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[[File:Boulder2.jpg|thumb|right|Boulder2.jpg]]"'''Boulder''' is the most populous city, and county seat, of Boulder County, in the US state of Colorado. Is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 5,430 feet (1,655 m) above sea level. The city is 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Colorado's largest city, [[Denver,_Colorado|Denver]], and has a population of 97,385 (in 2010); the population of the Boulder, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area was 294,567.
 
Boulder, Colorado, located about twenty-five miles northwest of Denver, is a municipality of over 97,000 people (its larger Boulder US Census-designated CO Metropolitan statistical Area consists of over 294,000 residents).
Boulder is famous for its colorful Western history, being a choice destination for hippies in the late 1960s, and as home of the main campus of the University of Colorado, the state's largest university. The city of Boulder frequently receives high rankings in art, health, well-being, quality of life, and education. It is well-known for being among the earliest US cities to implement comprehensive "growth-management" strategies, including an urban growth boundary. It is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Colorado#Home_rule_municipality home rule municipality] under Colorado law.
 
== Government ==▼
-adapted from "Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder,_Colorado Boulder, Colorado].▼
 
See the [http://yimby.wiki/wiki/Politics,_Elections_and_Legislation#Colorado Colorado section of Politics, Elections, and Legislation] for additional information.▼
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=== Municipal ===
Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan ( BVCP)<br/> [https://bouldercolorado.gov/bvcp/draft-boulder-valley-comprehensive-plan. https://bouldercolorado.gov/bvcp/draft-boulder-valley-comprehensive-plan.&nbsp;]<br/> &nbsp;▼
 
The city of Boulder is governed by a nine-member City Council that includes a Mayor and a Mayor pro-tem (chosen from the Councillors by the Council members). Boulder’s Mayor and Councillors are elected at-large and the terms they serve (either two or four years) are determined by the number of votes they receive. A Boulder City Council member is limited to serving three terms in his/her lifetime.
▲== Government ==
 
The City of Boulder has a council-manager governmental structure, meaning that the elected Council makes determinations and sets the policy for the city, to be carried out by the City Manager, who is appointed by the City Council.
▲See the [http://yimby.wiki/wiki/Politics,_Elections_and_Legislation#Colorado Colorado&nbsp;section of Politics, Elections, and Legislation] for additional information.
 
=== County ===
== Organizations in housing / land-use ==▼
 
Boulder County is the county in which the city of Boulder sits and of which it is the county seat. The county includes three other cities, several towns as well as unincorporated areas. The County is governed by the elected, full-time, three-member [https://www.bouldercounty.org/government/elected-officials/commissioners/ Boulder County Board of Commissioners], consisting of three commissioners. The Board of Commissioners is responsible for long-term planning for regional development, transportation and other forms of development.
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The County is divided into three districts (of roughly equal population). A county commissioner is drawn from each of these districts (in which s/he must reside) but each is elected by county voters as a whole, regardless of voter residence. As the governmental structure aims to provide representation for all of the county’s districts, no two commissioners can reside in the same district. County Commissioners serve four year terms.
 
In addition, the County is served by other elected officials, including a County Clerk and Recorder, an Assessor, Coroner, District Attorney, Sheriff, Surveyor, and Treasurer.
 
In addition to the Board’s efforts, the County uses committees to do its work. Committees of note:
 
*The Planning Commission (Note that zoning services are provided for the county for unincorporated areas; towns and cities have their own zoning functions)
*The Boulder County Regional Homeless Systems Executive Board
*The Housing and Human Services Advisory Committee
 
▲Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan ( BVCP)<br/> [https://bouldercolorado.gov/bvcp/draft-boulder-valley-comprehensive-plan. https://bouldercolorado.gov/bvcp/draft-boulder-valley-comprehensive-plan.&nbsp;]<br/> &nbsp;
 
▲== Organizations in housing / land-use ==
 
*Better Boulder - YIMBY-affiliated group. &nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;
*Livable Boulder - key proponents of 2015 growth-control / neighborhood control initiative.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;
*Plan Boulder.
 
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== References ==
 
▲-adapted from "Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder,_Colorado Wikipedia - Boulder, Colorado].
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_County,_Colorado Wikipedia - Boulder County]
 
[http://bouldercounty.org Boulder County website]
 
[https://bouldercolorado.gov/ The City of Boulder, Colorado website]
 
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*Danish, Paul.
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