The way the city deals with that issue in the next two years will have an enormous impact on Boulder for many decades to come. We've all seen what's happened along the Front Range and I-70 corridor, and there's no end in sight. The explosion of growth will dramatically degrade environmental quality and quality of life in the state. Given what I see in state-level government, if this problem is going to get solved, it will probably be solved by the citizens through statewide initiatives. Your common theme seems to be that individual action has a lot to do with what happens in the future.
Individual action is very important, and so is collective action.