A massive campus and housing development at CU South will create more traffic problems on Boulder's already crowded roads. A proposed new intersection on Highway 93 is flat out dangerous.

There were more than 33,000 students at CU Boulder in Spring 2022. CU refuses to cap enrollment at the Boulder campus and has grown beyond past forecasts. CU's plans for CU South call for 750,000 square feet of non-residential buildings - enough for more than 3,000 students or employees, but only 1,100 residential dwelling units. 2,500,000 total square feet of development at CU South only makes Boulder's jobs/population imbalance worse. It it is not a housing solution.

A good neighbor would readily cooperate with flood mitigation in the interest of public safety. CU has done the opposite and forced the annexation of CU South as a pre-condition for cooperating. Flood mitigation should come before annexation. Boulder needs to do flood mitigation at CU South, but CU will only allow a small amount of land to be used and ONLY IF the property is annexed allowing 750,000 SF of non-residential building and a 3,000 seat stadium. A good neighbor and partner would cooperate on flood mitigation without forcing annexation. Tell CU to stop being a bad neighbor. Vote yes.

The flood mitigation project has been projected to cost $40 - $60 milliion...BEFORE the pandemic. Since then, construction costs have skyrocketed for things like concrete and steel. The City doesn't plan to update the real costs of the flood mitigaiton project until AFTER the election. They don't want to tell us the truth about the real costs.

According to an Engineering News-Record index, prices of concrete pipe (16.2 percent), copper pipe (20.8 percent), fabricated steel (39.8 percent), and PVC pipe (35.6 percent) have soared in 2021-2022.

Imagine this land, the gateway to Boulder with 2,500,000 square feet of development across it .That's equivalent to 52 blocks and a new downtown level of density.  This property was supposed to be entirely open space once-upon-a-time because it is in the South Boulder Creek floodplain. CU will dedicate just a fraction of the land for open space under the current annexation agreement. This is a huge loss for the environment and the community.

Ute Ladies’Tresses Orchid (Spiranthes diluvialis) is a rare orchid found throughout the interior west in riparian and wetland habitats. The South Boulder Creek floodplain and CU South are prime habitat for the beautiful and threatened species.

CU South is critical habitat for the Preble's Meadow Jumping Mice. Preble’s mice occur only in Colorado and Wyoming. The Preble’s meadow jumping mouse is listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS 1998). In Colorado, they are listed as a threatened, Tier 1, Species of Greatest Conservation Need (CPW 2015). The Colorado Natural Heritage Program considers the subspecies to be globallyimperiled (G5 T2) and criticallyimperiled with the state (S1).

Experts like Gilbert White have recommended 500-year or more flood mitigation for this site. The current flood mitigation proposal is based on a 100-year design storm that occurs over Eldorado Canyon - very different from what occurred in 2013. The 2014 report from the City summarizing flood impact from the 2013 found that local tributaries (and particularly Viele Channel) caused a lot of the flood damage in the West Valley area.

The 2022 IPCC report on climate change points out substantially increased risks of flooding and fires. CU South sits just a few hundred yards from the ignition point of the Marshall Fire. We should not build 2,500,000 SF of development in the floodplain in the most critical fire zone. The Marshall Fire was a warning. Will we heed it?

The CU South Annexation agreement is a one-sided deal that favors CU. The arrangement asks Boulder citizens to pay for major expenses and CU gets cheap water and sewer hookups for their 2,500,000 square feet of development. Growth should pay its own way. Repeal the bad deal. Vote Yes.