Planning Commission Minutes 2015 04 23

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2015 Page 8 of 23 7. The difference between the pie charts and the tables. Scott says they are looking at different things. This is land area designated for each use on the pie charts and the tables show estimates of built square footage at build out. Russell asks what is the lane width on SBR? Russ says it was just reduced to 10.5 feet to accommodate the bike lanes. Public Comment: Anthony DeNovellis, 815 W. Conifer Court, Louisville, CO We are here primarily to see how the realignment of Main Street is going to affect the Tesone property, particularly where the northeast corner is going to be taken out. My wife, Judy, and her brother, Gary, have had this property in the family for 65 years. We plan to keep it in the family. How many feet are we talking about? How close does that bring Main Street to the existing house at 1515 Main Street? How many feet? Russ shows the Tesone front parcel and the house footprint. Green is the right-of-way line, blue is the pavement edge with the sidewalk and the curb. He says it is in the range of about 35 feet, just on the corner. Sid Vinall, 544 Leader Circle, Louisville, CO He had a chance to review the surveys and the results of the workshops. The findings presented to the PC tonight show different approaches, but he thought the results of the workshops and the survey (which was mostly citizen input) were similar. The workshop total responses seem to favor more retail, parks, open space, dealing with the traffic, and getting across SBR, and less residential. The survey results were also somewhat similar. They commented again on retail, parks, open space, restaurants, and offices. The housing, the residential part of it, was mostly aimed at seniors and affordable housing. The market analysis was obviously coming from the Business Retention Group and a more residential development is good for business. We can all understand that. I am trying to think how the PC is going to put weight on each of these three inputs or whether you will treat them as equal. I think you had 400 responses from the citizens. There were probably 60-80 people at these workshops. As you go forward, it makes sense to combine these three alternatives when they go to Council and come up with what will make most people satisfied with the outcome. When you say this is going on to more study, I think you have been studying this for three or four months. Is this Planning Staff or is this the PC? I would like to know that aspect of it. I am happy to see there will be plans for realignment of Main Street and Centennial. That has always been a very difficult area to get in and get out, making turns, and particularly for pedestrian crossing. I know if that was put to the vote, as far as having an underpass, the majority of people particularly on the north side would be very happy with that. I know it will come down to affordability. I think progress is being made in this area and I would like to know what the next step will be for citizens who want to be informed about the Small Area Plan for South Boulder Road. Russ answers the question "what's next?" and who is doing what from an analysis perspective. The Cunningham group out of Minneapolis will help take these plans and make them three- dimensional so we can give mass to them, so we can show from an aerial perspective how these proposed building heights would sit next to the existing buildings and the currently approved buildings. On their team, they have a traffic consultant, Kimley Horn, and they have already modeled the corridor, the existing conditions, and proposed zoning. We have not modeled it under these alternatives. These alternatives will have different impacts in terms of the amount of square footage proposed by each land use type. They will have dramatic traffic impacts. Kimley Horn will be doing the traffic. We will be doing the fiscal model. We will be running the fiscal model for all development review going into the future. We will not have a consultant do that. We will have specific parameters that if a developer came in, they provide the information and we run the model. With the public, we will be giving these tests out and presenting each of these alternatives in three-dimensional form and the data. That is our next