Chelsea Castellano

Hi, former NCAR staffer. NSF owns the land but is operated by UCAR.

Progress check time for #Boulder city council.

My term goes through November 2026, putting my cohort somewhere between a little more than halfway done and rounding third base.

During the past 1.5 years this council has enacted at least two dozen measures to meaningfully improve #housing and…

even year local elections - yes! we successfully ran this campaign in Boulder with @chelseacastellano.bsky.social and @lsweeneymiran.bsky.social

just a massive improvement in voter demographics vs off-cycle elections. much more representative

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.

It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

It’s not too late to do the right thing. Yes, restaurants are struggling but cutting wages for those who make the least is not the answer. Let’s find solutions that solve the problem instead of causing more harm. Please.

And takes an amend position today at the City Council's Intergovernmental Affairs Committee. Boulder should stand strong with our fellow CO cities to ensure that each city has the power to determine a wage that meets the needs of the community and those who are struggling to survive.

Earlier this week I went to a rally to oppose a bill sponsored by CO DEMOCRATS that would CUT wages for tipped workers

If Boulder City Council supports this bill as is then it will likely pass & wages will be cut. It’s my hope that our Mayor @aaronbrockett12.bsky.social stands with workers (1/3)

So grateful to have this chapter close. But it's a complicated feeling. There's a very good case to be made that if uncompromising opposition to common sense occupancy reforms like Bedrooms are for People hadn't demanded years of political organizing, Boulder Progressives as it exists today would not exist. I certainly would not have jumped into local politics if I hadn't seen Council in 2020 abusing signature threshold decisions to yank petitioners around DURING A PANDEMIC to keep it off the ballot. And occupancy limits would likely still be in effect statewide. So neighborhood characters throughout Colorado have Boulder's Bedrooms opponents to thank for creating the political mandate and legislative template for much-needed state intervention into land use decisions. But here we are now and a better world is waiting for us to make.

#Boulder is closing a chapter on NIMBY entitlement with Council’s unanimous decision to remove occupancy limits in the city’s code.

boulderreportinglab.org/2025/03/06/b...

Congratulations to @ericmbudd.com, @chelseacastellano.bsky.social, and the rest of the @boulderbedrooms.bsky.social team.

Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

-> @chelseacastellano.bsky.social, @lsweeneymiran.bsky.social and I ran the campaign to move Boulder's elections to even years and we've run enough off-cycle municipal election campaigns to last a lifetime

Pardon the interruption for this PSA. A brilliant human has created a website where you can track the price of eggs, gas, and how many days Trump has spent golfing instead of working for you.

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Literally not a single rich family is prevented from living somewhere by municipal land use controls. Not a single mansion is prevented by zoning. It only prevents housing for poorer people. Let’s all stop pretending it’s “neoliberal” or whatever to get rid of this inequitable, exclusionary power

Well in light of recent... "weirdness" from a guy from that OTHER social media platform, let's do a thing 🦋

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Reskeet (...is that the word?) this to spread the word 🎶🎻

As Trump prepares to takes office, the uncertainty and dangers are real—but so is hope. I see people stepping up, organizing, and showing up for one another. Less complacency, and more activism. Together, let's continue building a place where everyone belongs. 💙 #HopeInAction #StrongerTogether"

The rainbow met the sea

Parking Reform Alone Can Boost Homebuilding by 40 to 70 Percent More evidence that parking flexibility is key to housing abundance.

It’s not hard to grasp that requiring parking sacrifices housing because parking takes up lots of space and its high cost makes homebuilding less feasible.

But wow, this new study shows that parking mandates are much more damaging than I would have guessed.

www.sightline.org/2024/12/10/p...

Thanks for all the support and encouragement! Just to clarify, we ran a campaign to support Steph Vigil for office and she lost by 3 votes. But the message of every vote counting more than we realize is the same ✊

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That’s correct. After the tied recount, the canvas board asked to see all of the ballots that required review. Through that review process, two different panels of bi-partisan judges determined that there were 3 ballots that were counted for Vigil that shouldn’t have been.

This is wild. I worked hard to win this State House seat. We knocked on thousands of doors, made thousands of calls,organized on campuses, sent mail,texts, ads, all the things

Losing by 3 votes sucks but my hope is that ppl read this & feel the power of their vote and their ability to affect change