[BoulderCouncilHotline] Ordinance 8544

[King, Kathleen]

Good afternoon Council and HOTLINE followers,

There was a CAC request for additional information on the third reading of Ordinance 8544, for Council’s consideration at the 11/3 meeting. The third reading of this ordinance is required because the ordinance was amended at second reading without prior notice of the amendments to the ordinance in a daily newspaper of the city. The City Charter requires notice of the ordinance in full, with all amendments, prior to its final passage.

The proposed ordinance would amend section 9-2-19, “Rezoning,” of the Boulder Revised Code (B.R.C. 1981) by adding a criterion that ensures any rezonings must be consistent with the vision of the East Boulder Subcommunity Plan. At second reading, Council made the following changes, as noted in red below:

(g) Additional Criteria for Land within the East Boulder Subcommunity Plan and 55th and Arapahoe Station Area Plan Boundaries. In the East Boulder Subcommunity Plan boundary and in the 55th and Arapahoe Station Area Plan boundary, for an application not incidental to a general revision of the zoning map, the city council shall also find, in addition to requirements in Subsection (e) above, that the city has adopted any land use code changes contains standards necessary to achieve the vision and policies of the East Boulder Subcommunity Plan for the area proposed for rezoning. The intent of this requirement is to ensure that the land use code contains standards that will result in development of the area proposed for rezoning consistent with the vision of the plan, to ensure the rezoning will not otherwise negatively impact the achievement of the vision of the plan, and to not prevent rezoning until all anticipated land use code projects and programs of the plan have been completed. In making this determination, council shall consider, to the extent applicable for the area proposed for rezoning:

  1.  The ability of the proposed rezoning to achieve the place types and meet the place type performance standards established in the plan,
  2.  The ability of the proposed rezoning to achieve new and upgraded transportation connections designated in the East Boulder Subcommunity Connections Plan concurrent with development or redevelopment, and
  3.  Whether the proposed rezoning may impact the city's ability to incentivize the creation of or participation in one or more general improvement districts, or an equivalent organization, proposed in the plan.

The third reading adopts the ordinance as passed on second reading.

Please let us know if there are any further questions,

Kathleen



Kathleen King  AICP, PLA
City Principal Planner

[City of Boulder Planning+Sustainability]
kingk at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:kingk at bouldercolorado.gov>
Department of Planning
1739 Broadway | PO Box 791 | Boulder, CO 80306
Bouldercolorado.gov<https://www.bouldercolorado.gov/>


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://webappsprod.bouldercolorado.gov/mailing-lists/mailman-archive/bouldercouncilhotline/attachments/20221102/6adf00fb/attachment.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 3220 bytes
Desc: image001.jpg
Url : https://webappsprod.bouldercolorado.gov/mailing-lists/mailman-archive/bouldercouncilhotline/attachments/20221102/6adf00fb/attachment.jpg