Council declines to change city code to accommodate vacation rentals
City Government
Lessees stand to save $7K each over 10 years
The road toward funding a new municipal pool in Boulder City has been somewhat tortuous.
Inflation, it appears, continues to bedevil plans for large public projects in Boulder City.
It was supposed to be a technicality, but it led to a different discussion.
No municipality in the country has been able to totally avoid the negative effects of the opioid epidemic, Not even Clean, Green Boulder City.
Much has been made of the recent designation of Boulder City as an International Dark Sky Community.
The first order of business was to make sure there was no confusion about potential nepotism as Boulder City Mayor Joe Hardy introduced the lobbyist contracted by the city.
“It’s interesting that at the same time utility rates are going up, the city is subsidizing airplane owners.”
To a casual observer, it would probably seem that an issue involving setting lease rates for general aviation hangars at a city-owned airport would be dry and of little interest to the average person on the street.
Since inflation started to really take off in early 2022, the cost of everything seems to have gone up: eggs, gasoline, rent. And it appears that proposed construction projects are not immune from the effects of rapidly-rising prices.
Put this one in the “pros” column. New equipment has been ordered by the city for playgrounds at several local parks.
Sharp-eyed residents of the Golf Course Estates area and anyone passing Veterans’ Memorial Park via Buchanan Boulevard may have noticed the trees at the Broadmoor Circle median have a distinctly “metal” look.
Phase II of the Boulder City Parkway Complete Streets Project is slated to begin soon and, as part of the project, the city hosted a virtual survey so that residents could rate the importance of various proposed improvements.
For those who attended the May 18 public input session at the Boulder City Senior Center, which asked residents “What keeps you up at night?” one may have walked away thinking homelessness was the top issue facing Boulder City.
