Boulder City Council on Tuesday will again decide whether to move forward on an agreement with a group proposing to build a 189-room hotel on University Hill that, if approved, will .
But the current version of the project, slated for the southwest corner of University Avenue and Broadway, no longer includes a city-financed, 200-space underground public parking garage. It also would require the city to sell a 62-space parking lot along Pleasant Street to be built upon to proceed.
The hotel developer, Denver-based Nichols Partnership, in its revised proposal would construct a 50-space private garage at its own expense.
Those changes have sparked a closer examination of how to avert worries from business owners on the Hill that the hotel will be detrimental to an area already perceived to be hampered by a lack of available parking spots.
A study led by Apex Design, a firm working with Boulder, however, indicates that the 301 parking spots on the Hill — comprised of 153 on-street, and 148 off-street — are sufficient and drivers looking for a spot would have trouble doing so only certain times during the week.
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