The City of Boulder is planning to remove up to 57 mature trees near 30th & Pearl Streets (behind the Boulder-Africa Cultural Center & Ras Kassa's Ethiopian Restaurant). This is part of the City's plan to provide an underpass at this location. As bicyclists, we want bike paths to result from this improvement, not only a concrete loop with no connections. We want our bike paths to connect to existing paths that are south of the currently proposed location for an underpass, and we want the underpass to become a bicycle path, not another half-finished concrete slab. When the City first began designing this project in 2002, the 29th St. commercial and residential development plans did not exist. They did the best they could with the information available at the time. Now, however, years after the vision for this improvement was seeded, we have an opportunity to install bicycle paths, not just an underpass, and more efficient routes that connect to existing paths and take eco-commuters directly to and from the Transit Village and this commercial and residential hub of Boulder, saving our only African cultural center and one of the last pristine areas of old wildlife in the area. Moreover, the City has not made plans for responsible contracting to mitigate the risks to vulnerable construction workers in the nation's deadliest industry. In all, we believe Boulder can do better.
RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT
BETTER ALTERNATIVES:
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57 TREES:
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PROJECT HISTORY:
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