BOULDER — A Boulder nudist couple has won a fight against their landlord — the city’s housing authority — which is backing off plans to prohibit residents from being topless when they’re outside their homes.
Officials with Boulder Housing Partners previously said they would change the rules for the Foothills Community in north Boulder, where Robert and Catharine Pierce have caused neighbors and passers-by to complain and call police about their nearly naked bodies.
Catharine Pierce, 52, caused a stir last month when she tended to her garden down the street from a school and in front of a busy road wearing only a yellow thong and pink gloves.
While it isn’t illegal for women to be topless in public in Boulder, housing authority officials threatened to make the public display of female breasts against the rules for the affordable-housing community.
But the City Council’s recent decision to approve a law banning public nudity in Boulder — which continues to exempt female toplessness — has convinced those officials to drop the matter.
“We’ve given this a lot of thought,” said Betsey Martens, executive director of the nonprofit group. “Housing authorities reflect the values of their community, and City Council just articulated the values” about nudity.
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