June 2, 2020 — City Council Regular Meeting

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Captions from City of Boulder YouTube recording.

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[2:00] um welcome everyone to the regular meeting of the Boulder City Council for June 2nd 2020 um and could we have the roll call please council member Brockett pres friend here Joseph she's there great so we talking about stick here wallik Sam Mark chats with me that he's having difficult getting audio he can see everybody and here but he doesn't have audio Mark you may need to come back into the meeting um just in case it's an issue with the platform how to avoid piercing a corporate bail any volte somebody's not muted if you could please mute yourself

[3:02] [Music] okay so I believe we were on wall and he's present obviously okay Weaver here Gates here and [Music] young mayor we have a quorum very good thank you very much um and so I would like to see if we can amend the agenda please we would like to add enfor briefing under item 1 a uh immediately after the co Public Health briefing and then we'd like to remove um item 5c the public hearing for dockless Bike Share licensing and um we will have that at a future time and then um we will launch into the meeting so if I could have a motion to amend the agenda please so mute is there a second

[4:02] second second great so we have a motion and a second to amend the agenda is there any objection to doing so hearing none we will say that um the motion to amend the agenda passes unanimously so before we move on to our covid briefing which is going to be coming up next I want to begin our meeting by recognizing the pain the sadness and the anger that's being experienced by many in our community our state and our entire country right now um the unjustified and heinous killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis was the spark for Nationwide protests Against Racism and Injustice but it is not the root cause for the anger and the sadness that all of us are experiencing those root causes are longstanding and they're deeply embedded in our institutions

[5:02] including the institutions we have here in Boulder um our work in city government is to acknowledge these injustices to recognize and speak out Against Racism and to deconstruct the inherent racial bias which is in our local government we do not want to see more deaths linked to racism such as the killing of George Floyd um the killing of amod Arbury the killing of bana Taylor the killing of Eric Garner the killing of Tony McDade the killing of Michael Brown and many many other people of color too numerous to name the work that we have to do before us is difficult work and it takes effort and focus to be able to do it but it is work that we must do um I want to call call out to the people who

[6:02] came to the demonstrations on Friday and Saturday to vent their rage their anger their deep sense of the Injustice that has happened to many people in our country um I attended these two um events and I have to say that the people who were there were being very respectful of each other they were protecting each other from the virus which we were contending with there were masks on almost every person there was consciousness of social distancing being done and the the protesters were organized and they were um respectful of the setting that they were were working in while still speaking their Truth for all of us to hear I also want to say thank you to our um police department and the officers who helped provide traffic um control um to protect the rights of the demonstrators to Civ go

[7:00] wherever they wanted to go and to speak the the words that we needed to hear so I'll turn to other council members and invite any thoughts that you all might have on the situation we find ourselves [Music] in okay I'm sorry I don't have the hand rais up yet let me get that up thank you very much for your patience so next I've got my apologize just for my moment so next I've got Bob and Mary and Aaron well thanks Sam I um I couldn't have S it much better than you did so I won't say much more um this was just a horrible horrible tragedy um it's absolutely unacceptable what happened in Minneapolis and all the other cities that that you mentioned Sam and and of course unfortunately that list is quite a bit longer um we could be here all night listing the number of of people of color who have been um victims of inappropriate um violence at the hands

[8:00] of the very people who we expect to protect us and enforce our laws and why we probably can't change the world here from Boulder Colorado we can certainly make sure that what we do here in Boulder is right and appropriate and Equitable and we had our own problems last year fortunately um it was not extreme violence as we saw in Minneapolis but um it was still behavior that I think most of us would find um um outside of the scope of what's appropriate and I'm I'm proud of the fact that the city council um last October um worked with the community to develop an oversight Arrangement U which is being put in place I think we're going to hear a little bit more about that tonight and perhaps next week but that continues a pace it's one of our highest priorities and um and we want to make sure that we do everything in our power to ensure that what happened in Minneapolis and all these cities around the country um over the past months and years never ever happens here in Boulder

[9:00] thank you Bob I've got Mary Aaron Rachel and Adam Mary I'm going to quote Michelle Obama because she said it so well um race and racism is a reality that so many of us grow up learning just to deal with but if we ever hope to move past it it can't just be on people of color to deal with it it's up to all of us black white everyone no matter how well-meaning we think we might be to do the honest uncomfortable work of rooting it out it starts with self-examination and listening to those whose lives are different from our own and I felt compelled to say that because um as these protests were happening my Fe feeling was that I think

[10:01] it's great that everybody is protesting but this process is also practice you don't go at the end of a protest and feel better that you protested you have to actually do something and it begins with you so that's all I have to say thank you Mary I've got Rachel and then Adam um I think I might be cutting Aaron but I can go now if that's okay you bet Aaron disappear Rachel I'm not to cut you um so I want to say um thank you for bringing this up Sam I think it's good that we will be getting an update on the police oversight work next week but oversight is just one of the many steps we need to change as part of Criminal Justice Reform um Sam just mentioned the pain and suffering people are experiencing right now due to police brutality and racism so it's not enough for us people who have the power to act

[11:00] to just stand in solidarity or Express sorrow or talk about these issues we have to use our power to enact changes in light of the current events and the new awareness of how diely um our criminal or how dire our Criminal Justice Reform needs are I hope that CAC can budget in time next week to include discussion of whether we would like to broaden our Focus to see where Boulder can do more to ensure our systems um are one of compassion and equal Justice for those who always want me to be more specific I will point to two examples of things we could do um one would be demilitarization of our police force and the second would be reducing use of force thanks thank you Rachel um Adam and then [Music] Aon yeah I just wanted to um mention there was a quote um at last Saturday's rally that really struck me and I think is important and it's that uh one one of the young men who was um speaking at the

[12:01] protest he said that um being an ally has to come at a cost it's absolutely not free to be an ally and that means you know being in uncomfortable situations having uncomfortable conversations maybe losing your job maybe losing your friends um but that's what it takes sometimes to actually make change and that really really struck me um especially as a city council member um so it really made me reflect on what that means and what it's going to take to make some major change and I fully agree with Rachel I think we need to take some steps um beyond what we currently have planned to try and um make sure we're acting as equitably as possible when it comes to social justice um thank you for everyone who who showed

[13:00] up to the rallies as well I thought that was a really meaningful moment for our city and one we need to continue to work on thanks thank you Adam Aon yeah thanks for Sam for bringing this up and for everything um everyone has said and I also agree that the rally on Saturday was a was a meaningful and significant event and U Adam I appreciate you bringing up that quote from that young man I also was moved by that as well and you know for right now I just want to say I stand in solidarity with the the folks out there across the country who have been out uh protesting for justice for George Floyd and um uh standing up strong for for the fact that black lives matter um so very appreciative of everyone out there who's doing doing the work in a a peaceful uh way uh while still expressing the their anger and the total unacceptability of how things are working here um but I want to agree with uh with Rachel and Adam that um you know we have to

[14:01] continue to take concrete steps so I'm glad that we're moving forward on the police oversight task force but we do need to look at other ways that we can keep uh combating the syic racism in our society and where it's found here in our own community so thank you great well that's the last of the hands I see so thanks to council members for um being present at this weekend's event and for speaking up about what we should be doing about it and thinking about Jane I'll turn over to you now I apologize for having to unmute so thank you all for those great statements I I really appreciate it and I appreciate that our city council was one of the first councils uh to make a statement on Friday um about our deep concern about all of this and our efforts to stand in solidarity but more more than that as many of you said to

[15:00] take action and change the way we operate and the way the system operates so we've got work to do we're going to be ready to do that so the first item on our agenda tonight will be the health briefing from Jeff Zak and I'm hopeful that Jeff is on the line there he is hi Jeff and um can take it away thank you all right thank you thank you mayor thank you members always good to be back I'm going to keep my update pretty focused tonight um to just jump right to the numbers and I want to share with you the last three slides I have I will go over um some of the data that was just presented by the Colorado Department of Public Health and environment because I think it's important to take a look at what they're looking at as we're headed into the months ahead so you can go ahead to the next slide so this is again our five day average number of new cases and as you can see um we continue on a very positive

[16:01] downward trend for cases this is great news for us um we definitely reached our Peak around the 29th and we are holding those cases down and this is even uh in the Advent of and you can go to the next slide for this of increased testing um that we're seeing so this is all very positive for Boulder County uh it just goes again to demonstrate the work that we've all done as a community it really does as I've said before come down to each and every one of us um and when we do follow social distancing requirements when we are um putting on masks it really does help to make sure that we are uh not spreading the disease so I just want to say thanks to all of those folks who were tuned in tonight next slide um I put the these three slides on one and not not to have you look at every single one but this is what I have been reporting on a weekly basis number of adult critical ventilators that are available number of medical surgical beds available and the number of ICU

[17:02] beds available that we track um on a weekly basis um and then we meet with our hospitals and make sure that what we're seeing is accurate um and again uh all positive Trends um the only little bit of a downward trend is the number of medical and surgical beds available I mean it's a very slow downward Trend um but as you'll see uh in the next slide it is not due to and you can go ahead go to the next slide uh it is definitely not due to covid hospitalization so we know based on um elective surgeries that are being done now and that we do have patients coming back in some for trauma um that are which is good I think you heard Dr viser talk about before people were shying away from hospitalizations for a while um and we don't want that to happen we want people to to get treated when they need to be treated um and that is the only reason that that other Trend that I was showing you was a little bit of a Down we trying it is not due to covid cases as a matter of fact I'm

[18:02] pleased to present to you um that as of 3:00 today we did receive a notice from bch that they have no positive or probable cases in the hospital at all that are covid-19 so that's some great news again this trend is demonstrating um the great work that our communities have done and I know that's come with a lot of sacrifice um so I just want to again just let people know my appreciation of how much uh time effort and seriousness they put into this and the next three slides and you can go to the next one are are going to be the slides from the Colorado Department of Public Health um so I want to just highlight these this was the data that was used p a portion of the data that was used um when cdph just made some of the decisions on the order that they that they just refined and I wanted to talk about this first one because what you see in the slide on the left is prior to May 22nd very steep decline in

[19:02] the hospitalizations um and then a little bit slower now tapering off after the 22nd so about a little bit about a week's worth of data Beyond um that slide on the left is what you see on the right and you're starting to see a little bit more of a tapering uh and we want to make sure that we're watching that as we move forward into the months ahead next slide so this is that effective reproductive number is what you've heard me refer to in previous Council meetings as our not so just as a reminder when we were moving in to the stay-at-home order we were around an are not or a reproductive number of about three um that means that for every person that is that is positive with the disease they would spread that disease to three other people those three would spread it to nine others those nine would spread it to 27 and so on and so forth and because of the work that's been done over the

[20:00] last couple months we've kept the number now below um one which is exactly where we want the number because if you are spreading it to less than one person then that means that the disease is being controlled at the time and what we're seeing in the last couple weeks um almost the last month actually now close to the last month is a little bit of an uptick in that R not number uh and just as a reminder the the the average time to a hospitalization is 13 days um and but it can be longer than that so the incubation period when somebody is exposed can be a total of up to 14 days by the time they get tested um and then they find out if they have the disease or not and then if they are serious enough to end up in the hospital that could be a sign significant delay for some people but most hospitalizations occur within the first 13 days so you have to remember that what we're seeing on here the reason that 514 is the latest date is because that's the date the last date that they have that period

[21:01] of when somebody would have showed up in the hospital based on that incubation period um so we are wanting to make sure that we're paying attention uh to where that R not number is um and as the state uh moves into this next phase and if you go to the this last slide I'll talk you through um where we were before where we are now and why we want to be be watching carefully going forward so as a reminder when we were at stay-at-home uh that social distancing number that where it say 65 55 45 and then a 55 to 45 um those are that's the social distancing level that currently exists or there are different scenarios of what could currently exist when we were at safer at home um we were at a 75 to 80% social distancing level and as we moved to safer at home that dropped to around 65% of social dist in and uh what

[22:00] that represents are three different scenarios and I'm just going to walk us through each of these scenarios um because you're going to see pretty quickly that there uh are the where you get your your biggest return on investment is in that middle graph and I'll talk about why um the first scenario that's on the left it's says all populations at the same level of social distancing that means that people across the board everybody's following social distancing at the same level um and at a 65% level if everybody's following social distancing at that level across all populations you see that bottom white line which stays below the dotted line and is the the total capacity of our hospital system um and at a 65% level if everybody was maintaining social distancing at that same scenario we stay below a surge as soon as you drop to 55% that line goes pretty significantly up um and you can see that that's part

[23:00] of the reason why as the state is trying to predict how much can we open we open restaurants what exactly is that going to do um we're opening up other things um camping as an example some other things like that really trying to be thoughtful and careful about what gets opened and how quickly so that we don't uh move over that surge capacity in the middle scenario uh and this is this is really uh where the return on investment comes and it's somewhat obvious because we know that our older populations um and when I say older populations the way the state is defining this as 65 plus um that they have the highest hospitalization rate and highest uh subsequent uh fatality rate associated with this disease so if all of our older populations are social distancing at 80% which is again uh consistent with where we were at stay-at home home then uh then and we're at the 65% scenario for

[24:03] the rest of the population you can see that we're well below the surge line we're even below the surge line at a 55% social distancing level because the majority of the people that might be exposed to that uh to the virus would not end up as in the hospital in numbers that were significant enough to Surge us so that middle scenario um has the greatest return on investment if why the messaging that we're using is consistent with trying to make sure that if folks are are older and they have underlying health conditions uh to try to make sure that they are doing as much as they can from home that they are maintaining for sure the social distancing wearing masks um but we we really don't want our older population to to contract this disease um and then the last scenario is uh half of the older population um is is at a is at a 80% social distancing and you can

[25:01] even see with half of that population uh social distancing at that level and half not that at that 55% scenario it does bump up above uh that that surge threshold around the September to uh to early November time frame so that is why uh the state is being cautious and thoughtful about wanting to really make sure that they're looking at full sets of dat Data before they loosen other things up at this point even though our numbers in Boulder County are looking really positive um I think the state's taking um an appropriate approach with really thinking carefully about what does the data look like when we move to something like restaurants or or start to loosen up other orders so um with that I will stop there I wanted to keep it pretty uh concise so if there's questions that I had time to answer those great I have a question here from Bob and other council members if you have questions now's a good time for

[26:00] that Jeff uh thanks for coming back and thanks for this um presentation that was very very helpful and great news with um Boulder Community Hospital and the fact they've now reached zero covid patients I think that's a great milestone hopefully we we maintain that just one question Jeff um in one of your earlier slides you you showed um daily testing rates and um I think that in a previous presentation I was either you or Dr visor um said that that our aspiration was to get to the point where we were doing 500 tests a day and that would be consistent with I think a CDC guideline of 152 tests per 100,000 population um it looked to me from your slide that we're kind of hovering it varies from day to day but we're kind of averaging about 200ish um some days looked like it was down to 100 some days it was 300 but it looked to me like over the past three or four weeks we've been averaging about 200 so well below that 500 goal can you speak a little bit about that whether our goal is still 500 and and if so what we need to do to get get get there and the the good news is is that and that

[27:01] goal of 500 was built on that Harvard model um as you know we talked about that but we have been advertising those test sites and we are not we have we don't have people waiting in line saying they're not able to get symptomatic testing done so this is a positive thing we are going to start to open up testing to asymptomatic individuals who were associated with positives so that was our next highest level so I think you heard Dr Arina say it's going to be a little bit before we can get to that but we feel like we have been able to um to to deal with and test all the folks who are symptomatic we've been checking in with our our community testing sites on a weekly basis they are feeling confident with that at this point as well we do have the testing supplies available so we'll be doing some marketing and Outreach to make sure that we are looking at um both continuing to communicate that if people are symptomatic they can go to any of those sites and to also message that if we

[28:01] have people who are who've been exposed to somebody who's positive but is still in an asymptomatic stage that we will start reaching out to them and doing testing on them that's like that next level again I and it helps us assure uh prevent that somebody who has potentially uh been exposed is actually getting tests to confirm that versus waiting that incubation period to see if they become infectious or not thanks Jeff that was helpful great great thank you um thanks Jeff for your presentation I had two questions first I read just before our meeting started that anyone I think um Jared pus put out on Facebook maybe that anybody who had attended a protest should get tested is that true and Boulder do you know are we advising people locally if they went to one of the um protests that we were just talking about so that is that is not part of our testing criteria at this

[29:01] point so I'll need to follow up on that um to validate if that could be done in Boulder or not but right now we are only testing symptomatic people or asymptomatic people associated with somebody who is positive follow up Rachel I'm sorry about that okay that's all right yeah just let us know because it was um it seemed like it was going out to anybody in the state who had gone to um a protest she get tested but it was right before this meeting um and I'm sorry about the dog barking um Rachel do you mind if I do you mind if I just follow up on that real quick go ahead yeah well and just uh Jee as you look into that I do as Sam mentioned I I I did see um pretty high levels of social distancing and maske wearing at that the boulder event whereas I think maybe some of the other um events in Denver have been a little more tightly packed so that good good followup Point Aon um and then my second question Jeff is are there we're going to talk um in a bit about enforcement and whether that's

[30:01] something that we should be looking at um for people who aren't wearing masks are there just looking at Outdoors um more versus less dangerous things like if you're sitting in a group of 10 people tightly in is that better or worse than say jogging past somebody on a trail are we even worried about people outside not wearing masks given that our numbers are so low I'm just trying to piece together we've got the ORD saying wear masks um we've got a lot of people who are outside not complying so just wanted to get your take on whether some things are more dangerous or whether Outdoors just isn't looking dangerous at all thank you that's a great question Rachel and definitely outside is a lower risk than indoors so I'm going to give you a couple different scenarios um you're walking past somebody on the sidewalk as an example they're not wearing a mask you are or both of you aren't wearing masks there's very little risk in those scenarios the the highest scenarios for risk are going to be

[31:00] indoors where you're spending more than 15 uh minutes in close it used to be 10 CDC just changed this guidance but now it's more than 15 minutes in close proximity which means within six foot of social distancing to somebody else so if you think about a trail issue where we do know that if people are exercising um they exhale uh more uh vigorously than they do if they're not exercising um but if you're just passing somebody on the trail you're going to have a relatively low risk that doesn't mean you shouldn't wear a mask the best way to prevent the spread of that disease is a combination of social distancing and mask wearing I didn't include um one of the slides from cdph that they presented during their update but one of those is about the effectiveness of masks and wearing masks does reduce the spread of those large droplets and we know it can make a difference so um even though the the risk of just passing somebody is going to be low outside comparative to somebody spending time indoors we still

[32:01] want people to social distance and to mask in all those scenarios and what about like what we saw at the creek where people were just sitting for minutes or hours near each other but Outdoors yeah if it's outdoors it's going to be you know I don't I couldn't tell you that I looked at those pictures myself obviously um and I couldn't tell you that we know that that is going to result in X number of cases because that happened what would likely happen is if people do become ill associated with that event they may not show symptoms in that population um but they could still transmit those symptoms to somebody who is more affected in an older population as you know U from the numbers that that we've talked about that's the population that's most at risk we don't have any Associated outbreaks I can tell you that at this point outside of a potential probable case um of somebody who is outdoors in a yoga um with yoga instructor in a yoga class um that's the

[33:02] only potential case that we know of and I'm sorry about that phone ringing in the background um but that's the only potential case that we are aware of um associated with any kind of outdoor activity at this point so we haven't seen outbreaks from the Creek Fest doesn't mean that people didn't spread it and they're asymptomatic um but we don't have any Associated outdoor outbreaks outside of that uh probable that's with that yoga class thank you okay great I see no further question so Jane I'm going to turn back to you I believe that you have a few things feed up for us yeah thank you um first I I do want to thank Jeff again for being here uh the council's made the decision that we'll invite Jeff to be our lovely guest um the first meeting of every month so the next time that Jeff will be here unless something goes terrible wrong will be July 7th so we look forward to

[34:00] hearing that things are even better on July 7th um then next is the covid response and what we wanted to do is um address the the thing that Rachel brought up last week which is the issues of enforcement and so Chief Maris Herold is here with a PowerPoint um to discuss those issues so Chief Harold thank you um mayor members of council um before I get into the enforcement uh aspect of uh the public health orders um I realize that the vast majority of you don't know me personally you don't know my background and in light of the recent tragedy tragic death of Mr Floyd I thought it was extremely important for you to know a little bit about my background my vision for the Boulder Police Department moving forward and I just want to make sure that um I'm consistent that I condemn the incident

[35:00] in Minneapolis and I think it's very important that you know my background a little bit uh so if you would afford me just one minute to um kind of tell you a little bit about myself so the bulk of my career the majority of my career was spent in police reform and this was after several uh police intervention shootings in Cincinnati and actually 14 black men died at the hands of cinc police over a number of years that resulted in serious litigation against the city but out of that came unbelievable reform efforts that are still um talked about internationally and I've most certainly visited a lot of the uh cities across the country and help them through police reform in my background and the work that we did in Cincinnati um is is truly remarkable and I was a part of that and I'm very proud of that I also did work at the University of

[36:00] Cincinnati after another shooting death of an unarmed black man um that resulted in voluntary reform efforts and I'm very proud of the work that we did there as well and so if you could go to the next slide [Music] please I want to give you just a snapshot of what I am passionate about what I have done and in the city the University and Alo also help places like Ferguson um and other locations across the country get to so when I'm talking about this platform I want you to know that it speaks to um becoming a model agency um it speaks to risk mitigation and it speak it speaks to probably most importantly is the police department taking a preventative stance in posture instead of a reactionary stance in posture so let me just go through these because this will be my road map moving

[37:00] forward um use of force um there is new models on use of force that are coming from across the pond in Europe and um my background with this we were the first to implement uh the critical decision-making model at the University of Cincinnati and the first to have studied this on a on a broad scale so I'll be bringing this to Boulder and there's already processes in place to ensure this training and this new way of looking at use of force occurs here in Boulder in addition um Boulder Police Department has to strengthen its policies and procedures on all policies and procedures that are at risk so in other words use of force citizens complaint I've already started a process to ensure that we have model policies in these very risky policy and procedure locations um pedestrian traffic stops we need a much more robust system to gather and understand who we're stopping why

