Revitalization Commission Agenda and Packet 2018 12 10

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9.The scale of this project is totally out of compliance with the mass and scale criteria in the Design Handbook for Downtown Louisville. 10. Planning for future parking demand should be put on hold until downtown parking standards are revised to accurately reflect demand for all commercial uses. As demonstrated by the Terrace on Main proposal, current standards do not reflect anything close to actual demand generated by office use.5 Summary This whole process has been a jumbled mess. There has been no rational process for evaluating need and the options, if any, for meeting that need. It appears someone has decided we need a parking structure and has pushed it to the front of other options.6 I do not believe it is the City Council. This being said, I do not understand why you even approved the funding for this project. I read a discussion in old minutes of using a van system for remote parking. I am not promoting this option, but a present value analysis would likely demonstrate you could fund the cost of a couple of vans well into the next century for what it would cost to build and maintain a parking structure. The point is there are probably many 21st century options that are better than the old "solution" of warehousing cars. So now it is being proposed, despite the Cooperation Agreement, for the LRC to have a land use role, and that the public will be given an opportunity to comment on the LRC's work at a public meeting. Then I assume it would go to the Planning Commission and the public would have another opportunity to comment; and then it would go to the City Council and the public would have another opportunity to comment. Is creating public fatigue a strategy for pushing this thing through? 5 Although the applicant projected they would have over 80 office workers in the proposed build, the number of required parking spaces was 32. The 32 included spaces for retail and restaurant uses. 6 Initially we were told money from DRCOG would fund some project dealing with parking. Voila, it would be free. This did not happen and the project morphed into what we have now.