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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes September 10, 2015 Page 7 of 21 school district. The school district planner knows that DELO is coming in with 19 units per acre within the zoning allowance. A nplicant Presentation: Justin McClure, RMCS, Inc., 21 South Sunset Street, Longmont, CO 80503. 105 Cherrywood Lane, Louisville, CO David Waldner, RMCS, Inc. Alex Carlson, RMCS, Inc. Elizabeth Law -Evans, BOOM LLC McClure presents Power Point slide demonstration. McClure says RMCS, Inc. has been investing, designing, and working hard within this Urban Renewal area since 2008, the core project area as it is defined in the City of Louisville. To stand in front of you in 2015 and to see so much progress going on in that area, which is in transition, is a pleasure and honor. When we talk about ownership and applicant, DELO East, I am a joint venture partner in this project. I want to impress upon this Commission that this is my project. This is not something I am working on behalf of another group. The last time I had the fortune of being in front of this Commission, I was serving as an owner's representative. This has been called the BOOM property because it used to be explosive fabrication decades ago. It is indicative of the industrial zoning that was phased out per the Louisville Municipal Code (LMC). I like to think that my company and I have been contributing factors in repurposing this area and creating what we hope to be one of the most innovative neighborhoods ever developed. It is specific to the City of Louisville, but it may be one of the more interesting developments in the State of Colorado. Staff does a fantastic job with details on presentation and I have had the good fortune of investing in Louisville for over a decade. I have a site plan and illustratives that are not a requirement of the preliminary PUD or preliminary plat at this time, but as most of the Commissioners know, I have a propensity to design and love good design. I am excited to show some of the design concepts. Everything right now is conceptual in nature. Before I do so, there were a handful of questions that came up as a result of Staff's presentation. One of the key questions is associated with a 60' access easement. I will take this opportunity to acknowledge the Louisville Trade Center and Louisville Tire representatives. We have been in conversation with them and have a history of being good neighbors. One of the problems with urban infill is land assemblage and the associated complexities. We like to think we are good neighbors. We want to make sure that as we move forward, we address everyone's concerns 110%. It is not just the City of Louisville but our adjacent property owners. Everybody would be able to agree that DELO, in terms of a blighted area and given the proximity to Downtown, is a value add. All the adjacent property owners over there would agree. In terms of the specifics associated with this access easement, on the site plan we are not utilizing the aforementioned access easement to access our property. At this point in the process, there is nothing preliminary affecting that easement. No documents are recorded and we are not altering the existing use associated with that easement. We are in front of you this evening requesting approval for a zoning request and a land use issue at a high level. We are proposing some unique product types that are novel and have never been introduced in the City of Louisville and, to my knowledge, anywhere in Colorado. I am confident that between preliminary and final, we can resolve issues with adjacent property owners. There is a significant amount of time and investment required to generate the level of detail required for a final submittal (elevations, access, turning radiuses, and curb returns). There is a significant amount of detail that needs to be generated between final and now. This