[38:00] we're stopping behavior is associated with this so we have to move forward with understanding our data on a much greater scale I've already started um dialogue with Dr Benson who I believe will get us to that um Boulder Police Department does have a model policy when we're talking about mental health concerns and they have partnered and correspond with mental health experts but I think this program can be enhanced I have a road mop to get us there as well so I I am confident uh that we'll enhance that and make that a model policy as well uh recruiting hir and promotion and retention I can't speak um uh more passionately about um really being on The Cutting Edge of getting diverse perspectives and diverse officers into the police department I did it at the University there's no doubt we will bual it here and I already have uh work being done in these areas to ensure that happens at a local level Level Training um this has to be one of

[39:00] the most robust sections of a police department if you want true police reform um so we have mechanisms in place uh to make this uh not a part-time situation in Boulder PD but a full-time with a full training staff that will bring model Training Concepts to Boulder PD accountability mechanisms um the city manager is going to talk about the monitor but this is most certainly one aspect of police reform uh the other one that we have to get to is having an early warning system um within our Police Department so Frontline supervisors can gauge at risk employees um mitigate that intervene and either train coach counsel or remove the person that is at high risk I am probably most passionate about crime strategy because I unfortunately in police departments across the country it is probably the most overlooked police reform effort that a police Department can engage in and so everything that we must do is

[40:01] understanding our data working with the community to develop ethical and effective policing strategies and so I have always relied on problem war and policing to get us there um and I think that is the most ethical policing strategy available anywhere in the world and Boulder PD will engage in this preventative understanding of our own Data Systems um the next two kind of run hand inand in tandem equipment and Technology um equipment is so important for police reform because police officers have to have numerous options before they engage in hand toand use of force situations and so we are actively looking at our options there but I'm confident that we will be considered a model agency as far as Equipment Technology Boulder Police Department is probably this is the biggest hurdle to overcome is our technology platform um to be a 21st century policing agency you have to have a

[41:01] strong technology platform um I am working with Dr Benson in the city manager's office to improve our technology platform but I've been there before we will get to all of the integration of our systems to understand exactly what's occurring at a micro level and a macro level this feeds into data and Records management um we are probably about 15 years behind on this but there is no doubt within the next year we will uh get these systems up and integrated together and then finally I talked about this last time is the K accreditation which is simply an outside Commission of experts that come into your agency and do a top to bottom review of everything that I've talked about today and um accredit the agency moving forward um to say that you are a good Police Department the foundation of your Police Department is good and that you're using model policies so this is is a quick snapshot of everything that I'm passionate about everything that I

[42:01] worked on in my background um I have done it to in two police agencies um I want you to know that I have been meeting with police officers um you know day and night and what is really impressive is this police department has a tremendous amount of capacity to do good policing there is no doubt that we have the talent to make this agency a model agency and I want you to know that and I want you to know a little bit about my background so um you understand my passion for police reform you understand that I have the skills to get us there and that I will work diligently to make sure Boulder Police Department is considered a model agency not only nationally but internationally and so I think at this point I'm going to turn it back over to the city manager and she is going to go over some um oversight uh updates Jan before you jump in I just wanted to point out Aaron has his hand up and so

[43:02] does juny do you have a question I do yeah Chief thank you so much for that it's extremely promising appreciate the information about your background and look very much forward to these um steps that you're going to be working on just one question about policies and procedures I had a member of the community asking if there's public visibility on the current police policies and procedures do we have uh public facing documents on those um to be honest with you I'm not sure if it's on our website but obviously one of the the first principles in police reform is making everything transparent um and so if they're not there I have we can make them available I just I feel it's important that all the policies and procedures um are transparent to everybody the caveat to that is there needs to be some heavy lifting on a few of these policies procedures to make them model policies so as long as we're all on the same page

[44:00] most certainly it's better for the community to know those policies and procedures great thanks so maybe we can follow up offline I appreciate that thank you great and I've got juny now thank you um can you hear me yes yes thank you this is the first time using the CD computer and I've been having trouble earlier and I wasn't able to comment um and when some of our council members were talking about our current situation and I think this is the right moment to express some of you know it's it's very difficult it's been a very difficult last week um as a black woman in Boulder and also in the United States or just as a human being it's very hard uh to see what happened between the the officer and Mr Floyd and I think you know reflecting on

[45:01] what happened has been very difficult and I am one of those people I try to do my best um in the way that I react or in the way that I approach situations but I have to say it was very hard to watch as a sister as a woman with five younger brothers who are black and Living in America and I just wanted to say when I look at the narratives of what's been happening it's been very hard it's been very painful no matter what color you are and that's the the hard part of it is that we have all kinds of people who are going out there and protesting even I went to the protest as well in Boulder and I saw all my community members of all colors out there supporting one another and that was very uplifting but there is also so another aspect to what's been happening there is also a

[46:00] polarization that we all have to be very careful about because in our community and I have to remind some people that even as a black woman even as a black person we do need police officers we need them to police the street we need them to protect citizens we need them to help us out when we are in hard time so we have to be careful not to even when we are emotional which we all are which I am but we we can't make it Black versus blue and we cannot make it blue against black we have to work together as a community so I really appreciate the fact that you mentioned that you the way you talked about protecting the community and also being a model which makes me which gives me hope it gives me a lot of of Hope seeing everything that's been happening around the country and to know that I'm part of a community

[47:01] I'm part of a group of people who are willing to work on what is hard and make it better it's not going to be easy it's going to be hard we're going to get a lot of criticism but we're not going to stop working and we are there for you and I know that you know we need to get away from the idea that you know the thing about it police officers are cousins they are neighbors they are friends they are brothers and so are black people so we have to work together it has to be a work that we have to do hand in hand so to me when I was hearing you I really appreciate the fact that you talk about securing and protecting and pro promoting the rights of all and that's what it is about that's what a community is and after 400 years of slavery black people are not going anywhere and I've rece we've receive emails that say let's defund the police the police department is not going

[48:01] anywhere it's here to stay it's here to stay because we need police officers to protect us and to promote our rights as Citizens so I'm really I'm really appreciate of everything that you said and I appreciate the passion of a lot of our community members and I appreciate the fact that you mentioned I welcome the opportunity for reform because we need it you know the soul of the country is crying and we need it and we have to work on this together and another thing as you know as I am very hopeful and I think to go back to what Erin mentioned and I was thinking to myself part of the what led us to this point we are today with the uh you with the George Floyd case is that this particular officer had so many complaints and there were no special review I suppose and I'm I I I am requesting eventually as you look into

[49:00] these different mechanism for reform and promoting and protecting people's rights to look into special mechanism for review of officers that are that are that have way too many complaints and also look at how many complaints is too many as well and how egregious and I'm sorry I've taken so long but I just wanted to express how I was feeling thank you that was beautiful and much appreciated thank you so much yeah thanks um Sam thank you juny because you led right into the piece that I wanted to add to this conversation so over the last few days we have gotten a few emails from local residents that are asking what we are doing with regard to police oversight and as Council well knows but many in the community don't we been working on this for quite a while and last fall the council passed an

[50:00] ordinance um putting in place the idea that we are going to have a police monitor and so our implementation committee has been formed from people that were part of the police oversight committee originally and they're working on a number of guidance documents and most importantly they will be participating some of those community members in interviews that will be occurring later this week for our first round of candidates for the outside auditor position and so we are independent monitor I guess um so we're really moving forward on this we are scheduled to come back to Council in September with an updated ordinance that will um put even more protections in place so the city of Boulder has definitely been working on this and we are ready to go um one other thing that I wanted to say is that of course next week we will be presenting much more information on this um to council during

[51:01] the study session so that you can ask many questions of Amy Kane and others who've been working on it and then finally I want to thank the city council because one of the people that um Chief Herold has been relying on is Dr Lee Benson Dr Benson is a city employee and she was hired um because Council authorized the city to hire a data analyst to support the police department dep we knew that this was needed and we asked Council for it and Council approved that so this has become a very crucial position and a real Ally for uh Chief heral and the police department as we work on our our data collecting and data analysis so thanks to council for that that's my piece of it I'm looking forward to June 9th where you'll hear more about police oversight and let me turn it back to Chief Harold who is now going to address the questions that uh council member friend brought up thanks Jane but if I could um can you

[52:03] hear me all right if if I could just uh thank juny uh for your comments because your comments give me hope and uh much appreciated next slide um so Public Health order violations call by week we now have a little bit over 10 weeks of of data and again we talked the last time I was talking about this issue uh we had that huge Spike when the weather broke um but as you can see I think this data is very consistent with Jeff what Jeff just uh uh produced is that we are on a down Spike as follow as calls for service for public health order violations by week next slide so um in this time frame um we have issued 23 written warnings and 29 citation issues and you can see how these break out the majority of the

[53:00] citations issued were in conjunction with criminal charges and five were strictly for the public health emergency order violation and you can see the locations where those were uh written next slide please again this is uh no surprise um I showed this map it hasn't changed in density what we talked a little bit about that 8020 principle and I can't give you a better example of this is that these three reporting areas are contributing to 81% of the calls for service uh for public health order violations um and so to me when I look at data sets like this um what jumps out is intervention points that we can all look at to provide some intervention uh in this very important work next slide so again this is is just another way to look at that 8020 principle but here are the most recent uh specific

[54:00] locations that we receive from um the community about public health order violations I don't think this is surprising to any of us but these are the locations and um if I was deploying um the community um or an ambassador program these are the locations that I'd want to start with because we would um really get to the overall 80% of our concerns from the community next slide and so this would be my recommendation um deputy chief uh Johnson has been working on this program since our last meeting and um we'll be ready to roll out this volunteer safety ambassadors June 15 um obviously with this be we have to train in deescalation techniques safety training for the volunteers we have to draft handouts Outreach materials and you know I think that we have a good deployment strategy based on the data uh that Dr Benson was able to get for us in our calls for

[55:01] service so I think um from a deployment strategy uh we're ready to roll out to at least um mitigate the majority of calls for service um moving forward because I I do think that we'll be um trying to um get um cooperation on this ordinance for um at least a couple more months maybe more um so with that I'll answer any questions that you have and that's where we are currently great thank you Chief I have Bob and Rachel B go ahead chief that was a great presentation always loved the data so thank you so much for the heat map and the numbers um keep those coming please um this is a very data driven Council so I think we're gonna have a very good relationship um I love the ambassador program that CJ is putting together um I think that's fantastic here's a question um either for Jane or for or for the chief I know that Sam was able to procure about 4,800 Mass through

[56:01] a program that provided pre Mass to Mayors around the country and I'm going to guess that um now that um masss are readily available there may be other opportunities to procure inexpensive or maybe even free Mass I'm wondering if as part of the of the ambassador program chief that you're putting together if we could also have these ambassadors have you know on hand with them you know a few dozen masks in a pouch and if someone made a mistake and they showed up at a park or or or someplace without a mask um whether those could be handed out I I know that we may not be able to be ubiquitous and hand out a mask to every single person in town but if someone made an honest mistake and they forgot a mask rather than sending them home I wonder if we can simply hand out a mask yes that's part of the uh ambassador program so I'm glad you brought that up um we'll have the educational materials and and mask and so if I can anybody that can give us mask I'll take them for for the program and um hopefully we get voluntary compliance great thanks Jame do you have

[57:01] any comments or thoughts on that Jan the only thing I would add is that our engagement team has been working with people around the community who are sewing masks and handing them out to members of the community so we've had this program in place for a number of weeks and so we already are are doing that so I appreciate the fact that the ambassadors will have the to have masks and hand those out great thanks so much thank you Bob Rachel yep um thank you Chief Harald I have just two questions I was under the impression that we were sort of strictly on education and I think I I noticed that you had given out some citations are sort of moved into some enforcement so I wanted to clarify have we given out um citations for health order violations yes okay um so yeah I thought we were strictly education so that's helpful to know and then for the volunteer safety ambassadors how many sorry if I missed this but how many do you expect to have

[58:01] like how many would be out on any given day at various locations um I'm I'm hoping to have a a a robust team I'm hoping to have more than 10 so we can deploy in Partners um my strategy would include having um a little bit of training with a police radio so the ambassadors could call um all those details are being worked out obviously the safety of the ambass ERS is really important as you can see across the country people are losing um their temper and bad things are happening so um I'm hoping that we pair at least two up I'd prefer four to be at these locations at in given time but obviously I can't be everywhere um all of these locations I'm hoping to hit you know the ones that we have repeat calls for service that and would it be helpful if we volunteered or is that a silly idea I'll take any volunteer um that I can get um because it it is in my estimation it's vitally

[59:03] important that we keep the compliance on a voluntary compliance and I think the more Community Support we have on that the better it'll work out in the long end and where can people go to get information if they want to volunteer we can just call the call us call me send me an email and I'll hook you up with deputy chief uh Johnson who will put you into a training well thank you I meant like you know were we putting something out to the community like anybody who's watching this um is it is there something we can just put a link somewhere yeah I'll I'll make sure that Curtis provides some type of Link okay cool um that's all those are all my questions thank you thanks Rachel and thank you Chief thank you Rachel um Jane anything else or actually I guess I should turn to council and say um we've had a couple discussions about this on and off um I feel like we're pretty well in hand as far as the balance between enforcement and

[60:00] education the ambassador program that the chief has explained to us so I think we should be in a position where we can watch and monitor for a while just to see how compliance is how would the rest of council like to proceed on this issue Rachel um thanks for asking uh in light of Jeff ZX information that numbers are are so low right now and we're not getting outdoor transmission that seems fine to me I think it would be good for us to be proactive and have a discussion of if numbers start going above the r not one or whatever the golden numers how do we want to roll out um enforcement in that situation indoors Outdoors um and ensuring that we're doing it in a way that is non-discriminatory and not targeting um vulnerable members of our population such as people who are unhoused so I do think it would be good before the um you know what hits the fan

[61:03] uh if we do have a discussion of how we could do that um compassionately and safely doesn't need to be tonight but I think it would be good to get out in front of that at some point uh Aaron Mark yeah I I agree Sam I think we're good I think this update was very helpful um so I really appreciate Chief you letting us know about that the safety ambassador program sounds really good and the fact that we are doing some targeted enforcement um you know is is appropriate but yeah so I think we're on a good course thanks very much appreciate itk you Mark can you hear me all right yes okay I I apologize for the technical difficulties speaking to you on my phone um two things first I wanted to commend juny for her comments I thought they were quent and and you know very appropriate and and spoke to the moment um with respect to what we're doing with

[62:02] um enforcement uh I think I'm prepared to go along with a uh a data driven uh wait and see policy let's see how this works out um let's see what kind of results we're getting and what kind of behaviors we're getting and that we can adjust as we need to that's it okay perfect so got no more hands up I'm going to summarize and say that um sounds like we are uh watching the numbers sounds like we are making progress both in Cas rate in Boulder our understanding of transmission both outdoors and indoors and with standing up a program to assist members of our community with masks if they need them as well as advice um about how to behave in public so I think it sounds like mostly we're there if we see some kind of troubling aspects coming or or if CAC or others decide we need to take a look at this maybe we could take it up again either after break or if we see

[63:01] something in the meantime but other than that sounds like we're on a good course thank you Chief and Jane for the updates that's very helpful um and with that I think we can move on to the rest of the agenda unless there are other folks who want to speak here okay seeing none I think we have a couple of declarations that we're looking to do next and as I look down my list here I think the first one is gun violence prevention awareness declaration and that will be presented by council member Fran Rachel okay yes um it is my honor to present this um as a uh gun violence prevention activist myself so National Gun Violence awareness day is June 5th 2020 every day more than 100 Americans are killed by gun viol vience and on average there are more than 13,000 gun homicides every year Americans are 25

[64:00] more 25 times more likely to die by gun homicide than people in other high income countries cities Across the Nation are working to end the senseless violence with evidence-based Solutions protecting Public Safety in Boulder is the council's highest responsibility support for the Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens goes hand inand with keeping guns away from people with the dangerous histories Council and Law Enforcement Officers know their communities best and are the most familiar with local criminal activity and how to address it and are best positioned to understand how to keep their citizens safe the pandemic facing America has drastically impacted communities and individuals Sheltering in place which may result in situations where access to Firearms Rec results an increased risk in intimate partner violence gun deaths suicide by gun and unint intentional shootings in January 2013 hadia Pendleton a teenager who marched in the Presidential Inaugural

[65:01] Parade was tragically shot and killed just weeks later and she should now be celebrating her 23rd birthday to help honor hadia and the more than 100 Americans whose lives are cut short every day and the countless survivors who are injured by shootings Every Day a National Coalition of organizations has designated June 5th 2020 the first Friday in June as the sixth National Gun Violence Awareness Day the idea was inspired by a group of Hadas friends who asked their classmates to commemorate her life by wearing orange they chose this color because Hunters wear orange to announce themselves to other Hunters when out in the woods and orange is a color that symbolizes the value of human life by wearing orange on June 5th residents will raise awareness about gun violence and honor the lives of gun violence victims and survivors we renew our commitment to reduce gun violence and pledge to do all we can to keep Firearms out of the wrong hands and encourage responsible gun ownership to

[66:00] help keep our children safe the city council of the city of Boulder Colorado declares that June 5th 2020 to be National Gun Violence awareness day and we encourage all residents to support their local communities efforts to prevent the tragic effects of gun of gun violence and to honor the value of human lives um and with that I I think and I hope that we have um Nicole Leah Bratton on the line to say a few words in acceptance of that declaration let's see how yeah hi hi um thanks for being here yeah thank you I I W to thank um all of city council for their support and recognizing National Gun Violence Awareness Day the first Friday in June Boulder has been supportive for the last three consecutive um years that we've been um advocating for this and promoting it within our community and um I'm going to Echo some

[67:01] of the things that Rachel said gun violence doesn't stop because of Corona virus and the situation that we find ourselves in and neither does the movement to stop the violence Moms Demand Action in our partner organizations continue to support educate and organized for safer communities Corona virus is exacerbating the gun violence crisis in America including bringing heightened risk of domestic violence unintentional shootings of children and death by gun suicide City gun violence is continuing too but now with many violence intervention workers limited to what they can do in their communities so just as gun violence disproportionately impacts black and brown communities so does Corona virus so there is not a Public Health crisis in the United States that is not made worse by systemic racial racism and inequality we are dedicated to working together to make the country safer for

[68:00] all people as we have been working to flatten the curve of Corona virus our gun violence prevention Advocates have also been organizing to stop gun violence and keep families safe during this time and for anyone who wants to get involved I just wanted to point out um this weekend as we wear orange it looks a little different than it has in years's past with social distancing but we are soldiering on and honoring um our wear orange efforts and there are a number of um virtual events happening across the country um that you can join at wear orange.org or you can go to Moms Demand action.org for more information about our organization and we're encouraging everybody to wear orange this weekend and do a small act of kindness because even a small act can go a long way um

[69:00] many of our volunteers are doing kindness Rock Gardens so I hope that you'll see some of those posted to social media and um again just thank you for honoring the 100 daily victims of gun violence across our country um by utilizing your voice with this Proclamation we really appreciate it thanks Nicole you Nicole thank you Rachel and then next we have a pride month declaration which will be presented by council member Yates I'm going to take this off uh but Jane mentioned that people are making masks my wife's made over 100 masks including a whole bunch of these Rainbow on so if any council member wants a rainbow flag for uh for pride month let me know so I'm going to lower this so I can read the Declaration um during the month of

[70:00] June residents of the city of Boulder are encouraged to honor the history diversity and the resilience of the lgbtq communities Boulder has a diverse lgbtq community that includes people of many ethnicities religions and professions diversity is a Community Asset that enhances and enriches the lives of all community members the fight for dignity and equality for LGBT uh Q people is reflected in the tireless dedication of Advocates and allies who strive to make this a more inclusive Society despite the need to stay apart from each other to address the covid pandemic remain in this together as a community working towards a better future Boulder honors his commitment to the promotion and protection of the human rights of the lgbtq residents let me add here for all of our residents the city of Boulder and the city council of Boulder Colorado therefore declar June 2020 as lesbian

[71:02] gay bisexual transgender and queer pride month and we urge all residents to respect and honor all of our diverse community and to celebrate and build a culture of inclusiveness and acceptance um like Nicole and and Rachel mentioned uh the celebration uh of pride month uh and other celebrations during June have taken a different turn and so I wanted to mention a couple of opportunities for people to celebrate pride month during the month of June first of all had we been meeting in the municipal building as we typically did before covid we would have all walked past a um a rainbow flag um proudly flying at the very top of our flag pole outside the municipal building I want to thank um Taylor edman who's our assistant for for making sure that that flight got up in time for pride month second um starting later this week you'll begin to see Rainbow Flags um covering uh buildings downtown downtown Merchants um as they did last year have

[72:00] been very generous in and flying and showing Rainbow Flags in restaurants and salons and offices and retail shops um to show that they support um our lgbtq community and embrace them and welcome them and that is thanks to the generosity and support of the downtown Boulder partnership in out Boulder County um if individuals in our community would like to have a small rainbow flag to fly in their own yard uh you can get a free rainbow flag um at the downtown Boulder Library the downtown Boulder library is actually doing curbside Book pickup but you don't have to check out a book to get a free flag the hours uh that the downtown library is open outside is 10 to 4 um every day except for Sunday and Wednesday and 1 to 7 on um Wednesdays and I want to thank David faram our library director and the down and the library foundation for procuring those small flags and for Distributing them to anyone who wants to pick one up I want to thank Bill Cowern our our director of transportation for for touching up the

