{"id":487,"date":"2010-03-01T20:10:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T03:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=487"},"modified":"2010-03-01T20:10:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T03:10:39","slug":"does-boulder-need-to-encourage-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Does Boulder Need to Encourage Growth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/transit_village.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-521\" title=\"transit_village\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/transit_village.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1121\" height=\"1051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/transit_village.jpg 1121w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/transit_village-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/transit_village-1024x960.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/transit_village-400x375.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1121px) 100vw, 1121px\" \/><\/a>It was a great meeting on Saturday 2\/27 at the West Senior Center, focused on sustainable planning for Boulder.\u00a0 I read with civic-minded and refreshed eyes the front-page March 1st Daily Camera article about the Pedersen Development Company proposal for the Transit Village. \u00a0 Remembering that corporations are in existence to make money, there is no blame.\u00a0 However, our city leaders are elected and appointed to protect and improve city life for people who live and work here.\u00a0\u00a0  If that includes promoting the interests of corporations,\u00a0 it is secondary.<\/p>\n<p>First,\u00a0 I question the assumption that we want any developer to &#8220;help people move into the city.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0 Growth will happen without planners assuming we need to encourage it.\u00a0\u00a0 This 300-unit proposed development sounds great, and well located to serve many of the current and aging (soon to be car-free) Boulder residents,\u00a0 right at the transit hub. \u00a0 The apartments won&#8217;t be rent controlled,\u00a0 nor prohibited from going-condo.\u00a0\u00a0  If well done, this will become the new hot, metro-Boulder housing, and quickly be priced accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the policy requirement for permanently affordable housing in any development must be reaffirmed and stripped of the cash buy-out option.\u00a0  The developers do the math to make money.\u00a0 No matter how high the price is set,\u00a0 developers will find a way to make money if they have full rights to develop a property for the highest return.\u00a0 Current city planning has a projected future imbalance,\u00a0 job growth outstripping housing growth.\u00a0  We already have an existing imbalance causing more and more commuters to drive into work in this high-priced town.\u00a0\u00a0 City leaders can mitigate this accelerating problem with a strong commitment to affordable housing.\u00a0\u00a0 City leaders, please revise this policy before the next development is approved without the permanently affordables.\u00a0 Our future diversity and quality of city life hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a great meeting on Saturday 2\/27 at the West Senior Center, focused on sustainable planning for Boulder.\u00a0 I read with civic-minded and refreshed eyes the front-page March 1st [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[44,67],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-affordable-housing","tag-transit-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}