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City Council Meeting Minutes January 21, 2014 Page 7 of 30 Alternative solutions are tested and refined in this phase with a focus on consensus building and implementation. The results and testing of the alternatives are presented and discussed with the community in a public forum. The recommended alternative is forwarded to the Louisville Planning Commission and City Council for consideration and adoption through publically noticed hearings. Phase 5 - Documentation: Zoning Document: Staff takes the conclusions and recommended solution from the adopted Small Area Plan and translates them into formal zoning changes to the Louisville Municipal Code. This is much like the Small Area Plan conducted for the Highway 42 Framework Plan, which was then translated to Chapter 17.14 to introduce mixed-use guidelines. Public Outreach / Notice: The Small Area Plans are regulatory documents for specific properties and as such they require a much more robust public outreach/notice effort. Staff proposes following techniques to ensure the most robust public outreach possible, such as the City's Web Site for notices, links to the Project Web Site, using MindMixer Web Site, the Planning Department's Public Page, which will have all the information and notices. The MindMixer Web site (Project Web Site) has 160 people currently signed up. Those 160 people will receive email notices of meetings. The Mailings Outreach will be through City Newsletters, three direct mailings to properties within the small area plan; direct emails and phone call lists. In summary of the schedule: The stakeholders interviews will continue; the Project Kick-off will be in April; Phase 2 will begin in April and May; the Public Workshops will be in early June and Phase 4 will be through August, with presentations made before the Planning Commission and the City Council for adoption of the small area plan. Between August and November, the small area plan will be codified. Staff is recommending following the same schedule for the McCaslin Boulevard Small Area Plan to be initiated in August, which will be a nine-month process. Staff requested discussion / direction from City Council related to the proposed project approach and public outreach / notice efforts identified. PUBLIC COMMENTS Charles Donnelly, 2366 Senator Court, Louisville, CO stated the direction Louisville is growing is toward urban development. He stated the majority of people don't like the development coming to Louisville. He questioned whether the Planning Commission and the City Council have thought through the impact development has on local schools. He addressed a letter to Council from the Louisville Fire Marshall, who expressed concern with the Steel Ranch development. He asked if the Planning Commission and City Council are actually getting information about the impacts of development.