Rachel Friend’s 2022 priorities
Councilwoman Friend set the following 5 priorities for 2022. Not all items were included in council’s official workplan.
Reduce Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT)
Pick a goal, listen to experts on how to achieve it, and then fund those recommendations.
Housing affordability/availability
Reorient planning incentives away from large, expensive housing and toward compact, attainable, lower carbon forms. City should purchase homes to preserve as affordable to middle-income earners.
Homelessness
More robust services for individuals as they make their way toward housing, while retaining a housing-first philosophy. Establish a working group with 1-2 council members, residents with lived experience; the group would identify gaps in services that the city would then fund.
Resilience to natural disasters
Update ordinances — including fire codes for all buildings, not just those in the urban-wildland interface — shore up early warning systems for fires and floods.
COVID: Long-term planning and silver linings
Establish clearly communicated data-informed triggers for meeting formats and evaluation of additional steps like passports for indoor spaces. Identify and evaluate what to retain from COVID-era, including West Pearl street closures for outdoor dining, to-go alcohol, etc.
See what Friend campaigned on here.
View Friend’s 2021 financial disclosure here.
Friend’s 2020 priorities
- SB Creek flood mitigation
- Racial equity in CRJ
- Vison Zero / Transportation equity
- Comprehensive budget review / library district
- CMAP (Climate Mobilization Action Plan)
- East Boulder Sub-community plan
- Use Tables 2.0
- Community Benefits Phase 2
- MuniA utility that would be owned by the city of Boulder. Shorthand for municipalization, which is the p...
- Existing project completion
- Homeless strategy
