Community input will guide new roadmap to improve homes and businesses across Boulder 

The City of Boulder is seeking community input for its Healthy Buildings, Stronger Community initiative and invites community members and businesses to help shape the future of Boulder’s buildings. Through this effort, the city aims to create a roadmap that will guide the city’s efforts to help make homes and workplaces across Boulder healthier, more energy efficient and more resilient to climate change, and it needs your input to get there. 

Now through June 1, anyone who lives or works in Boulder is encouraged to complete a short questionnaire about how to improve indoor spaces. Participants can enter a giveaway for one of twenty $100 grocery gift cards. 

The Healthy Buildings, Stronger Community Roadmap will identify strategies, partnerships and resources to support homeowners, landlords and businesses with upgrading existing buildings. By focusing on equity, indoor air quality, climate resilience, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and cost-effective solutions, the roadmap will help create a healthier future for Boulder community members. 

“Buildings are where we spend most of our time, and how we design and maintain them has a direct impact on our health, comfort and quality of life,” said Carolyn Elam, Sustainability Senior Manager with the Climate Initiatives Department. “This project is about understanding what people need to improve their spaces, and how the city can support those efforts.” 

Buildings generate nearly two-thirds of Boulder’s greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to poor indoor and outdoor air quality and respiratory illnesses. Many older homes and businesses in the city were not built to withstand climate impacts like extreme heat, rainfall and wind. These risks are most severe for those who are already vulnerable and often bear a disproportionate share of the impacts of climate change. 

Through development of this roadmap, the city will prioritize solutions that center community voices and build on Boulder’s history of innovation and sustainability leadership to inform its policies and program offerings over the next decade. 

Take the questionnaire today and help shape a stronger, healthier Boulder. 

Learn more about this and other climate work on the city’s website.  

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