5 - Monthly UpdateBoulder Urban Renewal Authority
1300 Canyon Boulevard
PO Box 791
Boulder, CO 80306
phone (303) 441-3276
fax (303)441-4070
M~MORANDUM
June 10, 2003
TO: BURA Bo~rd of Commissioners
TROM: Mnrie Zuzack, BURA Planner
SUBJ~CT: Monthly Update
On May 22, the Planning Board voted unanimously (6-0) to approve the Culver Court mixed-use
project. They added a condition that the Travel Demand Management Program include the 16
residential units.
At the same meeting, the Planning Board reviewed and provided comments on the Target Concept
Plan. Suggestions included the following:
- Provide more glass on the west and north fa~~des. Take advantage of views to the west.
- Augment the walkway from 28~h Street to the store entry with more landscaping and more
generous width. Consider whether the connection should be shifted north to connect to the
future Super Stop at the corner of 28`h & Pearl, or shifted south to interfere less with
vehicular circulation in main parking area and Pearl Street access.
- Break-up fa~ade. Try to provide a more unique look.
- Consider outdoor cafe seating and landscaping near entry.
- Consider making the 29`h alignment more like a street, and curving it to slow traffic.
• On May 28, the new tile mura] at the Scott C~rpenter Park bus stop was unveiled by the Casey
Middle School students who created it. BURA, Transportation and the Arts Commission
expressed thanks to the students and their art teachers, M1ria Ne1ry and Molly Hoverstock, for
providing this bright, cheerPul addition to the BVRC landscape. Commissioner Poinsatte was
present for the celebration.
• StaFf recently had a pre-lpplication meeting with the owner of the lpartment building on
Folsom Street just north of Boulder Creek (and west of the Millenium Harvest House tennis
courts). General redevelopment concepts were discussed, including the possibility of adding
another building to the site or adding a third floor of residential units (20-30 units) to the
existing buitding. Approximately 80 studio npartments, at 1Uout 400 square feet e1ch, exist
there now. The entire site is in the 100-year floodplain, and the southern portion is in the flood
conveyance zone.