Sprawl and Transportation Committee

Minutes

Committee Meeting - May 12th 2005

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On June 7, Boulder Breeze is sponsoring a showing of "End of Oil" at the Boulder Library at 7pm. Mark will develop an announcement that Sierra Club could distribute.

Northwest Corridor.

Alan attended a meeting of the Committee for Transportation Solutions. CDOT has narrowed the alternatives under study - all remaining alternatives follow CO-93: tollway, freeway, and arterials. Alan has drafted two letters - one to Boulder City Council, one to County Commissioners - encouraging increased involvement since the EIS process may not be followed and the regional impacts of these decisions may be very significant. We encourage Sierra Club members to attend one of three public meetings, closest one is in Broomfield on May 26 - announcement will follow. Alan will develop a postcard announcement, Julie will check on availability of funds for a mailing to SC members. Alan will distribute draft of letters.

Palmos Development (28th and Jay)

The developer has expressed interest in meeting with S&T committee to update us on changes since our last meeting. We will invite them to attend a regular monthly meeting for a 30 minute presentation/discussion.

Discussion of S&T process:

Issues that we follow closely are typically based on important S&T principles and the interests of individual members. We will develop consensus positions on these issues among active committee members to bring forward to ExComm if action is required. We use the email list for further discussion among committee members. On that point, we should all observe some listserv etiquette to make communication between meetings more effective: 1. one subject per email, clearly stated in subject line; 2. CONCISE 1- or 2-sentence summary of the issue at the beginning of the message to orient readers who may be unfamiliar. Julie will work on a template for future issue statements to make the process of adopting an issue statement more simple and straightforward. Julie will status action items at the beginning of each committee meeting.

Sanitas Development.

We will ask David Adamson to consolidate comments that S&T members have made regarding this development proposal. We will draft a list of positive and negative aspects of the proposed development (eg. on-site parking, smaller units, better transit/bike amenities, etc.)

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