The City of Boulder is reaching out to its residents to actively involve them in reshaping a stretch of 30th Street, known both for its bustling traffic and as a hot spot for crashes. The North 30th Street Preliminary Design Project is setting the stage from Jan. 13-16 to gather community input and collaborate on conceptual design alternatives intended to enhance safety and connectivity on the roadway according to the City of Boulder.
During the workshop week, Boulder city staff are eager to confidently share what they have learned from the community feedback and the analysis of data collected in the prior year. As stated by the City of Boulder, the workshop encourages locals "to join the process as we work toward alternatives to make 30th Street safer for everyone," a sentiment echoed by Stephen Rijo, the city's Transportation Planning Manager. In an aim to facilitate comprehensive community participation, the sessions will span across different times of day and formats, including open design studios where attendees can directly contribute to the design concept sketches.
The series of events, hosted at Park Central Building in downtown Boulder, will kick off with an introductory session where attendees can better understand the project, gather insights on data analysis from 2024, and discuss their visions for the future of 30th Street. This initial meeting is set for Monday, Jan. 13, from 6-7:30 p.m. Subsequent open design studio sessions will further allow community members to put their ideas to paper alongside the project team.
The culmination of the collaborative effort will be presented at an open house on Thursday, Jan. 16, from 4-7 p.m., where the project team will display the workshop's outcomes, inclusive of the conceptual design alternatives and the criteria developed to evaluate them. The city ensures accessibility by providing a virtual option post-event, complete with options for the community to continue to provide feedback. The initiative ties back to Boulder's Vision Zero Action Plan, an approach that the city has adopted to ultimately eliminate serious and fatal crashes on its roads, with a particular focus on 30th Street, a roadway that currently sits prominently on the High-Risk Network.
