Planning Commission Agenda and Packet 2015 06 11

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes March 12, 2015 Page 9 of 19 O 1 bedroom - $746 - $1063 O 2 bedroom — $895 — $1275 O 3 bedroom — $1034 - $1475 • Community outreach - four well -attended community meetings including two on April 29. The next meeting is June 2 at Louisville Senior Center. • Questions we asked are: o What amenities would make you want? o What features would make you weary? • What We Heard: o Provide opportunities for seniors outside of an elevator -served building. Seniors want to live in multi -family housing just as easily as in a senior building. Many amenities are being built to cater to the seniors and disabled. o Provide unique open spaces. o Make sure units are accessible for families with disabled children in wheelchairs to seniors experiencing non -ambulatory periods. • How We've Responded: o All ground floor units fully accessible. Nearly'/4 of all units are fully accessible and visitable. o Increased the number of 1-bedroom units across the site. o Integrated 7 unique pocket parks with varying themes. • Our Interest List currently has 135 households on wait list. • How to stay involved. o Community meetings, Facebook, Website, public hearings. Josh Erramousspe, Olsson Associates, 5285 McWhinney Blvd, Loveland, CO. Civil engineer. The process is too early to discuss the street sections. The first submittal to the City had varying width section of roadway as it navigated through the site. We were trying to accomplish traffic calming to prevent higher speeds. We felt there was too much discussion that needed to happen with the street sections prior to coming to today's meeting. We are showing the City's standard street sections for both Kaylix and Hecla through the site tonight, and during final PUD process, we will work with Staff to fine-tune them. Commission Questions of Applicant: Brauneis asks about the community orchard. Boyd says it is currently a detention pond with apples trees there. It was the inspiration for the orchard through the design process. It will be graded with some removal of trees, but because it is a detention area already, it will have an orchard feature. The trail will be located on the north edge of the orchard and we hope people will pull off the trail and relax. Brauneis asks about open space and its use as a detention basin. Do we always allow dedicated open space to be used as a detention basin? This will be something new? Russ says no; our land dedication is unencumbered and drainage is an encumbrance. We have precedence in the City of encumbered land being used as part of the dedication. In those settlements, often maintenance obligations were traded to the landowner. It is a case by case issue. The trail is a no-brainer; the neighborhood park is exciting; the orchard is one of biggest concerns the Parks Department rightfully had regarding concerns Commissioner Moline noted. Staff recognizes our partner and wants to work with them. If we can balance out the maintenance and costs, we think there is a solution but we are not prepared to show you yet. Brauneis asks about water counts run on the detention basin and average residency time. How often will there be water in there, and will there be water throughout the year? Erramousspe says to expand on Russ's conversation about the Goodhue Ditch people, we have met with the Board and are still negotiating release rates with them. What our current plan tells