<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear Colleagues and Staff, </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I had the opportunity to visit the call-up checking site and had conversations with community members. And based on these conversations and reading of the memo please see below some of my questions, for tomorrow, concerning the call-up check-in (2504 Spruce): </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Q1:     What is the likely sale price of 2,400 to 2,600 square feet condominiums at 2504 Spruce? </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color:rgb(34, 34, 34);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;font-weight:normal;orphans:auto;widows:auto;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color:rgb(34, 34, 34);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;font-weight:normal;orphans:auto;widows:auto;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Q2: Is the developer amenable to increasing the number of for sale units in phase 1 and decreasing their size?  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color:rgb(34, 34, 34);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;font-weight:normal;orphans:auto;widows:auto;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color:rgb(34, 34, 34);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;font-weight:normal;orphans:auto;widows:auto;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Q3: D. Ensign mentioned in the Planning Board notes for this project that the rezoning would be a heavy lift. why/ how so? and what is the rezoning process in this area, in order to increase the number of for sale units/ affordable housing?</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color:rgb(34, 34, 34);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;font-weight:normal;orphans:auto;widows:auto;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color:rgb(34, 34, 34);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;font-weight:normal;orphans:auto;widows:auto;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Q4: 2504 Spruce is a transit rich area, can we allow the developer to utilize the land/space in a way that is more effective/ efficient to create more housing for people who do not want/ have cars?</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color:rgb(34, 34, 34);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;font-weight:normal;orphans:auto;widows:auto;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color:rgb(34, 34, 34);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;font-weight:normal;orphans:auto;widows:auto;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Q5: Whether Staff is aware of any for sale middle-income units produced in Boulder since the passage of the middle-income strategy? If so, how many? </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="caret-color:rgb(34, 34, 34);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;font-weight:normal;orphans:auto;widows:auto;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"> Q6: Landmarking the Oblong Box Gas Station [Mecha building] at the NE corner of the Spruce Street project site: According to Question 44 from the Call-up check-in report/ memo, the Mecha building is not eligible for federal or state landmarking. Is preservation of this building as a landmarked structure worth the loss of 6 or more units of rental housing? Just because this building is eligible for City landmarking, why *should it be* landmarked?</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color:rgb(34, 34, 34);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;font-weight:normal;orphans:auto;widows:auto;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color:rgb(34, 34, 34);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;font-weight:normal;orphans:auto;widows:auto;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Q7: Was the Landmarks Board involved in this process? As I was reading through the document, I did not get a sense of where this recommendation to landmark came from? was it staff? the Planning or Landmark Board?</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color:rgb(34, 34, 34);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;font-weight:normal;orphans:auto;widows:auto;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color:rgb(34, 34, 34);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;font-weight:normal;orphans:auto;widows:auto;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Q8: Whether Boulder's local landmarking process has been through the equity tool? Has this particular property to be landmarked- has been through the equity tool? </div> <div style=""> </div> <div style="">PS: Once sent, this email may have formatting issues.</div> <div style=""> </div> <div style="">Best Regards, </div> <div style="">Junie </div> <div style=""> </div> <div style=""> <a style="margin:0px">Junie Joseph</a> Council Member MA Human Rights/J.D. <a href="http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/" style="margin:0px"><img width="218" height="53" style="margin:0px" size="395" contenttype="image/png" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:d2c35255-e256-4fac-b443-18f1f2db0de2"></a>   Phone: 720-789-3234 JosephJ@bouldercolorado.gov   City Council 1777 Broadway Street Boulder Colorado 80302 <a href="http://www.boulderparks-rec.org/" style="margin:0px">http://www.bouldercolorado.gov</a> <span style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">   </div> </body> </html>