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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes May 11,2017 Page 12 of 18 process; it is more of a courtesy to obtain their comments. This is not an historic property or historic building renovation or addition. Rice says my observation of the parking situation is that the parking requirement for the new building has been recalculated to be 13 spaces. Theoretically, this new development can require 13 spaces to service it. When we make the exchange to go from 25 spaces to 38 spaces, which is an additional 13 spaces, we really haven't gained any parking at all. Dean says the parking in lieu does not guarantee or reserve parking spaces. Rice says I think the reason we have the parking fee -in -lieu is it gives the City money to directly invest in parking, and service the needs downtown. It appears to me that we haven't gained any parking. Aaron DeJong, Director of Economic Development, City of Louisville. Today, we have 25 spaces. Through this development, we will have 38 spaces. We will get 13 new spaces for Downtown which satisfies the requirement that this project will be paying into it. Rice says in terms of this being some boon in terms of getting more parking downtown, I don't think we are accomplishing that because we are also importing a new development that will add to the parking load. DeJong says yes, having a new building in Downtown will help with the vibrancy. Applicant Presentation: Andy Johnson, DAJ Design, 922-A Main Street, Louisville, CO Ryan Costner, DAJ Design, 922-A Main Street, Louisville, CO Eric Fowles, owner, Voltage, 901 Front Street, Louisville, CO/625 Fairfield Lane, Louisville, CO Laura Steele, Voltage, 901 Front Street, Louisville, CO Johnson presents from Power Point: I five in Town, I work in Old Town, and I've been in the area for 20 years. I feel the gravity of what we are going to present. This is a unique project and dynamic. We have an ad agency owner who is not a developer and who wants to create a home for his home-grown business. He lives in Louisville. This is important to him and equally about how he can grow his business and support business Downtown. We are familiar with the site. Staff has done an excellent, thorough, and comprehensive job. We have a lot of regulatory documents. This project highlights the complexity of all these documents and the need for improvement in consolidation or clarifying it. We had a design for the original lot, not imaging that a land swap was possible. A lot along Main Street made sense and a good move for Louisville because it fills in the missing teeth. We have holes along Main Street. Main Street hasn't developed and this is an opportunity to build it again. Having the parking lot in back makes a lot of sense. We have tried to maximize the parking lot to show as much as we can. We need room on Main Street to allow the building to function in a civic way, with more pedestrian access and the ability to hang out in front. Restaurants are not planned for this building. We pushed the building back 2.5'. We have an additional part on the south that pushes back 1.5'. We designed 5' public access easements. We feel it is important that people not access the parking from the alley because Main Street is where people want to go. We want to create direct access around both sides of the building, losing the square footage but allowing a better civic design. The Blue Parrot will develop in the future so having access to the side is important to energize this part of Main Street. Thirteen parking spaces are required and are non -designated. These are daytime spaces because this is a daytime business. These spaces will likely become available at 5 pm. Louisville is busy in the evening. The 38 parking spaces are good with 13 new spaces. The potential of what could happen in the future, how this building has been planned, and how the land swap was positioned, structured parking is a good possibility for the future. We are having discussions with the Blue Parrot about combining trash enclosures. We have retail on the first level of Main Street and it correlates with the height of the Blue Parrot. There are three retail spaces planned and discussed. The second floor upstairs is office, set back, and less presence from the person scale on the street. With the pushed back second level, we took the opportunity to do something unique. We took the middle core and 14