I’ve writen about the City of Boulder’s Solar Shadow Ordinance in the past and the needless complexity that it adds to designing new buildings, and especially additions. Most of the single family residential zones in the City are regulated by these solar shadow limits and they are often the most restrictive parameter that new projects have to meet. Not a simple or straight-forward task for anyone to calculate.

When I walk through a building, more often than not, I see what we can not easily change, not the opportunities of what the entire building can generate. But with a walk through and a plan drawing, I can see through the walls and floors, see past the odd alignments of years of additions, and look into the future to see what can be done

It has been a very busy summer and we are blessed with a number of really interesting projects, for great clients, on beautiful sites. We have a small number of projects in construction, quite a few in the early design stages, and of course a bunch sitting in various review stages at the City and County.