build a lake....

do you want to pull some of the people OFF of the front range....  eye certainly do....  eye WANT my city back....  eye want less traffic....  eye want shorter buildings....

so....  colorado....  get smart....  start to think OUTSIDE the box....  for once....  

what is east of boulder....  what is east of denver....  what is there between denver and kansas....  farmland....  nothing else....

IF....  MORE....  people want to live in colorado....  rather than detroit....  rather than chicago....  

build a lake....  build a reservoir....  eye am NOT talking....  another boulder reservoir....  another gross reservoir....

eye am talking....  another lake powell....  another....  lake mead....  a massive lake....

in the chicago area....  lakeside property....  goes at a premium....  could we do the same....  in colorado....  could we give people....  a reason....  to move east....  to move away from the mountains....  how many people could you give lakeside property....  if you built a lake eastside....  on the eastern plains....  

again....  just spitballing here....  eye will NOT compromise....  on my PLATFORM....  this is NOT part of my platform....  this is throwing spit balls against the wall....  throwing out ideas....  and....  seeing which ones stick....

also....  when you build up....  you INCREASE the price of housing....  boulders housing costs are out of control...   we are IN a housing crisis....

building a lake....  would make housing prices SIGNIFICANTLY lower....  you can buy an acre of farmland for two thousand dollars in colorado....  in the city of boulder....  an acre costs over five hundred thousand dollars....   IF....  you built out east....  you could basically drop the cost of a house by over five hundred thousand dollars....

while food as a percentage of household income has declined dramatically....  housing as a percentage of income has remained significantly high....  at around forty percent of income....  while our productivity has continue to improve....  our standard of living has NOT improved....  one reason for this....  is because the percentage of income that we spend on housing has not declined....  and....  one significant reason for this....  is....  because....  we are building up....  instead of out....

build a massive lake out east....  and....  watch the cost of housing decline....  significantly....