Jones: "An evening product will continue in some form." Apparently the feedback has been great.
LOLOL Young asked about how COVID has changed parking downtown and how we'll make that permanent.
Jones: What part? The lack of people coming downtown?
To clarify, Young meant street/parking closures for outdoor dining. Those were just extended. dailycamera.com/2021/01/22/bou…
They'll end when the emergency order ends, Jones says. But curbside management is part of the parking strategy overall. The focus is on pricing use of the right-of-way appropriately, no matter what it's used for.
Brockett also agrees with escalating cost for repeat parking violations.
We have not talked about this since Jan. 2020. I think the last official action was OK'ing land use, zoning changes for the old hospital site (but not the surrounding areas) boulderbeat.news/2019/08/30/ami…
Reminder: The city bought the former BCH hospital campus in 2015 for ~$40M. Reasons twofold: to prevent redevelopment and to possibly consolidate city offices there.
Notes were short on details, but it looks like parking will be getting more expensive in Boulder — both in city spots and in neighborhoods. Some v fascinating info on that.
OH, also parking tickets. Of which I've had many. (Though none in a long time)
Omgosh is it Tuesday already? Feels like we were just here... 'cause we were, on Friday AND Saturday for the annual retreat.
We're easing back into it with a study session tonight. Three things on the agenda:
Eviction Prevention (No Eviction Without Representation)
Parking policies/pricing
Alpine Balsam update
I didn't realize that last one was on the agenda, so apologies. I left it out of the preview in this week's newsletter.
Weaver, Joseph and Young apparently have no understanding of what it means to have a "holistic discussion" on homelessness.
That's not me saying it... that's literally what they are saying in a scheduling meeting now about the followup to Tuesday's meeting.
"I don’t really comprehend what that means bc in the end we make discrete decisions. ... I don’t understand what a holistic (discussion) means." boulderbeat.news/2021/01/21/bou…
Council decided last week that camps will keep being removed BUT they didn't weigh in on staff's recommendations for more enforcement. Members Brockett/Friend said they didn't want to vote on those without also considering more services....
We're gonna move to talking about boards and how they interact with one another / council. Won't be ask exciting as the last item (which was the meat) but I'll tweet what's necessary.
First up is the interaction of DAB/Planning Board. Reminder: Council's justification for having a PB with ZERO industry professionals on it was that DAB could provide that. boulderbeat.news/2020/04/02/cit…
DAB = Design Advisory Board. They focus on projects of a certain value (over $25,000, I think?) in the downtown area. New development or external renovation.