That's Boulder for you, they're super progressive right up until progress forces something to change
You could argue that the land doesn't cost those neighbouring counties anything, so it's a wash.
Help me understand how you're on the side of progressivism, here.
Help me understand how /you’re/ on the side of progressivism, here.
Is paving over nature what you consider to be progress?
Do they not host more ecological diversity? Are they not more environmentally productive?
Do hay farms introduce parking lots, traffic, roads, hundreds of housing units, and on average, ~1.5 cars for every unit?
This is all pearl clutching to keep out the poors with a fence that doesn't make you sad when you look at the fence.
That’s why people want to live in Boulder in the first place, as opposed to Longmont, Broomfield, or Denver — all of which they’re free to choose, instead of spending more to live Boulder.
Why should the very traits that make Boulder desirable be destroyed to accommodate everyone that desires to live there?
Boulderites who cry about 'keeping the low density' are just using that as a thin veneer to mask their classism. That very classism has all but ruined what made Boulder special in the first place, killing off the arts scene.
Am I supposed to feel bad for poor people who cannot live in Boulder, so they have to live 20 minutes away?
Good luck to your property values.
Now, the article doesn't give much detail on whether it really happened that reasonably. E.g. it doesn't give a timeline, or say anything about whether it was a lengthy and difficult fight, so it might still be they were unreasonable and difficult, but I don't think that single line is enough to judge them.
Has a focus on housing, but it's the same underlying issue. People love to signal their virtue, but their true values are revealed by what they do.
It's mainly window dressing, it's really is like most tech hubs: a police state protecting the wealthy elite. It's a literal fiefdom, and no surprise most of the the real-estate is owned by one firm (TEBO).
Being on Pearl Street past midnight pre-pandemic, or any time afterward with the amount of homelessness made it seem so much like the Bay Area!
I realized whatever Boulder offered me for 6 years was going to have to be enough, because it's hard to see how things aren't getting worse.
Also, I'm sure that vacant Walmart on 28th and Iris next to the 24 hour fitness, where the lights were still on until 2019, could have sold their building as they were effectively run out of town for being not being in 'Boulder's image' a few years back.
Honestly, Boulder was fun from 2015-2018 if you were in the fintech scene but things degraded fast after that and it's MegaCorp face became all to obvious to justify living there any longer. I'm just glad I got to live the experience and live to tell the story--I used to go to the King Soopers when I visited my friends in Table Mesa where the shooting happened.
I tend to find that most places were at their peak when we were in our mid-to-late-20s and started to get less-cool as we entered our early-30s and beyond.