IntenseDebate - Doug_E

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Supporters of Folsom p... · 2 replies · +17 points

They will be in the road. Protest a bit for the cameras and then ride very slowly in the road.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Phil Wardwell: Muni co... · 2 replies · +7 points

Basically, this LTE is gibberish.

The question is not if the city can form a muni, but how they form it.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Ed Byrne: Initiatives ... · 0 replies · +11 points

Could a developer strike a deal with RTD to handle their transportation footprint? It would sound good at the start and meet the requirements, but we all know RTD has no problem failing to deliver services.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Robert Porath: Prop 30... · 0 replies · +8 points

I don't think the average Boulderite understands how often the city poops on Martin Acres.

btw, it will be interesting to see the impact of the shiny new Creekside Elementary has on the neighborhood.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Robert Porath: Prop 30... · 0 replies · +9 points

Baseline Zero was pulled in a trade so that the Armory in N Boulder would not be under the moratorium. Very similar to how the city had a backroom deal to give the hospital a height variance in exchange for the exclusive right to buy the Broadway property. Baseline Zero will be back as soon as the developer wants a chit to trade for something else.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Greg Wilkerson: Profit... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks. I have read the Livable Boulder website and attended the debate between Pomerance and Toor.

The information you posted only applies to residential land according to Tom Carr's memo in the LTE and from the debate. Perhaps this is false information, but that is my understanding. So, it's my understanding that the following developments would NOT fall under the NRTV:

- Boulder Junction- Already zoned for higher densities.
-East Arapahoe- The land use is currently light industrial or commercial.
-Baseline Zero- Commercial/retail land use.
-Armory- Industrial
- Old Daily Camera Building- Commercial

City Coincil could add these properties to a neighborhood residential neighborhood, but that is unlikely. Here is Livables map of the neighborhoods: http://livableboulder.org/wp-content/uploads/2015...

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Greg Wilkerson: Profit... · 0 replies · +2 points

According to Livable Boulder's Q&A section the costs won't be enough to stop or limit growth because there is so much demand and profit:

"Won’t these charges and fees increase housing prices, or the cost of renting office space?
The prices sellers charge for housing and landlords for office rents are a function of the market, not of the costs. So developers cannot just raise prices because they spend more; they have to deal with what the market will bear. And based on the anecdotes recently heard about the multi-million dollar profits developers are making from the housing being built around the Boulder Junction area, there’s plenty of extra profit in the system.

But won’t this reduce the supply, and therefore increase the price?Analyses have been done in hi-tech areas in California, and it appears that prices are not very sensitive to supply, simply because there is no lack of demand. It’s not that supply doesn’t affect price, it just doesn’t affect it much in these situations. And also, so long as there is some money to be made, developers will continue to build.
"

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Greg Wilkerson: Profit... · 2 replies · +1 points

I assumed it applied to more than up zoning because LTE's like this one reference a lot of larger developments.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Fearing bad winter, Bo... · 1 reply · +17 points

Dom's career and income are tied to this ideology, so it's tough to decide if he really believes in it.

Zane does believe in it and lives his life car free, so I doubt he feels like he is selling snake oil.

Zane is at least willing to be quoted on what has happened. He isn't running away. Dom? lol.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Greg Wilkerson: Profit... · 4 replies · +2 points

These are separate amendments. Are you advocating that NRTV is irrelevant and the real teeth are in the DSPOW? I doubt that. It's obvious that the development crowd is strongly against both.

So, what developments would NRTV apply to?

IntenseDebate Comment System

Connect with Doug_E_Fresh

People I'm following

Doug_E_Fresh