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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes March 12, 2015 Page 12 of 19 problems, it just prolongs the project and complicates everything. My comments right now, the ones that I've noted so far, are that the property drains almost to the north. Part of it drains to the northeast as was indicated. I can tell you that in a heavy rain, it sheet flows due north right down onto my property, and then we drain it to the Goodhue. Stan Alconis and myself worked it out 25 years ago and it has worked fairly well, but it has always been agricultural. When you start tearing that property up, things are going to change dramatically. Along that same line, there is no mention in this project that I see of the prairie dogs, hundreds of prairie dogs, that are on their property now and subsequently, on my property. There needs to be some type of plan brought forward on how they are going to deal with that aside from importing a lot of kestrels, and I'm not sure they eat prairie dogs. The other item I noticed fairly quickly on my property is the main east -west sewer line that the North Main Apartments connected into. I know for a fact that this sewer line is probably 24' down. In order to access that to put in a manhole requires an excavation of roughly the size of this room. That connection would totally block access to the western portion of my property. That is going to have to be dealt with. I think these are preliminary issues that I should be able to address in a lot more detail and I can't. I am raising them now, more for the applicant's information than for the Planning Commission's information. Walt Oehlkers, 665 W Juniper Court, Louisville, CO I have been very concerned about seniors for many years and some of you have probably heard me before. I have a couple of things I came up with. The first thing I'm concerned about is that one -quarter of the units will have accessibility. I don't think this is adequate because many of the people who will be in these homes will have visitors having special needs to get into their facilities, such as wheelchairs, walkers, and canes. This is very important for elderly people. It is a matter of accessibility. Part of the accessibility that I am very concerned about is parking. I have not heard anything about parking. If you go to Liddy Morgan or Sunnyside here, parking is very limited. There is no visitor parking and it is very difficult. You are parking out on the street. A lot of these residents are going to fill up the authorized parking, and then they will be parking on the street. You have to recognize the tremendous amount of parking you will have out on the street. I hear you talking about having space for them but parking needs to be evaluated based upon the number of cars expected for the different households. A lot of seniors will not have cars but some of them will. That gets to the other point I have which is people visiting seniors and picking them up. If you pull into Liddy Morgan, they have a doorway you can drive up to and there is a heated sidewalk so it's clear in the wintertime. It is important as far as accessibility for seniors and people with limited mobility. Parking close for immediate pick-up is very important. I hope you will take this into account when designing the facilities and the streets. I can't over emphasize accessibility such as showers with handholds and wide doorways. This is part of the Comp Plan here in the City. Questions of Applicant or Staff: Rice clarifies that we are passing a preliminary plat and PUD. At this stage, is parking something we are looking at in terms of a parking count? Russ says yes. There are parking ratios in the General Development Plan, but the specific bedroom count and square footages that actually get laid on the ground will tell you how many parking spaces will be there. That is at final PUD. Rice asks about the accessibility of the sewer and the size of the hole necessary to prepare for it. Is that something that would be encompassed in what we are passing tonight? Russ says it could. There is a memo within our referral comments between the Planning Department and Public Works providing a number of comments. Craig, our City Engineer, is very good at understanding how much room he needs to maintain sewer depending on depth. I do not disagree with Mr. Lathrop. Craig has put comments in the memo in your packet. It will