Planning Commission Minutes 2015 04 23

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2015 Page 9 of 23 effort with the community. We have had about 140 people at each meeting. The walking audit had 60 people. We would take this to the workshops and have a very detailed conversation. What do we like about it, what are our concerns, and what are our observations? Staff would work with the community at that workshop to see if there is one we like the best, or what parts do you like the best, so we can take the information from a fully knowledgeable base (traffic and cost). Public Works will be developing the costs of the public infrastructure. Working with the community will then come back to PC and say, from the public workshops, this is the preferred alternative we are recommending. John Leary, 1116 LaFarge Avenue, Louisville, CO He finds the lack of documentation on how the numbers and slanted lines were made to make it very difficult to understand and what is being proposed. There are a few assumptions that have been mentioned that have no basis in reality. I don't see how you can move forward with scenarios where that exists. It is very highly unlikely that you can increase the retail space by 60-100% in the SBR corridor. You have to keep in mind that there will be some increase from through traffic, but that is going to be there under any scenario. That is not a factor. It comes from requiring 40% retail in some of these Mixed -Use areas. If you get 40%, there is no way the 40% increase (which is a fraction of the population in that area today) is going to result in anything close to 100% doubling of the retail area on SBR. Realistically, looking at the size of King Soopers, ARC, Hobby Lobby, and various buildings, you are not going to double that. It can't be done. It is really a misnomer to be calling one study a market study. There has been no market analysis into it. It has been described in three ways, a market study, a developer driven thing, and as a business driven thing. I suggest you settle on either developer or business thing, but there is no market analysis. If there is, we should all have access to it. The areas of change are on the map, but there is no suggestion of what the change is. One of the questions I would have is in the areas of change, are any of the numbers in the tables reflecting change in these areas? It would be interesting to know that. The marginal cost model will be an improvement. If you don't build streets, there are savings there. If you add more people as was in the case of Safeway with the apartments there, without public land dedication, you are adding people not only to the Rec Center but to trails and parks and any public facility we have in the City. That has to be taken into account. You certainly can't use this model based on totally unrealistic projections for retail under some of the scenarios. There is no way the numbers can be justified. Finally, the words of "more efficient land use" sounds like something that should be a goal. Certainly, we all like efficiency but in this case, there are tremendous trade-offs with the concept of efficiency. You are going to make it more crowded and that has all kinds of other implications. I think we need to avoid using terms implying a goal without looking at all the side effects of accomplishing the things that lead to that efficiency. Melissa Malerba, 1565 Main Street, Louisville, CO Property in question. I had everything prepared to speak but I didn't realize there was going to be a fairly thorough breakout of my topic. I am not quite sure how to take this forward. I feel I should have 30 minutes and a Power Point presentation to fight for my property. I am not standing here to get in the way of City progress. I am the triangle that you see with the road through my home. I apologize in advance if I cry as it has been a very emotional process. What hasn't been communicated is there is no City funding for this at this point in time. In fact, it has been told to me, it is highly unlikely to be addressed in 2018, more likely in 2020, but not guaranteed. That puts me in a bind. I am not against the realignment but I am against having my property held hostage until 2020. There is not much I can do with it right now. It is well publicized that the City wants to put a road through my house. I can't make improvements without thinking "why?" Why would I add funding and make improvements to my home if it will be demoed at some point in time, a point in time I don't know about? More than likely, not soon. If I wanted to build a better home for my family, I wouldn't be able to do so. Not that the City wouldn't approve it, but it wouldn't be a wise move for me, not knowing the future. It's critical for