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From YouTube: Inside Boulder News - March 8, 2013
Description
This week on Inside Boulder News: Council discusses potential recreational marijuana regulations; city kicks off Transportation Master Plan process; urban forestry officials share information about tree removal protocols; water festival wins award; and public safety officers and neighbors save a woman's life.
A
Welcome
to
inside
Boulder
news,
I'm
Natalie,
Wood
Boulder
voters
passed
amendment
64
with
overwhelming
support
and
on
Tuesday
city
council
discussed
how
best
to
craft
local
rules
for
recreational
marijuana.
A
majority
of
council
members
favored
a
moratorium
until
sometime
in
2014.
The
pause
gives
the
city
more
time
to
respond
to
the
regulations.
The
state
legislature
develops
the
state
and
neighboring
communities,
including
Denver,
have
not
yet
made
decisions
about
whether
to
allow
non
medical
marijuana.
Shops.
I
am.
D
In
favor
of
a
moratorium,
I
think
the
question
about
how
long
is
a
very
tricky
one,
because
there
are
so
many
different
timelines
and
different
entities,
including
other
municipalities,
actions
that
I
think
will
impact,
at
least
in
my
mind,
will
impact
my
thinking
about
what
I
want
to
do.
First,
we're
waiting
for
the
state
to
find
out
what
what
what
they're
going
to
do.
A
Did
pass
to
related
ordinances
on
first
reading,
the
first
clarifies
existing
policies
surrounding
medical
marijuana
businesses.
The
second
makes
it
a
municipal
violation
for
individuals
younger
than
21
to
possess
marijuana.
Council
will
take
up
the
idea
of
a
moratorium
and
additional
regulations
on
the
recreational
marijuana
industry.
Later
this
spring,
you
can
watch
the
entire
discussion
from
Tuesday's
council
meeting
at
Boulder
channel
8
com
now's
your
chance
to
help
shape
the
future
of
Boulder
transportation.
The
city
kicked
off
the
2013
transportation.
A
Your
plan
update
with
an
open
house
Monday
the
year-long
planning
effort,
aims
to
make
Boulder
transportation
even
more
accessible
and
sustainable
for
generations
to
come.
Residents
met
with
city
officials
and
representatives
from
Smart
Growth
America
to
start
the
community
collaboration
phase.
Thank.
F
G
F
A
Will
be
many
opportunities
for
the
community
to
collaborate
with
the
city
on
the
TMP
update,
visit,
Boulder
TMP
net
for
information
and
updates
it's
important
to
remove
dead
trees
in
Boulder
to
maintain
safety.
But
how
do
you
know
what
to
keep
and
what
gets
the
axe?
Urban
forestry
has
the
answer
and
the
hollow.
H
H
There
comes
a
time
when
you
have
to
remove
a
tree,
because
it's
unsafe
in
our
big
wind
storms
and
snowstorms
they
can
fall
over.
This
is
a
silver
maple
and
in
Boulder
we
have
a
very
active
tree
safety
inspection
program
because
we
have
so
many
silver
maples
and
many
of
our
silver
maples
are
old,
trees
near
the
end
of
their
lifespan,
and
they
do
develop
problems
with
our
tree
safety
inspection
program.
We
inspect
the
trees
about
once
every
three
to
five
years
and
we
pick
up
the
trees
through
neighborhoods
surveys.
H
We
also
check
all
of
the
city
parks,
as
well
as
the
golf
course
in
the
reservoir,
and
once
the
tree
has
been
identified
as
having
a
structural
defect.
It
enters
our
monitoring
program
and
we
try
to
prescribe
pruning
to
keep
the
tree
safe.
In
the
worst
case
situations
we
remove
them
and
we
come
back
the
next
spring
and
plant
a
new
tree
safety-related.
A
Tree
removals
started
on
februari
25th
and
will
continue
through
March
tent
for
more
information
on
tree
removals
in
Boulder
visit,
the
city's
website
and
click
on
Parks
and
Recreation.
A
local
water
education
program
has
earned
an
award
for
excellence
from
the
Colorado
Alliance
for
environmental
education.
The
keep
it
clean
partnerships,
operation,
water
festival
program
uses
hands-on
activities
to
teach
students
where
their
drinking
water
comes
from
and
how
to
conserve
it.
The
program
engages
fourth
and
fifth
grade
students
in
six
weeks
of
pre-festival
learning
activities
and
a
day-long
water
festival.
The.
I
Pre
vessel
program
and
learning
activities
are
designed
with
a
take
home
component,
so,
for
example,
students
do
an
activity
in
the
classroom
and
then
they
go
home
and
they
check
for
leaks
with
their
family
in
their
house
and
they're,
provided
with
resources
to
and
information
on
how
to
fix
those
leaks.
So
it's
that
classroom,
family
and
then
ultimately
festival
all
of
those
components
make
it
unique
and
a
model
for
the
state.
The.
A
Award
recognizes
Colorado's
highest
quality
programs
that
are
setting
new
standards
for
environmental
education
in
their
communities
for
more
on
operation.
Water
festival
visit,
keep
it
clean
partnership,
org
a
boulder
county,
sheriff's
deputy,
a
boulder
police
officer
and
the
neighbor
are
being
credited
with
saving
an
83
year
old
woman
from
a
home
x.
J
road
dispatchers
received
a
call
about
an
explosion
and
fire
just
outside
of
the
boulder
city
limits.
Neighbor
John
Walpole
called
911.
A
After
hearing
the
explosion,
around
1130pm
Walpole
and
his
wife
went
to
the
house
and
tried
to
get
in
the
back
door,
which
was
locked.
They
were
quickly
met
by
sheriff's
deputy
Jeff
George
and
informed
him
that
an
elderly
woman
lived
alone
in
the
residence
George
kicked
in
the
door
in
the
waffles
LED
George
to
the
main
bedroom,
where
they
found
the
elderly
woman
on
the
floor.
They
carried
her
outside
where
they
were
met
by
officer
Ed
Burke,
who
helped
move
the
woman
to
safety
just
before
a
second
gas
caused
explosion
occurred,
I,
didn't.
J
Think
about
it,
I
got
said
you
know:
I
got
to
the
door
and
I
just
instincts
kicked
in
and
I
just
kicked
the
door
in
it
and
I'm
glad
that
I
was
that
close
when
I
was
just
for
the
fact
that
I
think
that
if
I'd
have
been
there,
you
know
five
minutes
later
or
did
it
would
have
been.
It
had
been
much
worse,
I
think.
E
That,
as
police
officers,
we
inherit
that
risk
every
day,
knowing
that
we
might
encounter
a
dangerous
situation
but
running
up
to
that
house,
I
was
trying
not
to
think
about
an
explosion
or
it
could
there
be
a
second
explosion.
I
know
that
that
it's
a
possibility,
so
my
job
is
to
just
do
it
as
fast
as
possible
and
render
aid,
if
necessary,
the.