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Key Issues: A quick response often provides a comforting, false sense of security, but it is not the same as an effective solution.

• This annexation is one of the biggest issues facing the City and voters should have the final say.
• All Boulder residents are entitled to a vote on a project that will cost at least $60 million and possibly more, which the City plans to pay for by increasing everyone's utility fees.
• Climate science establishes the need for 500-year flood protections that would protect 800 more homes, 1,800 more people and more than $600 million in property values in Frazier Meadows than the current 100-year proposal, at an affordable cost.
• Future flash floods are almost sure to be more frequent and severe than past events, so the current proposal leaves people and property exposed to future flood risk, falling short on public safety and climate science.
  
• With the current proposal a future storm greater than a 100-year event risks overtopping US36 and closing off vital roads, just like in 2013.
• The current proposal will permanently remove part of the natural floodplain reducing future resilience and opportunities for important flood control and environmental benefits.
• All the housing and transportation benefits the proponents claim this proposal will bring to Boulder can be provided more effectively if the City makes a serious attempt to negotiate a land exchange with CU that would direct development to a better location outside the floodplain.
• Requiring CU to provide a site plan is consistent with past annexations and will allow voters to make informed decisions on the proposed annexation.
• The current proposal falls short of advancing our climate goals by not requiring “Net Zero” construction,
  
• Boulder citizens deserve a more resilient plan that actually protects people going into the future instead of a quick placebo that permanently reduces future flood mitigation options.​​