Tell Boulder City Council "NO" on the proposed Co-op Ordinance

I specifically sought out low density zoning, with no more than three unrelated people per house, for many reasons. No more than three unrelated is challenging enough, as it is. It is unimaginable that the City would be contemplating putting 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 unrelated people in houses in low density residential. It would break at least three social contracts between the City and thousands of residents of low density neighborhoods. Let the City implement all its extreme high density items like co-ops on its OWN property....specifically, the former Boulder Community Hospital site. Make it a co-op haven and give the extreme density the co-op'ers seem to crave. But do it on City property. This would be a win win. They'd be happy, Council would be happy, and single family neighborhoods would be happy.

The parking is getting to be ridiculous.

This is one reason I moved away from Boulder...

a 6 generation of boulder - our family still has homes in the goss-grove neighborhood - i do not support this cooperative housing ordinance.

Rental co-ops are nothing more than glorified boarding houses. I should know - there's been one next door to me for the last four years. They had a revolving door of boarders and couch-surfers the whole time. Don't let this happen to you!

PLEASE HELP TO SAVE OUR COMMUNITY!!! Our gunbarrel open space is so priceless to us. Also, our community as a city, of which my home is a part of, is over crowded. Our city is full! Please stop using my tax dollars to survey if boulder is welcoming enough... It's too welcoming! Please let's stop expanding and try to maintain what we have already created...

My slumlord neighbor rented his house to a group of stoners who had a B&B catering to out of state guests who came to smoke/try a variety of MJ provided by their entrepreneurial hosts. It was a terrible situation - and the HOA was no help. This is a poor idea with absolutely no forethought or consideration for your taxpaying constituency.

Too bad Jan Trussel's piece is not being published.

So tired of this city council ruining what was once a wonderful town!!

Boulder is already to dense tor allow this to happen the wrong way

As a real estate agent and as their direct neighbor I personally offered to relocate the Picklebric co-op to a more suitable property in a higher density part of the neighborhood. They refused my request, stating that they didn't want to live in a high density area, they preferred the "nicer" neighborhoods. A subsequent conversation yielded a "we can live wherever we want" response from one of the over-occupants. City council members like Andrew Shoemaker facilitating their cause by reaching out to the property owner to encourage him to renew their lease gives them this sense of entitlement not to even consider a win-win compromise. Meanwhile, Shoemaker is moving his family out of the area where he's encouraging illegal co-ops to an exclusive neighborhood west of University Hill. We need to take a serious look at replacing the current group of scoundrels on council if this is how they support their constituents in low density neighborhoods.

Let's get a new city council responsive to all homeowners.

I oppose the proposed Co-op Ordinance and implore you to reconsider the consequences of such an ordinance.

Fix the occupancy limits first. Must be based on house size and number of bed rooms and baths and neighborhood character. This ordanance looks like cronyism.

This ordinance will destroy the fabric of all single family low density neighborhoods and continue the City Council supported wealth building philosophy for outside developers and investors.

Co-op have their place and it's not in low to medium density neighborhoods

Agree with all the points in the petition.

Exemptions and exceptions - removing all meaning from the zoning and code that made this place so wonderful.

No co-ops in low-density-zoned residential neighborhoods! No stealth up-zoning!

Co-ops do not belong in low density housing areas.