Progress

Updated March 8, 2025

Completed

✓ End discriminatory limits on the number of people who can live together outside of traditional family relationships (ordinance 8651)

✓ Change zoning to legalize the conversion of many single-family homes near downtown and transit into duplexes, triplexes, and other infill middle housing, enabling the eventual creation of more than 15,000 additional units (ordinance 8666)

✓ Adopt a form-based code to enable the eventual construction of around 5,000 new additional in East Boulder (ordinance 8669)

✓ Eliminate parking and owner-occupancy requirements for accessory dwelling units (ordinance 8651)

✓ End Boulder’s cap on population growth (ordinance 8600)

✓ Approve a package of measures to making housing (and other development) more accessible and affordable by cutting red tape in planning and development services (ordinance 8622)

✓ Approve a road diet (four-to-three lane conversion) plus installation of a two-way protected bikeway on Iris Ave 

✓ Establish red light enforcement cameras on twenty four intersections, including many state-owned roads (resolution 1342)

✓ Streamline community engagement processes for safety-enhancing transportation projects (resolution 1358)

✓ Adopt a new energy code requiring all-electric equipment in new buildings  (ordinance 8629)

✓ Approve flood mitigation to put 2,300 Boulderites and 1,100 homes out of harm’s way in a 100-year flood, the final step of approval by City Council after a ten-plus year process that began in the aftermath of the 2013 flood

✓ Triple council pay to 40% of the area’s median income for future election winners (city ballot initiative in 2024)

In the works

☐ Eliminate parking minimums

☐ Strengthen on-street parking pricing and other transportation demand management strategies 

☐ Incorporate land use and transportation choices into the climate action plan 

☐ Integrate climate reasoning into the city’s central finance processes

☐ Establish access to opportunity as a key goal for transportation and land use planning across city code, the comprehensive plan, and the city’s strategic operating plan 

☐ Approve protected bikeways in both directions and other enhancements to Folsom Street and North 30th

☐ Modernize Boulder’s whole-of-government approach to bike parking 

☐ Improve transit service

☐ Improve the experience of pedestrians and others outside cars in and around downtown

☐ Improve citywide wildfire hardening and water conservation

☐ Comprehensively update Boulder’s approach to homelessness

☐ Make the city’s financial strategy more robust and resilient