Parks and Public Landscaping Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2018 03 01

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Cityor Louisville Memorandum To: Kristin Dean, Principal Planner From: Allan Gill, PLA, Park's Project Manager Date: March 1, 2018 Re: St. Louis Parish and Commercial Park, Project Update Attached for your reference are landscape sheets from the St. Louis Parish and Commercial Park Preliminary Planned Unit Development (Ascent Church). Summary: The project area consists of 51.58 acres and is located at the northeast corner of the intersection of 96th Street and Dillon Road. The property is owned by three entities which roughly divides the property in to thirds with the Archdiocese of Denver owning the southern third, the Ascent Church owning the middle portion and Adrian Games owning the northern third. For the Ascent Church to move forward with their plans to build a Church a Plat and PUD are needed to be completed for the entire parcel which includes the other two owners and makes this process more complicated than most Plats and PUDs. The Church is conservative in their approach to the process having completed a General Development Plan, now the Preliminary Plat and PUD are in process and will be followed with a Final Plat and PUD. See the attached letter to Planning Staff and Team and City of Louisville dated February 5, 2018 from Jim Candy, Co -Pastor which outlines the direction the Church would like to follow. There are three items for which I would like to update the Board. First, a trail has been proposed that runs parallel to the railroad tracks across all three properties that make up the larger parcel and continues north under Highway 42 adjacent to the railroad tracks and on to City owned property and finally reaching the Coal Creek trail on the north and on the south the trail connects to the CTC. The timeline for development of the north and south properties is not known at this time, with that a CIP for trail construction is not in place. The trail corridor is to be dedicated to the City and remaining public dedication requirements may be in the form of money set aside for future trail construction after development of the northern and southern properties takes place. Second, the Church is proposing a Community Plan Field. In discussion with Jim Candy this could possibly be shared with the City. If this were occur we would need an agreement with regard to maintenance, programing etc. Depending on how this would be structured it might possibly be considered a part of the public dedication requirement. Third, a landscape variance is proposed to allow for consideration of a partial or full native landscape approach to maintain the rural feel of the corridor and be more compatible with the adjacent Warembourg Open Space. Understanding this is a Preliminary PUD and the request for a variance has not yet been defined it may not turn out to be what is envisioned as it will be impacted by future commercial development including parking on Lots 2, 3 and 4.