Join us virtually for this stop on the Strong Towns Local-Motive Tour 2024, featuring Strong Towns Chief of Staff Carlee Alm-LaBar and guest speaker Paloma Delgadillo, a city council member from Broomfield, Colorado.
LOCATION: Online Event | DATE: September 12, 2024 | TIME: Noon CDT
Parking minimums place a huge burden on business owners and homeowners, stifle development, and fill cities with unproductive space. The good news is that the parking revolution is finally happening. City after city is removing parking minimums and allowing new businesses and developments to flourish without weighing down neighborhoods with wasteful parking lots. Paloma Delgadillo is a city council member in Broomfield, Colorado, and has been on the front lines of the fight against parking minimums in her town. In this session, she'll be joined by Strong Towns Chief of Staff Carlee Alm-LaBar to talk about what local leaders can do to end the choke hold parking has on their cities and how residents can support that process.
Paloma was appointed to Broomfield, Colorado’s City Council in February of 2023 and won re-election in November of 2023. During her time on Council, Paloma has pushed for reduced parking minimums and increased density especially around transit and future transit corridors. Like many Colorado cities, Broomfield is experiencing an incredible amount of growth and is beginning the transition from bedroom community to a thriving and sustainable urbanized environment. As infrastructure ages and the population increases, this is a critical time where policy can make or break Broomfield for future generations. When Paloma isn’t on council, she works as the director of data analytics at a pre-IPO tech company, plays dungeons & dragons with her college pals, rock climbs with her husband, and snuggles with her cats.