Annual Report 1983, City of Louisville

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T Page 11 DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT T located in southwest Louisville. he Department of Community Development is McStain Master Land Use Plan - At the re- one of five major departments in the City of quest of the City, McStain Enterprises submitted a Louisville and is composed of people in the Planning Master Plan for 350 acres in the western part of the Division, Building Division, and Housing Division City. The general road system, as well as Land Use who take special pride in the City's orderly growth designations for residential and office use, school and and development processes. open space features, were studied at length. In 1983 among the many types of activities McStain's overall plan was reviewed by the Planning reported by the Department as a whole, the aspect Commission and given approval by the City Council of growth within the community was especially in December 1983. noteworthy. For example, the level of activity in Water Conserving-Landscape Design Guide - planning and building development experienced by Hints for residential landscapes that conserve water the Department during 1983, coupled with the and a list of native and drought tolerant plants as momentum of the previous year's activity carry-over, well as reasons for the need to conserve water are was either on par with or exceeded the 1982 level included in the booklet. It is available to Louisville and showed to be dramatically above 1981 as residents. The booklet was prepared by the Planning reflected by the Building Division's activity corn- Division with the assistance of the Water Dept. and parison chart (ref: illustration). Department of Community Services and was corn- In summation the Department of Community pleted in the fall. Development, like other major departments in the Planned Unit Development Design City, met the enormous challenge of increased Guidelines - After lengthy work sessions with the development activity as well as accomplished a broad Planning Commission and City Council, final ap- range of other Community Development specialties proval of the guidelines was completed in early during 1983. summer. Operational Planning - A large amount of the Major Accomplishments Reported: Division's time is spent in the review and processing of zoning and development applications. I. Planning Division - For example, 1983 showed that there were three Comprehensive Plan Update - The review and annexation requests that represented more than 100 update of the City's Comprehensive Plan was corn acres and three zoning applications that included ap- pleted and published in June after a year of work proximately 1,000 acres. Elements included in the update were open space Twenty-four Subdivisions and Planned Unit transportation, housing. population. and the Developments were reviewed along with downtown. Land Use elements are scheduled for miscellaneous applications that require attention by Department Review in 1984. the City staff. Downtown Developent Plan - In 1983 a con Other miscellaneous work besides operational ceptual plan and accompanying information was planning which the Planning Division worked on in distributed by the Planning Division in the format of 1983 included: a booklet. This booklet was used to generate infor- mation and public input for downtown improvements -Assisting students interns from the Univesrity of varying from landscaping and benches to parking Colorado on various projects. Interns worked on lots. Further refinement of the plan will be done in research for the text of the City Trailsystem plan 1984, with a goal of improvements for the and data collection for Central Business downtown in 1985. In related matters, the City District. hosted a quarterly Colorado Downtown Development -Base data collection for the Land Use Plan. Authority meeting at City Hall in February 1983. -Ward boundaries and population distribution. Over 60 representatives involved in downtown pro- -Housing and population forecasts. motion and renovation from around the state spent a -Economic development strategies. day in Louisville increasing their knowledge about -Grant application for Downtown Improvements. downtown development. City staff worked with the -Assisting other departments preparing maps and State Office of Commerce and Development to collecting data. organize the meeting at a state wide level. Homart Zoning and Land Use Plan - Staff work started on the Homart application in the spring II. Building Division of 1983. Coupled with a major study and Land Use Permits and Inspections - The Building Divi- review of Homart's proposal, a new zoning ordinance sion reported the issuance of 581 single family per- entitled Planned Community Zone District (PCZD) mits; 182 multi-family permits, and several major was developed by the City for a more comprehen- commercial remodeling permits such as the Main sive approach to meet the 882 acre development Street Market Place, Storage Technology Corp. and