Planning Commission Agenda and Packet 2015 06 11

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes March 12, 2015 Page 11 of 19 dedicated land which is encumbered does have an easement on it to connect the detained area to the ditch area. Erramouspe discusses the easement. There is a meandering sidewalk running north -south along Highway 42. We are proposing a 20' wide drainage easement that runs along -side that sidewalk for drainage to connect the storm water pipe from the roadway to the pond itself. The Xcel easement discussed earlier also sits here and it is a very small easement used for housing the guy wires on a power pole. The agreement needed with Xcel is so that we can place public improvements in or around their easement. Public Comment: Michael Menaker, 1827 W Choke Cherry Drive, Louisville, CO I have a question. The applicant will remember there was an in-depth conversation with City Council about preference for Louisville residents and Louisville seniors. I am concerned that when I heard the waiting list was already to up 135 without any real marketing. How will that affect the preference that I believe was agreed to by City Council for Louisville residents? I hope to have a better understanding of that. My concern is that either people are getting on a list thinking they are #1 or #10 or #20, and actually they sit below the preference for Louisville residents, or that somehow that preference that was promised for Louisville residents will melt away. I am looking for better understanding of that. Boyd says that is a good question. What BCHA does with the new properties is we keep an interest list. Anybody who is interested, we put them on an interest list so they can keep updated with any community meetings or this event this evening. It does not mean that they are at the top of the list. We are really clear with our property managers. We have 600 other properties with very long waiting lists. We have to be very clear with people to not set false expectations. Our annexation agreement does include a preference for both including flood displaced victims because part of our funding for the affordable housing comes from Federal Disaster Relief Funds. We have a preference in there for Louisville residents and people who may have family in Louisville. There are three different categories. We are committed to pursuing those, but we do have to get formal approval from HUD as well as our lenders about fair housing. Once they approve it, you have to demonstrate no disparate impact by having that preference, that you are not excluding one type of person over another by enforcing that preference. They approve your demographics and economic information and that becomes listed as part of your property management plan. Once we have those preferences approved, as we go to lease -up, then it is really clear with people whether they are a Louisville resident or have family, then they get priority. Debby Fahey, 1118 W Enclave Circle, Louisville, CO I want to say that I am in support of this whole project. I think it will be a wonderful addition to the City. I am particularly pleased with how environmentally sound the project has been explained to me. My one concern is with access to the senior housing. It is down in the corner with only one access point, and it is not to a street, but to an alley. Is there going to be a sidewalk there that will get them to a street or another sidewalk? Is there only going to be one access point into the parking lot for the senior structure? It seems like a safety issue to me. If this is going to be an alley, will it be like the downtown alleys which are disgusting? The north alley that runs along the north side of Alfalfas is not really pleasant to walk along and see their piles of trash and pallets. Rob Lathrop, 601 Johnson Street, Louisville, CO I own the property immediately adjoining to the north of this property. I am very disappointed in the preliminary PUD. I think it is extremely sketchy to the point that I really can't make concrete comments other than some generalizations because of the lack of detail. I think that is probably an error on the part of the applicant to come to this stage with such little to show the people who are interested in the project. By the time you get to a final PUD and people see things that are