Housing Solutions Community Brainstorm
Consultation has concluded
Do you have ideas and solutions to help address housing challenges in Boulder? The Housing Advisory Board wants to hear them.
The newly formed Housing Advisory Board (HAB) wants to brainstorm housing solutions with Boulder residents. They are offering two ways to participate:
- In-person at HAB’s Aug, 22 meeting. This meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in Council Chambers in the Municipal Building at 1777 Broadway. Each speaker will have up to five minutes to present their solution. Sign-ups will begin at 5:45 p.m. Contact Cori Marin, MarinC@bouldercolorado.gov, if you have questions about making a presentation.
- Online here at Be Heard Boulder, where participants can submit their housing solutions and vote on other submissions. This online participation option will close on Sept 5.
The input provided online and in-person will be used by HAB members to help inform their work plan, find trends, identify synergies with current city work and bring great ideas forward as recommendations to city council and boards.
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The Housing Advisory Board wants to hear your ideas. Please share your ideas here and vote on others that have been submitted.
Be aware that your post will be available for the public to view.
View All Ideasabout 1 year ago
Encourage the building of more duplexes; it's a more efficient use of land vs. house plus ADU and has the bonus of decreased energy usage.
about 1 year ago
Support Ride/Van Share Programs from Nearby Cities
Within 15 miles of Downtown Boulder are Lafayette, Lyons, Louisville, Superior, Gun Barrel.... for most every other US city that's a dream commute. So stop trying to figure out how to cram more people into the tiny 3 miles radius of Boulder and try harder to reduce the impact of commuting into Boulder. In cities like Seattle they have very mature Ride/Van Share programs that the city supports. Use those models and offer a slick websites for people to connect and share city subsidized van pools, market it, push it.... Provide great central parking options for 15-30 vans and you've also taken several 100 cars off the streets.
about 1 year ago
Occupancy limits should be determined by bedrooms and parking available, not by address.
Related parties have an advantage over Singles. A single person is treated that same as a family of any size.
about 1 year ago
Build More Housing
Boulder has capped the number of residential building permits by limiting the growth to 1% annually. Other overly onerous City requirements make development in Boulder take twice as long as in surrounding communities. Other restrictive policies have boosted land values making housing more expensive. We need to build more housing to keep up with demand for it. Housing of all types, but especially housing for the "missing middle."
about 1 year ago
Establish a Boulder Public Bank
Revenue generated from a Public Bank can be funneled back into the city's budget for any number of different projects for instance subsidizing homes and apartments for lower income individuals, purchasing mobile home parks to create community land trusts for resident owners, and services for people without homes. Please google the State Bank of North Dakota to see how brilliantly public banking has supported the state of ND over the past 100 years.
