Alert: CU Tennis Courts Application

The Planning Board will be making a recommendation on the CU Tennis Court application.

Please attend this meeting which is one of the final hearings on the tennis court development application before the City and County. A number of us who have been following this issue closely will be out of town on Thursday and it is very important to get some people to the meeting to speak or observe the meeting.

Talking points should address the following:

Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) -

1. The location of the tennis courts in relation to a state arterial highway interchange and the future development of US 36 as well as future CU development.
2. What are the traffic standards for development in areas around interchanges involving state arterial highways?
3. What are the cumulative traffic impacts from development not only from CU's use of the tennis courts but all other groups such as Boulder Valley School District who testified that they needed these courts? What about the impacts from the track field which has been approved for development?

New urban development –
Is this not new urban development? At what point in CU's piece meal development of the South Campus is all this development considered new urban development?

1041 – Article 8-511 –
Pick up the Planning Board packet from the Planning Department. Some citizens have addressed these issues with their comments. Important sections are:

• B, 3 on adequate water supplies.
• B, 5,a-h on impacts to the open space, air quality, surface and groundwater, wetlands and riparian areas, terrestrial and aquatic animal and plant life, and soils and geologic conditions.
• B, 8 on excessive noise – CU wants to raise the limits.
• B, 9 proposal will not be subject to significant risk from floods, etc. – address possible berm failure.
• B, 11 on capability of local government to provide services.
• B, 14 on BVCP.
• Section J on standards for development in areas around interchanges involving state arterial highways.

Floodplain Study –

1. We don't know the terms of the flows and the optimal mitigation for upstream and downstream residents.
2. We need to complete the new study prior to any development at the CU South Campus. Putting in tennis courts now could interfere with where the flood storage detention area may have to go.
3. The CU land holds the key to the health and safety of residents upstream and downstream of this property. This land could be used to solve the flooding issues in our community and therefore, no development should take place until the new hydrology report is completed and we have selected a mitigation system.

However, the City of Boulder Open Space Board of Trustees voted to recommend that the City defend the provisions of the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan as they pertain to Flatirons property. The Comprehensive Plan would preserve 221 acres of the 308-acre property as Open Space. Also the Boulder County Commissioners, unanimously voted to adopt new, more stringent rules governing requests for building in flood plains. These regulations apply to the University of Colorado/Boulder and would place CU's long-term plans for permanent structures at the "South Campus" under the purview of County officials. In addition, the City has power to approve or not approve proposed development on the property if the University seeks boulder municipal utility and infrastructure services.

FOSC supporters are urged to ask University to gather comprehensive feedback and input from the people of Boulder who will feel the impact of this proposed development and to enter into good faith negotiations with the City and County to determine the optimal use of the Flatirons property.