County puts pressure on Boulder to reduce jobs in comp plan

BOULDER — As more jobs are created and more people commute into Boulder to work, Boulder’s city and county governments seem determined to reducing what they call a jobs-to-housing “imbalance.”

Boulder’s jobs-to-housing ratio currently is approximately 0.96-to-one, or almost one job to every resident, said Paul Danish, county commissioner. “You normally would consider an average of two-to-one or two people to every job to be more typical,” he said. “In the next 20 years it looks like the ratio will increase to one-and-a-half jobs to every person; man, woman and child. That struck us as high.”

Because of concerns about the ratio,…