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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes May 11, 2017 Page 13 of 18 removed it. There is a second floor patio that acts as an outdoor environment for the office level. Johnson shows views from the street. There is bike parking in front. We never exceed the 35' height limit. On the south end, we are at 26.5' off grade, which is 6" under the maximum allowable height for a house. This is an appropriate level to match due to the relationship with the residential neighborhood across Elm Street and the residential nature of the building on the south corner. Because of the 45' depth of the property, we want to maximize our square footage. We have a lot of articulation and ins -and -outs along Main Street. We give up square footage to do that. We also give up square footage on the second level to push it back to allow open areas and relief where it is most important. On the parking lot side where there may be future structured parking, we have a plain elevation. The intent is to not make it just one color. We have some articulation with cornices that will be under revocable license permit. There are material changes. This could be a great canvas as a movie screen. The lower section is designed for public art along the alley side. We have a landscape strip along the edge of the building and it does provide a buffer. It is not pavement to the building. Chapter 16: We just subdivided a property that had county road access and alley access. We discovered in the municipal code that while it calls for street access, alley access qualifies as a frontage. It is in the municipal code. Deliveries: For the Blue Parrot, their deliveriesappen off Main Street as well as the alley. HPC comments: I listened to the transcript and had discussions with Planning staff. If you listen to the transcripts, the building was not presented. I did not have the opportunity to present the building or answer questions because it was not that kind of format. The building was presented by a Planning staff member who did not have this case. I find little merit in the HPC comments. I don't know if they looked at the drawings ead of time, and only saw one view of the buildings. There were no street views and rear ressed. Eric Fowles speaks. I don't think I can add of am not a developer. I am a creative guy and started a business 9 years ago. I have lived in uisville 20 years. My wife and I settled here and 6 children later, we are still here. We have 2 kids in LES, 2 in LMS, and 2 at Monarch. We love it here. I hope we can provide a more permanent creative space for our office. We want a building to add to the community. DAJ Design is a great partner and the City has been excellent to work with. Voltage has 75% employees who are Boulder County residents. We work with the Commuting Solutions program. I built the culture around being a family friendly place to work because I have a large family. It has attracted that same kind of employees. They love being in Louisville as well. I get excited about the back of the building because it is a blank canvas. As an artist, we see a lot of opportunity to make it cool and add to nostalgia of what Downtown is. We want to create a community space where we can have fun events. Laura Steele, 4756 McKinley Drive, Boulder, CONoltage I am a 25 year resident of Boulder County. I have worked in Louisville for the past 20 years off and on. This has been my favorite job. The median age of our Voltage employees is 30. We have a young energetic workforce. They have young families. They eat in the restaurants nearly every day. We have people who ask for bus passes, and we have a lot of biking. We will be sponsoring our third Bike To Work day and are aware of the impact we will have on Downtown Louisville. I help Eric maintain the 608 Main building and walk from our current office above Pica's. I walk by the parking lot as it stands now. I continually see trash from the trash enclosures. I get excited when I think of something beautiful for my 25-30 median age employees to work and eat and live their lives in on Main Street. We very much want to work with the City and want to be a core part of it. Material board entered into the record: 15