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City Council Meeting Minutes October 2, 2012 Page 3 of 13 Mayor Muckle announced the public will have an opportunity to meet with the Mayor on Monday, October 8, 2012, 7:00 p.m., in the City Council Chambers. Council member Keany arrived at the meeting at 7:10 p.m. REGULAR BUSINESS DISCUSSION —2012 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE Mayor Muckle requested a staff presentation. Planning Director Russ presented an overview of the Comprehensive Plan Update Charrette and outlined the next steps. Earlier in the year the Planning staff met with all the City's Boards and Commissions to outline a vision statement and core values. This statement was reviewed by the Planning Commission, who recommended Council endorsement of the vision statement and the core values. Since June the Planning Division has completed data analysis on transportation, land use and marketing perspectives. In August, a Design Workshop was conducted to outline a physical plan for the City. The charrette resulted in the creation of three land use framework options for the City. The following new language was added to the Comprehensive Plan; urban, suburban and rural. Old Town would be considered urban. The area around McCaslin Boulevard, CTC and South Boulder Road would be considered suburban. Open Space, the Tennis Center and the ConocoPhillips property would be considered rural. The types of developments are broken down into Centers, Neighborhoods, Corridors, Special Districts and Open Space. Centers are highly connected such as Downtown Louisville. Neighborhoods are predominately residential. Corridors are arterials driven by traffic such as Centennial Valley. Special Districts are single purpose land uses such as Research/Office Development. Parks and Open Space would be the Tennis Center and the Golf Course. He presented three options. • Option 1 — One Center— Louisville Downtown/Old Town. • Option 2 —Add a second Urban Center by realigning Main Street to Centennial Drive to create a South Boulder Road/Highway 42 Center. This would add connectivity to the Arnold Property, Christopher Village, Steel Ranch and the redevelopment of the Safeway property. • Option 3 —A third center option would be the McCaslin Entertainment Center. Such a retail/entertainment center would have RTD/US 36 transit opportunities. He presented a variant to the three center option to introduce an urban neighborhood just west of Via Appia and the McCaslin corridor. A trailhead and access off Davidson Mesa would connect to Century Drive. The land use could evolve into an urban plan.