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City Council Meeting Minutes April 7, 2015 Page 12 of 26 DISCUSSION /DIRECTION /ACTION — SOUTH BOULDER ROAD COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS AND QUESTIONS FOR MCCASLIN SURVEY - CONTINUED FROM 03/17/2015 Mayor Muckle requested a staff presentation. Planner II Robinson explained on March 3rd staff presented a draft survey for the McCaslin Boulevard Small Area Plan. At the meeting Council requested staff develop additional questions to gauge public sentiment toward allowing residential uses in specific locations in the McCaslin corridor and other approaches to promoting desired development. As a result, two new questions were proposed. 1) Question seven asked about what tools and incentives respondents would support the City using to attract desired uses. 2) Question eight asks what type of housing, if any, respondents would support at different locations in the corridor. Staff expressed concern the question may be perceived as suggesting the possibility of uses contradicting the Comprehensive Plan, which allows for the possibility of residential on the Sam's Club site, but nowhere else in the McCaslin Corridor. If Council shares the same concern, staff believes question seven and the other questions in the survey would provide enough information to determine if residential uses should be allowed. Staff recommendation: Staff requested Council direction on any desired changes to the proposed survey questions and related information. PUBLIC COMMENTS John Leary, 1116 LaFarge Avenue, Louisville, CO addressed high density housing development with mixed use (apartments /condos over retail units) and referred to his conversation with a former City Manager, who defined mixed use as a developers' term for high density development. He felt mixed use is a false front for high density housing. He reported on mixed use development in Maryland, which he believed worked well and the difference between horizontal versus vertical mixed use. He stated there is mixed use in the downtown area and in Centennial Valley. He stressed the need for generating sales tax, which would be a significant financial benefit. He felt the real issue is the revenue structure benefit of sales tax and attracting sales tax generating businesses. He addressed the Highway 42 redevelopment area and the concept of having mixed use within the core area. He noted RTD reviewed the City TOD plan for the area and determined it would not work for a mixed use development because it did not have the amount of density needed. The TIF Market Study also determined mixed use would not work because it lacked a commercial component and traffic on Highway 42. He stated the Highway 42 development project does not have a single mixed use structure. He felt the theory of mixed use is not supported by the facts and calling something mixed 40