The Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan is the community’s guide for how the Boulder Valley grows, connects and evolves over the next 20 years. The City of Boulder and Boulder County adopt the plan jointly because accomplishing the community’s vision for the future requires us to work together.
This plan is driven by our community. It connects shared values to choices about where homes and jobs are located, how people move around, how we collectively care for the environment and support a sustainable, equitable and resilient community. The core components of the plan are:
- Policies that inform city and county decisions
- Planning Areas Map that describes the extent of the plan’s applicability, where urban development is appropriate and where rural character will be preserved
- Future Land Use Map that identifies the desired land use pattern across the Boulder Valley
The Boulder Valley Planning Area
The comprehensive plan applies to land within the Boulder Valley Planning Area. This includes all land within the Boulder city limits as well as some surrounding land in unincorporated Boulder County.