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Page 4 of 4 <br />All these plans have one feature in common: <br />they are all points-based systems, with <br />points or percentages allocated to almost <br />identical components of a residential- <br />construction project.. They are all applicat~le <br />to both new-construction and remodel <br />projects. They differ in their details (but riot <br />by much), as far as their goals and poin~ts- <br />distribution are concerned. So while <br />advocates of any one of these particular <br />plans may argue about their favoritf:s' <br />comparative merits, they are so similar that <br />any one of them could be modified by their <br />administrators to be just like all the others at <br />any time. <br />Attached here are copies of the Boulder <br />County BuildSmart and Longmont Gree:n- <br />Points Programs. It's not our intention that <br />Council members read through thE;m <br />completely and study them in great detail. <br />Rather, we request you browse through thE:m <br />just to get some idea of how they acre <br />structured, and how they appear to <br />applicants for building permits who need to <br />comply with those programs. <br />Also attached here are some of our own <br />comparison documents, compiled during the <br />course of our own public meetings about this <br />topic, and our individual members' studies of <br />various aspects of the local plans. These <br />documents may be more helpful to Council <br />members to form opinions about your o~nrn <br />preferences for the `form' of aGreen-Points <br />Program for Louisville. <br />At the April 2008 LRCAB and BoA meetings, <br />Louisville's Chief Building Official, Mike <br />Jones stated that at this time the residential- <br />construction sector does not seem to need <br />any application of green-build criteria, and <br />that the commercial-construction sector is of <br />greater concern to him for the need 'For <br />green-build criteria. We certainly commend <br />Mr Jones for his stated interest in having <br />green-build criteria applied to commercial- <br />construction projects within Louisville. Ike <br />has informed us he is a member of a newly <br />created county-wide committee that will work <br />to establish a proposed .county-wide <br />commercial-construction green-build code by <br />the end of 2008. <br />However, we disagree with his assessment <br />that there may be no need for green-build <br />criteria to be applied to residential- <br />construction projects for the foreseeable <br />future. While there has been very little new <br />residential construction in Louisville during <br />the past several years, that is already <br />beginning to change right now. New <br />residential units are already under <br />construction within the North End devel- <br />opment area, with an anticipated total of <br />about 350 new units within that area, and <br />likely another 350 new units within the <br />Takoda development area. Those two areas <br />will add a total of about 700 new residential <br />units (about 10% of Louisville's total <br />residential units), and will go a long way to <br />completing build-out of the remaining <br />undeveloped residential-zoned parcels within <br />our city limits. If green-build criteria are not <br />in place to be applied to those 700 new units, <br />it will be too late to try to go back and apply <br />any such criteria after they're completed. <br />Sometimes, opportunity missed really is <br />opportunity lost. <br />We thank City Council members for taking <br />the time to review LRCAB's list of goals for <br />2008, and all our attached materials. We <br />welcome your comments and suggestions at <br />the Council Study Session on June 24tH <br />For LRCAB Members, <br />~` <br />Mark V Persichetti, <br />2008 LRCAB Chair <br />