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City Council Meeting Minutes May 19, 2015 Page 20 of 34 Council not initiate discussion on this matter this evening, but would allow the public to speak. He noted this will not be the last chance for the public to speak on this matter. Planning and Building Safety Director Russ stated the City is currently working on the South Boulder Road Small Area Plan. The goal of the South Boulder Road Small Area Planning work is to develop a land use and public infrastructure plan with community support and provides a reliable roadmap for both public and private investments in this important corridor. The study area for the project is along South Boulder Road from Via Appia to the east City limits with Lafayette, and Highway 42/96th Street from Coal Creek Station to the north City limits at Paschal Drive. This planning effort is divided into five phases: desire, discovery, design, discussion, and documentation. 1. Desire — Use community outreach to solicit and document the community's expectations for the corridor and identify specific measures of success (character traits, fiscal performance, transportation system effectiveness, etc.) that will be used to ensure those expectations are met; 2. Discover — Analyze the corridor and document the existing performance (zoning build out, fiscal performance, transportation performance) of the corridor to establish a baseline for future comparisons; 3. Design — Outline, with community input, altemative land use and infrastructure scenarios for consideration by the community; 4. Discussion — Test and refine alternative land use and infrastructure scenarios with the community and develop a preferred land use and infrastructure scenario (the Small Area Plan); 5. Documentation = Translates the Small Area Plan into zoning amendments and potentially design overlays incorporated into the Louisville Municipal Code. 6. Staff has completed the first two steps (Desire and Discovery) of the South Boulder Road five step community outreach process. We are now at the culmination of the "Design" phase of the project. Staff worked with the community on the desire and discovery phases and is now looking at the design opportunities within the corridor. From the desire phase the strengths, opportunities and threats were identified. From public comments, the alternatives have been outlined for study. The three alternatives study will look at the 1) Character and design of the development; 2) Changes to property rights; 3) Fiscal impacts; 4) Traffic impacts; 5) Public costs; 6) School impacts; and 7) Evaluated against the measures of success. Alternatives: Staff and consultants analyzed the corridor to identify areas likely to change based on market pressures in the next 20 years. These areas were mapped for two reasons: 1) these properties are allowed more development in zoning than is currently built; and /or, 2) the value of the buildings on these properties is Tess than 30% of the combined total property and building value. Each alternative presented is based on a different source of community input. The 'Workshop" altemative is based on the