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Louisville City Council Meeting March 4, 2003 Page 7 UPDATE - SOUTH SUB-AREA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT Davidson called for Staff presentation. City Manager Bill Simmons reported on the March 4, 2003 meeting of the South Sub- Area Group, where stakeholders STK, St. Louis Catholic Church and Avista Hospital made presentations. He stated there were discussions relating to the financial framework where consensus was reached. There was also a discussion of goals and those goals would be presented to for Council consideration on a south sub-area plan amendment. Planning Director Paul Wood reported on the statements of guiding principles, which were written based on direction from a recent joint City Council, Planning Commission work session. Staff consolidated statements from previous goal documents to be more specific. Finance Director Charlene Laus prepared a financial framework to examine the cost of growth in the South Sub-Area and stakeholders were asked to express their goals. Some of the description titles and terminology used was broad and generic. Staff received a response on the goal statements from STK. Wood stated the next step would be to part from the steering group and move toward a public process. John Leary, 1116 LaFarge Avenue, Louisville, CO 80027 addressed the South Sub-Area Comp Plan and stated there are philosophical issues, which are misleading and deal with amending the comprehensive plan. He stressed any amendment to the plan would impact the entire City of Louisville and felt the proposed amendments are inconsistent with the current comprehensive plan. He asked the following questions: 1) Does the current comprehensive plan adequately meets the needs of the citizens of Louisville? 2) If an amendment would add to the City's tax base and expense base? He noted the current process appears to be for the benefit of the stakeholders. Although it is permissible for the City Staff to work with stakeholder to address a Comp Plan amendment request and for the Planning Commission and City Council to provide City Staff guidance on what issues should be addressed in a comp plan amendment, the Steering Committee should not make recommendations to the Planning Commission or City Council, as those Boards have separate public hearing requirements. COUNCIL COMMENTS Davidson stated two basic questions require answers: 1) Does the City want Storage Tek to develop approximately 1000 residential units and would it benefit the citizens of Louisville? 2) Does the City want to annex the 80 acres of unincorporated land and should it be developed or should it remain rural preserve? He suggested scheduling the matter to the next Council meeting for further discussion. Brown stated the land use question for the City is whether the City should control the development by limiting further residential growth and integrate with open space programs. He noted with residential development comes other issues including transportation, and access concerns. He suggested revising the list of goals. 7