[bouldercouncilhotline] Hotline: Planning issues for Tuesday's discussion

[cmosupport at bouldercolorado.gov]

Sender: Appelbaum, Matt

Some initial thoughts:
 
Concerns include:

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Zoning not providing what we want/expect and/or allowing what we don’t want/don’t expect

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By-right development of “larger” projects allows inappropriate structures

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“Community benefit” from development, especially when granted variances/bonuses, needs review

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Certain basic zoning requirements, such as required “open space” may be forcing undesired outcomes

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Development fees/taxes should be reviewed and better aligned with predicted, long-term costs/impacts, both capital and operating

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Relationship between C/I development (and jobs) and housing/transportation impacts

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Design issues: how to improve building design and ensure that changes post-review don’t dilute envisioned outcomes

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Exemptions of certain types of residential growth from the growth management system, particularly mixed-use projects

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Ensuring that, as best as we can, the complex interrelationships among planning/zoning, transportation, housing, infrastructure, etc. are better understood and considered
 
 
Possible action items include:

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“Assigning” these issues of concern to the Planning Board/staff (and others as appropriate) for analysis and recommendations after public outreach

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Determining if some of these issues can and need to be handled more quickly, even if just with temporary measures while more detailed work is underway

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Ensuring that the broader issues be incorporated into the comp plan update and also into the East Arapahoe planning efforts

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Ensuring that the comp plan update public process includes as many people as possible, representative of our residents, and particularly focusing on those who traditionally have not been engaged

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Determining impacts on the current work plan
 
--Matt