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and clear guidelines and we also feel it will meet the needs of the average Louisville citizen. I would encourage a public hearing on this issue...in a format agreed upon by both sides...agreed upon by COPE and also the Chamber of Commerce or whoever would like to have the public hearing. That way we can have a formulated plan for the public so that the public will benefit from exactly what we are stating. I also feel it should be in a friendly open atmosphere and it should be sponsored by non-interest groups." Olson expressed a concern that Council was sending a negative message regarding citizen initiatives and petitions and hoped that Council would not approach this initiative in the same manner perceived by Ms. Olson. She further stated that in obtaining signatures, the circulators "were most careful to caution each person who signed the petition to read it and it took a lot of time to go over this petition with each individual. We were aware of our responsibility to do that and we did." "We feel there is a grassroots concern...about managing the residential growth of Louisville." Olson stated that the first section deals with the mean class size and the Boulder Valley Schools located within Louisville. "We would like to keep Louisville children in Louisville without overcrowding of the classrooms and without having to use rooms which are not designed for classroom use. Our hope is that it will encourage some interaction between the City government and the school district to allow the growth of the City and subsequently for classrooms and schools to proceed in an orderly manner. I know that this has been a concern of all of you and that you have been working toward this goal. We would like to have permanent assurance that future councils would regard it in that way also." Olson went on to state that the water supply portion of the initiative was something that didn't require much explanation indicating that this would be a way to avoid a problem as happen in 1984 wherein the City experienced a water crisis. According to Olson, the residential growth rate section would not present a "complication for the City...it ties the growth rate to 5$ or three times whatever the state growth happens to be...allowing approximately 200 per- mits a year and is within reason in terms of the survey that was done this past summer." Section IV deals with residential annexation and Olson stated that it re- quires that 75$ of the land that is already annexed and zoned be dealt with before further land is annexed to the City for residential growth. In closing Olson stated, "I would like to appeal to your sense of fair play and encourage you to study the initiative carefully before taking any action. I would also like to suggest that you hold a public hearing so that some of these people who signed the petition and others in the com- munity who are interested in it can come before you and have the opportun- ity for their opinions to be heard and to allow debate -- fair and full debate -- to go on before you take any final action on this." Mayor Fauson stated that this not a public hearing but felt there were people in the audience wishing to speak on the issue and asked those people 6