KevinHotaling
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8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Local groups seek to i... · 0 replies · +4 points
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Local groups seek to i... · 2 replies · +22 points
This is a city funded "tourism" organization that actively inserts itself into politics, yet can't be bothered to set up a Twitter account or get more than 38 likes on its Facebook page, so I guess I should have expected as much.
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder council nixes ... · 1 reply · +11 points
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Walgreens moving into ... · 0 replies · +1 points
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Ballot measures could ... · 0 replies · +4 points
8) Absolutely not. The best way to accommodate growth is to repeal our one-size-fits-all policies and instead have strict restrictions in existing residential and open policies for blighted areas. I have proposed a high-density Tech Center east of 30th that would draw development pressure away from downtown and our beloved neighborhoods.
9) Barker Res (the city's primary water supply) actually overflows every year, so we're in a good place with water. But it's also worth noting the the majority of water use is actually outside the home, so xeriscaped, high density development (as is being built) has little to no effect on overall water consumption.
10) We currently have 60k in-commuters who use city services without paying any significant city taxes, so if your concern is capturing tax revenue, you should be a vocal proponent of growth.
11) lol ... better question, how many different traffic control devices can we install before we "drive" visitors insane? The best systems are simple systems and Boulder's transportation schemes are anything but ...
12) No, I don't think it should be illegal to be in a city park after 11p.
13) Any organization has a tendency to entrench existing power and expand where possible. The role of our City Council, which acts as a Board of Directors, ought be to provide a check and balance on this tendency. Too often (read "on virtually every account"), our Council and our dutiful full-time bureaucrats work in conjunction to enrich each other at the expense of citizens.
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Ballot measures could ... · 0 replies · +6 points
You either need to do some reading or you should remove "Liberty" from your name, because you clearly misunderstand the meaning of the word. I suggest you start with Read's "I, Pencil" pamphlet and then follow on with Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson."
Here's a pencil sharpener: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYO3tOqDISE
"I, Pencil" pdf: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.htm...
"Economics in One Lesson" pdf: https://mises.org/sites/default/files/Economics%2...
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Ballot measures could ... · 0 replies · +9 points
(1) It is not the proper role of a city government to be a purveyor of goods. We have enough trouble keeping the roads in disrepair (pun fully intended).
(2) No one on Council is qualified to be on the board of a utility during this tumultuous shift in the industry (including myself, had I been elected). I at least was warning that home battery technology and distributed generation were going to marginalize the value of distribution infrastructure. I was scoffed at, and then sure enough, Tesla jumped into the space just last week (it's always a bad idea to bet against Elon). http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/25...
(3) There are easy alternatives. It's just plain irresponsible to make speculative investments with taxpayer dollars. Wanna support green energy? Awesome, put some solar panels up, guaranteed win. My proposal was that we create a tax incentive that would give amortized 10-year property tax credits to anyone who installs solar panels (silly me).
Anyway, yeah, anyone willing to bet hundreds of millions of dollars ... of other people's money ... on a speculative investment ... in a rapidly changing industry ... should be put in a padded cell. Unfortunately, due to budget constraints, Boulder has decided that Council Chambers will do.
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Ballot measures could ... · 6 replies · +19 points
1) Boulder Junction is ugly because it's built to city code. The inclusionary tax burden, height restrictions, and design requirements result in very little incentive to build anything other than a big brick box with articulated walls.
2) The traffic at 30th and Pearl is only bad during rush hour. Why rush hour? Because our 60k in-commuters and 50k suburban sprawlers take about 200k car trips just to get to and from work (the real problem). Blaming traffic on a few hundred units of high density development (the real solution) is complete bullsh*t.
3) Adding jobs increases traffic if you don't add a corresponding quantity of adjacent housing. This is happening in Boulder because we charge a 20% inclusionary tax on residential development, which artificially restricts supply and discourages middle income housing (hence the 60k in-commuters).
4) PearlWest is infinitely better than the Daily Camera building. If you'd rather walk past a parking lot and a brick piece of junk than have a new rooftop restaurant and a public courtyard, you're out of your mind.
5) FastTracks isn't coming, ever, because massive government programs don't work, ever. Uber (et al) is the transportation solution of the future, so please download the app and sell one of your cars (ya know, to reduce traffic).
6) Obviously the original trilogy reigns supreme and Return of the Jedi is the best of all. I have it on good word from George Lucas that the entire series is an allegory depicting the rise and fall of the Boulder City Planning Empire.
9 years ago @ Home - Broomfield Ente... - Ward 5 Broomfield City... · 1 reply · +3 points
9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder\'s first outdo... · 0 replies · +17 points