City Council Study Session Agenda and Packet 2014 11 10

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L City at - Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 CITY COUNCIL COMMUNICATION AGENDA ITEM II SUBJECT: COMMUNITY SURVEY QUESTIONS FOR SOUTH BOULDER ROAD SMALL AREA PLAN DATE: NOVEMBER 10, 2014 PRESENTED BY: TROY RUSS, PLANNING & BUILDING SAFETY DIRECTOR SCOTT ROBINSON, PLANNER II SUMMARY: On October 7, 2014, City Council approved a contract modification to conduct statistically relevant City -wide "character surveys" for the South Boulder Road and McCaslin Boulevard Small Area Plans. Staff has worked with Cuningham Group and the National Research Center to develop draft questions for the South Boulder Road survey for Council's review. Based on discussion at the November 10 meeting, staff and consultants will revise the questions before presenting them to Council for approval on November 18. If approved, the surveys will be mailed in early December, with a final report on the responses delivered to the City by early February. The survey will ask randomly selected residents to evaluate broad community character questions about Louisville as well as assess specific alternative community design preferences for future development within the South Boulder Road corridor. The results of the surveys will help City Council define alternative land use and community design scenarios for the Small Area Plan. WORK PLAN: The goal of the small area planning work is to develop land use and public infrastructure plans that have broad community support and provide reliable roadmaps for both public and private investments in these important corridors. The work will use the Comprehensive Plan as a foundation on which to develop, through a very public process, specific zoning amendments and possibly design requirements intended to preserve and promote what the community wants to see in these areas. These statistically significant "character surveys" will be employed to help City Council understand what community design aspects (setbacks, limits on height, building bulk / scale, parking, and landscaping) and land uses (retail, commercial, mixed -use, residential and parkland) residents want these Small Area Plans to enable. The surveys are a key component of the City Council endorsed Public Participation, Community Engagement, and Communication Strategy for the Small Area Plans. Each survey will be mailed to 1,200 randomly selected Louisville Households and is expected to yield a 4% to 6% margin of error. CITY COUNCIL COMMUNICATION 7