[73:00] three rainbow crosswalks bill um uh had three of our crosswalks downtown including that big crosswalk at Pearl and Broadway uh painted with rainbow colors a year ago now and through time that those have faded and so bill and his team got out there about a week ago and touched those up and they look brilliant uh speaking of painting on the street um bill and his team and and our contractor um who does a lot of are painting for us have um agreed that they will paint a large rainbow flag at our newly vacated 10th and pearl intersection um our intersection at pearlin and and uh and 10th is now a pedestrian intersection because we've closed everything um west of 11th un pearled to 9th and so it occurred to a bunch of us that it would be a really great time to paint a rainbow flag right smack in the middle of the street so expect towards the end of the week to see a ginormous rainbow flag painted on the the street there and that'll of course uh remain on the street even if we reopen the street to traffic uh Matt chansy and his team are working on some

[74:00] additional Pride art that'll be downtown so stay tuned on that I don't want to spoil the surprise but but watch for some really cool um art that celebrates our our our gay community downtown thanks to Matt and his team and then finally um I'd encourage council members to participate in the out Boulder virtual Garden Party um every year there's a garden party this year it's going to be online it's Sunday June 7th 00 and it lasts about an hour and you can go to out Boulder County's website to register for that garden party so lots of celebrations they're virtual but they still are meaningful thanks great well thank you for that Bob and unless there are um things I'm missing I believe that we're on to open comment now is that right Debbie yes great okay very good so open comment everyone will get two minutes to speak um we have 14 speakers signed up I think one has withdrawn so

[75:01] we will start with Ali Katherine wild and Charlotte pittz and Duncan gilchris so Ally Katherine I'll just need a minute to bring each person online so give me a moment please if you don't mind and Chris do you want to pull up the timer okay Ally you should be able to unmute yourself and speak thank you yes my name is Ally Katherine hopefully you can see that it's Ali Katherine with no space um I am a boulder resident I live at third and pearl in Glen Willow this is the first time I've been able to sit while speaking with the council I'm really happy that I can sit and speak I did not come for a virtual hug for pride I did not come here to spark understanding that will serve those with unanswered moral outrage I'm here

[76:02] because the process to get a reasonable accommodation at Boulder housing Partners is not accessible yes that's right some access to accessibility is not accessible in fact it's extremely difficult to get good information how to Res uh SU successfully request a reasonable accommodation through Boulder housing Partners in fact right now my Boulder housing Partners unit is full of chemicals from a renovation cabinets flooring and other architectural features are off gassing these chemicals compromise my respiratory system and nervous system chemicals may be in the unit for six months a year who knows I'm not the only one suffering from chemical sensitivity who finds the effects of dwelling in the renovated unit detrimental harmful writing a reasonable accommodation to address this concern yields feedback but no true path to Access

[77:00] housing you got that no true path to access safe housing this means I'm assigned to a residence in which I cannot breathe Boulder housing Partners 504 committee its reasonable accommodation committee seems to serve the system instead of the residents I ask please make the process of getting a reasonable accommodation accessible so residents can navigate to Safe affordable housing thank you great thank you Ali Katherine next we have Charlotte Pitts followed by Duncan Gil Chris and Eric Bud Charlotte you're live how do you hear me we can yes all right I'm here this evening as a member of the bedroom are for people campaign when discussing whether to alleviate the challenges facing petition gatherers during this crisis council members have

[78:00] raised concerns about whether the substance of the current campaigns relate to pressing issues faced the city this argument is objectionable um and I want to actually challenge the premise that our campaign does not address urgent housing issues facing the city right now and I of course want to recognize my privilege as a white woman and I do not want to come off as capitalizing on the pain that our black and brown neighbors are experiencing right now I merely want to offer commentary on how the city can become a more Equitable and inclusive place and I sincerely believe that modest changes to the residential occupancy limits can address concerns raised by the covid induced economic recession as well as the protests for racial Justice that we are seeing right now so to illustrate how our strict occupancy limits um supports social exclusion and stratification I'm going to read a segment from a master's thesis for for the Department of urban planning at MIT and I'm happy to share this with anyone who wants to read it occupancy codes particularly relationship based

[79:00] standards contribute to racist class sexist and other forms of social hierarchies and exclusion the codes are united and both being influenced by in perpetuating social norms biases and power discrepancies occupancy codes have always been and continueed to be engaged with religious racialized classist sexist and ableist ideals and realities in ways that are mutually constitutive these codes offer and reinforce advantages enjoyed by more privileged groups but ignore low-income people who may live together in order to help each other with services such as child care or other tasks such codes could be particularly damaging to low-income families and individuals in times of economic recession so the bedroom Ser people initiative would unlock thousands of empty bedrooms hiding in plain sight and as City Council Members I hope you recognize your responsibility to consider how these seemingly small issues play into larger narratives of racial and economic Justice thank you thank you Charlotte next we have Duncan Gilchrist Eric bud and Jim

[80:09] Morris Duncan you're live great thanks so much and um thank you so much to city council for um just all of your leadership in the in the times that we are in right now um so today I want to try to address two conversations that are happening in our community right now that appear to be separate but which actually overlap um one conversation is about the future of our electricity system uh this conversation has been sparked by the city um and Excel sort of approaching negotiations um and the other conversation is about systemic racism and how we might combat it this conversation has been sparked by the most um recent tragic deaths of ban Taylor Ahmad Arbury George Floyd um but these two conversations about the future of electricity system and about systemic racism are not entirely separate um and

[81:01] here's where they overlap two words energy Justice compared to non-african-americans African-Americans disproportionately face the threat of utility shut offs and health risks from Power uh plant pollution low-income neighborhoods and communities of color tend to have lower quality housing stock which tends to be more energy inefficient driving Heating and Cooling costs um African-Americans spend a higher proportion of their income on Heating and electricity compared to other racial groups these are just few a few of the facts that illustrate the reality of energy Injustice in our country um as we debate about what the future of Boulders electricity system should look like we need to take these facts into consideration um as mayor Weaver said earlier racism is deeply embedded within our institutions um in order to ensure that the externalities of our Energy System do not fall disproportionately on the backs of people of color we would benefit from having local decision-making power over questions like how much should people have to pay for electricity where should

[82:01] our electricity be produced how might we reinvest electricity dollars in our community um to summarize I am fearful that a settlement with Excel would minimize the ability of our community to ensure that energy Justice is a defining feature of our future electricity system that's all thank you for listening thank you Duncan we next have Eric Bud Jim Morris and Kristen nordback Eric you're up Eric you're live hi my name is Eric bud with bedrooms are for people we are working to reform discriminatory occupancy limits in Boulder you can join our list to sign our physical petition at bedrooms are forp people.com I want to talk more about housing and security and Boulder and how it drastically affects working uh low and middle middle class income people middle middle inome people in Boulder here's an excerpt from EA the emergency

[83:00] family assistance association their position paper on housing and security the issue of Housing and in particular housing security is important to address because if we do not successfully address housing security as a community we will not be able to attain family housing housing security also helps create and retain diverse community that that brings broad economic and cultural opportunity to all people something we especially need in Boulder here's some cost information from the 2018 Boulder County Trends report a self-sufficiency wage is what a person would need to earn to cover the bare minimum housing Transportation food Health Care taxes and child care in Boulder County in 2018 the self-sufficiency wage for a single person was $3,639 you can in theory survive in Boulder County for $30,000 a year if you're single have no children no responsibilities and can find a place to rent for

[84:00] $100 it's a quote from CLA Levy the current candidate for Boulder County Commissioner but in the city of Boulder the problem is worse where housing costs are higher than the rest of the county in a mosta boulder it's currently illegal for more than three unrelated people to live together that means limited options to share resources on housing Transportation utilities and food it's illegal no matter how big the house is how old or young the residents are or if the house is owner occupied older city council please support our measure for common sense occupancy reform and help us get on the ballot for November thank you great thank you Eric next we have Jim Morris Kristen nordbeck and Leslie glom Jim Jim you're live hello we can hear you we can hear you Boulder has made an incredible investment in efforts to munici its electric utility

[85:00] since 2010 we've spent two to three million a year or a total of about 23 million all voter approved in contrast Excel took home 23 million in Profit just last year and it has profited millions each previous year the city has won many of its necessary cases we are super close to getting our own electri utility now is the time to keep going to stop now our progress would be shortsighted we would not be setting an example we would not realize the investment that we've put in creating and implementing municipalization will create good local highp paying jobs and we'll get sales and use tax then there's that $23 million in profit that just goes to many appolis that money would have a multiplier effect if it were spent here in Boulder or in Colorado please continue the municipalization efforts in our current budget be far cited we need the mun to

[86:02] help recover from the economic downfall do not get into Exel also EXL is harming us it's like they harm our health they produce nitrogen oxide by burning natural gas that causes ozone they burn coal which releases Mercury and CO2 there's still planning on doing this they haven't been a good company they used to belong to Alec they were find 80 million for fake trading to boost their prices they're just not trustworthy please continue the efforts you've been wonderful on so many issues over the years like Boulder was one of the first places in trying to ban smoking in the workplace and trying to save old growth forests I've been involved in a lot of these issues and I I want to keep seeing us protecting health and the environment thank you thank you Jim Kristen nordback Liz

[87:01] Gom and L seagull Christa you're up Christa you're live hi this is Christa nordback 777 Delwood Avenue in Boulder I'm a volunteer with bedrooms are for people and I've been out collecting signatures talking to the public telling them about our ballot issue and others and um meeting many who have been negatively impacted by the current occupancy law the current law restricting unrelated residents to no more than three unrelated people or in some cases four puts people in a difficult situation people may not be aware of the law when they move in some may find it hard to believe that such a restrictive law could even exist one person flat out said they we were lying because they couldn't believe that such a law was real but when a neighbor complains and code enforcement is called the reality of the law becomes horrifyingly real to Residents who must either go into hiding or suddenly find a new place to live it's on behalf of the many in Boulder

[88:02] who either live in ignorance or fear of this law having no other way to afford living in our city that I am going far out of my comfort zone and risking potential Public Health impacts to collect signatures this is urgent people are living in fear now and why does Boulder require bedrooms to be left unoccupied IED when we have a housing emergency simply changing this law as we propose would not only remove the need for current residents to live in fear or marry someone for convenience to avoid eviction it would create additional affordable housing without costing citizens Ascent or building additional structures using our existing housing stock efficiently is also a plus for the environment because it requires no new construction and results in more efficient energy use please put the bedrooms are for people ballot initiative on the ballot now so that no one else need risk their health to sign a paper petition and we can let the people decide thank

[89:02] you thank you Christa Leslie Gom ly SEO and Mark gband Leslie you're live Leslie you'll need to unmute yourself wonderful thank you so much and Council thank you so much I'm always appreciate your leadership but this has been such a sad and difficult time with the virus with the police violence with furlows at the city and um we did get some really good news I think about the declining cases in Boulder County and and I really appreciate the leadership the council and the staff of shown on all of that so I I do want to bring some kind of interesting and hopeful news and I'll send you the email tomorrow so you can read it you know when you're not so tired uh some of you may know that the city fountain south of Colorado Springs just signed an agreement with Guzman uh they had been a customer of mean Municipal energy agency

[90:00] in Nebraska then they switched to excel they thought that was a great switch and Guzman came in and said listen we can so beat XL uh we know you're tied into XL till 2028 but we're going to pay you 12.2 million over the next eight years because we want your business in 2028 and we can lower your rates and increase your renewable percentage so there goes City of Fountain what they call foot loose and fancy free uh they're Municipal agent um electric utility so very exciting then I'd also like to comment on a couple of other matters uh Patrick Murphy as you know has spoken you know for months at city council his slogan and the mun let real carbon reduction now the implication of that is so false we've had a 26% per capita reduction uction in carbon so far a 48% reduction in GNP and then the whole concept of wrapping all these complex issues up

[91:00] into a pejorative adjective you know the naughty list it's very trumpian I would hope that Patrick would in you know clean up his act but if he doesn't I hope that the city council and the people that are listening we just don't need more trumpian tactics in Boulder and it's time to really call that out so I want to thank you for all that thank you Leslie um Lynn seagull then Mark gban and Patrick Murphy Lynn you're up L you're live you need to unmute please I'm to I think it's long overdue that we have texting within the city departments and between it's archaic it's as archaic as having an occupancy limit um a lot of time I mean what do people

[92:00] use text for quick easy Communications and that cannot be done for example I've been working with the city since April 16th to get a simple question answered and simple way of using a product they have of the to look in the neighborhood see how many adus are in my radius April 16th multiple times that I've communicated and have not gotten any help basically um and still even after the other day when I got um some more information but not what I asked for um it's simple communication um and the communication she also needs to be the video um people will not know each other in if you don't have video It's

[93:02] [Music] So L your voice has gotten very faint I suggest you maybe move a little closer to your computer I wanted to bring up so Lynn this is Sam we can't hear you you need to either put the phone up closer or get closer to your microphone I'm right can you hear me now yes yes okay it's very touchy um but yeah sorry give me a little bit here but once you finish your last sentence have been happening since February are not okay and I don't approve of us continuing moving forward at all with any discussions there's been 10 years I don't care what this is a a an investor

[94:03] owned utility there's nothing that can be done with them and we're a lot of public funds right now on that and I don't want my tax dollars spent that way thank you ly so we have Mark gilban Patrick Murphy and Rebecca Davies Mar Mark your live one sec um so at a time when the city is is cutting budget and furlough people I'd like to know how much of the $ 38.7 million budget that our Police Department gets including this year a 368 thou $360,000 for a new bomb truck because that's exactly what Boulder needs is a 360 ,000 bomb truck uh parading the streets what ha what cuts are happening at the police they're 2 ft 280 plus FTE

[95:03] at the police department and only 14 officers live in the city that's around 5% imagine that 95% of our police are not even of this community and this ties in directly to what bedrooms Boulder bedrooms bedrooms are for people are talking about and as the father of two biracial kids that I raised here in Boulder and a longtime Observer of council I'm skeptical of the talk that I hear about racial Justice and structural changes to racial iniquities because the data at the police department shows that there's radical structural problems with racial profiling and you guys say that you're datadriven I also have issues with the fact that many seated counselors have said absolutely nothing about the fact that the city concluded no racial slur equal

[96:00] no racial profiling in the Zade Atkinson case I also know I've witness you all not open your mouths when person after person comes up there white person after white person and mentions neighborhood character without any recognition of the structural racist origins of that character or quote no nwat to justify keeping other people out when we're all on the land where his ancestors were slaughtered thank you thank you Mark we have Patrick Murphy Rebecca Davies and Sean Ruff Patrick you're life my name is Patrick Murphy I live in Boulder and the mun is ready to hand in over 2374 signatures you need to know that Signature Collection was banned for 34 days out of the 90 we were allowed to collect signatures we were banned by

[97:00] stay-at-home orders from the city county and state from May 24th to April 26th we collected over 71% of the required signatures and yet were permitted only 62% of the properly allowed time every Peak we collected 71% of the required signatures and were only allowed 62% of the 90day it's clear we would have gotten all the required signatures if we had those missing 34 days this is a pandemic and you need to recalibrate the success criteria for petitions as Tom Carr stated you can't legally change the target value of 3336 and you can't legally change the deadline from June 5th what you can do is change your mind and that's legal n the mun has every right to be on the ballot and past elections of have made it clear that about half of Boulder would like to end the mun and all of Boulder should be the have the right to vote on that option the ongoing

[98:00] negotiations with Excel have no bearing on the clear right for in the mun to be on the ballot and here's why early in the muni process we negotiated an offer where Excel would dedicate a wind farm to Boulders electric usage that would cover 80% did we get to vote on that possible offramp no in 2017 we had two negotiated off were we allowed to vote on those possible off ramps no the history of failure to allow us to vote is clear let us vote let democracy breathe and Leslie learn how to be as critical of the mun as you are of excel propaganda is not a good way to be thank you Patrick Rebecca Davies and Sean R Rebecca Europe up Rebecca you're live thank you my name is Rebecca Davies and I recently joined the

[99:01] bedrooms are for people campaign to overturn Boulders discriminatory occupancy limits I've been very impressed by the joint effort between our campaign the end the mun campaign and the no eviction without representation campaign to help each other collect signatures during this very challenging time collecting signatures during a pandemic requires dedication accepting personal risk elaborate sanitation protocols and an extraordinary investment of time given that what we need most large groups of people to sign our petitions are forbidden for Clear public health reasons what isn't clear is why Boulder City Council insists petitioners and voters must risk their health through in-person Signature Collection to advance ballot initiatives this year in my brief time working on the campaign I have already had a supporter declined to sign when they learned that I would have to be there in person I don't blame them my own father is seriously immune compromised and cannot engage in the level of contact required to sign a petition Amid

[100:00] covid-19 and as Jeff Zak noted earlier in this meeting it remains critically important for vulnerable populations to stay home and for everyone to socially distance as much as possible two weeks ago Tom Carr told you that city council can't change the charter to reduce the number of signatures required we are not asking you to change the charter we are asking you as a city council to recognize the extraordinary work that has gone into all three campaigns to collect more than 6,000 cumulative signatures since the stay-at-home order ended by putting these initiatives on the ballot yourselves which you have the power to do thank you thank you Rebecca and we close with Sean r hi my name is Sean Ruff with bedrooms are for people and we are working to reform discriminatory occupancy limits I support increasing the occupancy limit limits in Boulder for

[101:02] many reasons but the most compelling reason for me is that Boulder needs to take steps to implement housing reform to address past and ongoing racial Injustice in his 2017 book the color of law Richard Robin details the many ways in which quote the government and Private Industry came together to create a system of residential segregation whether or not you think that Boulder's housing policies are or have been racially motivated it's clear to see that they have contributed to racial inequity with about 1% of Boulder residents identifying this black or African-American and only about a quarter of a percent identifying this American Indian or Alaskan native and the words of ibram kendi the author of how to be anti-racist quote a racist policy is any measure that produces or sustains racial inequity between racial groups an anti-racist policy is any measure that produces or sustains racial Equity

[102:02] between racial groups he argues that there is no such thing as not racist because policies which are not actively confronting racial inequities are allowing them to persist housing policies such as occupancy limits and exclusionary zoning may not have explicit racial motivation however these policies are contributing to vast racial inequities in our community by maintaining the status quo and not confronting the effects of our housing policies we are maintaining racist policies increasing the occupancy limits is one small but meaningful step that Boulder can and should take to make our city more Equitable and just for all I urge everyone who agrees to add your name to sign our petition that bedrooms are for people thank you thank you Sean with that we will close open comment and turn to staff Jane do you have any um

[103:01] feedback no I don't thank you and Tom I do not thank you great in that case I will turn to council and see if there are any questions or responses related to open comment I have Rachel's hand up um hi um I just wanted to say kind of liked Lynn's idea about texting it is a convenient modern way to communicate I have found it hard um to communicate with planning department like you're only allowed to email back and forth I think you can't call so I think it is worth us it would be worth us taking the time to see if we can do a little bit of better customer service if we could Implement texting I like it okay I got Bob Yates thanks uh I just want to observe that a few of the commentators tonight um mentioned the um the discussions ongoing with EXL Communications I just want to observe that later in the meeting tonight um Sarah Huntley will be

[104:00] presenting um on the process for public engagement so those who want to um participate in the public engagement we'll have several sessions over the course of the month of June I I think the first one's actually this Friday so stay tuned for uh for that from Shar a little later in the meeting great thank you Bob um I know their hands up so with that I think we will close the open comment entirely I think then Debbie we move on to the consent agenda is that right yeah tonight on the consent agenda you have items a through D very good so turn to council either for comments questions or a motion on the consent agenda so Sam we did have a presentation on the item with regard with regarding the second adjustment to or the adjustment to base second reading that would be great Cheryl are you or Cara doing

[105:02] [Music] that Jane this is Cheryl um I think I apologize but we were under the impression that there was no presentation tonight on that that that had been changed okay not prepared I apologize thank you sorry for the confusion it's okay um turn back to council uh Aaron I see your hand up yeah I wanted to um thank the the finance department for um reaching out to me after our last meeting and um checking in with me about my request for more information on the adjustment to base and we got a fair amount more information there was a helpful description of every single line item um which I really appreciated uh given these times of financial difficulty I thought it was important to have that additional information um but it all looked great to me so I'll go ahead and uh move that we accept the consent agenda

[106:00] second great and let me ask a question here we have an amendment to item 3C with the with the amendment as submitted um this afternoon by City staff agreed very good very good okay so we have a motion and a second on the consent agenda um does anyone object to passing the consent agenda seeing no objections there's unanimous approval of the consent [Music] agenda okay so um next is call up checkin um I don't believe we have any call up items tonight so we'd be on the public hearing is that right Debbie yes your public hearing tonight is um uh to consider and analyze the staff recommend and requests for amendments to the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan as part of the 2020 midterm

[107:02] update great so Jane I assume you're going to take this I'm actually gonna turn it over to Jean gatsa Jean great thank you Jane um good evening me members of Council and the mayor um I'm happy to be here tonight to talk about the 2020 midterm update to the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan um I'd like to just acknowledge um my County counterparts with our jointly adopted comprehensive plan Abby Shannon are here as well okay Chris can we move to the next slide or do I have G I have passed control to you but if it doesn't work just tell me next slide

[108:03] okay I am not seeing a way to ADV oh there we go okay um so the purpose of tonight's meeting is on the screening process um okay let's go back we go back to number two please um the purpose of tonight's meeting is to focus on the screening process to identify which amendments to the comprehensive plan um meet the criteria to move ahead and which amendments we have resources to undertake at this time um the purpose of tonight's meeting is not to approve changes our agenda tonight um I'll have a a brief staff presentation take clarifying questions from the council and then we'll have the public hearing we have several applicants who have made um requests for changes to the comprehensive plan we'll go through those speakers first they'll have five minutes and then open for general public uh general public comment um and then

[109:01] there's Council deliberations and discussions we have some recommended motions to move forward in the process next slide please purp of the midterm update and I'd like to just refresh folks that we um did have a conversation about the initiating the midterm update and the initial scope last December uh reviewed the update process and confirmed that Council direction for a really streamlined process and scope to complete this update this year key aspects of the public um the key aspects of the midterm update are really about the public request process minor policy additions and clarifications and that this is not a time to consider major policy changes to the comprehensive plan just to refresh you on um the process for consideration of changes with the comprehensive plan these were

