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The same staff member said the city secured nearly $2 million in a separate grant to acquire homes on the market and convert them to deed‑restricted ownership for eligible households — a model the city has used in Boulder and will now scale regionally in partnership with nearby jurisdictions. Staff explained the regional effort will be administered by the city’s existing acquisition program and will provide monitoring and compliance services for jurisdictions that lack in‑house housing staff.
Staff said eligible purchase prices will be tied to city sale‑price schedules (designed for middle‑income targeted units) and deed restrictions will be monitored by city staff. The funds and program details will be operationalized through program guidelines and usual procurement and program setup steps; staff said standing up the programs will take time.
Why it matters: The grants expand the city’s ability to repair at‑risk housing (including mobile home stock) and add deed‑restricted ownership units regionally, while centralizing compliance services the city already operates. Staff did not present final program guidelines or an itemized budget at the meeting.
Next steps: Staff said they will develop program guidelines, identify acquisition targets and coordinate with county partners for regional purchases. Staff flagged that program design details — including per‑unit caps and income targeting — will be provided in later outreach and program materials.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","9-24-25 Housing Advisory Board Meeting","oneSentenceSummary","Staff reported roughly $2.8 million in state funds for rehabilitation of mobile and single‑family homes and nearly $2 million in regional grant funding to buy market homes and place deed restrictions; the city will administer deed restrictions and regional compliance services.","taxTitle","Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado","taxId",3386,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},5973924,"City planners outline draft changes to Boulder Valley comprehensive plan land‑use approach",1879,4737000,6616000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5829990-9aefc4d3efc03bd81d0a47dd4268420d&start=4737&end=6616","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5829990-9aefc4d3efc03bd81d0a47dd4268420d/thumbnail_4737000.jpg","/articles/5973924/Boulder/Boulder-County/Colorado/City-planners-outline-draft-changes-to-Boulder-Valley-comprehensive-plan-landuse-approach","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/5973924-1a856afa8df1bb913b09405395895a9a/orig.mp4?Expires=1770962534&Signature=lPGdDcRVEl1JZRLkb0wk0w6ylYJG9LpOjyMWNm3quR6NKREoutpDLcxk6~QypaUqEpjx6dFBEVgspi3Vq6~~Te~EwrSz8BWGRo~8qnZaIekyQk7laTBk6TKhEyJkcDryEAcVfRRA9vRVSQHO6es8KNhHT3z83orGK8feidiVfQGBzKxLc~PlZSKhu20Ppk--MGcJqSmHOTqWoKRccQ2Z4hHmMrpWcuogLGZMT26AK0mqfV1ICYFNqc6ve17zFK8nEoLbpf6ntBmivXH2ChTmZAJ3FokwvVDswWylW1lX66bZN-kJBGPAV-Thl79puvamuUobDYdOYhIVxAhWEXVASA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","A planning team presentation on Sept. 24 described the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan update and a draft reworking of the future land‑use map to encourage more flexible, neighborhood‑scale planning.
A principal planner introduced the timeline and goals: the project launched in October, the team finished an existing‑conditions phase and is now in a “Boulder Tomorrow / bolder direction” phase that will bring draft policy and map recommendations to a joint planning board and city council study session in December. Staff said a public draft and the formal adoption process are expected next year.
Staff said the update seeks to simplify and clarify the existing map and policy set (the current plan contains many overlapping policy statements and 26 land‑use categories). The draft approach groups future land use into four classes — Neighborhoods, Hubs, Networks and Institutions — with three neighborhood subtypes (Neighborhood 1, 2 and 3) and four hub subtypes (local, community, regional and innovation/production).
Tess (city planner) said Neighborhood 1 is intended to “retain the feel of our kind of single family neighborhoods while also allowing maybe some more variety of housing options,” while Neighborhood 2 would allow denser multiunit forms. Staff emphasized the plan will describe form and scale rather than place fixed numerical density caps on the land‑use map; detailed density and implementation measures would be addressed through zoning code updates.
Staff said the draft map is intended to better enable 15‑minute neighborhoods, broaden options for small‑scale, neighborhood‑serving businesses, and open specific commercial centers to residential redevelopment (for example, the team noted Table Mesa as an example of a place that could accommodate mixed uses under the draft framework).
The planners also described the Area 1/2/3 planning categories used in the Boulder Valley context: Area 1 (inside city services), Area 2 (outside city limits but eligible for annexation), and Area 3 (County land not being considered for annexation in the plan update). Staff said the Area 3 planning reserve concept remains in place and any change in annexation eligibility or land‑use designation for those parcels would require a future expansion study and a separate, multi‑step process.
