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What: Boulder County’s Planning Commission is to consider Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan land-use designations for properties at 6655 Twin Lakes Road, 6500 Twin Lakes Road and 0 Kalua Road.
When: The commission’s meeting starts at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, but discussions of comprehensive plan issues are the fifth item on the day’s agenda.
Where: Third-floor meeting room in the Boulder County Courthouse, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder
More information about the proposed Twin Lakes land-use changes is available on the county’s Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan updates website, bit.ly/1ZBXvzZ, by clicking the “Twin Lakes” and “Public Meetings” links.
Boulder County’s Planning Commission may decide Wednesday whether to support any changes to the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan’s current lane-use designations for 20 acres of now-vacant land alongside Twin Lakes Road in unincorporated Gunbarrel.
On Jan. 18, the county planning panel conducted its latest public hearing on whether to change the low-density residential category now assigned to a 10-acre parcel the Boulder County Housing Authority owns at 6655 Twin Lakes Road and the school or other “public use” category in the current comp plan for 10 acres of Boulder Valley School District properties at 6500 Twin Lakes Road and 0 Kalua Road.
The Housing Authority and the school district are seeking to change those land-use designations to a medium-density residential category in order to proceed with plans for possible annexation by Boulder and development of affordable housing on much of the 20 acres — while preserving undeveloped buffers and wildlife corridors on the properties’ northern, eastern and southern edges.
However, the Twin Lakes Action Group — a neighborhood organization opposing the higher-density housing designation — has sought to have the entire 20 acres designated as open space, precluding any future development there.
The county Planning Commission got presentations from the Housing Authority and school district and the Twin Lakes Action Group at the Jan. 18 public hearing — along with testimony from more than 60 people who spoke at that hearing — but delayed action until Wednesday’s meeting in order for all nine members of the panel to be present for a vote.
No further testimony from members of the general public will be taken at Wednesday afternoon’s Boulder County Planning Commission meeting, although planning panel members may have further questions for the Housing Authority and school district, the Twin Lakes Action Group or the city and county’s planning staffs.
Any changes in the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan’s current land-use designations for the 20 acres must be approved by four separate government bodies — the county Planning Commission, the Board of County Commissioners, the Boulder Planning Board and the Boulder City Council.
If a majority of county planning commissioners agree on a Twin Lakes land-use change on Wednesday, the change would also still have to be approved by the three other government bodies. The county commissioners have tentatively scheduled their meeting for 2 p.m. Feb. 23.
John Fryar: 303-684-5211, jfryar@times-call.com or twitter.com/jfryartc
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