From the Boulder Daily Camera (Heath Urie):
Because it’s considered the Front Range city most at-risk from flash floods, Boulder officials are floating a new proposal that would require certain new buildings to be better protected from floods. Utility planners are beginning work on the Critical Facility and Mobile Population Ordinance with a public meeting on Tuesday to solicit input on the proposal, which seeks to keep the city’s most important infrastructure dry during the types of floods that happen about once every 100 or 500 years. “We’ve learned form past flood events that certain facilities … need to remain operational during flooding,” said Christie Coleman, Boulder’s utility project manager. “When we don’t protect critical pieces of our infrastructure, we think it’s going to take the community longer to recover from a flood.”[…]
What: Open-house meeting on proposed Critical Facility and Mobile Population ordinance
When: 4 p.m. Tuesday
Where: Boulder Municipal Services Center, 5050 East Pearl St.