Thread by @shayshinecastle

Council might vote to call up (review) the Diagonal Plaza partial redevelopment again. They already dealt with this project by passing a special ordinance to allow more housing there.

Staff notes: documents.bouldercolorado.gov/WebLink/DocVie…

Or you can read more about the plans here. They call for
282 dwellings and 22,917 square feet of ground-floor commercial space on the west and south sides, mostly parking lot today. The ex-Sports Authority and Walgreens are part of that.

boulderbeat.news/2021/06/24/dia…

This project also calls for expansion of an existing Boulder Housing Partners community. And a new (small) park!

Planning Board OK'd this project, so council is the last step before permits are issued and construction begins.

Councilman Wallach wants to know how many parking spaces at the new project will have EV charging stations.

Number of parking spaces today that have EV charging stations: Zero.

I could be wrong about that, as I've recently moved away from that area. But having walked through the parking lot several times a month for the last 10 years, I never saw one.

Architect Bill Holicky comes on the Zoom to answer: Boulder just updated its sustainability codes. The new requirements call for 1/3 or 40% of spaces must have conduits in place for charging.

No other questions, and no one wants to call it up since council already looked at this pretty in-depth.

Yates: "It's such a joy that this is being turned into housing that our community desperately needs." It's a "blighted property," he says. Folks have been trying to make something happen here for 20 years, at least.

Shouts out Yvette Bowden for working "very, very hard behind the scenes" to contact property owners (there are, like, 12+ at Diagonal Plaza) and try to get them to work together.

Ed Stafford from city planning dept is back with more on EV spaces: 10% have to be EV ready, and 40% more have to be EV capable, and 5% *more* have to have dual-port or quick-charge spaces... at a minimum.

That's for new development with over 25 spaces.

"So 55% overall have to have some version of ready for or offer at that spot, charging," Stafford says.

Some more questions about EV charging. Never heard this discussed in this much detail (or, tbh, at all) during development review before. But maybe there's not been a big enough project since the new codes took effect.

They're done now. This project has a green light. Moving on!

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