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City Council <br />Meeting Minutes <br />June 2, 2015 <br />Page 8 of 27 <br />see the change as a real reduction of traffic. He felt creative staff and open minded <br />citizens could find a solution with no further study. <br />Mayor Muckle asked the unhappiness be directed his way. He felt the realignment of <br />Main Street was a reasonable consideration within abstract terms. He found the <br />testimony compelling and didn't have any interest in taking homes, let alone historic <br />homes. <br />MOTION: Mayor Muckle moved to not pursue realignment of Main Street in the next <br />phases of the South Boulder Road Small Area Plan. Council member Lipton seconded. <br />Voice vote 6 -1, Dalton opposing. <br />Mayor Muckle suggested Council release the 1125 Pine Street property with bringing it <br />back as a future agenda item. The property owner asked for expediency. <br />Council member Stolzmann asked Council to consider endorsing three principles as <br />they move forward with the small area plan to relieve resident anxiety. <br />1. No changes to zoning to allow for additional high density housing in this corridor. <br />2. Respect individual property owner rights. <br />3. Minimize conditional zoning so community members have more certainty. <br />She addressed senior and affordable housing. She noted there was a significant <br />increase in senior and affordable housing with the annexation of the Boulder County <br />property. She suggested going over the other public improvements carefully as these <br />are not the only homeowners who would be impacted. She felt existing zoning is the <br />best option presented. This will add more residential, but the other options result in <br />even more residential. She saw little benefit in studying the Survey or Workshop option <br />because the retail and office projections will not be supported by market realities. <br />Council member Lipton felt Council member Stolzmann had basically articulated his <br />stand. He suggested general principles to agree on based on what has been seen. He <br />thought this corridor was maxed out and was not in favor of going further than already <br />allowed. He was not convinced any high density should be allowed, even conditionally. <br />He was leaning toward a go slow strategy. <br />Council member Loo wanted to revisit Council member Stolzmann's suggested <br />principles. <br />Council member Stolzmann described her method of arriving at an estimate of <br />residential housing with the current zoning. She noted it was similar to what planning <br />referred to as entitled but was slightly less, by taking out the properties she saw as <br />highly unlikely to be redeveloped. <br />Council member Keany stated he generally supported the first principle. <br />City Attorney Light cautioned Council against putting this support for the principles in the <br />form of a motion but could proceed by noting this was to guide staff. He stated Council <br />