We get an invite to stop again. please. I have calendar versus. I was like, Okay, where I'm sitting, where I'd be in that day right now. I'm not, but I can do that one day earlier to be here, but I wouldn't unless I was sitting here on this. So if there's a way to like send out invites about that kind of thing that would be super

[59:11] right. Let's make sure we have a good invite, since.