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8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Hickenlooper promises ... · 2 replies · +5 points

Sure, but it's also not equal density from Pueblo all the way to Cheyenne either. Most people live and work in cities, so designing a system that works for most people is pretty reasonable. You listing where you coworkers live doesn't override the state's basic population distribution. People that choose to live in the mountains and like to drive around to get everywhere already have nice, reasonably maintained public roads subsidized by the state and federal transportation departments.

Unlike some people on the forums, I'm not trying to "win" internet arguments. I'm trying to have a discussion about real issues in our community. Burying your head in the sand and saying that no solution will ever work in Colorado because there isn't another place on earth *exactly* like Colorado frankly doesn't make a lot of sense.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Hickenlooper promises ... · 8 replies · +9 points

The vast majority of Colorado's population lives in the front range urban corridor because most people live in cities, not the national forest, wilderness areas and parks. Have you heard of Denver? Average density != local density.

Using your logic, I could argue that once we factor in Greenland's area (part of the Kingdom of Denmark!), they have an even lower population density than Colorado. How could they possibly manage to fund and build functional bicycle infrastructure?

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Merrill Glustrom: Addi... · 0 replies · -4 points

It takes $2 and a working bicycle to meet someone at Brewing Market and purchase a coffee. I did not know that such an endeavor is only attainable to such distinguished elitists at the upper crust of society.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Merrill Glustrom: Addi... · 0 replies · -8 points

Gosh, I forgot that people with jobs never buy coffee!

Apparently you have time to read and comment on DC articles as well. Time that could be spent drinking coffee.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Tension between growth... · 1 reply · +2 points

Good analysis. I think Option 1 should not be brushed aside, however. Boulder has been able to purchase the vast 40,000 acres of open space in the past, therefore a few hundred acres in town should not be a major hurdle. Option 1 has the side benefit of balancing the skewed jobs/housing ratio (which is projected to get much worse if we don't down-zone) and thereby reducing the need for Options 2 and 3. Boulder has been doing just fine economically, and I see no reason that further increasing jobs in the next few decades 10-1 for each home is necessary. While open space has been a key limiter of sprawl (thankfully), the present issue is that zoning allows for much more jobs than workers.

When people talk about "growth" in a broad sense, the only metric that makes sense to discuss is economic growth and jobs. You can't argue for unfettered economic growth while severely limiting housing and expect the character of the town to remain the same.

Boulder needs to think more regionally about economic growth and work with the surrounding towns to solve these problems. Option 2 would be a logical pathway to collaborating with surrounding towns and creating incentives to build sustainable, livable areas throughout the front range as a precursor to building out transportation infrastructure.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Tension between growth... · 0 replies · +3 points

^^ This is why there is tension. When you belittle, demean and brush off ideas (and more importantly people) that you disagree with, you become the problem.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Tension between growth... · 0 replies · +1 points

Those were Erica's words, and they mean that the survey is designed to produce valid results (at some level of confidence) with an assumed distribution of responses. With 6,000 respondents it's virtually guaranteed that the results will indicate how the population would respond. This is not a conspiracy - this is just you not understanding statistics and survey design.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder\'s proposed 20... · 2 replies · +12 points

Your property tax increase was on the ballot last year. It passed by popular vote, not by CC overreach.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Bill Mark: A bigger di... · 0 replies · -4 points

Hey now, that sort of thinking requires people to accept personal responsibility for their actions! Surely there is someone else to blame!

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder council discus... · 0 replies · 0 points

We're in perfect agreement about electronic and other distractions for cars, bikes and pedestrians. I doubt that many hipsters wear sun hats, however :)

That's also one reason I prefer roads to the creek path. Automobiles are typically more predictable than longboarders. My takeaway is that there is an unmet infrastructure need for non-automobile travel (walking, biking, skateboarding, roller-blading, ski-jouring, etc.) based on this congestion, and it's great to see a conversation about this infrastructure happening regardless of your stance on Folsom.

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