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22 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I'm listening to a presentation from a new group - Colorado Housing Affordability Project - that is researching and advocating for land use and zoning reforms - at the state level. Check them out:

cohousingaffordabilityproject.org
I am skipping lunch and feasting on this platform...ADUs, transit-oriented development, missing middle housing, and no population caps.
My people, they think about parking requirements too.
There's more: objective review criteria, inclusionary zoning...
"Some people listening might think we're beating up on local governments." Yeah, well.

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22 Jan
I'm sorry if you were finally enjoying 2021, but I can't resist tonight's Boulder Planning Board meeting. There's a public hearing about converting the storied (and now landmarked) Marpa House into apartments, likely for students. It will be spicy!
I'm wrestling with a column on another infuriating topic on the side, so I might be just a tad salty too.
Yes, I know this is a demoralizing and self-destructive form of procrastination.

Writer, know thyself.

All others, please make this worth my while.
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14 Jan
Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold is having another town hall this morning. I'll report out anything new-ish...
Obviously a lot of the talk is going to be about Boulder's unhoused. Officer Maynard from BPD's Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) is on the call. And they're plugging the 1/19 City Council meeting, where encampments and homeless services are on the agenda.
Herold starts off parsing language: Is Boulder doing 'sweeps' or 'clean-ups'? Sweeps are a term from past, aggressive policing, focused on arrests, etc. "That terminology is not correct in my mind."
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18 Dec 20
Good evening to anyone who finds Boulder Planning Board worth a like. The main business tonight is a Concept Review of a new Fire Station #3 at 30th and Bluff. Planning Board will also finish its annual letter to City Council. I will surely tweet far more than the evening merits.
If approved, new fire station will replace the one at 30th and Arapahoe, which is outdated, undersized, and in a flood zone.
It’s also the first proposed redevelopment in the second phase of the Transit Village/Boulder Junction area plan. This section of 30th St. is slated to become a more pedestrian-friendly business main street. I’m not holding my breath.
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15 Dec 20
I first encountered @markgelband neck deep in the comments section of the Camera, circa 2008. I didn’t have a clue what or who he was fighting then. And he was so roundly abused in that forum that I assumed he must be wrong. (1/5)
Of course, he wasn’t, and I’m sorry it took me a decade of living here to figure that out. Mark has been a generous friend since I’ve known him, and behind his public bluster, a patient explainer of our inglorious local history. (2/5)
From the start he has been a vocal supporter of my work, something which the rules of polite engagement discourage me from acknowledging too often. I imagine he’d say ‘fuck the rules’. I also trust he’d hold me accountable if I were in a position of misusing power. (3/5)
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10 Dec 20
I'm at a Boulder Police Department community forum and might do a thread.
'2020 Disruptions in Policing', for your consideration:
Chief Herold's comments on police legitimacy reference only the aftermath of the George Floyd murder.
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4 Dec 20
Boulder Planning Board thread incoming...approving mid-term updates to the Comp Plan, S. Boulder Creek upstream analysis, transportation design and construction standards, and that tedious year-end letter-by-committee to City Council on tap. I have my knitting standing by.
Public participation: Kurt Nordback here repping Community Cycles. They have been through the transportation and constructions standards w their typical rigor. I love these humans.
David Takahashi has a story about a struggle to develop an affordable ADU and solar carport. City regulations penalize projects that take the right direction on climate.
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