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This week on Inside Boulder News: Walk & Bike Month, Palo Park and Summer of Discovery

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This week on inside ordinance, the city of Boulder celebrates the 42nd year of one of the largest events in the nation. Thanks to this affordable housing community, this resident can couple their home once again and pools. Aren't the only thing kids can dive into the summer find out how the Boulder Public Library is helping out with that welcome to inside Boulder news your source for all things, Boulder, I'm, Johanna and Daniel, walk and bike month has officially started.

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June will be filled with over 50 events celebrating walking and biking in the city of Boulder, from family-friendly rights to a mobility for all event. Kickoff begins on Sunday June 3rd boulders walking bike month. First began as a single day of bicycling events in 1977. Now, 42 years later, it has grown into a month-long celebration and is among the largest events of its kind in the nation. Here it's.

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All about having the whole community participate and people with all ages and abilities. We have events for everyone walking.

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Bike month includes a diverse list of more than 50 free events, including mountain bike, rides running activities, scavenger hunts and, of course, its main event like to Work Day on June 27th, which will feature breakfast stations all around the city serving free food and drinks to participants. We also have a.

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Wheelchair walk so really to experience what it's like to navigate the city in a wheelchair to create some awareness. So that's why there's events for everyone so yeah everyone can participate and it's fun and it's free most of.

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Them are free, and this weekend the month-long celebration of walking and biking kicks off with B 360 a family-friendly ride through lamb-lamb Park. There's.

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A whole loop, the B 360, which is 22 miles, but you can all see the shorter loop, which is the B 180. It's about 11 miles and we're gonna have refreshments and actually a big party just to celebrate, walk and.

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Bike month, if cycling, isn't your cup of tea, the walk 360 will be held at 4 Mile Creek on Sunday June 3rd Darcis kitchen, with walk to connect developed the 26 mile, walk I.

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Developed this as sort of an urban through hike, so it's a way to see all around the boulder bubble in one big day or in 4segments. However, you want to do it whether.

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You're biking or walking this month. There is definitely an event for you check out, walking bite monster to see a full list of events going on this month, and if you would like to sign up for Bike to Work Day visit Bike to Work Day dot, us Boulder housing partners recently opened their newest, affordable residential community Paulo Park now forms part of the fourteen hundred units of the affordable housing program.

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Movin began early last month and all units are now fully leased for this new power resident moving into the community was a chance to cupholder home once again for kelly, who once lived in Boulder over 20 years ago. Moving to the palo neighborhood was a chance to not only call Boulder home once again, but to give her children a better education. My.

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Oldest daughter found a school in Boulder. That was incredible and she said she was driving from Loveland to new Vista High School an hour a day from.

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Loveland, the Sequoia family moved to Longmont to try and shorten their kids commit to school, but it was still just too long. We.

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Moved along around because it was too expensive to move to Boulder.

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Was living in Boulder being the ultimate goal for Kelly and her family Kelly applied for the new affordable units, the city's Housing Authority Boulder housing partners, we're building we're.

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Always looking for opportunities to develop, affordable housing in the city, where possible, to acquire existing properties and preserve them as affordable. The.

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3.2 acre pala park community includes 35 one two and three-bedroom Apartments and nine for sale. Townhomes in nine buildings, Kelly and her family are among the tenants who were chosen at random. Any lottery for an apartment at Pala, Park I feel.

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Really grateful right now that we got in the lottery and got chosen to live here, I'm feeling very grateful. It's.

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Important how the four miles in the city for a number of reasons it allows our community to be inclusive and sustainable. You seen a lot of families move in here that were otherwise or would otherwise be commuting from other communities and.

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Though Kelly and her family are still getting settled, pala park is finally feeling like home. We're.

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So happy here we are I mean my kids are happy I'm happy, finally to be here.

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The neighborhood speed management program, formerly known as the neighborhood traffic mitigation plan, will keep neighborhood safer by installing speed, humps and traffic circles to slow traffic. The.

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Purpose of the program is to reduce speeding on resident residential streets and so really to improve the quality of life in boulders neighborhoods. The.

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City began accepting applications late last year to be considered for engineering treatments such as speed, humps neighborhood submitted their requests, and now the city is moving forward with 12 proposed projects right.

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Now, in the process, we've had two neighborhood forums to review and discuss concepts for those speed, humps sub locations and the number of speed humps to.

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Be considered for the program the city looked at things such as the number of crashes on the streets, the existence of sidewalks and the surrounding neighborhood facilities such as school in parks, we'll.

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Be going to the transportation Advisory Board on June 11th at 6 o'clock, the public hearing on those projects, and we encourage residents who are interested in voicing their support or concern about the projects to come, and, let's have know what they think about our recommendations. If.

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The transportation Advisory Board recommends the city to move forward with the project staff anticipates construction happening in mid to late summer for more information. Please visit the website seen on your screen this week, boulders public library kicked off their annual summer reading program aimed at children. The program keeps kids reading throughout the whole summer, preventing that Summer Slide read exciting books, climbing a bouldering bus dig for dinosaurs and see what it's like to be inside. An orchestra summer of discovery is the library's new theme and there will be plenty to explore.

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The library is offering programs for pre readers readers and, for the first time ever adults from now until July, 31st kids will get the opportunity to receive prizes and participate in hands-on programming, while still getting the chance to dive into the wonderful world of reading. Adults will also get the chance to win a downtown Boulder gift card register for summer of discovery at any Boulder public library or register online at Boulder Library org.

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Thank you so much for joining us on this week's edition of inside Boulder news. If you have pictures news tips or events you like to see featured we love to hear from you connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. You can also sign up to receive video updates right in your inbox. Just go to Boulder, Chang, wait, calm and click on subscribe have a good week.