[110:01] adjusted a little bit in the last update is that the planning board and the city council so our city approval bodies approve the land use changes in area one and area two with a callup potential to our County Commissioners for area 2 Parcels over 5 Acres any changes to area three is by all four IES and we're interpreting this the screening process as the same up as the approval bodies for these processes our city bodies will complete the screening with the potential call up to the Commissioners for um area 2 Parcels that are over 5 Acres I just one other point of process um that may help you with consideration of some of the changes that were not um recommending moving forward at this time um is that there can be map only amendments in conjunction with the resoning or an area process at any time and that can happen between now and and the 2025 update should there be a

[111:00] completed planning process providing direction for those changes okay now we on slide four so um the purpose of the screening process as I mentioned not to approve the changes but to just to know which of the changes should move forward for more analysis the proposed amendments um are city and county staff team made these recommendations together for consistency with current comp plan policies available resources to AV valuate changes and compatibility with adjacent land uses we've recommended the correction of Errors um that can be easily identified that would help people and um several proposals that have Merit that are um based on the potential to further comprehensive planning goals there are several of these that um really do have relationship to furthering comprehensive planning goals but do limited staff capacity to complete the planning analysis and Community process we've not recommended

[112:01] several of these to move forward there are some that we'd like to learn a little bit more about and engage neighborhoods um to get input and we think we can complete those within the existing work plan I also just like to say that um the midterm updates anticipated scope and schedule was limited from the onset but with the covid crisis and the reductions to Staffing we have an even more limited capacity also um I think it's really important that we recognize that this time may not be the most appropriate for projects that have the potential to be very controversial in the community and we recognize the need to keep some of this work moving ahead but taking on um projects that could be difficult for the community members um when their attention is really on health and economic pressure next slide please please public application process was open from the end of January um to early March we received 13 different

[113:01] applications for a range of different type of amendments of these the city and county staff are recommending three that move forward for further analysis two of these number two and number five really correct some errors and clarifications in land use and can be assessed uh with limited resources and the other one number seven uh for self self Broadway application is to really um further explore that feasibility for land use changes the planning board unanimously supported the staff recommended amendments for further consideration so next I would like to um walk through the list of each of the public applications but before I do that I'd just like to ask if the council members have any questions about process See's hand up yeah Jean so um I just want if you would like you to clarify so you're saying we're not approving anything tonight um but we are uh denying things right if we turn them

[114:00] down so like an approval isn't final it's it's about moving things forward for further consideration uh but if something does not make it through tonight um that's a a final decision to not consider it is that correct and and then further um so the city council and planning board are both approval bodies for these changes um which means that if planning board said no to an application the city council doesn't really have the ability to say yes right because any any application has to be approved by both city council and planning board in order to move forward is that right that is correct and with the screening process you know we we really wanted to check in with both the city council and planning board um Erin you probably remember I think we've had some times where um planning board isn't interested in further considering um a particular Amendment sometimes Council

[115:00] has been interested and they've asked the board to put that back on so that's why we're looking at the full list and want to just make sure that the council has an opportunity to um understand all of these different types of amendments that are proposed by the community yeah that makes makes sense but just wanted to to clarify that if we if we liked one that planning board said no to we don't have the ability to just say yes we could request that they look at it again but um but we could not overrule them well ultimately both of you have to fin changes so screen process is really to focus the attention and evaluation on um potential changes that that both of the approval bodies would be interested in approving um when we get to that stage right so both bodies have to approve something in order order for it to move forward good all right thank you just want to clarify those things great thank you Aon and I have no other hands up so Gan I think you're good to keep

[116:02] moving okay let's see okay so the first there we go um our public application number one is for the East Ridge Neighborhood um we are not recommending this move forward at this time the request is to change from low density to medium density residential this is a really interesting single family neighborhood between 28th and 30th streets just north of Colorado Boulevard over the years there have been um other requests to consider changing the land use in this area and while areas around this sort of single family Enclave have changed over the DECA over the past decade there's been um a lot of Redevelopment especially to the South along 2018 Street um and the neighborhood has faced changes in ownership and Rental status it's not been the city's practice to facilitate increased density in established residential areas without a planning

[117:02] process to assess those impacts benefits and Regulatory measures needed to ensure that the Redevelopment would be appropriate for the area and the evolution would occur um in a way that it that is positive for Community character we acknowledge a goal of finding ways to affordability and housing opportunities is a key to the comprehensive plan and there is a there is policy direction to support this concept but we think that um furthering this concept we need to have a planning process that would require staff resources and a community CR um Community process that's not programmed in the current work plan public application number two 1590 Hillside Road we are recommending this move forward it's a correction to where there um there's some public land use designations that are applied incorrectly um we also recommend including several Parcels in the area um along that road where the public land

[118:00] use is incorrectly applies applied this requires minimal effort and can be accomplished with limited resources public application number three is uh for 750 North Street and mixed density this is a recommendation um asking for a neighborhood infill planning pilot plan project um to explore this high high Community benefit to encourage more affordable housing we're not recommending this move forward at this time but we recognize um the policy language in the comp plan was developed in the last major update to perhaps facilitate a Grassroots effort like this to a further affordable housing goals while addressing several other goals around transportation or energy or Community character may be U may be desired the midterm update is not intended to be the time to explore new policy Concepts especially with our limited personnel and um should there be

[119:01] interested interest in furthering this concept again we recommend that there be a planning process um on future work plans public application number four okay can you move to the next slide please it doesn't seem to be advancing on number four I think we may be and Jean you're on number four now it may be that your screen yeah I think I'm just getting okay um the applicant is requesting uh that the recommendations from the transit Village area plan for phase two would be implemented tvap implementation the the implementation plan for tvap outlines criteria for moving ahead for phase two and these include significant Redevelopment

[120:01] completed for phase one which um has been substantially complete infrastructure planning completed and funding identified for phase two improvements there are several um transportation and utility improvements needed for to support Redevelopment in these areas and that is not yet um been re-evaluated and then also the third criteria is that a market analysis is completed to understand the um Redevelopment potential and um feasibility in the area and that has not yet also been completed staff is recommending moving forward with phase 2A so land use changes um in that little section that's just south of Valmont Road and West of 30th Street um within this update we are in um have the planning for the Bluff Street Connection in process and that was the criteria for that section of phase two we recognize that the transit Village area plan phase two is a priority it's on the comp plan

[121:01] action plan um and we and we suggest that this remains in the work plan in the near [Music] future public application number five is okay for 47th Street um this is recommended for further consideration to cons to correct some inconsistencies with the land use it's non-controversial and can and can be done with existing resources I'm going to try to the next one so public application number six 2880 diagonal highway is not recommended to move forward at this time the parcel is in the area of the diagonal Plaza and given the um Keen interest in Redevelopment planning for the wider commercial center the um

[122:00] diagonal whole of diagonal Plaza um this consider consideration of this change by itself seems premature and we're not recommending that for this at this time number seven is 1345 South Broadway this is a parcel that's currently had uh home to the Mount Hope Lutheran Church and the the folks with the church are seeking potential opportunities on the portion of their property that's vacant um when we took a look at this as a as a application we said well this seems a little bit like um the similar change for the Mount Mount Calvary Church also in South Boulder that um was a site for some permanently affordable housing so recognizing that um this is a a key location along Broadway um we recognize that this project is in early stages but we recommend moving this forward for um

[123:01] further consideration to allow a little more um the owners and the parties to work together to conduct Outreach with the neighborhood and for staff to um assess some opportunities here application number eight is to um the the request is for assessment of the public and open space land use designations especially in some of the unincorporated areas for accuracy we agree there are a lot of these that um raise some questions um but it's a really big lift staff will be um working on this and we are aiming to chip away at some of this analysis um especially in the in the East Boulder sub community planning process between now and the next major update we expect that some of these evaluations and some of the corrections may be controversial and will need to be evaluated in the context of the next

[124:01] major update public application number 9 1380 Meadow um this is truly actually a zoning change and not really a land use um question this is not the appropriate process for this request um the we've talked with the applicants and they've been advised to consider um some other processes to determine appropriate next steps for potential resoning the next three together applications 10 11 and 12 are about the um Twin Lakes Parcels up in Gun Barrel this is an application from the Twin Lakes Advisory Group to change land use on the three Parcels from public and low density residential to open space and that the properties be managed as part of the Greater Twin Lakes open space area we are not recommending this for further consideration at this time this change was also proposed and assessed

[125:01] along with other um proposed land use changes for these Parcels in the last major update after a long and extensive process at that time no changes were adopted this change represents a significant new policy direction for these parcels and would require significant um considerable time and resources to evaluate and process application number 13 um outlines a few policy amendments for flood plane and management and groundwater these changes have not been through U an evaluation process to fully assess the applicability and the impacts our recommendation is to not consider these as part of the midterm update the concepts will be evaluated and potentially revised in the update to the comprehensive flood and storm water master plan and now moving on to the staff initiated amendments um we just have the

[126:00] list of these and um these are really intended to have be narrow in scope and to Simply reflect areas where we have adopted policy direction or New Direction from a master plan or a an adopted plan or strategy the first one was about inter interg excuse me intergovernmental cooperation um that was identified as uh an area of policy that we don't have outlined in the comprehensive plan um but we we identified in the in the context of the open space master plan there are a few updates related to the um 2019 Transportation master plan to reflect Vision zero and the low stress Network also um some policies to reflect the affordable housing goal 15% for all Residential Properties affordable to low moderate and middle inome households Human Services policies revisions to reflect the um direction

[127:00] from the homeless strategy we have a few um subcommunity and area planning revisions both about the direction for the subcommunity um planning process and to reflect the adopted Alpine bosam area plan and then also some of the um master plan summaries to reflect those adopted plans potential changes um with the uh Boulder Valley comprehensive plan land use map we will be considering um land use changes to reflect as I mentioned the adopted area plan at Alpine Balsam the phase 2A the for the transit Village area plan that area west of 30th Street completed open space Acquisitions and then we also have uh potential land use change for a boulder housing Partners permanently affordable housing site this is is included in the staff initiated change because our housing staff is

[128:00] working with um the boulder housing Partners on the project and it has the potential to address one of the biggest policy goals of the city there was not um a lot of information in the memo this was a little bit um different than some of these other changes this was because the negotiation was still underway last week but we're happy to say that um we have information available tonight um Jay suet our housing planner and Laura Shin Bal um the boulder housing Partners director of development um and also bill holiy will provide some more information um after the presentations by the public applicants and then lastly we will be um putting forth a a few changes to the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan area 123 map to reflect recent annexations and then also changes to Parcels on the west edge of the city between area 2 and

[129:00] area three that um may have changed through the revisions to the blue line that was adopted in 2016 with that um our next steps in the process will be once we complete the screening process um we will be developing engagement plans and completing the analysis on the proposed changes that are still on the list and then really aiming to be back to the planning board and Council for adoption of the changes by the end of the year so last week at planning board um the planning board unanimously supported the recommended the three public requests that were recommended by staff to move forward also unanimously supported the staff initiated list of amendments including um the potential

[130:01] land use change um and that you'll hear more about up at Odell place and then recognizing there was a lot of conversation and interest in several of these applications that um that we are not recommending move forward simply because of the scope um and complexity of those projects they provided recommendations to the city council um that you can consider within your work planning um around the neighborhood and Phil P pilot project Transit Village area plan phase two a potential Gun Barrel subc Community planning in the future and also um area planning or similar planning um at the diagonal Plaza and so with that um we have provided recommended motions to the city council I also want to thank all the community members who have submitted

[131:03] applications submitted comments to both the planning board and the city council who came and watched um the planning board meeting or spoke at the planning board meeting last week and those that are here tonight we recognize that these are all really important issues um it it feels a little it feels a little weird to not recommend so many moving forward when there are many that are um truly trying to address uh comprehensive plan goals but just because we're not recommending them at this point it doesn't mean that they're not important issues it's really about the purpose and the scope of the midterm update to be minor policy changes and those for which we have the resources um to complete and um do that analysis to complete the process so with that I'm happy to answer any questions before we move into the presentations from the applicants great thank you so much Jean

[132:01] that was a really well done very concise and businesslike presentation so much appreciated um I'll remind Council that here we'll do questions I see eron's hand up then we'll do a public hearing and then we'll come back for Council discussion and this so Aaron want to kick us off on questions yeah just one Gan thanks very much for that excellent presentation is very helpful um so the you mentioned that there are a number of text changes and a handful of map changes um that staff is proposing now we haven't seen the details of those yet um but correct me if I'm wrong but that's because we're only advancing things forward to the next stage right there's no approvals yet so we're just saying hey those sound interesting bring us the details and then we'll review them for for approval later of course yes and we'll also have that analysis available to the community to um to be able to share share

[133:00] recommendations about how those changes um will reflect the actual adopted policy great so we'll have a chance later on during the approval process to review the exact language and take public input and such on those things of course yes great I look forward to that all right that's all I had thank youon May so I just wanted to cqu on um Erin's question and just a clarification it's not that they sound interesting but that they um meet the purposes of the midterm update as well correct that's correct and they are adopted adopted policy okay thank you just wanted that clarification great well seeing no more questions I will amend what I said before our next step will be presentation from applicants then public hearing and then Council discussion so corre jeene you want to lead us through the applicant presentations yes um we have um the

[134:02] first couple are um for application number one the boulder Eastridge neighborhood is Daniel Ang and then after that um the number three for the 750 North Street and mixed density which the speakers will be David Adamson and D pow So Daniel um I think is here through for with um uh audio only go ahead Danel okay can you hear me yes okay um hello I am Daniel long a resident owner for 40 years in Boulder Eastridge which is a small neighborhood of 40 detached houses between 28th and 30th North of Colorado Avenue south of goldrun Condominiums and west of smiley Court it is the only neighborhood currently low density that is virtually adjacent to both Maine and East University of Colorado campuses and is

[135:02] essentially the land bridge between them I represent a group of homeowners who support this proposal not just myself when this neighborhood was built Circa the late 1950s before the comp plan it stood alone since then ncu has grown toward and around it and it has also become essentially surrounded by higher density residential housing it is already designated as part of the Colorado University sub community in the comp plan since our previous land use change applications in the 2000s several CU academic departments have moved to East Campus due to its close proximity to both Maine and East CU campuses the natural and obvious vious use of these properties is for student housing when I first moved here most houses were owner occupied now most are student rentals the land use designation should change to reflect these obvious changes in the

[136:02] surroundings and the neighborhood itself to help meet the demand for student housing in its recommendation staff has appeared to have missed these obvious changes and cu's role by Omission upon resoning from load to medium density I anticipate many duplex conversions subject to off street parking requirements we are already a neighborhood parking permit program neighborhood given our proximity to Main Campus the occupancy issue is pending a November ballot vote our proposal is largely sustainable use of existing structures to adjust to changes in surroundings a land use change for our neighborhood would meet many criteria in the comp plan if students are considered who are essentially ignored in the comp plan do a word search there is already precedent for upzoning multi-property areas especially along the west side of

[137:01] 30th between Colorado and Baseline just south of us even without an area plan however increasing the housing density of Eastridge will not set a precedent for other neighborhoods since we are unique in our 20 10 application hearing city council specifically stated we could apply for a land use change during a midterm update city council resolution 922 part 3B States consider the potential for higher housing densities on partials adjoining the University of Colorado and it has not been repealed in this first major excuse me first midterm update in over a decade Council set a limited scope for this update and I missed this implicit in council's promise to us a decade ago was allocation of sufficient resources to fully study it this unfortunately has not occurred yet recently some planning

[138:02] staff was fured I understand from talking with Jean gatsa that staff is very interested in my application but simply doesn't have the resources to fully study it like they want at this time this is really quite straightforward a three block Enclave surrounded by higher density with only one street entrance we have to pass between two three-story buildings just to go in and out of our neighborhood the best place to put more student housing is right between both CU academic campuses otherwise students will live elsewhere in the city we want more student housing in our neighborhood and already know how to handle it we request request that city council placed Eastridge on the planning work plan as a near-term possibly midterm update related project separate from the neighborhood infill pilot project so there can be a commitment to a full

[139:00] study in a few years when Staffing is before the 2025 major update when our application would get lost among annexation issues we think this would be a satisfactory way for city council to appropriately address this application and staffing issues considering circumstances and City council's previous promise to us a decade ago thank you I am available for questions when [Music] appropriate thank you Daniel okay see no questions [Music] yeah go ahead Jan I'm sorry no that's fine um Chris the next one has presentation there we go so David Adamson and Dan

[140:02] Cal hello hello can you hear me yes we can all right can I the first slide all right um thank you Council staff and citizens for your service I'm David Adamson 815 North Street and the executive director of the 501c3 Goose Creek committee Land Trust we understand uh the staff and planning board recommendation not to consider our proposals in the midterm update and therefore ask Council for a nod of nine um to generally ask staff to come back soon with a special ordinance that could with very little staff work enable one or a few Pilots of a new housing model that could help meet our urgent housing need mixed income all appreciation moderated with limited very limited private fossil fuel vehicle parking for the new residents like this

[141:01] Prototype at 750 North Street next slide please that is part of a broader effort to create an affordable resilient middle income 15-minute neighborhood in the Goose Creek Watershed at and around the very promising Alpine invol some projects which we're doing because next slide sorry which we're doing because um as we do in a midterm update we see that the number one major objective of maintaining the middle is not at all being met very little of this kind of housing deed restricted or not is being produced so the green line is overall housing units more or less starting in 1960 the red line shows an estimate of the overall coll cpse of once abundant for sale middle inome housing and Boulder so scalable Pilots like the ones we're proposing which could be the Blue Line could demonstrate how we could have a win-win for everyone on the housing

[142:00] political spectrum and start to reverse with the boulder housing Partners cited in their 2014 strategic plan as the net annual loss of 900 units of affordable housing in Boulder so despite great work by staff and citizens we are nevertheless going backwards and need to do something different next slide please especially to try to integrate working folks that Now commute in like these gentlemen who are maintaining our street on North Street yesterday and who said about the 750 pilot that sure would make it easy to get to work next slide please so a high Community benefit uh pilot like this one um at 750 North Street Street was designed to embody its mxr land use description preserve the current neighborhood character and characters and actually reduce traffic and parking requirements with our shared vehicle only requirement next

[143:02] slide so in this sample pilot be be going from a you know an outdated building an outdated duplex next slide to a a brand new building that fits in well with the neighborhood that what could be home next slide to you know eight families eight eight eight groups and U so that this just shows how it could work in that lowrise building and now we're going to go over to Danica who can help explain administratively and legally how this could uh proceed next slide hi this is Dana Capal with Trestle strategy group um thank you to staff and housing Advocates like goose and others we actually have a process that was placed in the last Boulder Valley comp plan update called um criteria or a neighborhood planning infill pilot project and there's actually criteria on page 112 of the comp plan that talks about how we could

[144:00] do this and this criteria has been used to um mobilize this project and ask for an opportunity to move forward next slide a small change in the land use would allow would um legalize experiments that prioritize a diverse community that meets specific High Community criteria including Transit accessibility neighborhood form density setbacks solar access Etc and as David said would respect the existing neighborhood and scale for which these pilot projects would be located next slide um a lot of work has been done to date on this pilot project David and friends have been working on this for many years so we would want to make this a low impact to staff um it would require of course Community engagement but a lot of that has been done before through citizen volunteers and there's a lot of um people very interested in helping make this implementation

[145:00] process next slide and just to show some of the neighborhood support there's been over um several um many many meetings over the years so you can see a lot of community support for the projects and a lot of input that have helped um really create this project um for um to fit into the neighborhood addressing parking concerns and other things next slide so what we want this is my last slide um what we would like to do is ask city council for uh the opportunity to move forward with this pilot project um even if it's outside of the comp plan process this was an opportunity to take what was put in the last comp plan and move it forward and we're looking for um a way to take this um and move it forward in the community with your support thank you Dan thanks David and Danica thank you thank [Music] you okay so Danica you're next up with a

[146:02] application number four for the transit Village area plan phase two great I'm ready thank you setting my own timer um so this is a proposal to do initiate phase two of the transit Village area plan plan and I'm um representing some Property Owners within the area who'd like to work with the city to be able to pursue the phase 2 part of the tbap plan next slide um for many of you already know this but it's been a while so the transit Village area plan was a 160 acre area plan that was approved in 2007 um it's a Transit oriented development and the plan Vision was to be carried out by the city private property owners in RTD and uh a alongside that there's an implementation plan which is a companion document to identify actions that the city will take to advance the long-term phase one and phase two of the area plan next slide so phase one um is mostly west of

[147:03] the railroad tracks between 30th and Valmont and phase two is the area to the east of the railroad tracks between Foothills Parkway Belmont the railroad tracks and to the South next slide so in terms of phase one uh about 93% of that has been built out as planned according to the tat phase one and in that there was um many residential units that were built as ant anticipated with 450 permanently affordable units built in phase one next [Music] slide as many of you are familiar there these are the projects that have been built out the areas in purple are two Parcels that have not been built out out or have plans for bu being built out at this point in time that I'm aware of um next slide so the these are the land uses in Phase One and phase two as you can see

[148:00] on the right so it's a mix of high density residential mixed use industrial and office industrial next slide so as a companion document to the T app is the implementation plan and this is the action plan for what changes should happen in when in the future when certain triggers are made and um the city does monitor or should monitor the implementation through preparation of reports to planning board and city council every two to three years and part of the midterm and five-year update to the bbcp and that's why we're here today to um initiate the phase two planning for tbap or to ask for that next slide so there's implementation criteria for phase two um the there's three only and the first is substantial Redevelopment of phase one which we said has been met um with the 93% buildout there should be a plan in place for providing public improvements to phase two Jean said that is the area that does need attention and and additional work

[149:01] and Market support for phase to land uses which um I'll demonstrate in a minute next [Music] slide so in terms of phase two um the the process for initiating this is either through the bbcp process and a land use request change which is actually what the property owners did five years ago and because we didn't have land use designations in place to concur with the or or we didn't have zoning in place to concur with the land use and there's a desire to look at this that request wasn't um moved forward so what we're look looking at now is to ask for the whole area to be looked at holistically and look at evaluation of the implementation plan next SL [Music] slide um the second criteria that I mentioned that would need some work is looking at the public improvements for phase two um during the tat planning time um almost 20 years ago we did they

