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We'd like to make you aware of a City of Boulder survey on a proposal to increase population density in Boulder. The poll is short, and with the maps provided, you can find the City's density proposal for your neighborhood. The survey is the first step in the City Council’s plan for rezoning a majority of the city to allow significantly higher density than currently allowed. Council has already eliminated single-family neighborhood zoning; let your voice be heard on further density and development. 

If you have ideas about population density in Boulder, please consider taking the City's very short survey on the proposed rezoning. Answers aren't accepted unless you do this: At the very top of the survey, just below the big green aerial photo of Boulder, there is a horizontal toolbar or menu. Scroll all the way over to the furthest right hand choice, “Share Your Input,” and click on that. Find the Submit button at the end, scroll down in the green survey area. Find the survey here: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/44d74f8de6eb427a9cd1510a37839c45

Boulder Action, a grassroots community engagement effort, aims to 1) educate citizens about the political, business and social forces that are shaping our local government and 2) act as a catalyst for common sense solutions to critical issues. Our areas of interest include Density, Growth & Housing, Safety & Crime, Environment, and Government. We are in the process of transitioning to an updated site. You'll see references to Common Sense Action for Boulder, our former name.

See this important information to verify your right to vote, an excerpt from Joyce Vance's Civil Discourse on how to verify your vote. Make sure your family and friends are registered too!

Read This: Checking Your Voter Registration Right Now Is Essential!
Joyce Vance, August 10, 2024

If you miss an election, you can be assigned to 'inactive status.' As Joyce Vance tells us, Once you’ve been moved to inactive status, you can be purged from the rolls entirely if you don’t vote in the next set number of elections. In other words, being moved to inactive status puts you on track to be purged from the voter rolls. The Supreme Court approved of measures designed to “prune” supposedly inactive voters off of the rolls in a 2018 Ohio case, Husted v. A. Phillip Randolph Institute. Inactive voters can still vote, but they have to jump through the extra hoops of voting a provisional ballot, in some places you have to show up by the end of the week with additional proof of your status, which frequently results in votes not being counted. And as you might expect, the problems tend to be most acute in states that have measures in place to suppress.

There is a step you can take in advance of voting in federal elections to make sure your registration status is active. And it’s easy. You can go online and check your registration status. Most states have a website, and many have their own apps. There are also sites you can use, like vote.gov or for Colorado at https://www.coloradosos.gov/voter/pages/pub/home.xhtml that let voters check their status. And here’s the best part, the National Motor Voter Act says you can’t be removed from the voter rolls closer than 90 days out from the election. Were past that point now, so, if you check your status and you’re an active voter, your state can’t change that before the election. Take a screenshot, keep it handy, and if there are any issues, you’ve got proof that you’re an active voter. If there’s any question at the polls, you’ve got documentation.

Getting registered is only the first step. It’s equally important to stay registered and to make sure you protect your right to vote. Now you know how to do it. Please, share this with everyone you know. It’s too important not to.

We’re in this together, Joyce

(Source: Joyce Vance's August 10th, 2024 issue of Civil Discourse, JoyceVance.substack.com)

Neighbors in proximity to the NoBo Shelter as well as Boulder Housing Partners and permanently supportive housing are being ignored and pushed aside by Council in the upcoming discussion of the public nuisance ordinance. At present, Council intends to exclude all these properties which they have situated in town from the noise ordinance. If people are going to be liable for lix when it gets too rowdy, that should include everyone, not just our taxpaying neighbors.

If you agree, please write Council today to let them know that this is exclusionary and just plain unfair.

Below are the emails for city council members, city manager and mayor:

adamst@bouldercolorado.gov, benjaminm@bouldercolorado.gov, brocketta@bouldercolorado.gov, folkertsl@bouldercolorado.gov,marquist@bouldercolorado.gov, schuchardr@bouldercolorado.gov, speern@bouldercolorado.gov, wallachm@bouldercolorado.gov,winert@bouldercolorado.gov, rivera-vandermyden@bouldercolorado.gov