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For the North Boulder Subcommunity Plan Update, Growing Up Boulder used a variety of methods to ask young people and their parents, “What do you like or not like about North Broadway?  What are the key opportunities for that area?”

While the information collected is not part of a scientific study, we believe the views shared here still represent meaningful input into the Update, and they include an important subset of the community that is often not represented at public meetings or in more traditional forms of outreach.

 Community Engagement methods employed include:
  • Drawing sessions with elementary and middle school children at the public meeting on October 30, 2013 (n=3 elementary school children, n=1 middle school student)
  • Questions for parents of young children via Boulder Rock’n Moms Yahoo Group post on November 7, 2013 (n=24)
  • Questions for high school student acquaintances via email on November 7, 2013 (n=4)
  • “City-on-a-wall” activity and individual drawings with Foothill Elementary School 1st grade class on May 5, 2014 (n=24)

Answers varied significantly by age group.  Below is a summary of the most frequently requested design elements, in descending order of importance. 
Group
  • Elementary School children




  • Youth (middle school and high school)

  • Parent of young children


Ideas/Design elements
  • Fields, trees, flowers
  • Zoo or space for animals
  • toy store

  • Increased safety at the Front Range/Broadway bus stop
  • Safer walking and biking paths in North Boulder

  • Indoor play space
  • Water features (pool and/or splash pad)
  • Inexpensive, family-friendly restaurants
  • General store
  • Shade at playgrounds
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*Growing Up Boulder (GUB) is Boulder's child-friendly city initiative. A formal partnership between the City of Boulder, Boulder Valley School District, and the University of Colorado, GUB became a nonprofit in spring 2021 under the fiscal sponsorship of the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center (CNDC). Since 2009, GUB has worked with over 7,500 children and youth on more than 100 projects.

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