[150:01] were identified all of the requirements or public improvements that would need to be built in phase two including a lot of U Mobility improvements and bridges bike pass Etc and there were some cost estimate estimate estimation that was done at that time so it would be a matter of updating this list of public improvements and identifying who pays for what including property owners and other taxing mechanisms or city um CIP improvements much like phase one next slide on market demand as we all know there's a significant market demand especially for affordable housing most of the projects you're hearing tonight are about housing opportunities in our community next slide um in two there could be up to um a thousand additional units envisioned and these are some pictures taken from the um tvap showing what was what's existing a lot of Industrial Service with large parking lots and looking at more mixed use development with

[151:00] residential and Service Industrial um for the community next [Music] slide um this is a lot of math but you there be significant housing umary housing and housing opportunities next SL think I'm almost done yes thank you close thank you for your time i' would be happy to answer any questions thank you Danica I do not see any questions [Music] here okay um our next couple up are um for for Number application number five 47th Street is Danny Abu after that um for number seven 1345 South Broadway is Timmy Dugen Q up okay Danny U you can go ahead Danny you should be able to unmute

[152:06] yourself can you hear me now we can yes thank you this is dan bu I'm representing vintage point Office Park um on 47th Street I'm an applicant and an owner next slide please uh this uh Office Park was approved in 1985 uh it's a small U office building about 18,000 square feet and it was approved as part of POD at that time it's been used as offices since then next slide please uh it is located on the northeast corner of Valmont Road and uh fotel Parkway and it is separated from the residential neighborhood by 47th Street

[153:00] from the East and North next slide please I included few uh pictures of the office Parks the next three slides will show the outside and the inside of the office Park next slide please next slide please and next slide please as you can see this uh Office Park almost an island of offices uh in that uh part of town in the Northeast part of Boulder and it's been used historically and currently uh as professional offices medical and dental offices and Professional Services offices next slide please due to the current uh zoning and land use designation we've been having U hardship attracting U proper uh tenants

[154:03] and convince them that we have the right Zoning for their uses and every time we uh try to do Improvement to the building uh it becomes a severe issue with the city and cost owners to accommodate that and uh in short the the current usage does not match the current designation next slide [Music] please uh we would like to continue using the property as it's been used in the past the last 35 years um but in the future about 15 years or more or if the density of that area continue to increase we uh Envision mix use uh development in that area similar to uh vment and 34th Street area uh and

[155:01] therefore we're hoping and looking for a designation similar to transitional business or mix mixed use business uh to be considered and we appreciate your time tonight thank you thank you Danny next up is um Timmy Dugen and there's not presentation materials um Timmy's just gonna speak he just joined the meeting I'm promoting him to panelist okay [Music] great Timmy you should be able to unmute yourself and speak yeah I should be on now if you can hear me we can hear you cool not sure if there's video or not but um anyways thanks for the chance to uh speak on this application tonight uh

[156:02] my name is Timmy dougen I'm a realtor at remas the Boulder and I'm representing uh Mount Hope Lutheran Church uh there at 1345 Broadway um that hope sits on a 4 acre parcel there between Broadway and Fairview High School uh half the parcel just kind of sits empty it's just this empty field um and the church wanted to look at and explore uh any opportunities that there might be um to potentially uh change the current land use which is uh low density residential um into something that could you know make that two acre empty part of the parcel uh a little more useful to the the city and the community um so we uh took the opportunity with the comprehensive Plan update to submit the application and um yeah at this point it's really nothing more than just uh kind of putting the opportunity out there to the community and to the city that uh we've got this this land that uh

[157:01] we'd love to um you know allow the community to to do something with and um and go through the the comprehensive plan process um a zoning change to do anything um you know and change from low density residential to like a mixed use business or a higher density like there is to the South there with a condo complex um not to be taken lightly obviously um we don't have anything that's like our specific Vision or uh agenda that we have it's again just something an opportunity that we want to put on the table for the community community to uh really look at and and examine um so uh yeah and I guess the the goal then would yeah to um find some solution or land use change such that uh the church could subdivide the parcel into you know two acres that the church is on and then another two acres that could be used by the community for some other

[158:00] beneficial use um and create a salable product um so yeah at this point we're just asking the council uh and the community to consider you know any opportunity that might lie on on that property and um see what we could do to to benefit the the community so again no no specific agenda that that we have we just want to um put that out there on on the table uh for discussion so great thanks Timmy um unless there are other questions from the council we can keep moving there are no questions yeah we can keep moving okay so next up we have Donna George um for application number eight and then after that de Dave reberger um with the Twin Lakes applications do you hear me I Donna we

[159:00] can you okay it is important that citizens receive the most accurate and upto-date information concerning land use in their communities I'm sorry Don I'm sorry to interrupt she does have some I'm sorry what um I was just letting Chris know that that there are presentation slides oh oh okay okay so we have to wait the time's going can we start again they started the time without the slides find Donna we will restart that [Music] okay oh okay okay here we go okay are we good yes okay I'm starting it is important that citizens receive the most accurate and upto-date information concerning land use in their Community therefore noticing a number of

[160:00] inaccuracies in the land use designations map I put in a request during this 2020 midterm update to review the land use designations map next slide since submitting my request on March 2nd 2020 we are now dealing with a Global Health crisis due to the Corona virus pandemic next slide we have all seen the headlines emphasizing the health and economic implications caused by the Corona virus next slide government building and facilities in the Boulder Valley have been closed since March 15th approaching 3 months in duration therefore the public has not had access to any resources they may need for this bould of Valley compon plan midterm update we do not know when these offices will be open and whether they will need need to be closed again should a second spike in Corona virus cases occur next slide please due to the present circumstances with the global coronavirus pandemic I am requesting that the 2020 Boulder Val comp plan midterm update be postponed till

[161:02] 2022 many of our citizens are dealing with lost jobs and our family members impacted by the Corona virus the 2015 bould Val comp plan update was not completed until 2017 the 2020 midterm up can be delayed due to a global Health crisis in the bould valley comprehensive plan under midterm update a midterm update will be initiated at some point between major updates it does not have to be done now next slide please in accuracies in the land use designation map that I see here you can see one land here this thin slit it's owned by the book The Brandon Creek homeworkers Association the Twin Lakes thing outlined here is owned by the County of Boulder and you can see they bought it from the ditch company for 130,000 in 2002 yet when you look at the luse designation map they have the the part that's owned by Brandon Creek as open space Acquired and the par that's the

[162:00] Twin Lakes open space is open space other obviously those are wrong and need to be changed also some of the private Parks have land use designations of Park Urban and other the description for this land use is Park Urban and other includes public lands used for a variety of active and passive recreational purposes or flood control these lands are not public they are private Parks also the Boulder Country Club has a land use designation of public however the country club is private and not public and cost thousands of dollars to join next slide please it is important that citizens receive the most accurate and up-to-date information concerning land use in their communities under sustainability principles in the Bev Valley comp Planet States the city and county recognize that the quality of our environmental economic and social health is built upon the full engagement and involvement of our community is very difficult during this time for our community to be fully

[163:01] engaged with this midterm update and under 10.01 high performing government the city and county Support strategic decision making with timely reliable and accurate data and Analysis it's important that the land use map is as ACC as possible next slide please the review of land use designations my request should move forward in the 2020 bould Valley comp plan midterm update my request should not be denied for this midterm update but rather the 2020 Boulder Valley comp plan midterm update should be postponed to 2022 due to the global Health crisis we are experiencing at this time it is important to have the most accurate land use designation map available for the 2025 Boulder Valley comp plan major update the city of Boulder has updated the land use designations in the 2015 Boulder Valley comp plant update and has requested land use designation updates in the 2020 Boulder Valley comp plan

[164:00] midterm update to be fair this should also be done for unincorporated areas in the Boulder Valley the staff has requested that since some certain areas that were bought the updated in this for the why is this not being done for unincorporated and this midterm should be postponed to 2022 people are trying to get on it's all they can't get on to the meeting they don't know what to do it's it's a total mess so please postpone this thank you thank you Donna you I have no questions okay next up um we have Dave Dave reberger from the um twin Action Group Dave are you here I am waiting for the presentation yeah hoping this is moving along there we go okay and you can go ahead and move to the next slide um my name is Dave

[165:02] reberger and I'm the chairman of the Twin Lakes Action Group tag is a large and active citizen organization across this County in the city we also have the support of many businesses that pay sales tax to the city of Boulder you only need to look at these numbers to see the passion we have to preserve the rural residential look and feel of our neighborhoods and support open space next these land use changes should move forward for many fundamental reasons next slide please um it's supports the aspects of the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan these lands are actually dedicated lands set aside because of development around them for schools and Parks not housing it expands desperately needed open space and gun barrel for recreation the properties are hydrologically sensitive areas that contain multiple Wetlands as well as agricultural lands of Statewide importance and assures Wildlife Corridor for at least 28 Species of special concern next please the staff has

[166:02] recommended not to move forward with these change but let's review the criteria is it consistent with a midterm update yes according to the bbcp criteria this are exactly the type of land use changes that are appropriate but staff says they don't have enough resources second is it consistent with the current policies or subc community plan the 2006 subcommunity plan of Gun Barrel was gutted almost as soon as it was written we do not have a sub Community or sub area plan plus the staff says they don't have enough resources and is the change compatible with adjacent land uses and neighborhood context absolutely the Properties Twin lak's open space to the North and the John and Trust to the South and are threatened by development so that's exactly what compatible with adjacent lands mean we desperately need more recreational open space for our growing population next have these changes been considered in the past well of course

[167:01] they have the very structure of the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan and the intergovernmental agreements were Rewritten because of the passion and dedication of tag and its members like Hogan Panos this has gone on for years and without moving forward with our request for an open space designation will continue for years to come since 2015 there have been an additional 51550 dwelling units built so now Gun Barrel has far exceeded its carrying capacity and there was another 268 units considered by the planning board in Celestial Seasonings and then all of a sudden last week staff snuck in another development on Odell of an unknown scale and scope with no public notice or documentation that would be 818 units overc capacity causing a degradation of basic Services the environment safety sustainability and the resiliency of gun barrel and by the way staff says there's not enough resources next a change to

[168:02] open space resolved many issues that are fundamental to this area it protects multiple designated Wetlands it allows nature to manage its own hydrology and it does not add to the cross-jurisdictional issues in infrastructures that are ever present in the Twin Lakes Road area and Gun Barrel as a whole next there's a scarcity of open space in Gun Barrel for its 12,300 residents that's over 10% of Boulder's shrinking population but we have only 2% of the open space in Parks the Twin Lakes open space is actually a 10-ft path around two seasonal lakes and we have a mess of a city park that's mostly Wetlands or construction debris from Industrial Development communities need need more than than housing to be resilient and sustainable we need open space the ability to recreate view wildlife and just safely be outdoors in an open environment next and what about these 28 Species of special concern that

[169:02] live on hunt in breed in and generally call these properties home we should provide a permanent open space designation so their homes are safe from development next every two minutes the American loses a football field worth of Natural Area to human development and Boulder County is developing 133% faster than the rest of the nation and that's only through 2011 unchecked development in the last five years have made these numbers Skyrocket next it is clear that only by supporting the Twin Lakes Action Group land use change requests can we truly have a balance between the Gunbarrel public improvement district housing the environment dedicated Lanes sustainability resilience and Wildlife and I do thank you for your time and support and please request that you ask the planning board and staff to reconsider their previous decisions thank

[170:02] you right on time great okay and our last presentation is um I'd like to um introduce Jay suet with our planning staff Laura shine Bal from BHP and Bill Hol and I'll try to get those slides up next good evening J seget with housing and Human Services I just want to introduce this say housing is very excited to further explore this as a potential site for permanently affordable housing and with that I'll turn it over to Laura and Bill Laura thank you Jay good evening I'm Laura Shin bam with Boulder housing partners and the development director there as you all know uh we are the Housing Authority for the city of Boulder we work in partnership with the city to implement City policy and get us closer to that 15% affordable housing goal set

[171:01] forth um by this body as policy we currently have about 1442 uh units in our portfolio and growing and uh we administer 122 vouchers I don't need to say much to this this Bo about um the need but just a bit we have 36% of our Workforce in Boulder qualifies for affordable housing probably even more arguably given the the current economic climate with the pandemic um and then anecdotally I thought you would be interested to hear that just last week we had a few units at the SEO Apartments over at the spark development that opened up um we had 160 applications in five days for those units so so the need is is dire to that end BHP is always looking for opportunities to land bank um This Gun Barrel parcel at 6500 Odell Place represents that type of opportunity Gun Barrel has been a location that we've been interested in being um and having property uh as you can see in the map in the lower left corner we we don't

[172:01] currently have we we are scattered throughout the community we try and provide affordable opportunities um everywhere and we don't have any affordable um product up in gunbir at this point um this is a true infill opportunity it's uh developed on all four sides um it's about 1.2 acres and it would yield if we had a land use change um we think that the zoning could support about 32 units there um we do believe we um so late breaking news is that we do have an Loi signed with the seller and we're actively negotiating a purchase and sale agreement so we are um working on site control at the moment uh and we do think that this is supported by the Boulder Valley comp plan as well as the gun barel Town Center plan uh bill is here with me tonight and he's going to go into a little bit more detail about the Nexus between those documents and our request thank you and I'm available for questions later thank you thanks Bill Holi with cobart architecture so if we could go to the next slide um this is a really interesting site on the left is the current zoning and the underlying

[173:00] land use in the comp plan reflects it we've got residential HR with rh5 on top of it in yellow and we've got the bc2 with a different um land use underneath that the IG in the middle has the mui use underneath it and this site sort of caught in between on the right hand side you can see the gun barrel Town Center plan that originally created this the idea was that the Blue Area was going to be mixed Juice Maker space mixed juice space industrial space and residential to the north we were going to have residential into the South it was going to be Community retail the residential on the North side has been built um the community retail Center is starting to develop the red the darker red more slowly the hatched red is the shopping center with the grocery store in it so that's already there but if we can switch to the next slide you'll see that the original intention of the gun barl Town Center plan was to create spine Road as this walkable Main Street and it's really not happened the the south end with the community center is there the residential is happening on the

[174:00] north but in between is this Gap and interestingly The Gun Barrel Town Center plan was intended to have a revision every five years in a 15-year Horizon it has been 15 years since it was adopted in 2004 and finally um finally amended in 2006 so it's been quite a while and this is an appropriate time to reenvisioning [Music] Town Center plan which you can see on the bottom left really talked about adding workers adding affordable housing creating links between the residential and the retail and making that spinning Road a redeveloped walkable Main Street so we think by popping this site into a residential model we can put people on

[175:01] the street and we can start to shrink the the gap between that residential to the North and the the serving Center retail uh to the South and make that really kind of bring the vision to life that the gun barrel Town Center plan originally had so we think it it helps um bring that into fruition as well as it supports all the comp plan goals because it's affordable housing as we've already talked about so we think it's a a very appropriate state for this thank you good timing um that's all we have for the applicant and um staff presentations um unless Council has other questions clarifying questions at this time we can move on to the open uh public hearing I see no hands up I have one quick question was the last um

[176:00] application submitted was it part of the normal deadlines did it meet all the the submission requirements and so on it was not it was um we are not we were not treating that as a public application necessarily it really um all staff has been working with Boulder housing partners and became aware of this um in recent weeks um so because of the criteria for the midterm update about sufficient resources we propos bringing bringing this forward as a staff initiated um change simply because we would be working um with this with the boulder housing Partners on it anyway okay great and just toind me planning board saw this and gave a thumbs up that's correct okay thank you no more questions for me Mary has her hand up yeah I just want to I just have a clarifying question um the what we just heard on the parcel in Odell on Odell

[177:02] place is um the zoning does it match the underlying land use is that what I what I'm yeah sorry Bill I can clarify that so right now the underlying land use is mui and the Zone on top is IG so while they match they don't match the Town Center plan and they don't allow for residential because it's smaller than two acres so we're asking for a change to the HR Zone uh land use which is what the rh5 parcel is to the north with the intention that eventually that would be rezoned to rh5 to match the residential to the north okay thank you and then I have a question from mirbi this is more just a comment um just being in this area and being very close to this area and having heard from many of the residents uh after the planning board meeting that um especially people who have been

[178:00] applications many of them feel that they've really had to follow uh the city's rules and letters to the tea you know make sure their eyes are doted Jer cross and many I've heard from many of them about this having been thrown in at the last minute into planning and how they feel it's very unfair when they've been following the rules very closely and staff did not so I'm just giving you feedback that I've been hearing a lot of upset residents here and I will chime in with them that I don't think it was fair and I don't think that it was well done um and I would ask that for future uh that if they are required to follow the rules that staff be required to as well um or the applicant as well because again I think it's we're talking about so much about Equity it is an issue around equity on that so that's just a comment great so that was the last question I had I think we're ready to go to public [Music]

[179:02] hearing okay uh and so for public hearing we have 16 people signed up so everyone will get two minutes a piece you can pull for to four minutes but we'll need to have the two people so it takes three people to pool for four minutes and one can speak and the other two need to be present on the call um so who I have signed up is Lyn seagull then Mark gband and Mary Mel Sherer um we'll start with Lyn then you are live can you hear me this time yes we can hear you Lynn go for it okay I'm not gonna touch this laop um yeah um I was at the last two planning board

[180:00] meetings and it became crystal clear to me that this is another overall situation it's very bad in the view of the Boulder Valley comp plan for growth and development and and everything that it stands for um that that there's not infrastructure appropriate to the growth that's going on in that area um I know it's the steps sister um and you know if if we needed Gun Barrel originally years ago maybe we should just un Annex Gun Barrel now um because it's we need to dedicate the time and the resources to planning for it rather than getting onto just more growth without good planning and I agree with Donna George that this should be moved

[181:01] up to 2022 um and largely because of this public process which I heard a lot of people saying they couldn't get on appropriately and there was there was a whole lot of um the public they came out to speak in spite of that many of them had trouble getting on um not only that we don't have an economy anymore and we need to cut everything back and all of this expense of this meeting and all these people doing all this work this is in a false economy it's not happening it it you know what happened with Co really happened and it's really permanent and we need to wake up to that reality and not spend more money good money after bad and just lower you know 700 people being cut off of the city instead we have to lower

[182:00] everyone's salary and do everything equitably this way it's impossible time is up appreciate it um next we have um Mark gelan then Mir Mel Sherer and then David rburg so Mark is up hello just had the chance to unmute listen first I'd like to say thank you to everyone who's trying to advocate for more housing and more affordable housing and trying to fill the missing middle in Boulder as we know the primary driver of equity issues in the city of Boulder is the high cost of housing and how hard it is for people to live here affordably so I want to thank all of the people but I especially want to call out David Adamson and Goose Creek because he's proposing something

[183:01] that is out of the box that hasn't been done before that is a pilot that offers hopefulness to whole classes of people looking for the opportunity for something in between a mcmansion and a condo something something that the city hasn't seen I also want to thank um the folks from Boulder housing partners and whether this was done last minute or not for all of what they've tried to do to make Boulder a more socially Equitable community and then I just want to call to call attention to one thing which is that I understand the frustration of the gentleman from Twin Lakes but basically he's advocating for selfishness um and and I also understand that as we lose all of the light Industrial and Commercial space around our city we're losing access for Artisans welders Etc so I have some

[184:00] concerns and we'll bring this back though I advocate for all of the affordable housing options being proposed the simplest one that Council has is to listen to the people from Boulder bedrooms and stop pushing all of the development in places where it isn't and filling empty bedrooms in the most privileged neighborhoods thank you very much thank you Mark mayor Mel's Sherer David Reb and Joel Tor Vitz so may [Music] Mel you should be live and able to speak hello I am Mary Michael Sherer I live in the Table Mesa neighborhood and I'm a faculty member at CU Boulder and I want to talk about the um rezoning of number seven at South Broadway and Green Brier by the Lutheran Church um I would just

[185:01] like to say that I'm not against development of this space in any way but I think it's premature to do any rezoning given the obvious complete lack of a plan um presented for this space at all uh no Outreach to the community and I live just a single block away from this space has occurred at this point and um I'm a little concerned because I've been in a neighborhood before where a church um made an agreement with a developer rezoned a space claimed it was going to be for um mixed use and affordable housing and unfortunately what resulted was that either they were taken advantage of by the developer or changed their mind and the result was was a seven-story complex of luxury condos that did not serve the community at all so what I would really like to see is a comprehensive plan laid out by the church and a relationship with a developer established before any movement towards rezoning goes any

[186:01] further with this particular lot I would love to see um an Outreach performs to the community because one of the big problems with that lot is that it is right next to a middle school and High School you have new drivers and young children by the hundreds going through there every day so if we are not very thoughtful and very careful about development we are risking lives of our children we are risking traffic problems and generally a detriment to this South Boulder Community so thank you so much for listening and again I urge you to put off any rezoning or discussion of this area until a comprehensive plan and community outreach is undertaken by the church great thank you mayor Michel um we have David reberger Joel Lora vits and Mike Smith David Europe up thank you uh this is Dave reberger uh the co virus has fundamentally changed the landscape

[187:01] of work how many companies will choose to utilize remote workers versus paying the exorbitant rents for office space in Boulder uh there will be a lot of vacant U office space in Boulder for years to come wouldn't it make a lot more sense to pause and hit the braks so that we can take and re-evaluate area plans before doing more ill-conceived developments and look at something instead of not bedrooms for people but boardrooms for people let's look at the Redevelopment of our commercial spaces as they exist and as they've already been built remember 550 new dwelling units have already been built in Gun Barrel in The Last 5 Years and a dwelling unit might be a one-bedroom or or an eight-bedroom Mansion there's an average of 2.3 people per dwelling unit so that's 1,50 65 new residents the sustainability and resilience of Gun Barrel when you overbuild an area exceeds the carrying capacity which is