Why it matters: Staff described the change as moving from a parcel‑level, prescriptive map toward neighborhood‑scale designations that describe desired form and mix of uses. The change is intended to give policy guidance that can support future zoning and programmatic changes to increase housing variety and support resilience goals (for example, fire‑adapted communities and aging‑in‑place strategies).
Public engagement and next steps: staff encouraged board members and residents to take a statistically valid survey underway and a companion online questionnaire. Staff said they will present major policy and land‑use recommendations to planning board and council in December and will accept community change requests in a formal public application window next year.","Planning staff described a draft restructuring of the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan’s land‑use framework to three neighborhood types, several hub classifications and adaptable designations aimed at enabling more housing variety, 15‑minute neighborhoods and resilience planning.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},5973928,"City staff present five housing innovations from Bloomberg‑Harvard leadership program",2400,466000,2866000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5829990-9aefc4d3efc03bd81d0a47dd4268420d&start=466&end=2866","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5829990-9aefc4d3efc03bd81d0a47dd4268420d/thumbnail_466000.jpg","/articles/5973928/Boulder/Boulder-County/Colorado/City-staff-present-five-housing-innovations-from-BloombergHarvard-leadership-program","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/5973928-b9fdb2ea88a8197f950e545c5bc0648f/orig.mp4?Expires=1770962534&Signature=nD6Gb9RArBGWlB0boRCJ4xBrueHBXQLMw7X5dYefCg3f8P8Ll4QAk1FwXdbmrlk3Fty2oPd1OjUVmqtrxLp3zB9QMGk7pvi7hzgTgnc~4KdznZbVZkxwrNO~fsEitjXgZj4u5VtG9oAGi2klnGLLJ72B9OQh3QlRJXHP4FYCcFacmuTTua3BTEKt4yCTbxaJYvi-qp5owzXQXSA~Haf0b9lv2FF4zFIWNOHeyqGEUZyBZGB8SHA6UkplvZSpyGSqHBHMQ9SPFxhb6AezYmzomo1r-zKmByJ1tJcwS0zpFE-7KaDRsTdbOxwksLgTFXusKSVUBLLJ2cr6vO9o5CW-WA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Holly Henderson, a Housing and Human Services (HHS) project lead, told the Housing Advisory Board on Sept. 24 that staff took part in a year‑long Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative and used the program’s prescribed innovation path to research and prototype ideas to address Boulder’s housing challenges. “We were engaged with it for about 9 months,” Henderson said.
The work produced seven research insights and more than 800 community ideas, Henderson said. HHS narrowed those ideas to 10 initiatives and prototyped two: allowing more height in some places (to test whether taller, different designs would broaden housing options) and a concept to convert single‑family homes as older homeowners transition out of those properties.
Henderson said HHS distilled the process into a five‑item portfolio the department plans to advance: (1) city‑supported childcare; (2) city‑supported affordable assisted living; (3) home‑sharing support and navigation; (4) expansion of the city’s housing legacy donation program; and (5) “diverse financing options” — lower‑cost public financing or partnerships with community development finance institutions for below‑market housing.
Board members and staff discussed what was tested. Henderson said the assisted‑living idea surfaced a county‑level gap: “in the whole county, there are only 48 assisted living beds certified for Medicaid,” and HHS is exploring whether a city‑linked model is feasible. In response to board questions, Henderson said the reverse‑mortgage idea was prototyped briefly but provoked strong negative reactions from older adults and estate planners and was not pursued further.
Chip (board member) voiced concern about municipal involvement in reverse mortgages: “I really do not like the reverse mortgage idea,” he said, adding that banks are better equipped to run such programs.
Prototyping reactions varied by audience. Henderson said some developers and architects preferred clearer, by‑right entitlements and fewer discretionary reviews to reduce holding costs. The idea of modest increases in height drew both interest and pushback; Henderson described the conversation as preliminary and said staff did not run a formal visual preference survey during the innovation sprint.
What happened next: Henderson said HHS will refine and pursue the five portfolio items within existing staff work plans and coordinate with planning and other departments where responsibilities differ (for example, a regulatory cost analysis is anticipated in Planning & Development Services). No formal council action or code changes resulted directly from the Bloomberg Harvard participation; Henderson said the program’s materials and ideas are “ours to take forward.”
Why it matters: The HHS portfolio ties housing problems to several non‑housing costs (childcare, assisted‑care gaps, financing) and prioritizes small, prototyped interventions rather than a single regulatory change. The presentation signaled where staff will concentrate short‑term innovation and where further interdepartmental policy work or council direction will be required.
Looking ahead: Henderson said HHS will continue prototyping and seek partnerships (local nonprofit practitioners, CDFIs, and, where relevant, the Boulder Housing Partnership). She asked the advisory board for feedback on which ideas to prioritize for outreach, prototyping and possible council referrals.
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