Annual Report 1982, City of Louisville

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12 DEPARTMENT OF CT 1 HIGHLIGHTS FOR 1982 DEVELOPMENT Urban Design Topics such as: ike many of the other departments in the city, the Department of Community Development 1. Subdivision and PUD Design Criteria. reported a signficant increase in all major levels of 2. Residential and Commercial Development activites in 1982. Standards. Among the many activities reported by Community 3. Downtown Design Guidelines (Architectural and Development, both the Planning and Building Environmental). divisions focused considerable attention to the topic of 4. CBD Vehicular and Pedestrian Circulation Study. housing, especially the number of housing starts over 5. Parking Lot Design Guidelines. the past year(453 in 1982 compared to 85 in 1981),and 6. City street,median, fencing,and landscape the amount of land which was put into development features and design. for both residential and commercial use-- approximately 230 acres. -Studies and Issues: For example: 1. Demographic information on the city's The bright housing picture the city experienced was population and housing characteristics. largely single family development and the result of 2. Historical survey of the downtown area. several large subdivisions which were approved by the 3. Community profile of the city. city in 1981 and developed in 1982 by Medema Homes 4. Louisville Development Corporation(LDC) and American Home Builders. workshops. 5. RTD route planning. On the other hand, commercial development was 6. 1980 census analysis. varied and highlighted the year with the attraction of a 7. Federal, state grant applications for funding major new corporate headquarters into the city, "Parking and Housing>>project. Neodata Services; the expansion of Louisville Medical 8. Louisville zip code boundary alignment. Clinic; and the completion of major new industrial office/warehouse space in the Colorado Technological In addition, the Department of Community Center for Environmental Developers Incorporated. Development was very active and visible in ongoing Dramatic evidence of the city's development activity relationships with various levels of federal, state, and included the number of permits issued; development local government. The department represents the city fees collected; and inspections completed, etc., by serving on various policy committees with the reflected in the illustration for 1982 prepared by the Denver Regional Council of Governments and the Building Division.(See Illustration) Colorado Municipal League. The department also interacts with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Farmer's Home Administrastion, and Boulder County on a variety of Other types of activities the department can report, housing programs including low-interest bond money particularly the Planning Division, which were for home ownership and low- and moderate-income accomplished in 1982 include: housing for the elderly including a new 13-unit family housing project which will be ready for occupancy in -Comprehensive Plan Update on 5 Planning Elements: the summer of 1983. Finally, the Department of Community 1. The Central Business District Development culminated the year on a high note with 2. Open Space Planning overall improved management, coordination, and 3. Transportation efficiency in the department as well as beginning the 4. Housing new year by defining more explicit goals and objectives 5. Population for 1983. L