[188:00] the maximum population that will be supported before environmental infrastructure components begin to deteriorate this speaks directly to the 2015 BCP goals of setting the population at 5,300 dwelling units in 2020 there are already 5850 glowing units we're past the carrying capacity in Gun Barrel and you want to add another 268 at the celestial seasoning another 32 at Odell and God knows what else is on the plans we need to stop the development look at what's already been built reutilize and repurpose the commercial areas that are inside of Boulder before we build another thing and we need to have a sub community plan done before a single shovel hits the ground great thank you Dave we have Joel lenovitz Mike Smith and Donna George so

[189:03] Joel you're up okay you can hear me yes great uh thank you Council and I'm glad to be here at the table with every I'm Joel loritz I'm a longtime homeowner and resident in the table Maser neighborhood and an immediate neighbor to the church property in question at uh 1345 South Broadway in in Green Brier uh in fact it's getting a little dark but I can see it right out my window as we're talking here um and yeah I was pretty astonished that I only learned about this zoning uh secondhand from a friend just the other day uh only Midway through the planning meeting was the first I heard of it and then to see it all of a sudden being taken up here and with no prior public notice to myself or any other neighbors or residents of the community uh that that was pretty shocking uh luckily we have a pretty tight-knit Coalition of neighbors and have since had an impromptu meeting and kind of banded together to really just find out what's going on what's being proposed how it's

[190:01] being considered Etc and my neighbor and I agree that um there very well may be some positive benefits to the neighborhood to the community and the city at large if some type of vment is allowed at this parcel however it could also very easily swing the other way and turn out to be a nuisance and actually be destructive to the fabric of the community uh either way we're very vested and and tuned in here um I'll confess I'm not super familiar with the whole process uh but on its face this current request seems to be really generic halfhazard and incomplete uh it looks worryingly like a shoot first and ask questions later kind of scenario and a particular concern is that it fails to acknowledge that there are adjacent low density single family homes like mine and my neighbors and as Mary Michael mentioned the high school that all be potentially directly impacted by light noise and traffic uh so the consensus among the community here is that we're opposed any Swift and arbitrary rezoning that would simply give cart blunch to whomever

[191:01] might silently come in and try to develop things uh but we're very open uh to listen and strongly support a well formed proposal that combines a complete development plan in conjunction a you know targeted fitting zoning alteration great thank you Joel next we have Mike Smith Donna George and Patrick Madden Mike you're live Mike hi thank you am I am I good yes you are okay I'm Mike Smith 4596 Tallyho Trail which is the street immediately to the east of the parcels and I've owned my home there for the last 24 or 22 years the fate of these Parcels shouldn't be a political decision and as you've already heard Gun Barrel is badly overbuilt it's it's Way Beyond any rational carrying capacity The Gun barel Center project is

[192:00] symptomatic of that at its worst it has no Parks Trails playgrounds because the city didn't hold the developer to his promise to include all those secondly gun barl desperately needs an area Plan before any more development damage is done and before any more open space and wildlife habitat is lost I was going to say that you know the obvious that um the parcels have high groundwater and that they're very good wildlife habitat but as you know the planning board turned thumbs down on T's proposal saying that it was too complicated and represented a major bvc uh policy change this in light of or in spite of years worth of documentation and homework by the local residents and they also gave thumbs up to a last minute proposal for apartment development on Odell place in the heart of Gun Barrel I would just point out the obvious that the scales don't really seem fair on how projects are evaluated

[193:03] in the case of Twin Lakes there was an obvious pro-development agenda behind the scenes and and tag was denied and as Jean gatsa admitted Odell place got special treatment I just hope you'll support a gun barrel area Plan before things spiral even more out of control and out of whack out there and meantime I'll help you leave all of the all um the Twin Lakes Parcels intact and if you allow the one to proceed and turn thumbs down on the other well sh shame on you thank you thank you thank you Mike next we have Donna George Patrick Madden and Randall Clark Donna Council I'm sorry to interrupt I do need to clarify with you Donna George has indicated she would like to pull time with somebody who's not on our sign up list but is in the meeting our pooling requirements in

[194:00] this online platform on Council website say that people have to be on the list to be able to pull so I need some clarification about whether we can allow this booling I I'm okay with allowing it as long long as um all three people are present so we need Donna and two others I believe okay I'm going to make Donna live I believe she has one other but not two others so let me just um ask her to come on and and talk about what what she was planning Donna yeah I just have one other do I need to have two others to pool yes it takes three people to pool to get four minutes so Donna you can have two minutes if you have one other person or you can have four if you have two other people well can I have three minutes if I have me and another person no you may not um so you are free to go ahead for two minutes if you would like or um if you'd like we can move you to later in the list and you could see if you can bring another person in is there

[195:00] anyone else here who would like to pull with me I did just get a message that Randall Clark is willing to seed his time and give it to Donna so she has a pool okay that's great so Donna you got Randall Clark and who's your other person who's here uh Dina McKay and Sarah can you confirm that both Randall and Donna are here yes I can Randall is here and Dana is also here very good so we can give four minutes to Donna and remove Randle Clark at number nine from the list and I apologize Randall is um uh uh goes by the pronoun her she her okay okay very good oh we can give him back his if he wants it I didn't want to take his time so I I think if they volunteer it's just fine Donna oh okay okay I didn't want to take somebody else's time okay

[196:00] very good Don you're up for four minutes so okay go ahead okay Bill Hol kept referring to the gun barrel Town Center when talking about the Odell Street property the possib fa ities for a gun barrel Town Center were destroyed when the gun barrel retail core IGA was blatantly ignored the Twin Lakes Parcels would provide a fantastic opportunity to build a sense of community for Gun Barrel that was the vision of Boulder planners in the 1977 1977 Boulder Valley comp plant when they intended a 40 acre Community Park South of Gunbarrel these fields are within the Gunbarrel public improvement district which was was formed in 1993 when Gun Barrel citizens voted to tax themselves to purchase undeveloped land within the district boundaries for open space specifically to prevent further development the Northfield was purchased by Boulder County with General funds in which the Gunbarrel public improvement

[197:00] district funds were included so that proberbly should never have been transferred to the Boulder County Housing Authority especially so quickly and quietly without any public input or hearing on the decision I also want to note that why can the city staff put in a request with very little information to update the map for their properties but those in the unincorporated areas are ignored I made the same plea to Chris mesek and Eric Lane during the 2015 update are the citizens going to have to wait another five years for an accurate map I would think you would want to go into the 2025 major update with the most accurate land use designation map possible if there is Nots sufficient resources to proceed with the 2020 midterm update then the update should be postponed what staff and government officials should not do is give preferential treatment to their

[198:01] pet projects while not giving consideration to other requests we are in a global Health pandemic and government offices have been closed for almost 3 months regard for Citizens work and input on the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan is not acceptable this plan is supposed to be a document produced by the citizens for the citizens in the planning of their Community not a product of staff and government officials also in many of these talks I keep hearing about what people should do you I have heard it for for five years when I've been working on this what should happen in gun I get all these Outsiders telling us what should happen in gun barel well when are the gun barrel citizens who actually live here going to be able to determine and plan what happens in their own Community another thing I want to note is people sent in a lot of emails but I I asked I couldn't find out where those emails

[199:01] were they're on some spreadsheet we can't see them the Citizens need to see what other citizens are saying about this Boulder Valley comp plan update the Citizens need to be able to participate and with all the stuff that's going on that makes it difficult back to the Twin Lakes properties recently many acres were purchased in Gold Hill near their Town Center for open space the citizens of Gold Hill had many of the same reasons for wanting the land protected as open space as the citizens of Gun Barrel do for the Twin Lakes Fields The Gun Barrel Community deserves the same respect and consideration and having its citizens have a voice in the planning of the community in which they live these fields truly represent the heart of gun barrel and need to be protected as open space for present and future Generations some of the affordable housing can built in much more appropriate other Spates I don't know why they are gun ho on these these

[200:01] properties I can't figure it out they voted to not have the Boulder County Housing Authority built on Park in Lions the same should happen here they shouldn't be built on here thank you thank you Donna and thank you for your patience as we figured out the pooling um then next we have Patrick Madden followed by kit Fuller and Susan bhaw uh thank you my name is Patrick Madden I live at 4686 talo Court ask yourself why do you think the people of gunbar have such a difficult relationship with the city and county well Sloan wber made a comment at the planning board gunbar was eclectic mix of zoning density and architecture which speak to a lack of planning you don't listen to it listen to us as we see it the city is looking to us to Sol all solve all of Boulder's growth problems or Boulders Dumping Ground or an opportunity for developers to build on every square inch so they can make some money off a gun bro and then leave and no matter how they try to fluff things up with walk scores and bike passs there

[201:00] is still isn't suitable for folks who need to rely on public transit RTD is cutting back service right now and the service we have takes a roundabout way of getting here so developers from outside the area come to you paint a Rosy picture and frankly we resent that two ways you can fix this first you have an alternatives for development the boulder planning preserve roughly 500 acres in North Boulder that's been set aside for this purpose growth second involve Us in planning and you get a better outcome for all because at present there is no plan as you've heard and no input after all the developers build on every square inch in Gun Barrel they'll be gone and we'll never get back what we hold dear if you ask us what we think we need it's a bigger grocery store it's a library it's a rec center it's better roads and you know don't get us started on subdivision roads and it's more open space near us it's more options not more Apartments because you've already given us a bunch of those and a good number of those are vacant right now you know someone made a comment the planning board last week that we should just build a little bit

[202:00] more in genra before we get in any in amenities well we've been building more for the past five years and no Community amenities on one note about open space it's a shelter and space order or shelter and place order the Twin Lakes packed right now we need more space so we can properly social distance especially if this becomes The New Normal in conclusion the Twin Lakes Parcels are not suitable for any kind of development due to hydrology Wildlife corridors the need for Community spaces so the right thing to do is to listen to the folks of gun Barrow and um support the land use changes for Parcels 10 11 and 12 thank you Patrick so next we have Kit Fuller Susan bhaw and James Theodore kit thank you very much can you hear me yes um thank you my name is kit Fuller I live at 4600 Cloud Court which makes me a resident of the city of Boulder in Gunbarrel I pay city taxes I'm also the

[203:01] chair of a new nonprofit which is called The Gun Barrel Community Alliance we represent the citizens of Gun Barrel who want to one ensure the protection of Gun Barrel Open Spaces Wildlife corridors and other valuable natural resources in Gun Barrel two represent Gun Barrel residents in city and county land use Planning and Development decisions and three coordinate with un other gun barrel organizations to enhance the quality of life for Gun Barrel residents The Gun Barrel Community Alliance is not against affordable housing we are not against development we are against preferential treatment to developers we are against poor development decisions that have poor long range implications we support Creative Solutions on housing for example the uh bedrooms are for people that's a really important uh consideration that I think deserves a lot of attention we uh

[204:02] challenge new development we should not be breaking new ground when we don't see the end of the co situation we should be repurposing existing develop vment spaces we support amenities for Gun Barrel we need a gun barrel subcommunity plan and we plan to help you with that we support our hardworking Neighbors in tag we ask that the planning board reconsider the changes 1011 and 12 requested by tag they make so much sense it's the right thing to do it saves money and and it uh will save us all a lot more work and a lot more time in the long run Beware of the affordable housing in Mantra and think more carefully about the details of every proposal many of which include a lot of misinformation thank you thank you K next Susan bhak Jane Theodore and Claudia [Music]

[205:02] te Susan you're live hello can you hear me we can okay great um my name is Susan bash I live at 6848 bugle Court Boulder that is in the gun barrel area in Red Fox Hills and I want to urge you to reconsider uh the tags proposals for number 10 11 and 12 and the request that the two partials Parcels in on Twin Lakes Road be designated as open space I've lived in Boulder County for over 40 years and during that time I myself and a majority of Boulder County taxpayers have voted time and again to have our tax dollars spent to preserve the dwindling open space in the county it's pretty clear that open space is a really big priority for Boulder County residents the Twin Lakes properties afford a valuable opportunity to designate open space in

[206:01] an area that already provides a viable travel Corridor between your Twin Lakes Recreation Area and other Parcels of open space habitat on J Road in addition I have some serious concerns about the development on used Parcels uh the first and foremost is the hydrology in the area our neighborhood in red foxel is just east of the Twin Lakes parcels and some of the homeowners here already have problems with wet basements and some pumps that run constantly so the parcels really are not appropriate for development and it would just exacerbate a problem that already exists and um impact a storm water system that already struggles with major rainstorms and my other concern is the infrastructure other people have spoken to that pretty eloquently so I don't think I need to go over um the fact that we only have the one grocery store for 12,000 people and the traffic and all of

[207:02] the other congestion out here so in summary I just want to say designating these Parcels as open space with reduced impact on the hydrology The Limited infrastructure while also supporting the values of Boulder County taxpayers thank you thank you Susan we've got Jane Theodore Claudia team and Kim Bell Susan I'm sorry Jane apologies Jane Theodore Jane is unmuted but we're not hearing you Jane you might need to check your [Music] microphone and Jane yeah y I tried that can you hear me now we can we can hear you now okay all right there was two two

[208:02] I missed the second Bunch okay all right um you so you can hear me yes all right my name is Jane Theodore I've lived at 4380 llo Street since 1998 I'd like to see the Mount Hope Church site stay at its current low density residential Zoning for the time being I believe um neighborhood input is essential in the development for this for many Parcels but this parcel is a a tricky one I'm not opposed to development on the site however many um in our neighborhood have referred to this intersection of totally Green Brier and Broadway uh as the guillotine and it's an extremely challenging intersection to deal with during school hours a number of years ago a median was placed at grenell and Broadway which eliminated another exit of our neighborhood to travel North on Broadway so the guillotine is the only way out of the neighborhood besides traveling through the neighborhood 10 blocks on totally to Hanover which is its own

[209:00] bottleneck during school hours um this parcel will need to be zoned and developed with serious considerations regarding traffic patterns and flow because it's just in such a bonker's weird spot um I think something interesting could be done but I do believe since this is at the very beginning of ideation for the church and development that the people that live here and know that intersection the best uh should be consulted and I think that would make this weird parcel potentially an amazing thing but we have some serious input because we live with this crazy intersection every day so we'd ask you to hold off on changing any zoning uh until you really understand what that intersection is about thank you thank you Jane we've got Claudia team Ken Bell and David balmore Claudia is

[210:02] up CL are you live thank you Sarah good evening members of council my name is Claudia Hansen theme I live in North Boulder you hearing me thank you Claudia Hansen theme I live in North Boulder and I'm speaking tonight in favor of updates that support the capacity for additional modest and affordable how housing in Boulder amongst the staff recommendations this includes the Mount Hope Lutheran Church site at 1345 South Broadway but it also includes many requests deferred upzoning the low density Enclave in the East Ridge Neighborhood 750 North Street where D David Adamson and neighbors have been working for years to establish an Eco Village pilot tvap 2 which requires a long Runway to prepare for eventual Housing Development and the potential BHP acquisition at Odell place in addition I ask that you preserve areas already designated for potential housing that is reject the request to designate land owned by the Boulder County Housing

[211:02] Authority and bbst as open space when I spoke about these projects at planning board 5 days ago we were at the beginning of what has become a national Uprising against police brutality and white supremacy watching my home hometown of St Paul Minnesota burn that night it was exceptionally difficult to focus on land use changes and tonight it seems even more absurb absurd excuse me to be absorbed in these hyperlocal conversations but the pain and anger that communities of color are calling so many cities to reckon with are in part the result of Decades of exclusionary housing and economic policies and while Boulder has remained calm we are neither innocent nor excused from responsibility the values of equity and integration are enshrined in our comp plan and they deserve more attention and advocacy than they often receive in these inscrutable processes and housing is a tool we can use to advance them please use this comp plan update to support additional

[212:00] housing throughout Boulder and plan for a future with space for all members of this community many of whom cannot live here today it's an excruciatingly small step towards Justice at this moment in time but it's something we can do in the context of this small process thank you thank you Claudia um we have Ken Bell David bmar and Mike ZT Kowski um Ken you're [Music] up thank you Sam can you hear me yes very good thank you Council I have emailed you tonight a change .org petition with 3,700 signatures calling for protection at Twin Lakes I would like this added to the public record please now contrary to statements made by City staff tonight three years of public process led to the Boulder County Planning Commission voting no to development on 10 11 and 12

[213:03] the decision has been made now is the time to advance protection the city does have resources we recently Council offered to pay the University of Colorado $10 million to bury and fill in wetlands and Meadow habitat at CU South so CU can develop in a flood plane the rejection of the Twin Lakes Community proposal was a bitter slap in the face to thousands of City and County residents who have worked to achieve protection since 2015 I will remind council members each of you ran for fall election on a platform of being pro- environment in Pro open space will you honor those promises we will find out tonight and on June 16th there is some good news fortunately Bob Yates was Furious when development at Twin Lakes was rejected in 2017 Bob Yates subsequently helped lead the effort to strip both the County Planning

[214:01] Commission and strip city planning board of their ability to have a binding vote on development issues this also helped Advance cu self-development regardless of Mr yates's motivation it means last week when the planning board said no to protect habitat at Twin Lakes the planning board actually only recommended shattering the dreams of the community this is not a binding vote that Council needs to follow Council I urge you please listen to the community and protect 20 acres of wildlife habitat at Twin Lakes thank you thank you K now we we have David buar and Mike Z casy David good evening city council uh staff mayor uh I my name is David wmer I live in North Boulder I am the chairman of goose Cree Community Land Trust and I

[215:01] would like to just read you our mission statement right now because it's very timely to ensure our land widely benefits generations of today and tomorrow we will create preserve an advocate for housing that is permanently attainable for diversity of income levels at Goose Creek we've been working for just a few years and you've seen David adamson's presentation to create affordable housing in Boulder in a sustainable fashion that has Community Support that will decrease traffic because you will bring middle and lowincome people closer to their jobs and that will help our social equity in a very big way and we're I really would like to ask you to find a way for us to move forward with this pilot and uh in David's presentation you have seen hopefully a way how we can uh move forward with this in the with limited

[216:01] staff involvement because I completely understand that we are very resource constrained right now um thank you for your service and um have a good night thank you David and finally we have Mike Sakowski Mike you're [Music] up Mike you're live but you need to unmute please can you hear me now we can excellent so I'm a member of the community that lives near the Mount Hope Lutheran Church and I see this piece of property as influential to say the least in talking with my fellow neighbors the possibilities of realizing the full potential of this property are almost as exciting as the risks and the concerns and that are stress inducing and I'd

[217:00] like to touch a little bit on opportunity but also on the risk I have no idea whether rezoning the Mount Hope Lutheran Church property would be a good idea or a bad idea there's not really a lot of information to go on at this time the written proposal mentions wanting to change it to one of four different zones and we've also heard mentioned the mixed use uh that that Timmy dunan mentioned earlier so that's a total of eight out of 33 possible zones that are available to properties in the city of Boulder and if we had more information I feel like it might be better to sort out uh what the development plan looks like and we can more easily decide whether such a plan is best served by keeping the zone as it is or changing it to one of not four but the 33 possible classifications I also want to share a word of caution based on the risk concerned when looking at what other cities have gone through when working with churches to make better use of their land there are some examples where collaboration between the community and

[218:00] a developer and the church have gone really well but there are unfortunately a lot more where they've been exploited Atlanta Denver San Antonio New York have all faced challenges in this regard there's in fact in the city of New York the state of New York has a a division the Charities Bureau with the Eternal J's office that reviews all development deals involving churches to make sure that the nonprofits are not being scammed so because of this risk I want to ask that we exercise caution we work together to find the best solution for this piece of property whether that's the current zone or something new great thank you Mike and with that um we will bring um public comment on this to a close and bring it back to council um I would like to start by just reiterating if council members have any questions let's start with those and if not we can move into discussion uh so mirbi your hand is still up I'm not sure if that's current

[219:01] okay so Mary your question yeah I have a couple of questions so the first one is about the U Mount Hope Lutheran property and I just wanted to understand to better understand um what the process would look like um for outreaching to the community and trying to figure out the appropriate land use um for that parcel if that were to happen thank you Mary um and I would like to um just acknowledge that a number of the comments from the community members there we absolutely agree that this is very early in the process um and again with this with the screening process is just the first step to say we're interested in looking at this there are a lot of the issues that um were brought up and you know range of

[220:03] possibilities um as to why we thought let's learn a little bit more it may be premature but we'd like to have opportunity to talk to the community the planning board also recommended that um we involve the Youth of the area there being um both schools there and so we've reached out to the growing up Boulder folks to start to brainstorm what that might look like um through this process so while we don't have a full engagement plan we will and um I think that this is a great opportunity to um talk to the community um understand you know you think we've just put put our toe in the water of understanding concerns um the intersection and others um being very important but also what those opportunities were um comments from the planning board um expressed interest and this could be um a good site to really further our goals around 15minute neighborhoods and so we we just want to

[221:01] look at it a little bit further um and talk to the community about what that would look like thank you Jean and then um my other question is I'm I'm trying really hard to understand what's happening over at the Odell property so um you can correct me if I'm wrong here but here's here's how I understand it right now is um the underlying land use is mui which is mixed use industrial correct and then um the zoning on it is IG and the identified issue is that housing is only allowed in IG zoning if the parcel um is two acres or larger um and then on top of that there is the gun barrel Town plan

[222:00] which has outlined a different kind of zoning that is not cannot be um overlaid on mui and so the request is to change the underlying zoning so that you can then match the gun barrel Town plan I mean the underlying I'm sorry to change the underlying land use to match the zoning that has been called called out in the town plan is that how what it is my understanding as well and again this being the beginning of the process we would be um we need to be looking at the analysis to determine whether a a change in land use would be supportable and um so and I guess another question would be um

[223:01] concurrently we also have the use table project going on correct and it seems to me that that's another potential route to take with this parcel is to look at the use table for the IG Zone and see if that can be changed to allow housing at a parcel that is under 2 acres is that another route that could be taken I'm not sure I can speak to that um but we can certainly take a look um at that process okay um so yeah I I guess I would like to better understand what exactly the proposal is and why especially in light of um this is a land banking effort on behalf of um Boulder housing Partners so that overlays on top of everything that I that is my

