The Golden Urban Renewal Authority (GURA) held a business meeting on July 13, 2026, at 5:32 p.m. at 911 10th Street, Golden, CO. All seven commissioners were present, including one virtually. The board approved the agenda and the minutes of the June 8, 2026 meeting. No public comment was offered. The primary business was the approval of five tax increment revenue sharing agreements for the proposed 17455 W. 16th Avenue (Nazarene) Plan Area, a key step toward creating a new urban renewal district focused on affordable housing. The board also discussed the Parfet-Briarwood community garden fence replacement, grid resiliency, and new potential plan areas.
Order the GURA meeting for July 13, 2026 at 5 32 p.m. Okay, please get a roll call. Trout here. Cameron here. Shipping. Here's an here. Missing you and Barry. Madam, you have a chair. We have a quorum. Madam Chair. Both of those things. Can I please get a move to approve the agenda of the July 13, 2026 meeting? I move adoption of the agenda as presented. Second. All in favor? All opposed? Can I please get an approval for the minutes of the business meeting of June 8th, 2026? Okay. Oh. All in favor? All opposed. Awesome. Do we have any public comment? No public comment for this month. All right, awesome. Okay, we have business right away. We've got a lot of business. A lot of business. Yeah, let's go. Let's go through that. I'll give you give you all an update. So staff has been working on finalizing all the agreements with the uh taxing authorities that are involved in the Nazarene plan area. Officially the 17455 West 16th Avenue plan area. And those those four outside entities are Jefferson County, the Jefferson County Public Library, Jefferson County Public Schools, and then also the Mile High Flood District. So those are the four outside taxing entities. And then we need a uh revenue agreement with the uh city of Golden as well, and that is going to City Council tomorrow night. Um all four of these outside agencies have agreed to share 100% of the tax increment uh during the 25-year plan area. They're all expecting it to be affordable housing, um, as as we have led them to expect that. Uh planning commission reviewed the request. It was their job to make sure that the plan area complies with the uh goals of the comprehensive plan. That's the main land use document for the city of Golden, and they approved that on May 20th uh and recommended council approval. Um I think we mentioned last time we were meeting together that uh the city council was expected to review the the expansion of the Gura board to 13 members, which is required by the state statute to create a new plan area. So that that occurred on that ordinance was reviewed and voted on on June 30th uh and approved. Uh subsequent to that uh the staff have sent out a uh uh call for applications for new members, at least the city members, which are three new residents uh that would sit on the Gura board uh for all decisions going forward, and so uh we expect to have those coming in throughout the month of July, and then I think I believe council is is looking to appoint in August. Um perhaps Mr. Cameron could update us. Um, I'm not longer on the subcommittee. Oh, that's right. Nor doing interviews, right? But I believe that it's open until maybe the 29th of July.