Parks and Public Landscaping Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2025 04 02

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I U Cityor r Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 Parks and Public Landscaping Advisory Board Meeting Minutes Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 6:30pm Library 1st Floor Meeting Room 951 Spruce St. I. Call to Order Meeting called to order by Chair, Jody Ash at 6:30 PM II. Roll Call Present: Ash, Jody, Chair Buck, Signe Maria Denat, Julien, Co -Chair Kelsey, Kathy, Co -Secretary Kutscher, Gene, remote by phone Webb, John, Secretary McNeal, Abby, Parks Superintendent (remote) Erik Swiatek, Present Absent: None III. Approval of Agenda Moved, seconded and Approved IV. Approval of Minutes Moved, seconded and approved V. Public Comments on Items Not on the Agenda Acknowledgement of visiting students from Monarch High Tamar Krantz email, see email sent to PPLAB members. Ms. Krantz spoke about concerns of population growth projections for Louisville and options described in Comprehensive Plan to accommodate projected growth. Ms. Kantz requested that PPLAB suggest modifications to the Comprehensive Plan that would focus on smaller growth targets, support creation of additional features in the Comprehensive Plan that reference and support recommendations of the PROS Master Plan, support public land dedications rather than fee -in -lieu for new development projects, discourage use of reduced public land dedication requirements as incentives for inclusionary housing, support improvement of biodiversity by including reduced footprint for increased height developments, PPLAB designation of specific locations for protection of biodiversity, Allow for re - designation of areas zoned for commercial to mixed use and residential, exchange of park and public plazas for consideration of re -zoning to commercial, and consideration of underground parking for commercial areas to allow for pedestrian scale use versus parking areas. 3