[224:00] understanding it overlays the whole idea that you can come for a zoning change when you actually no you can't when you start to develop it not you can't come for a zoning change I understand in this process which is why I'm a little confused um but you can come for a zoning change to match the the the plans that are in place when you come forward with a development plan that's my understanding so I have Rachel and Aaron here I I'd like to cqu so if Rachel and Aaron are are you going to cqu on this or separate question have at it okay so Aaron I saw you nodding are you gonna call go ahead Sam but I did want to speak on this but you go ahead okay great um Mary I appreciate those questions they're very good questions it seems to me like The crucial issue here

[225:01] is do we need to make a land use change in order for future development to be about housing so if there's a way as Mary has described to be able to get a appropriate um density of of affordable housing to be supportable by just doing a zoning change it seems that Mary is right in the site plan review for instance you'd be able to bring in the site plan and a zoning change application if I recall correctly so I think the real question I I'd be fine advancing this to the next level but I think the real question here is is the land use change necessary to get the zoning that's needed if um the um housing the fer housing Partners wants to put affordable housing here so if it is required to make a land use change in order to achieve that goal I think this should continue on the process if you could do it strictly with

[226:00] zoning changes on top of the current land use I would think that you would just do the zoning change as a separate thing so I think the question about whether we should follow through with this has to do with is the land use change needed in order to get to the outcome that Boulder housing Partners would like uh I'll come back to it but I have a separate question about the schedule but I'd like to go ahead to Aon right now to call as well yeah uh thanks for those questions Mary and I think Sam you you said it well and um the thing is I'm not sure that you could do it with just a zoning change um because there's the industrial uh land use and so I'm not sure what zone you could switch it to um that would be industrial but that would still support housing I can't promise but I think maybe that all those industrial zones may have that two acre threshold anyway the if we move it forward for further study all of these issues would be uncovered and so we could learn more um just one other thing

[227:01] I think on the the use table bit if my memory serves me correctly the um enabling of Housing and industrial zones isn't the use tables per se but a separate section in the title n code that allows in indust residential and Industrial zones and specifies how that's done though correct me if I'm wrong staff thanks Aaron um and just just to um thank you and um both Sam and Aaron for simplifying the question because yeah mine was a little more complicated but thanks it's little wacky okay um just to to finish Mary are you done with this particular um application yes I am I'm I'm done with my questions that's all I had okay so I just have one more question on this one as long as we're on this application which is just to make sure that we understand um all the staff referenced land use proposals and all of the public applications for

[228:01] land use proposals have been assembled and then this one came in afterwards is it unusual for staff to bring something like this forward or is it considered because it's staff it's in a different category like how do you how do you square the question about um whether this slipped in under the wire unfairly or not right um and that was the question that we asked the planning board as well we recognized that this was the the timing was just such that we didn't know about it earlier in in the process um and because of they being um staff work to to help with this this process moving forward and it being um such a critical comp planning and Community goal for the permanently affordable housing um we we just wanted to POS it to the planning board into the council um if it would be helpful to meeting to to um trying to

[229:03] achieve that outcome we felt like we could at least start that conversation and that analysis through part of this update process great thank you that's my last question on this um Rachel um yeah thanks so some of the speakers just confused me a little bit um so on request number three 750 North Street um we said that the work is beyond the scope of the midterm update and then um David said can we get a ND a not of nine to ask staff to do a little pilot I just wanted to know from Jean what what is he indicating what's possible there you know I'm I'm not entirely clear as to um how that might unfold I think that um we we need to be careful with any of these types of changes in these

[230:01] residential areas that um you know what is a pilot what does that mean what's the wider applic ility um as we know you know people will will want to participate with this and um we need to have a process where folks can do that um we just don't really have a sense of what that scope might be um to undertake that at this time um okay so I guess I'll come back to that in discussion and then on the request number four for T tvap phase two um Danica talked about that one and at the bottom of the staff recommendation it's it looks like we're sort of recommending a baby step for it can you clarify kind of what what is happening and what is not happening with that request sure um so the as Danica mentioned and I mentioned earlier the

[231:00] implementation plan for the transit Village area plan sets out these two phases 2A which is the west side of 30th Street that can be accomplished um potentially sooner than the rest um with some of the infrastructure planning for Bluff Street um the rest requires a little more work and it has been since 2007 where when the list of potential public improvements was developed within the plan we need to take another look at that um and from what I understand with my team um and our team with transportation and utilities um that's that's going to take a bit of work to really look through what what are the public improvements and then to try to identify funding um in support of them does Rachel does that answer your question as to the differences in the in the [Music] areas yeah it's enough I yeah thanks great so we got Mark next and

[232:00] Aaron your hand is still up you want to go after Mark okay thank you markar me yes can you hear me yes okay good um I I fully respect the fact that we are constrained in terms of of Staffing and resources at the moment but I'm a little uncomfortable with picking winners and losers on that basis alone given our previously lack adherence to deadlines with respect to the comp plan has staff given any thought to uh Donna George's suggestion then maybe we put it off for a year or two uh and if that doesn't make sense why wouldn't that make sense so Gan I think that's to you yeah that's proba um I think that we've been

[233:01] evaluating um a lot of the pieces of our work plan um in recent weeks and um we think that you know this level of analysis the the proposals that have been made that we've recommended moving forward and the staff initiated changes keeping that scope narrow for the policy changes that are you know adopted plans and adopted policies can go ahead and move forward this year following the direction that um planning board and Council provided at the end of end of the year to try to get this done this year um I think that we've try to weigh out like this this one probably could wait um there's not an urgent need with that but we have um you know other projects that are needing of Staff attention as

[234:00] well okay I I'm just my my concern is that there are other projects that may have Merit um and they're being put on sideline on this basis alone and they may be worthy projects and and it's an uncomfortable position to be in to be picking those winners and uh and losers and there seem to be many more losers than winners at the moment okay anything else Mark no that's it okay nearby wants to call agree on this I just wanted to say you know the reply was that it was Direction by Council and that was prior to the pandemic and and what was happening so I think a re-evaluation and what Donna did bring up was um something I've been hearing again because this I think a large portion of these updates affect gun barrel I've again been hearing that call out that a lot of people who either don't have internet access might not be as familiar with

[235:00] internet procedures with zoom um would like to see this um when they could participate further and that they feel like their voice is not being heard and so again when we gave that direction I just would like to make it very clear this was prior to a pandemic and so now with the world having changed I think that we could possibly look at adjusting to because as Mark says um there are some very good ideas here that I think deserves some very serious concern so that we don't end up in situations like been pain [Music] cost okay Aaron yeah and um this was kind of a separate question but ends up piggybacking on Mark and and mirabai's point so uh it seems like a fair number of these things maybe don't have to be done at the at a mid or major update um so like the changing land use does but um my understanding though is that like say tvap Phase 2 we could kick that off

[236:00] as a work plan project um any year uh correct without um needing to do this part of a a major minor update that's correct and I think similarly like um Donna's proposal for uh getting all the open space land use uh correct that like that kind of house cleaning kind of project would we need to do that at a major midterm term update those changes um um looking looking to my comp plan of the um types of changes we can do map only changes um at any time typically within around an area planning or sub commmunity planning process I will say that the the full look at at some of the cleanups we're trying to have that underway we're going to um take a look at a lot of those that in the East Boulder sub Community both in area one

[237:01] and area two um and develop a framework for assessing those so that we can continue to do that work um and identify any of the controversial ones to bring forward with the next major update okay well maybe you could let us know because have some vague memory of there being a clause somewhere that if a A Change Is essentially a cleanup uh to correct something that's wrong that that doesn't require some major additional process so maybe you could get back to us on that um so just that I think we could like I'm I'm very interested in tvap Phase 2 just at some point um but I get that today is probably not the day to start it given the staff constraints but we could start it before too long if we can find the time it's just and similarly with other projects that's true and and there a number of these that we did we have identified on the comp plan action plan um in anticipation of them being in the work plan um in this time between the midterm update and the major update

[238:01] great thanks great and Aaron if I could just ask a clarifying question I agree with you and the two that you pointed out were I think spot on um those are two that were not recommended by planning board if I recall correctly so this is just kind of a side note saying that we could move forward on taap we could move forward potentially on cleanup correct you're not suggesting we do anything different from what the planning board has yeah that's right I mean we haven't gotten to comments yet but just my my point is that we if we don't take any of those up uh which plan board already hasn't that doesn't mean that we can't bring them back in a year or two versus having to wait 5 years for the next major update just making sure I understood thank you soby and the planning board did um list the the tvap as one of the items to try to prioritize and the your term uh May's hand is down Mary got you

[239:00] again it's me again um so I have a this question is for Chris um so a couple months ago I believe it was like kind of at the beginning of the the stay-at home um you and I had a conversation about um delaying the the midterm update and if I recall correctly um your thoughts were that um it could easily be done because it was like policy and text changes and and um some map changes to reflect things that have happened with um open space purchases and things like that um at that point in time had you anticipated this many public requests um and and and if so about how many had

[240:01] you anticipated um yeah that's my question sure thanks Mary and good even even Council um as Mary and I discussed when uh the stay-at-home orders first began and we were talking about the work plan uh we we kind of looked at there's multiple options that council could take for the bbcp update um one of those is to kind of proceed with the update as is um another one could be to proceed with the update but really focus on what are the key um uh changes that need to be done as the a part of this update and um as many of the speakers tonight referred to the plan really is a community plan that's why we have this request process um which is important um we will have another opportunity for those requests so um we could focus on just a few requests for this update um and then there'd be another opportunity to consider those requests at the next

[241:01] update um or or council could just pause the the midterm update completely and um return to it at a future work plan so um as a part of then the work plan discussion that we had two weeks ago um we talked about what um the different approaches for the various um planning department work items could be um Charles walked through those um we believe that the the comp plan update um proceeding um with these requests as are and with the staff recommendations um is manageable based on on the resources and then um with the reductions and Staffing that that have occurred this week um and then some of the items that the planning board referred to um that that council members have just been talking about related to things like tvap Phase 2 those are all items as Council will recall that we discussed um and are are on the potential docket for um discussion in January for re prioritization and so we're still queued up to be able to consider those so Mary

[242:01] does that help answer and kind of recap that conversation um yeah and I have just another follow-up question I I appreciate your me memories better than mine um so and then what criteria were used to um select of the of the several um public requests what criteria were used to sort those out from um which ones go forward and which ones wouldn't um kind of a um Mark's question about um picking winners and losers and there there must have been some sort of a a set of criteria that you all use to figure that out and so what was that there is Mary and the criteria is set forth pretty clearly um in the comp plan for the midterm update um these are to be minor policy

[243:01] additions and clarifications not intended to be a time for major policy changes and then the resource Factor um weighs heavily and is clearly outlined in the comp plan for this criteria so um while we've tried to figure out how we can move um move some of these forward we know that some of the ones that are really going to be complex and require a lot of process don't meet that criteria of being minor policy um additions or clarifications or to be ones that we have the resources at this point to take on um and so that those were the comp plan provided those um criteria thanks Jean that's all I have Mary um got nearby and then I have one last question but yeah I was just wondering if staff could give just a quick explanation of the time involved in accepting 10 through 12 or changing

[244:03] it to open space uh just because again that's not something I wasn't on planning Bo so to me it sounds like we would just be designating something and it wouldn't take as much staff time but an explanation of what it would actually entail would be appreciated right and I think that the complexity um regarding those Parcels is um about both that just changing a land use designation doesn't really address ownership Redevelopment um development rights and um the policy direction are um from the comprehensive plan for those Parcels so um while it's it's a it's a bigger question than just the land use designation thanks J great and I have a final question here I don't see any other hands up um so uh

[245:01] request number 8 was specific to map inaccuracies so land use designation inaccuracies it seemed to me like many of those were in the county and it said something like perhaps a few are within the city um of the four or five that planning board Advanced would map inaccuracies have any impact on on how those would be looked at I'm sorry Sam um the plan didn't didn't really discuss this one particularly so I'm I'm trying to understand understand what you're asking so my only question is I I haven't gone through chapter and verse of all the um the land use designations that Miss George thinks might be inaccurate so the question was of the the um land use change proposals that planning board accepted would any of those be affected by any map

[246:01] inaccuracies um well the the couple the couple of the public applications that um um folks brought up um the one up 47th Street and also the one on Hillside that um we are moving recommending to move forward are about errors and inaccuracies and they're they're pretty straight forward um questions what I think is difficult about um and and I recognize that I may may I interrupt briefly so I I get that those two are about map inaccuracies but neither of those two were referenced particularly by Miss George right in in number eight number eight does not reference those two number eight was really more about some of the open space designations and some of the um public designations especially in the um unincorporated areas and um there there

[247:01] are a lot of those that we need to like to get a little deeper to understand why those designations were made we have to do some analysis to understand um some of the history of that and to look at um parcel lines versus mapping lines so it's a it's um to do that compreh we think that needs to be done comprehensively and um we need to take the time to do it okay so I I don't disagree I think you know errors should be fixed as long as none of those errors have any bearing on what at least the ones that have been put forward by planning board um then I I don't think it's gerine to what's been put forward that's all I was asking I was trying to understand that there's the overlap between number eight and any of the others that have been passed so that's it for me um let me see if there's hands up nearby your hand is still up do you have anything additional okay no okay

[248:01] great well I think we're done with questions then so I think we want to move to council discussion and then eventually a motion so would anyone like to kick us off I can if no one wants to jump in [Music] Adam process question actually um are we gonna go down the list one by one or are we GNA popcorn it or what's sort of the the plan I think each council member can adopt their own plan in a sense I would think we would just kind of generally each of us say what we think I don't think I think we have to go one by one but that's up to each council member themselves I wouldn't go one by one got it thank you yep Aaron yeah I can I can kick us off here um so I mean I I thought that the planning board did great did great work on this I mean staff has analyzed these things pretty thoroughly and have

[249:00] figured out what they can and can't do in a resource constrained time period while still moving you know some things forward could benefit the community and um I you know planning board's unanimous recommendation was to kind of take that approach moving forward um so I thought that was a good approach I I agreed with them though that there are a lot of opportunities here um that we hate to sit on the on the vine for another five years and so of course we're all we're busy with the work plan and such but to be able to get back to something um would uh sooner than this five years like things like tvap Phase 2 um you know or looking at diagonal Plaza so as we move forward and get back a little bit towards normaly um I'd love to see us look for some more of those opportunities to you know enable some some more 15minute neighborhoods and affordable housing in different parts of the the city and then the one kind of other thing I'll I'll put out there is just to ask staff if if we have uh any ability to um to look at the the the

[250:03] Goose Creek uh Land Trust idea of uh that in a way that does not take you know 3 to 5 years of setting up processes for pilot programs so I that would be my one other request is to see if we could do work work with them on something that that could get us some additional kind of affordable housing um in an Innovative way in a shorter time period thank you Aon Mark I wanted to key off um something that that Aaron said and that's a processed question um if things do go back to normal in a couple of years what is our capability of uh let's say in 2021 what is our capability if any to add items to uh our review and add them to the uh comp plan uh update do we have that flexibility uh if uh things are

[251:01] different in 2021 um can we begin to add some things back in if uh if we think it appropriate well I think that that we can we can certainly take on some of these different planning processes and planning projects um not that don't necessarily have to be part of the midterm update but then could also result in changes to the comp plan once we once we complete the process and determine what those changes should be we have that ability thank you great well I'm going to jump in here there's 's No Hands raised so I want to compliment staff for your very thorough job at um assessing each of these and then getting them presented to planning board I agree with Aaron I think planning board did a really good job I know that they more or less took the staff recommendations on most things um but it sounds like they had a pretty robust discussion of them I want to make

[252:00] a few comments on some of the specific issues um that are at hand um I also want to agree with Aon in the following sense that there are some things here that really are planning projects right they're not simple land use map changes so the 750 North Street that's a pilot and that's a pilot that's totally undefined as to how we would do the community engagement what we would do I mean my heart goes out to the folks who' have been working on this project because they've been working on it since I first got on Council so it's it's a dream that they would like to see happen and I agree with Aaron that it would be good if it didn't have to wait till the next um update to do it um The Challenge we have obviously is what we wrestled with at our Retreat which is we have tons of planning projects all of which would be good and beneficial and it's a matter of red quaring them tvap by the way except for West of 30th Street is a monster undertaking that could probably take up half of the planning staff's

[253:02] long range planning bandwidth because there's so much infrastructure that has to happen there such a major change so I I think that little piece of tat Phase 2 that's on the west side of 30th should proceed because I don't think that's a heavy lifp but just so we all know tbat Phase 2 is a really really big deal um so 750 North tat Phase 2 as Aaron said those are both essentially planning projects for the future one of which is relatively easier and one of which is relatively harder um when it comes to next the Lutheran Church I think the outcomes here could be as people said really beneficial for the neighborhood or they could be detrimental to the neighborhood and a lot of it's going to depend on the details of that plan and what the zoning is going to dictate and I think transportation is an issue that has to be looked at for that one but by and large I think it should go forward I think it should get more analysis I

[254:01] think the fact that there's a big affordable housing component that's part of that is another reason to to dig in pretty deeply and see what we can do with that so I just want to say I think that's a good project but I think we need to be careful with it to make sure that we're setting it up for Success here at the land use designation phase Sam do mind if I cqu on that real quick no go ahead yeah so thanks for saying that and I just I wanted to speak to some of the folks in in public comment um who are like about that partiel in particular who were concerned about a zoning change and just to to make it clear that um what we're doing tonight is not changing the zoning um it's not approving a development um it's simply authorizing staff to investigate and analyze whether um the land use should be changed which then could potentially eventually lead to a zoning change which could potentially eventually lead to a development project so this is really a small step along the way and um there'll

[255:01] be lots of community engagement all along uh those steps so there's nothing nothing final being done here tonight just more analysis thank you um and and I want to speak at at a higher level I mean that covers most of the yeses and the interesting NOS in the sense of um things that are big planning um processes the bulk of these the remainder at least that have been put forward by planning board seem fairly small um the Lutheran Church being an exception to that but the others um you know a couple of them are Corrections um of mapping that probably wasn't done right in the first place and so it looks to me like this is not the yeses here are not a really heavy lift for sta I will point out that Odell came in late and I think we need to be careful about that um I I because it's affordable

[256:00] housing because it's kind of an odd parcel that it's unclear what the the ultimate disposition will will really need to be there um I'd like to see it move forward um but I I do think that we should take a lesson from this and set a deadline for the next process that's like if it is come in in time for X that we should do it that way and if not um we should just cut it off and it'll have to wait um be because I think it creates a sense of unfairness for the public applicants because they had a hard deadline and this one kind of slipped but I I think it it's worthy of consideration and staff is bringing it forward so it's a little bit different and it's with one of our important Community Partners so um with all that being said I think generally I'm going to be supportive of of um going forward with what planning board recommends which is what staff recommends I do have one more comment that I want to to put out there

[257:00] generally speaking and that's around Gun Barrel so Gun Barrel is for us complicated issue because there's a big part of the residential area in what is called Gun Barrel which has city services um in which the city could Annex those properties should we choose to we would never do that we would much prefer that any annexation we do in Gun Barrel be um driven by the community wanting to come into the city however um the status quo is that many of those County properties are not in the city we do not represent the residents of Gun Barrel who receive city services but are not within the city's boundary um I have long wondered why people in Gun Barrel would not want to be part of the city the only downside that I can possibly see to being annexed into the city is that your property taxes may go up by 10 to 15% depending on a lot of things but

[258:02] for that small property tax increase the resident and Gun Barrel would have full access to All City Council Members you get to vote on who they are and then when you speak about what you would like to see in your community it will be received as from constituents rather than from unincorporated County neighbors so I would just encourage generally The Gun Barrel Community to consider whether there would be advantages to annexing you know big chunks of the Gun Barrel neighborhoods into the city so that the planning can involve everyone who lives out there more easily because when we get comments from folks in unincorporated Gun Barrel it has a different feeling than when we get comments which we had a few tonight that come from people who are within the city limits so I'll just make that General comment I've made it before I think I would like to see those residential

[259:00] neighborhoods which receive water and and Sewer from Boulder as part of the city as voting residents the city and as you know um fulling participants in the planning that goes on out there so I now have Mary and [Music] mirbi thanks Sam um and I agree with what Sam the points that Sam um made regarding the The Gun Barrel area um and so you know just think about that I think that um another um point that was brought up by I believe it was Jean um earlier when she was describing the projects and the criteria as one of the things that they considered was controversial nature of um of some of these projects and and I think that that's a really important

[260:02] consideration given um the situation that we're in um in terms of the pandemic is that people are focused on um many other things other than um fighting over land use issues basically and um and to create um a divisiveness in the community because there's some sort of a land use conversation that um is happening I think is not a good place to go with the community I think we need to um keep our community as United as we can and to introduce some sort of a divisive project I think would not be a good idea so um that's you know a conversation that has to do with um the the teag um requests is what I'm referring to um

[261:03] I do um I also agree with Sam about Odell and the way it came forward it just it does have um a look of unfairness um and like Sam um it does meet um an important need um and so we need to look at it but I would like to make sure that what we do is what analyze what can be done with making zone in changes at the point where a site plan review comes forward um and then I would like to agree with a with Aaron and with Sam about um tvap and um 750 North Street um tvap that would be our gigantic undertaking um not just with um the

[262:01] infrastructure but how would the infrastructure get paid for and who would pay for it I mean that would be just huge conversations with all the property owners and um it's it's a huge huge project so um I do agree that at some point it could be a planning project as could diagonal Plaza um area plan for that matter um so um I'll be supporting the planning board recommendations and that's all I have we have mirbi Mark and Adam mirbi um so first I'll start off with Broadway um and say that I understand that it's not a land use change and that staff is just going to be researching but um based on what the residents are saying that they are just hearing about this and haven't had any um input or any participation yet I'm not going to be voting for this I think that we need to work with our residents first

