As the new city council prepares for its annual retreat in January where they will prioritize their agenda for the coming year, David and I want to promote gentle infill in established neighborhoods as a solution that addresses so many of the values that have been identified by the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan. We hope that you will listen, learn, get motivated, and share this with your favorite city council person! David has a long history of heroically planning for and promoting inclusive and affordable housing in his North Boulder neighborhood. But he is swimming against a tide that is the current housing market which incentivizes scraping smaller homes and replacing them with mansions or building luxury condos where affordable housing once stood and city codes that regulate against building the kind of beautiful, compact, inclusive, and affordable housing that he is trying to develop. We talk about a specific housing pilot that he is working on and how his neighborhood and all of Boulder could benefit from this kind of innovative and inclusive housing. We hope you enjoy this conversation about the future of housing in Boulder.
For episode forty-two, I spoke with Katie Farnan and Doug Hamilton about their efforts to encourage voters to reject a ballot initiative called Safe...
Nicole Speer is a member of Boulder’s city council and is running to be Boulder’s first directly elected mayor this fall. We met at...
For our sixth episode we interviewed Sarah Wiebenson who is a senior project manager with the Community Vitality Department for the city of Boulder....
