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Planning Commission <br />Meeting Minutes <br />April 14, 2016 <br />Page 13 of 19 <br />applicable industrial guidelines still apply as in effect from time to time. SRU to privilege required <br />for any use identified in the LMC as a use by special review in the city's industrial zone district. <br />Pritchard says it is light research and development, industrial. The SRU gives them the <br />flexibility to come to the PC to ask for an exception to that. <br />Rice asks to understand procedurally, all we are doing tonight is acting on a request to amend <br />the GDP to allow this use. Anything further than that has to come back for the detailed review. <br />Trice says the applicant is planning to return with a wedding event center that would have its <br />own PUD and SRU. <br />O'Connell says it appears that there is a residence that it directly to the west of this lot. Were <br />they notified of this? <br />Trice says there is a portion of the area that is part of unincorporated Boulder county. The <br />residents were notified. <br />Applicant Presentation. Not present. <br />Commission Questions of Applicant: Not applicable <br />Public Comment: <br />Lynda Newbold, 9750 Empire Road, Louisville, CO <br />We live in one of the three unincorporated lots to the west of Lot 11. Our property is adjacent to <br />Lot 11. We have lived there for 25 years. It will come as no surprise to you that we will oppose <br />this project when it comes up. I understand the limited nature of what you are doing tonight. I did <br />want to come forward and make a couple of comments to you. Given that this use is already <br />allowed in Lots 1-5, we don't understand the necessity of giving a variance for this on Lot 12. 1 <br />don't understand the necessity of changing it for Lot 11 if they intend you use Lot 12. There is <br />discussion in the staff presentation about the consistency of the adjacent lots. I honestly don't <br />know if you consider the consistency with the lots that are not actually within the confines of the <br />CTC, but I think it should be considered. All of those residences would be highly adversely <br />impacted by such a change, even if it is not a wedding event center. We bought that property <br />looking at the allowed uses as they were. We have never opposed an industrial project. The <br />only time we opposed a project was the time someone wanted to build 300 houses which was <br />again not within the use. I think it is disingenuous for the applicant to represent that such a <br />project such as a wedding event center is going to be compliant with policy 3 consideration for a <br />change in the uses in the GDP. The language of policy 3 says it should benefit on a daily basis <br />the workers in the area. I know that they tack on that we'll have a corporate banquet area. I <br />don't know the last time any of you drove through the CTC and checked who the businesses <br />where out there, but I honestly don't think that there is a big need for a corporate or event center <br />like that. I think the businesses that would have such a need have their own space. I don't see <br />them paying for this expensive award winning building to just have a Christmas party. All of <br />those things, when they are considered, would maybe not support doing the change in this <br />location. <br />Moline asks what do you think your main objections will be; length of time, noise, duration of <br />events, after hours? <br />Newbold says after hours, for sure. Noise, for sure. If you read the letter that the applicant has <br />submitted to you and the portions of their business plan they submitted, they represented to you <br />that there is a huge need for weddings. They would be throwing three weddings a week for up <br />to 600 people. There would be space for 250 wedding guests and parking for 100. When you <br />move next to an industrial park, you go through your head, ok fine, you understand that there <br />are businesses during the day. The trade-off is you get your weekends, it is a quiet place to live, <br />and not a bunch of neighbors. The noise from this will be huge. I think Boulder County might <br />have a bit of a problem with that kind of a use in that area. We have been denied the ability to <br />build a barn halfway between our house and the creek because it is a riparian area. We have <br />been given grief about lights on our driveway not being up -pointed. I imagine their heads will <br />explode if they find out there will be music all night long or even late into the night. I understand <br />