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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes January 14, 2016 Page 8 of 14 have family involvement. If we are unable to provide local services for adolescents that allow family participation, it is not giving the best kind of care we would like to provide. With this bed expansion, we are adding beds to potentially serve 1500 -2000 patients annually. This will be a combination of Inpatient as well as Outpatient services which is an important part of the follow - up care. One of the many pieces of community impact is additional job creation. Commission Questions of Applicant: Hsu asks with the 32 new beds, do you expect that to change the demographics of the patients coming in, whether they are long term or short term? Bunch says the average length of stay is about one week. We will be providing similar services to what we currently provide. We will just be able to provide a higher volume with the emphasis of adolescent services. Hsu says because I live near 88th Street, at certain times of the day, there is a lot of traffic. How will this impact traffic, especially with 75 new jobs? I assume they are not all 9 -5 or 8 -5. What will 88th Street look like because of this? Bunch says, as you indicated, the jobs are a combination of part -time and full -time positions. We are operating 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. In terms of the impact of any one particular shift, I don't think it will be noticeable. One of the questions asked in the neighborhood meeting was with regard to the traffic related to construction. With the timing of the construction project, we hope a big bulk of high volume - related construction will occur during the summer which will help the 88th Street traffic impact. Root says in our discussion with the Planning Department, we talked about the need for a traffic study. Apparently one had recently been completed for this area. Staff advised that they felt there would be insignificant impact and that it did not warrant another traffic study. Tengler asks about overall length of construction process. Root says it will occur in phases. The first phase is the addition itself and we anticipate beginning construction in April 2016. Complete construction finishes in November 2016. Tengler asks if the applicant is okay with the four conditions stated in the letter from Public Works. Root says we have no problem. Pritchard asks Staff if there is a shared parking agreement between Avista and this property. Trice says she does not think there is. It was not discussed in any of the meetings. Hal Hudson says there is no cross parking agreement but we have been teaming closely with Centennial Peaks and will continue that in the future. Pritchard asks Hudson if he is comfortable with this proposal. Hudson says with the additional parking, we are very comfortable. Russ says we often require a parking agreement if the applicant is not meeting the code. This applicant is exceeding the code. Hudson says Avista owns the land and leases to Centennial Peaks which allows for more flexibility. Public Comment: Ishan Tsay, 975 Saint Andrews Lane, Louisville, CO David Hsu is my husband. I have two questions. First, has the traffic flow analysis been done? I am a little confused because in the presentation, I thought it was done. Staff determined that it was not necessary. If the traffic flow analysis has been done, what were the three top concerns and how were they addressed or mitigated? Russ says that the Public Works Department has been looking at the 88th Street intersection at Campus Drive for a number of years. Last spring in 2015, Joliette Woodson, Louisville Civil Engineer III, led a traffic analysis because Monarch High School considered withdrawing their