Vauban is a largely car-free suburb developed on the site of a former military base in Freiburg, Germany.
Help us create truly low stress, safe, human-scaled bike-ped-transit-rich neighborhoods without sacrificing mobility for older and handicapped citizens as they have done at Vauban.
A Win-Win
Let’s work together to accomplish a skillful reversal of the net shed rate of housing attainable to the middle.
“Boulder loses 1,000 market-affordable units annually due to price inflation and replaces those lost units with an average of 123 affordable units each year, giving us a net loss of approximately 900 units each year.”
Goose Creek develops model projects and advocates for a significant increase in resident-owned, permanently affordable, mixed income (for residents earning $40,000-$200,000) housing in Boulder-City and County.
This housing will be largely served by non-fossil fueled alternative-mode transportation with plenty of beautiful public spaces and connection to Open Space.
We believe we ALL benefit from “maintaining the middle” by making room for moderate and middle income families and workers.
Our projects demonstrate how, by allowing some flexibility in the prevalent single family zoning (perhaps ~80% of residentially zoned land in the City of Boulder) and by siting housing in commercial and industrial zones, we could reverse the “net shed rate” of affordable housing identified in the 2014 Boulder Housing Partners Strategic Plan.
If we do this skillfully, we can increase the health, diversity, affordability and beauty of our community. Here is one of many developments influencing our work and a book which provides a blueprint for what all communities must do to meet today’s challenging environmental and social crises.