[263:00] before we start putting things like this on our plate I think this is one of the big issues that cause um unrest and concern and people getting divisive within the community because we didn't reach out first and all of a sudden they had this possible land use change in front of them and they don't understand what's going on and why because they weren't reached out to so I won't be supporting that as for Odell though I think it's needed and I would have supported it if it had followed the rules as everyone else did I will not be supporting that either um I think it sets a bad precedent again and causes divisiveness within the community because others have worked very hard who follow the rules and cross the tees and do the eyes and um I don't think it's fair to those residents so even though I think it's an excellent project I think they need to follow the rules and I do understand it came in um just under the wire but what if the residents had come up with something under the wire that's not fair to them um I would like to see this pushed off until 2020 as residents have requested just because of what is

[264:00] going on and I think that a lot more people would like to be involved I don't think that's going to happen but I'm just stating that that's what I would like to see um because so much of this does surround gun barrel uh and I am only the second council member to ever come from this area and I actually am a paying resident of the city myself uh I will say that I think the residents there are still many in the city uh they need an area plan and I know that they would like to be deeply involved in that so having anything else built out here which is massively overcapacity and going into king supers is a nightmare you can never find parking and food's often not on the Shelf um though I think the King suers employees try very very hard to accommodate um I think that any more development out here without a plan is unwarranted I won't support it myself uh and in terms of 8 through 12 I'll be supporting those although again I understand most of council will not I think this is very very clear issue with

[265:01] the hydrology reports that the residents themselves raise money for to get those studies and that it's a clear Wildlife Corridor um people are sitting here begging us and I understand they might be unincorporated but regardless I still feel like they are still part of our community and they need to be heard and it's just unbelievable to me that we're continuing this conversation and not having people listen to a very very loud group of widely ranged residents out here who are telling you what they want and asking you and it's not all of their fault that they are not part of the community of Boulder City and taxpaying residents so uh again I understand it most likely is not going to go through but I just want to be very clear for the record that I do support 8 through 10 so that's all I have to say hereby um then we have Mark and [Music] Adam yeah I I will agree with Sam and Mary uh on Odell I support it because of the importance of the affordable housing

[266:02] but this is a situation where I think we need to say this time and and that's it okay it is it does create an impression of unfairness uh when we do it this way and I think our rules need to be adhered to um I will make this exception uh because I do support affordable housing uh but I I think we need to clean up the process a little bit um going forward um uh I'm going to support the other um recommendations of Staff but I want to acknowledge that m by is Raising some really excellent points um uh I don't know what planning processes are in place with respect to the gun barrel Community but we've heard enormous amounts of testimony in person and emails about the lack of open space the degree of uh the pace of development out there the lack of infrastructure and if

[267:01] we're not addressing that I I really would like to know why we are not addressing that and I'm not sure it's a good reason to not plan for the area simply because parts of it are not part of the city of Boulder they are our neighbors and um they deserve a little better than that so I would I would urge us to um either commence a an area plan a subc community area plan uh for Gun Barrel or otherwise start to address some of these concerns I I I think they're not um they're they're not insubstantial and uh we owe that Community uh a bit more attention than we're paying it thank you thank you Mark Adam I have a few things to reiterate um most of what I've been thinking has been said but I think it's important to say it again to some of them um in general

[268:00] I'm supportive of what the planning board and staff has brought forth um with a caveat I am a stickler for process as you guys have all seen at this point and uh to have staff bring something up um without or outside of the regular process really does not sit well with me at all um so I would like to see hopefully the same outcome but done in a different way um we mentioned Ed tables I don't know if that's the proper route for that but um I do want to see affordable housing in that space But I do not um support something that happens outside of the process that the regular citizens have to abide by I think that's what builds distrust in this community and um I don't agree with that um the other two I am generally in agreeance for um and I

[269:02] would like to say I am also really interested in finding a way to make small pilot programs possible um without a whole bunch of red tape um with proper Community input so um I know that's probably something we'd have to put on a work plan but um that is something that you know that Innovation um we've been starved for that in this community that's small scale Innovation and I think uh it's proven that there's a lot of dedication to certain projects in this community and um I would hope that those would come to fruition in some sort uh along the way so I would be supportive of a pilot program in general uh in the future um I will say I've I was a resident of Gun Barrel um in recent history and uh I do agree that it is

[270:00] sorely lacking a subcommunity plan um as far as I know the the largest amount of green space uh close to Gun Barrel is actually a private Country Club and when you think about it that way that isn't super Fair um compared to what the the rest of the community has in terms of parks and recreational space um and it does often feel like Gun Barrel um is an afterthought and I don't really like that having lived there a year and seeing what it's like to be a member of that Community um so while I don't um support an open space designation because primarily I don't think there is one that fits accurately to those Parcels um I think we're going to have more and more conversations about Twin Lakes and um what that could be in the future and that is my overall [Music] take thank you

[271:00] juny yes I'm slightly concerned about how we are going about this process so we received 12 possible amendments and right now we're just picking and choosing the ones we want although we agree with staff and planning board and not necessarily go with the rest is that how we're going about it so juny just to give you a little color eron had brought this up for as well the um we need multiple bodies to approve these changes and inside the city it's the planning board and the city council if it is something outside of the city it can involve the County Commissioners as well and so for the inside the city and that's usually an annexation or land use change that that

[272:00] um the count it's currently unincorporated County that we might bring into the city so Twin Lakes is an example of that um so generally speaking if the planning board has not said yes to something that has come to us we can ask them to reconsider it but if they've said no like they did to to many of the the suggestions then we have to ask them to reconsider so the reason that kind of you start with what they approved and then you look at everything else is if they approved it then it's live and if we approve it then it can go forward um and be analyzed further so that's kind of a long-winded way of saying if the planning board has said no to it we have to send it back to them with the requests that they reexamine it yeah does that help thank you I think maybe the only comment I wanted to make and I think it goes back to when Mark and Mary was talking as a member of the financial

[273:00] strategy committee we know that the city is currently going through its budget and looking at the different priorities and what I was thinking to myself is that some of these projects are well in line or in complimentarity to some of the budgetary changes that we will be making for instance when we think of affordable housing of course that's still we're still working on prioritizing it and whether you know essential important as we discussed in our own on subcommittee meetings and I'm thinking as we're trimming the budget these different projects will have more important so I was thinking even when we think of 750 North Street that's a very important project if you know as we look at the budget and we we are looking for other opportunities to create more affordable housing maybe you know having these

[274:01] private Partnerships of local community members somehow facilitating or own priorities basically so juny was that a suggestion did you have something can you hear me I guess first so on 750 North Street um The Proposal is that's a a pilot project and so we have no rules defined for how a pilot like that would work and so I think the reason that that would be considered more of a planning project than a land use change uh is because it will require definition of the rules um so I agree that it's something we should speak about but I don't know that it it's going to be easy to fit into this

[275:00] process does that make sense juny do you have any suggestions that you'd like to make it does make it does make sense I hear you and I think again further discussion as you mentioned is warranted is important what will that look like I don't know I I think the next time we're likely to bring this up would be when we review our um board plan so whenever we do the retreat I know we're talking about in July taking a brief look and then maybe another one in January um in July at least because we have had so many changes anyone else with comments feedback suggestions if not I think somebody should make a motion yeah I I'll go ahead and and move um that we further and consider uh

[276:03] consider and analyze the following land use map Amendment M ments proposed by members of the public which are the requests number uh 25 and 7 that's Hillside Road 47 Street in South Broadway as well as the um staff uh proposed um suggestion on um proposal on Odell Street second okay we have a motion second Aaron would you like to speak to your motion I I already mostly spoke to it but I just wanted to to piggyback on some comments from other folks just about I do feel like the gun barrel area needs more attention and so planning board included that in their recommendations as well and so there's the a sub community plan which I think would be great to get to uh at some point uh before too long and then just that we need to keep an eye on the the services and the um amenities for Gun Barrel my I've been hopeful that we would work towards uh getting a library branch there before too long and that we

[277:01] can prioritize some Park improvements and and things like that so um just that uh you know the area does deserve more attention than it's getting so just wanted to mention that but um and then just to reiterate my request to staff that that we uh that they think about a way that we could um do something work with the Goose Creek folks um in in a shorter time frame rather than a very long one great and I didn't catch who the second was who seconded Mary okay okay Mary would you like to speak to this um I mostly said what I wanted to but I just want to Second what um Aaron just said regarding Gun Barrel it is kind of a um not given the attention that it should get um and um part of it is that as Sam spoke earlier annexation isn't is a concern um

[278:03] I think you know it's about if if folks want libraries and Parks they have to be willing to pay for it and that's really what it comes down to and that's what annexation does is it provides um the property tax um Revenue to be able to provide those amenities great thank you Mary and mirbi has her hand up meby oh I just wanted to be clear that I'll be voting no on this but only because of the Odell section and not because I don't support the affordable housing I just don't think that it as Adam said brings trust to the government when we hold people to different standards um so I guess because this is under one motion I'll have to vote no although I do support everything else so just thank you mayby

[279:01] Adam and I'll say the same except I'm going to vote in the affirmative since I've support two out of the three um but there is the Odell I do not support because of the way it was gone about thank you great and that's everyone with their hand up so I think we're ready for a vote this last call if you want to make a comment uh seeing none um all in favor of aon's motion raise your hand do it visibly I'll just have a look so Mark Sam Rachel Adam Aaron juny Bob and Mary so that's eight and opposed nearby is opposed so the motion passes 8 to one okay so we have two more small items left I'm gonna propose I can um to clarify um did did um we we had

[280:03] proposed two motions and one was really about the other staff initiated text and policy and map changes Ain was your intent that that your motion was all-encompassing of all of the oh yeah I was I was reading the motion language from the the memo um but yeah please uh consider that to include the uh the text map changes as well okay thank you if and that's how I understood the motion as well all-encompassing y yeah did anyone vote Yes who did not understand the motion no and mby voted no I think for reasons that we're separate from that so Gan I think this includes everything that staff had brought forward thank you very much for the very thoughtful discussion we appreciate um the direction very good thank you all very much thanks to planning staff I know this is a big deal and if if it passes

[281:01] it will be the first time in recent memory that we've passed comp plan update in the same year that it has a number on it so we cross our fingers right thank you yeah thank you so much Jean so we have two more items on the agenda I would normally have tried to fit a Breakin in there somewhere but there wasn't a natural spot to do that so um our last two are Matters from the city manager there's the cares Act and the um public Outreach for Excel negotiations we think it this will be 15 minutes shall we power on and get this done okay very good Jane I think it's over to you now thank you so much so I'll start off um discussing the cares act funding so as you know the state of Colorado received significant funding from the federal government through the cares act several counties received substantial sums and they have

[282:01] distributed those funds to themselves and to the municipalities within their locations last week the state made the determination that what is now turning out to be $27.8 million would be shared with the remaining counties and municipalities in the state and they have tasked the department of local Affairs as the organization that will be Distributing those funds the department of local Affairs has come up with um a process for for moving that forward so what they have asked is they've asked the municipalities in every County to work together and with their County to come up with a a plan or strategy for how the funds within that County should be distributed and for what sorts of things Boulder County is one of the most populous remaining counties who didn't

[283:00] originally get funding and so in Boulder County all the municipalities and the county are entitled to around $28 million um what has happened is that in the city of Boulder I have asked a cross departmental team to be gathering data about the costs that and expenses that we've incurred as a result of the pandemic and that team has Representatives that are working together with the county and other municipalities on a weekly meeting the first meeting was yesterday yesterday to come up with a strategy for our County about the sorts of things that we would all apply for to get reimbursed um we will have to apply separately um and submit our our um expense reports I guess I'll call them separately in order to get reimbursed from the Department of local Affairs Boulder County is not the Distributing agent it's doola so among the things

[284:01] that we are brainstorming with our colleagues in Boulder County are of course getting reimbursed for medical and protective supplies cleaning services that we've had to have for our buildings and Equipment pay for employees um who have been substantially dedicated to covid response for example The covid Recovery Center that we established we should be getting reimbursed for that uh we hope to get reimbursed for the Health Equity Fund and Human Service fund payments that we made to atten ient homes EA and others we contributed money to a grant program for small businesses we hope to get reimbursed for that um some communities are concerned about an increase in unemployment insurance and so we're looking into whether or not we would qualify for that we also um put forward some housing fund and housing Health Equity funding to EA I

[285:01] think I mentioned that and then we had a rental ass assistant assistance partnership with Boulder housing Partners so we have spent quite a bit of money as have other communities and of course the county um even more than the the municipalities so we're working together to come up with a strategy and we can report back to you as time goes on great thank you Jane and in the interest of time in the late hour um I would suggest that council members who have thoughts on what we could use money for or that's directly related to um our response to the Corona virus send those in to to staff to other council members and to members of the public who might be listening similarly if you could um submit your thoughts on this I will give an example Bob earlier tonight had the idea that um we could have masks available to multiple different city departments to hand out um as a preventative measure I don't know if

[286:00] that would qualify but it Jane I believe that this looks at expenses that go forward for about the next year right at least at the end of the year it goes until the end of the year so it needs to be expenses that were incurred beginning at a particular date in March through December 30th okay great so it can cover things we have not spent yet as long as we planned for it right and as long as it's covid related and it's not reimbursing ourselves for lost revenues right okay any other Council comments I see no hands questions okay I think we're on to the next one and the next item is a discussion about Community engagement around our discussions with Excel Energy and Sarah Huntley will be presenting this good evening Council Chris I do have some slides for this if you could pull them up I'd appreciate it so while he's pulling up the slides

[287:02] I'll just give a quick background I think members are aware of and it's late so I'll try to be brief um but we have been asked to pull together a community engagement process under some really interesting constraints obviously the first constraint is the fact that we are in a pandemic and while we usually would like to bring community members into a room together to have conversations about something of this magnitude we're going to be having to use a virtual platform we're also in a time constraint situation because if Council wishes to consider any potential franchise agreement that needs to go on the ballot which means that these negotiation discussions are happening between now and July in order to accommodate that Council decision and discussion um near the end of July so we have come up with a engagement plan that is very um um I cognizant of these challenges that we face and I just wanted to um set

[288:01] the stage for that as I go through a couple slides Chris are you going to pass the control to me Sarah I did just pass control to you so you should be able to accept it and then uh you should be good to click Chris it says I have control but it's not advancing the slides I'm afraid okay I'll click for you thank you okay so we are proposing a phased approach to engagement around this issue um and using the success of the analogy that osmp used for its master plan to call phases windows so people have a clear image of them opening up for engagement and then shutting so we have time to evaluate what we've heard we're

[289:01] proposing three Windows the first which we're currently already in is from now through early July and this is a community feedback window where we really want to have a period of ideation from community members you can see here that we have a couple of objectives that are listed um but mostly our primary objective is to provide the community with opportunities to share feedback about what the city should seek in negotiations and create a platform for the negotiating team to incorporate that feedback into their consideration as they meet with um everybody involved in these discussions want to hear from a variety of perspectives and we want to find a way to honor those who have been involved and have lots of information to share while also inviting others into the conversation we are anticipating doing that through a series of listening sessions which I will outline in just a moment but I think it's important to understand that the um next phase really is a phase where we report back out to the community and negotiate or report

[290:01] out between mid June and through July where the negotiating team on the city Side comes back and helps the community understand what they heard during the feedback and how they intend to use that information as well as some um assessment of which ideas might be workable and could come to the table and which are unlikely to be successful we think it's really important that if the negotiating team believes an idea that the community has brought forward isn't viable that we should explain that at some point and explain why so this is why it's sort of a let's get the input in window one let's respond to the input in window two we also want to be able to share updates on the negotiation process in window two and then if at the end of Windows one and two and at the end of July there is um a set of agreements for Council to consider and there's the possibility of it going onto the ballot we also have started to think about what

[291:01] window three might be which would be a time period basically in August it says August through final ordinance adoption but final ordinance adoption would likely have to happen by the end of August we're basically talking the month of August where we're really in an informed stage where we assure ensure the community is informed about the key points of the agreement and what they're being asked to decide we could answer factual questions we could not participate in any campaigning Chris next slide please so we think it's important for the community to know what they can expect in each of these windows so in window one the window that we're in now we're going to be having online line Town Halls to gather idas and feedback we are anticipating building out at be herd Boulder page for people who want to participate online in more of a written way we're doing updates City Council meetings in addition to this um presentation there are updates scheduled at your next couple of meetings there we are going to have up-to-date web and

[292:00] social media content we'll have consistent communic primarily using the climate and energy email newsletters we have thousands of people signed up to that newsletter so it's a really G great communication Channel and we will have publicly accessible summaries of community feedback during window two we'll also have public meetings that provide updates on negotiations again they will likely be online meetings we'll have Clarity on how the city used public feedback and if the answer some of the ideas is no we'll have why not explanations and then during window number three we do consistent clear accessible Communication web print and social media content next slide please so what's on the table what are we actually asking for community members to um help inform Council and in particular Sam and Bob who are on the negotiating team but all of council about so during this first window you would already invited people to start emailing you and you've gotten a fair

[293:00] number of of um really wellth thought out emails on from a variety of perspectives um and we thought it would be helpful for people to know that the emails that are most helpful during this period are feedback on the kinds of discussion items and negotiation terms that could help us promote our climate mobilization action plan equity and resilience goals the climate targets we've set as a community and the broader energy future goals so the 3DS that Sam talked about previously which is decarbonization decentralization and democratization in window number two we're going to want to um have some feedback specific to the agreement as it begins to take shape and then in window number three our primary question We'll be asking ourselves is is the community getting the information it needs to make an informed Choice next slide please so to be more specific the engagement tactics that we've um confirmed we will be doing in window

[294:00] number one are a series of virtual Town Hall listening sessions um this says four we actually are anticipating having five so there's three for General residents and just population customers of an electric system um these are already scheduled for June 5th June 10th and June 24th they'll be 90 minutes each um and they will be done in an online platform um we are anticipating that those three sessions and the subsequent other two targeted more targeted sessions will be facilitated by Heather Bergman she's agreed to um provide objective neutral facilitation of these conversations the other two dates that we're still um trying to nail down are specifically to have sessions that are designed to um answer questions of key customer accounts and businesses because they might be a little bit different in nature than the questions that residents might have we also are hoping to have a Spanish first listening session we're

[295:02] just trying to confirm the date um with our interpreter and then we'll be publicizing information about that um what we're anticipating during these 90minut sessions is a presentation that's probably going to be about 20 to 30 minutes um just covering how we've gotten to this point what the goals are and Sam and Bob will give an overview of the negotiation process um we also anticipate Excel Energy has told us that they are committed to having um an individual um from high levels of the organiz ation at each of these sessions um primarily to listen so they can hear firsthand what community members are saying and what we are asking for so that um they get a more rounded out picture of that during the negotiations and the discussions one thing I do want to say is so we've made multiple sessions available because we want to give as many people as possible an opportunity to participate so if you

[296:00] signed up for June 5th for example it's really helpful if you don't also sign up for June 10th and June 24th so that we can leave those spots available for other community members to participate this is not a situation where we're counting the number of people who say a particular thing we are going to consider each and every suggestion that comes in if a suggestion has only been made one by one person we will consider it if a suggestion has been made by 20 people we will consider it so really we just want people to have an opportunity to make a suggestion but not feel like they have to have a lot of people repeating the same suggestion just to be heard the whole point of these listening sessions is to help everybody be heard and to be able to consider the comments in a constructive way during this window number one people are also continued to be welcomed to email council at Council bouldercolorado.gov I know the council members are reading those emails and that's another wonderful way to reach your Council and then during window

[297:01] number two at the moment we're thinking we would two report out virtual Town Hall sessions again um we just want to have opportunities if people couldn't make one that they could make the next um so we're at this point thinking about that we are asking individuals to register for the online sessions um so that we make sure that we um are designing the meetings in the platform in a way that accommodates the people who are interested in participating there's a registration link on our primary page about this which is that the bouldercolorado.gov website the local power Pages have a section on working with Excel Energy and we are putting all of our up-to-date information in that space next slide please in terms of where people can go to follow this process and get information we're going to be using many of the communication uh platforms that the city currently has so we have our centralized website we have our electronic newsletters Council updates

[298:02] media relations social media video and we've been asked really to think about using infographics um to explain things that might be seem to be very technical in ways that people can understand I know I find it really helpful to have visual depictions of things that might have to get broken down because they seem really complex or technical so we're going to be trying to use our infographic capacity in our city to explain things like what is distribution system planning what's grid modernization the the other thing I'll say is that um while this is our engagement plan right now we are open to suggestions on things to do to enhance the plan we know for example that there are a lot of people who've been really involved in this process from the get-go and by nature of the number of people we think who are going to participate in listening sessions we may have to limit the participation time to two minutes which may not be very satisfactory for people who have been really engaged so

[299:01] one of the things we've talked about is having a another potential session where people would have um who have been engaged on all sides of this issue would have a little bit of longer time to present but that's still in the thought stages at this point um we have not fleshed out any particular details that's what I had to present and I'm more than happy to take questions I know Sam and Bob um and Tom all of whom have been part of these discussions are also in this meeting and may be able to answer some questions as well good thank you thank you very much Sarah I look forward to um our exchange with the community and hearing what the community thinks we should have front and center as we move forward would any council members like to ask questions make a comment okay seeing none thank you Sarah um I think we'll consider that just had a quick comment um I wanted to sorry I haven't turned my camera

[300:01] on I just wanted to thank Sarah for putting this together in such a short amount of time um this thorough process as well as um learning from the open space master plan and following the same um terminology so that people begin to understand that and um that windows open and close and that will'll move on to the next step so um I really appreciate that thank you thank you yep I agree with that it was you were given very little time to work with and you've come together with a pretty full and robust program so thank you um so if there are no questions or comments on this subject I think we are finished with the business we had before us does anyone have any comments or feedback about the meeting itself okay seeing none I'll gble the

[301:02] 01 thank you all have a good night good night good night everybody Night Live from Paris of fan cat