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Planning Commission <br />Meeting Minutes <br />January 8, 2015 <br />Page 20 of 23 <br />Russ answers that on December 5, 2014, the Business Retention and Development Committee <br />(BRAD) which is a subcommittee of City Council with three elected officials and is a posted City <br />Council meeting, sponsored a developers forum. It was posted and put out. The question was <br />asked from the business and commercial side to get their perspective. <br />Robinson says the notes in the packet were from stakeholder interviews held in December <br />2013. The notes from the December 2014 meeting were not posted in the packet. The minutes <br />will be in the next BRAD packet. <br />Vinall asks how citizens can access these notes? <br />Robinson says the BRAD December 2014 minutes will be in the January 2015 BRAD packet. <br />Pritchard asks if they are on the website now? <br />Menaker says the summary from the recent BRAD meeting held <br />includes the summary from December 2014. The summary is f <br />Menaker will show Vinall the link. <br />, January 5, 2015 <br />n the City website. <br />Vinall continues with his statement. A couple years ago e C was : ° . ' g with the plans for <br />the redevelopment of the Safeway site. The develope .red to build a • • • imately 200 <br />apartment units, filling up almost half of the site. It . •y Special Review - . nd had to be <br />rezoned. At that time, a large number of reside ed out for both PC an. Council <br />meetings to object to the plans. There were Ion • . • hard dis ions. That pr • - was <br />turned down by City Council but later a new plan <br />and 8000 SF of commercial space and the apartmen <br />Currently, we see the Alfalfa's store a • -w commerci <br />Tonight, the PC is looking at the Smal - ®.n which to <br />from Via Appia to the Lafayette border. • • - . know if <br />residents turning out similar to several yep ago, • - hinks <br />ich included a g ocery store <br />e reduced from 200 down to 110. <br />with businesses in place. <br />s a large area plan. It extends <br />C will see a large amount of <br />ity is doing a better job of <br />ce <br />advertising this type of proje <br />about meetings. There <br />It was encouraging to <br />and at that time, th <br />Jean Morgan. Hop <br />which was sent out la <br />City Council. regard <br />asked, a <br />have b <br />part <br />dens <br />form yo <br />10' back, <br />worst option <br />no stretch of ro <br />e sees <br />ails corn <br />ber of <br />of com <br />survey fo <br />ing notice to the citizens <br />e P . • Department notifying people. <br />s attend the kick -off meeting in October 2014 <br />which we have heard in the summary by <br />South Boulder Road Small Area Plan <br />ation and feedback for both the PC and <br />y, - :s very helpful and if the right questions are <br />filled out the ey, he felt more accurate information could <br />rded and more direct questions. He was dismayed <br />ich already assumed that citizens had wanted to see high <br />ulder corridor. All you had to do was to choose which <br />ment , wo or three stories or 5' back from South Boulder Road, <br />ng area. For him, it was like being asked to choose the least <br />th Boulder Road, from Table Mesa to the Lafayette line, there is <br />is any high density, two or three story developments 10' from the <br />road. It is a beaus - - red corridor and it is a pleasure to drive from Boulder and come into <br />Louisville. He know e members of the PC were at the kick -off meeting which he attends, <br />and it appeared appar- t to him that there did not seem to be much interest in having more <br />high- density, in your face development along this corridor, particularly because of all the new <br />development at Steel Ranch, North End, the 110 units next to Alfalfas, the DELO project, <br />Highway 42 developments. What he thinks occurred at the kick -off was the input centered <br />around making the corridor more bike and pedestrian friendly, safer crosswalks, and possibly an <br />underpass near Main Street, upgrading and making more attractive the present shopping <br />centers, improving the traffic flow and keeping the tree -lined corridor as is. The question then <br />seems to be, how much development is too much, and what is the right development. We are <br />not alone in this. Many residents in Boulder have been highly vocal about these issues and <br />critical of how the planning process works. Even in the people in Superior and Erie are raising <br />eive <br />taine <br />y with the pi <br />®elopment alo <br />ted these de <br />back, or a p <br />f now on <br />ere <br />