5 - Meeting Agenda, 10/25/02City of Boulder Development Review Committee
MEETING AGENDA
1739 Broadway, Room 401 8:30 a.m.
10/25/2001
PROJECT DISCUSSIONS
PRE-APPLICATION MEETINGS SCHEDULED for 10/31/01
John McGowan
1:00 p.m.
Kevin Kelley
2:00 p.m.
COUNTY REFERRALS
Boulder Emergency Squad
Larry & Simine Tepper
3840 Spring Valley Road
TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS REVIEW
KEY ISSUES for TRACK 42
NEW CASES
Applicant Name
Development Name
Address
CAVA/TEBO DELLA
CANYON GATE PLAZA
2700 CANYON BL
PETER STAINTON
HORIZON WAY
313 FOXTAIL CT
CHRISTIAN GRIFFITH
905 MARINE
905 MARINE ST
ERIC NEAR
No Development Named
3375 MITCHELL LN
DENNIS WYATT
SAFEWAY #1615 - RETAIL CENTER
3325 28T" ST
3640 Walnut Don Durso
3600 Hazelwood Brent Bean
Use Review
Special Use ReviewlSite Specific Development Nan Johnson
Plan for a quasi-public facility for a non-profit DUE 11/16/01
Emergency rescue services agency.
Site Plan Review for the construction of a Nan Johnson
9,605 sq. ft. addition to an existing 4,482 sq. ft, DUE 10/29/01
residence of which 825 sq ft will be demolished.
Case Number Case Manager
Review Type
TEC2001-00051 Liz Hanson
Utility Plan, CDOT, Stormwater Plan,
ROW/Easement, Final Architecture, Final
Landscaping
TEC2001-00052 Robert Myers
Lot Line Elimination
TEC2001-00053 Don Durso
Lot Line Adjustment
TEC2001-00054 Robert Myers
Lot Line Elimination
TEC2001-00055 Nan Johnson
Utility Plan, Stormwater Plan, Stormwater Report,
Final Landscaping, Final Site Plan
REVIEW OF REVISIONS
Applicant Name Case Number
Development Name Review Type
Address
RICHARQ MCCABE TEC2001-00033
CARRIE SUBDIVISION Utility Plan, Transportation, Subdivision/Final
597 LEE HILL DR Plat, Stormwater Plan, Stormwater Report, Final
Landscaping
WAYNE KUHN TEC2001-00034
BOULDER COUNTY NORTH BROADWAY Utility Plan, Development Agreement, Stormwater
3482 BROADWAY Plan, Stormwater Report, Final Architecture, Final
Landscaping, Final Site Plan
JIM CHANIN
KAtMIA GROVE
1565 KALM IA AV
GREG GASTINEAU
WALNU7 CANYON BLOCK
1495 CANYON BL
TEC2001-00038
Subdivision/Final Plat, Slormwater Report
TEC2001-00040
Subdivision/Final Plat
Case Manager
Brent Bean
Mike Randall
Don Durso
BrentBean
JERRY LEE TEC2001-00041 Brent Bean
ONE BOULDER PLAZA Utility Plan, Stormwater Plan, Stormwater Report,
1301 CANYON BLVD Final Architecture, Final Landscaping, Final Site
Plan
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PLEASE add these items to Meeting Packet of:
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CITY OF BOULDER
TO: Jobs to Population Balance Task Force
FROM: Ron Secrist, City Manager
Planning Department
Peter Pollock, Planning Director
Ruth McHeyser, Director oF Long Range Planning
Louise Grauer, Planner
DATE: 7 September, 200t
RE: Description of the Jobs to Population Balance Project
Background
The Jobs to Population Balance project grew out of discussions and conclusions identified during
the course of the Yeaz 2000 Update to the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan, a major five-year
update to the Plan. City Council discussed the project and the specific purpose and rola of the
Task Force on several occasions over the last few months. This memorandum will summarize the
most recent discussion at the City Council meeting on September 4, 2001. It includes
recommendations from the City Manager, City Council, and Planning Staff regarding the scope,
role, and timeline for the Jobs to Population Balance Project. The recommendations described
below are the starting point for the Task Force which, during the course of its work, can go back
to City Council with proposed changes from those outlined below.
Since the Task Force will not inciude representatives from City Council, Planning Board, or
other boards, City Council has requested frequent updates specifically with Council and Planning
Board. A facilitator, Mike Hughes, has been engaged by the City to manage the task.force
meetings, to work with staff and task force members to set the meeting agendas, and to work
with staff and task force members between meetings to prepare each task force meeting. Staff has
proposed that the process is completed in a year's time frame, and City Counci] has requested
staff to idendfy ways to fiuther reduce that time frame.
Purpose
The City Council has concurred with the staff recommendation that the recently adopted Boulder
Valley Comprehensive Plan policy on Jobs to Population Balance provide the direction for the
project. The 8na1 wording of the policy has resulted from piecemeal editing by all four signatory
bodies to the Comprehensive Plan. City Council recently agreed with the County
Commissioners' condition that staff bring back the results of the jobs to population project to all
four signatory bodies to be integrated into a future comprehansive plan amendment. The
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approved Jobs to Population Balance policy is included in bold below and will provide the
direction for the Task Force.
