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 Ideasover 1 year ago
Allow Short AND Long Term Licensing
Make rent more affordable for students and even young teachers who might only want a 9(ish) month lease. Allow landlords to make up the difference by offering the unit for short term rental during school breaks (Spring Break, Winter Break, Summer).
over 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."
over 1 year ago
Edit remodel and zoning codes to create new rules for single family converting to multi family. Allowing for more long term rental options.
Encourage multi-family conversions of single family homes
over 1 year ago
Utilize a small amount of open space land in a lesser desired area and create a campus of affordable housing on it.
over 1 year ago
Don't force homeowners to eliminate long-term rental units in order to offer short-term vacation rentals.
Rather than forcing owners to choose, allow home owners to permanently designate an ADU or part of their home for long-term rental while also allowing short-term rentals with the living space that is otherwise owner occupied. This compromise doesn't even increase density as the short-term renters simply occupy the space that would otherwise be occupied by the owner. Short-term vacation rentals in Boulder are lucrative and when owners are forced to choose it is the long-term renter that loses. I personally know two neighbors who have eliminated long term rentals to get or maintain a vacation rental license. One had a renter in a detached ADU and simply wanted to vacation rent their primary home while they were traveling in the summer and for graduation. Their ADU is no longer available for rent because the vacation rental license provides more income. The other had a long term rental basement suite and wanted to vacation rent the owner-occupied upstairs during the summer. Their tenant has been told she cannot renew her lease because my neighbor cannot afford to lose the vacation rental income, and my neighbor feels horrible about this. These are just two examples of Boulder residents unnecessarily losing an apartment.
