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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · 3d

“In this moment of political, economic and climate turmoil, the #Boulder City Council has managed to keep our city heading in the right direction.”

That’s Daily Camera—endorsing all 4 incumbents for reelection out of 11. That’s:

Speer
Folkerts
Benjamin
Wallach

www.dailycamera.com/2025/10/05/c...

City Council incumbents have Boulder on the right track (Editorial)

The Boulder City Council has shown itself to have the character and resolve necessary to lead these trying times. That is why, despite a strong field of candidates, the Daily Camera Editorial Board…

www.dailycamera.com

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · 7d

God bless Portland.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · 13d

And I was delighted to talk to Mr. Polis and team today at Boulder Chamber Transportation Connections about the prospects for coordinated bus service from
Boulder to future mountain rail.

So many new possibilities are on the horizon for people to live their dreams in #Colorado without a car.

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · 13d

I’m grateful for the partnership btw #Boulder, @colorado.gov, and state+local leaders which is on the verge of bringing 2 new passenger train services to life:

* Commuter rail from Boulder Junction to Denver by 2029

* Boardings to Winter Park 20ish miles south of Boulder even sooner

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · 13d

The Millennium Harvest House Hotel in #Boulder has given way to central, no-car-needed housing for 1000ish CU students now being built. 🤩

TiL the old building lives on:

Thousands of truckloads are being reconstituted into 9+ miles of the new game-changing CO 119 bike path to Longmont. 😍

Millennium Harvest House. Credit: Daily Camera

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16d

Watching a panel on "urbanism as climate action." This is a huge, burgeoning field/idea/movement, but the desiccated boomer counsels who decide where climate funding goes are *clueless* about it and so it has to seek funding elsewhere.

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks a million to the large number staff and community advocates who have slogged to make this happen.

Thanks also to national advocates like @parkingreform.org, @runonclimate.bsky.social and others working around the country to ease the way. bouldercolorado.gov/parking-land...

Parking, Landscape and Site Access Guide | City of Boulder

bouldercolorado.gov

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · 14d

The city also has passed an ordinance requiring developers of larger facilities to provide more support for transpo demand mgmt (TDM). It introduces new
quality assurance that includes program design standards, user needs assessments, and accountability. boulderreportinglab.org/2025/09/18/n...

New Boulder ordinance makes developers pay for transit incentives

City Council approved an ordinance requiring developers to pay into an escrow account for transportation benefits, such as RTD EcoPasses.

boulderreportinglab.org

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · 14d

City of #Boulder has concluded its mega #parking reform.

Parking minimums are now gone. So all those patches of 200 square feet that home-builders have been required to install at a cost of $30,000+ per space can now be used for other things like vegetable gardens, bike parking, and housing.

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · 17d

One of greatest gifts of being an elected official:

The chance to sit with ppl who didn’t vote for me & ask me to consider a reasoned alternative to my thinking—then talk.

It always makes me stronger.

There’s no room in the US for political violence.

The way to a better future is better ideas.

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sometimes people fight “growth” while lamenting how long the list is to get senior housing.

Other times they seek you out at an event to say thanks for being persistent about improving transportation options and present with their gratitude a disco ball.

I will be donating to council chambers.

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great news: #Boulder Junction’s getting a burst of new transit service.

Depot Square Station opens Aug 31 to serve DEN airport (AB2), downtown Denver (FF4), & more.

Thanks RTD & partners for making it happen.

+ Great kickoff event @boulderchamber.bsky.social

www.rtd-denver.com/community/ne...

Boulder route updates with August service changes

www.rtd-denver.com

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Aug 14

P.s. Since posting I’ve received some great feedback that’s been added. Here’s the link again to the list which is now longer: www.ryanwithboulder.com/progress

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Aug 11

The smart people at @boulderprogressives.org figured it out too. Here’s what they have to say:

www.boulderprogressives.org/blog/boulder...

Boulder Progressives Endorses Folkerts, Speer, and Benjamin for Boulder City Council — Boulder Progressives

Boulder Progressives is proud to endorse Lauren Folkerts , Nicole Speer , and Matt Benjamin for Boulder City Council in the 2025 election. We are incredibly excited to get Lauren, Matt, and Nicole...

www.boulderprogressives.org

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Aug 11

My endorsements for the 2025 #Boulder city council election:

✓ Nicole Speer, PhD

✓ Lauren Folkerts

✓ Matt Benjamin

They are behind much of the progress our current council has made on housing, transpo, climate, inclusion, & the city’s financial strength—and they bring great prospects for more.

Boulder Progressives Endorses Folkerts, Speer, and Benjamin for Boulder City Council — Boulder Progressives

Boulder Progressives is proud to endorse Lauren Folkerts , Nicole Speer , and Matt Benjamin for Boulder City Council in the 2025 election. We are incredibly excited to get Lauren, Matt, and Nicole...

www.boulderprogressives.org

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Aug 11

…eliminating parking minimums and enhancing wider parking/TDM, and improving fire/water mgmt.

I’m looking forward to working with my council colleagues, staff, and community members to make all this and more happen, and learn and refine as we go.

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Aug 11

…the visionary plans Boulder has built and is in process of building, incl. commitments to safer streets and more resource-efficient, inclusive housing, in light of economic storm clouds moving in

It’s a working list, and not exhaustive. Amd it’s in addition to things already under way, like…

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Aug 11

☐ Integrate strong climate reasoning into city finance

☐ Make the city’s financial strategy more robust and resilient

☐ Defend Boulder against harms from federal cuts to science, jobs, investments, protections, and other assets for our community’s wellbeing

☐ Continue to implement…

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Aug 11

☐ Create a new program of support for the devpt of worker cooperatives

☐ Meaningfully increase Boulder’s minimum wage

☐ Comprehensively update Boulder’s approach to homelessness, with new data-driven commitments meaningfully contributing to resolving homelessness and surrounding dysfunctions

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Aug 11

☐ Establish new collaborative approaches to reduce water demand regionally and statewide

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Aug 11

☐ Develop standards to ensure potential new data centers meet the highest standards for sustainability and community benefit

☐ Improve food security and access to plant-rich nutritious food in part by seeding the development of a year-round farmer’s market and public food hub

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Aug 11

☐ Identify and pursue a next generation of measures to significantly increase the diversify of type and resource-efficiency of Boulder’s housing stock

☐ Make the process of landmarking for historic preservation more explicitly supportive of city goals and considerate of opportunity costs

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Aug 11

…drive greater investment towards compact, walkable development

☐ Improve the experience of peds and others outside cars in/around downtown and civic area

☐ Improve utilization of Boulder’s existing building stock for housing, including the use of the 1,000-4,000 homes empty most of the year

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Aug 11

…drivers, incorporating higher costs for higher impacts

☐ Strengthen citywide transportation demand management strategies, including consideration of a binding employer program

☐ Incorporate space-efficient land use and transportation choices into the climate action plan, and use that to…

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · Aug 11

☐ Develop a visionary commitment to making golf-cart-sized battery electric vehicles work safely and effectively throughout Boulder, and take meaningful steps to make it happen

☐ Establish a maintenance fee to assess at least $6,000,000 of costs of driving directly to…

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