JOBS: POPULATION BALANCE. In recent years, employment in the city has
grown significantly more than housing. This has resulted in increased in
commu4ing, a,greater daytime popularion, and a general increase in traffic
congesfion and 6ousing prices. In the year Z000, the ratio of fhe number of jobs to
the population in the Boulder Valley was estimated at .92:1 (107,074 jobs: 114,580
popularion). If current trends continue, the ratio is projected to become 1.21:1 by
the year 2020.
The generally accepted planning standard for a balanced jobs-to-population ratio is
.65 to 1. Given current policies, the city and county agree that the current ratio
within the Boulder Valley exceeds an appropriate ratio and the planning standard,
and that a worsening of that ratio beyond 1:1 will lead to greater regional traffic
congestion, affordable housing shortfalls, and other negative impacts on the
community as a whole. The city will therefore embark on a public process to
determine whether or not the 1:1 ratio is appropriate. This will be accomplished
through a public process that witl establish an appropriate and acceptable jobs-to-
population ratio and identify a combination of acrions that will reduce the amount
of commercial growth, create more affordable housing, and mitigate t6e impacts of
traffic congestion.
Role of the Task Force
The role of the Task Force is:
To assist the city of Boulder's staff, Planning Board, and City Council as they explore
the desirable jobs to population ratio and the coaesponding implementation measures.
This will consist primarily of generating alternative future jobs to population
scenarios and examining the implications and costs and benefits of each scenario. The
scenarios should include a current trends altemative (no intervention), one that comes
close to balancing new jobs and population, and several others between these two.
• Learn about existing commercial zoning and current development trends
• Examine projecHons for future commercial development, inctuding examining the
methods used to generate the projections and the assumptions that underlie the
projections
• Offer advice about how to improve the quality and potential accuracy of the
projections
• Offer advice about how best to involve the public in evaluating different future
scenarios and providing input to staff, Planning Board, and City Council
• Offer advice about the implementation of a jobs to population ratio that could be
realistically achieved
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Role of City Staff
The following are the roles of city staff:
• To provide the expertise, resources, and information needed for the task force to accomplish
their tasks as outline' above;
• To meet with Planning Board and City Council, and other boazds, as needed in joint study
sessions as well as regular updates to keep them informed of the progress of the project;
• To meet regulazly with an interdepartmental coordinating group, including planning,
transportation, and housing, and ensure coordination with the transportation master plan
(TMP) update.
• To work with the facilitator and task force members to set agendas for the task force
meetings;
• To carry out the public process;
• To summarize the work of the task force and the results of the public process to Planning
Board and City Council to make final recommendations.
Project Assumptions
The primarv focus of the project is the commercial zones which were not analyzed as part of
the 1997 Comprehensive Rezoning, but the proiect should also consider incentive based
strategies for the zones that were revised in 1997. The city's 1997 Comprehensive Rezoning
project reduced potential future job growth by an estimated 12,000 jobs in the industrial
zones, in commercial zones downtown, and in North Boulder through purchase and
regulatory changes.
Transportation demand management strateQies will also be included. Boulder has already
implemented the easy and even some difficult transportation demand management (TDMs)
strategies to reduce traffic impacts. In conjunction with the Update to the Transportation
Master Plan (TMP) and this project, additional transportation demand management strategies
will be explored, particularly geared to employee pazking citywide.
• There should be a public outreach effort that includes the public at each phase of the project.
• BVCP Polic~as direction. The charge and direction for the task force will come from the
new Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan policy on Jobs to Population Balance.
• Coordination between the jobs to population balance project and the update to the
Transportation Master Plan (TMP.) Whenever possible, joint efforts will be undertaken.
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Proposed Timeline
Project Start-U~
SelecU meet with facilitator
Agreement on titneline, roles, assumptions, direction
City Manager makes final appointrnents to task force
Background information/ Briefing papers
Phase I
Convene the first meeting of the Task Force
Additional task force meetings
Agreement on:
AssumpYions for employment projections*
Additional information needed
June - October
Completed
September 4
September
October
October - Januarv 02
October 30
October - December
Objectives for public process/ public process
Process to develop scenarios/ Number and range of scenarios
Process to evaluate scenarios
Possible educational guest panelist program/ public event
Report back to Planning Board and City Council, Phase I
Phase II
Build scenarios / alternative jobs to population ratios
Travel demand management alternatives*
Impact Analysis, including costs and benefits of each scenario*
Report to Planning Board and City Council on scenarios
Completion of the Task Force work
Phase III
Public process
Phase IV
Final recommendations considered by Planning Board and
City Council
* - Possible consultant help needed
January 02
January 02
Februat~- May 02
January - April
May
M~ - Ju1~02
Au~ust - September 02
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