Posts Tagged ‘city council’
Election 2019 – Last Chance
If you plan to fill out your ballot this weekend, take a few minutes to read Richard Valenty's City Council candidate profiles and ballot issue analyses at his blog https://richardvalenty.com/election-2019/. Richard has been a student of Boulder [...]
Election 2019 – Richard Valenty
Before you fill out your ballots this year, take a few minutes to read Richard Valenty's City Council candidate profiles and ballot issue analyses at his blog https://richardvalenty.com/election-2019/ . Richard has been a student of Boulder politics [...]
Council candidates 2019
Dear Blue Line readers, The Blue Line won't be doing any municipal election coverage this year. We're just too busy to do it as well as we'd like to. We're sorry if you were counting on it, but never fear because this year, as in previous years, [...]
Large Homes and Lots Project—Impacts from Proposed City Code Changes
The City has been involved in two projects for several months that will affect multiple zoning districts citywide (See Appendix for background). There will be substantial changes to some neighborhoods as a result. The “Use Standards and [...]
Use Standards and Table Project—Impacts from Proposed City Code Changes
The City has been involved in two projects for several months that will affect multiple zoning districts citywide (See Appendix for background). There will be substantial changes to some neighborhoods as a result. The “Use Standards and [...]
PLAN-Boulder County Recommendations for the Affordable Housing Commercial Linkage Fee
The goal of the affordable housing commercial fee is to mitigate "the impact of the development of new workplace buildings (such as office, retail, hotel, industrial), and the employees that work in them, on the resulting demand for affordable [...]
Boulder’s Culture of Public Participation Needs to Be Changed
The Public Participation Working Group was commissioned by the Boulder City Council in 2016 as a result of concerns by members of the public that public processes that led up to many important city actions had just served as facades to legitimate [...]
Rip Van Winkle returns to Boulder: Musings on 2017
Reprinted with permission. Originally posted at the author's blog. “If you don’t know your past, you don’t know your future” — Ziggy Marley After about a decade of working on political issues and campaigns at the state and [...]
Mapping the 2017 Boulder City Council Candidates
With the proliferation of organizations supporting candidates and issues in Boulder City Council elections, it becomes ever more difficult to track who is supporting whom. Fortunately, in a city where many have advanced degrees, we can use a bit of [...]
Ballot Measure 2Q: Destroying the Local Initiative Process
Ballot measure 2Q has a number of problems, but the biggest problem by far is the huge level of uncertainty it unnecessarily inserts into the local initiative process. Joe Mabel , via Wikimedia CommonsInitiatives are done because the citizens [...]
