Louisville Housing Authority Agenda and Packet 2014 09 30

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Louisville Housing Authority BOARD MEMO Date: September 12, 2014 To: Board of Commissioners From: Frank Alexander, Executive Director Re: Board Report for September 30, 2014 Meeting 1. 2013 Audit Eide Bailly will present the final LHA Audit which completes the LHA Consolidation IGA with Boulder County. 2. Housing and Human Services Advisory Committee seat The LHA Board needs to discuss attendance at the DHHS Advisory Committee monthly meetings. 3. Alkonis Guiding Principles: Draft guiding principles are attached for review and discussion with the Board. Planning and Design: Development staff are working with the consulting team on the initial predevelopment activities on the Alkonis site. Milender White Construction Company, the general contractor, and Olsson, the civil engineer, have begun the civil site analysis, including utility, stormwater, geotechnical and road alignments. Barrett Design, the master planner for the overall site, and Humphries Poli, the architect for the affordable senior and family housing, have begun the site suitability analysis, including solar orientation, views, transportation connections, topography, landscape features and building program proximities. Altus Environmental has started the environmental and habitat analysis. We have held a number of meetings with City staff, including planning and public works, and are working towards completing our zoning and annexation application prior to a full PUD submittal. Public Process: To kick off the community input for the master plan design, staff will be extending invitations to the community to participate in design focus groups. The initial focus groups will be held on October 1 and October 15 at Josephine Commons from 5:30 to 7:00. We will be inviting the LHA Board, Boulder County's and Louisville's seniors groups and Balfour Senior Living, families of school aged children, and arts and cultural organizations as well as property owners in proximity to the site. The focus groups will be led by Barrett Design Architects and will engage the community around the following five key areas: 1. senior housing 2. family housing 3. community commercial and the arts 4. health and sustainability 5. transportation, pedestrian and bike connections BCHA entered into a Letter of Intent with The Art Underground (TAU) this spring and continues to work with both TAU and Louisville Artists Housing (LAH) who are interested in building co- housing and affordable rental artists' housing on a portion of the site. The master planner is determining how TAU and LAH building programs may be integrated into the design to bolster the sense of a Louisville- centric community, including provision of supportive operations and programming integrated with the affordable housing and serving BCHA clients and the community. As design progresses, we will, as a group, determine whether the cost and building synergies of these community 7