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

Most poorly informed policy making I've seen in the recent 2 years.

We don't have enough water, infrastructure, or services to support unfettered growth in the Front Range. This includes Lafayette, Louisville, and Superior as well.

Don't buy into the greenwashing by the commercial interests behind this co-op proposal.

Co-op housing is worth doing and important. Important enough to get right! Which the current proposal does not.

No high occupancy housing in single family zoned neighborhoods! Co-ops belong in current high density zoning!

NO to Co-op

All points on this petition are valid and keep Boulder in line with it's history and future preservation goals.

I strongly oppose Co-op Ordinance.

I oppose Boulder's proposed Co-op Ordinance as it is currently drafted, and support that Co-ops of any type should only be allowed in existing high-density, mixed-use, and converted commercial/industrial/office zones. I support that the City budget for and hire sufficient occupancy enforcement staff, and specify requirements for enforcement. I support the idea of an “Equity Co-op”, in which the members of the co-op would have a long-term stake in the property and the surrounding neighborhood, whereby an “Equity Co-op” should be defined as a property in which 100% of the adult/non-dependent residents own a meaningful share of the property, and 100% of the owners have the property as their primary residence.

We lived at this address in Boukder for 7 years and now rent this house. We live in Louisville now. Our former neighborhood is had many families and singles and is a great community--coops would totally change its nature.

I say no to Co-ops AIRBnB's and any other type of housing that increases density in Boulder!

Neighborhoods have their own personalities. When you start mixing co-ops with low density housing, the neighborhood loses its identity and changes from the reason we move here.

There are already way too many overcrowded rentals on the Hill. Please, please do not add to this problem by legalizing co-ops!

Co-op housing, with the possible exception of "Equity Co-op" is, by its very nature destructive of and contrary to the concept and value of single-family zoning. Rental co-op housing should be eliminated, rather than liberalized from low- and medium-density residential neighborhoods.

We have a house in our neighborhood who has 5 unrelated people living there. There are always tons of cars. And the house is the trashiest house in our neighborhood. I think co-ops would simply create this on a regular basis.

I do not support expanding co-ops

Co-housing that is based on ownership is a solution not Co-ops that are not. People want to BUY affordable housing. Everything being proposed is about RENTALS whether expensive rentals or subsidized public housing--its all profit making rentals that benefit investors and developers--NOT for the Benefit of People. People want to BUY affordable homes!!!!!

I believe that creating a Co-ops ordinance is detrimental to the community at large as it is being proposed to quickly without looking and reasonable choices to add housing to the community. Some considerations could be 1. City must budget for and hire sufficient occupancy enforcement staff, and specify requirements for enforcement. 2. Co-ops, which are by nature high density, should not be permitted in low-density or medium-density residential zones. 3.The city should look to other solutions such as a co-housing model based on equity ownership. 4.Co-ops based on any form of rental model are not acceptable. 5.“Equity Co-op” should be defined as a property in which 100% of the adult/non-dependent residents own a meaningful share of the property, and 100% of the owners have the property as their primary residence.

Please stop trying to fix something that's not broken. Please stop trying to turn Boulder into LoDo.

How about limits to numbers of rentals on a block ,too!