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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes December 11, 2014 Page 7 of 17 1960 Louisville Wastewater Treatment Facility (City of Louisville), Resolution 23, Series 2014: A request for a final plat, final planned unit development (PUD), and special review use (SRU) to allow for improvements to the existing Wastewater Treatment Facility located at 1555 empire drive. Case #14- 034- FP /FS /UR • Applicant, and Representative: Dewberry Engineering (Patrick Rudabaugh) • Owner: City of Louisville • Case Manager: Sean McCartney, Principal Planner Public Notice Certification: Published in the Boulder Daily Camera on November 23, 2014, posted in City Hall, Public Library, Recreation Center, Courts, and Police Building and mailed to surrounding property owners and property posted on November 21, 2014. Conflict of Interest and Disclosure: None stated. Staff Report of Facts and Issues: McCartney presented from Power Point. • Location has been in use for a long time, but when a Public Facility wants to expand, an SRU is required. • The property has never been platted, so a final plat is also occurring. The PUD is for the expansion. • The existing Waste Water Treatment Plant (WVVTP) is located on Empire Road. It is located within the flood plain so WVVTP went before the Board of Adjustment for a Flood Plain Development permit which they received. • Currently on site, there is an administration building, reuse filter and supply pump station, UV disinfectant building, dewatering facility, headworks building, RAS/WAS building, lab building, and blower building. Existing treatment facilities are a clarifier, digester, sludge drying beds, lagoon, and reuse holding pond. • The expansion site plan calls for four (4) new buildings: shop /maintenance building, new headworks building, secondary process pump station, and new UV building. New treatment facilities are an aeration basin and three (3) secondary clarifiers. • There will be an extension of the crusher fines bike path on the north side of Empire Road. It currently stops at City storage facilities. It will extend across to the east side of the site. • Circulation will continue to use existing roadway system but it will be improved with new asphalt. • Parking will have 18 proposed parking spaces: 5 at the lab building, 5 at the administration building, and 8 spaces at shops. There are five (5) total employees at WWTP but there is visiting staff. No public parking is allowed in this facility. • Architecture will match existing construction with brick and metal trim and recessed metal windows. • Lighting will match existing style and downcast. • Special Review Use: City Facilities are an allowed land use with a special review use permit. Louisville Municipal Code § 17.40.100. (A) lists five criteria to be considered by the Planning Commission in reviewing a Special Review Use application. The Planning Commission is authorized to place conditions on their recommendation of approval, if they believe conditions are necessary to comply with the criteria. • 1. That the proposed use /development is consistent in all respects with the spirit and intent of the comprehensive plan and of this chapter, and that it would not be contrary to the general welfare and economic prosperity of the city or the immediate neighborhood;