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January 12, 2009, 11:43 AM ET
To Boulder's Annoyance, New University Building Will Ignore City Height Limits
The University of Colorado at Boulder, as a state agency, isn’t covered by Boulder’s zoning regulations — but it’s not exempt from criticism when it does something like plan a building 20 feet taller than city height restrictions allow, as the Colorado Daily points out.
Not only is the university planning a 50,000-square-foot, $15.7-million building that would loom above everything else in a neighborhood where relations between residents and the university have been strained before, but the university didn’t even tell the city about it until just recently, according to a memorandum the City Council received last week. The four-story building, which will house the university’s Institute of Behavioral Science, was approved by the university’s regents in 2007.
The university’s vice chancellor for administration, Frank Bruno, says the university is trying to do a better job of communicating with the city. “I’m more than willing to say this is not the way we want to conduct business or our relationship between the city and university,” he told the Colorado Daily. “We are committed to improving.” Mr. Bruno, a former Boulder city manager, says the project was approved before he came to work for the university.
The university’s architect, Paul Leef, told the paper that he had looked into changing the building’s plans to remove the top story and add a wing instead. But the change would cost $1.5-million and delay the project, so the university decided to go ahead with the building as planned.
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