Planning Commission Minutes 2017 11 09

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes November 9, 2017 Page 3of7 Staff recommends approval of Resolution 23, Series 2017 for a request to rezone certain City - owned property to Open Space Zone District. Ritchie added that no change in management would occur based on this rezoning as these properties already appear and function as open space. The goal of the rezoning is to align with the City Charter requirements. Moline asked if the City Code included use restrictions for open space. Ritchie responded that uses for open space in the code simply refer to City Charter. There are no use restrictions in the code aside from referring to the charter. Rice asked what the effect of rezoning would be aside from housekeeping. Ritchie responded that staff opinion was that it was a housekeeping matter. Zuccaro added that Title 4 of the City Ordinance has a list of prohibited and allowed uses and offered to answer specific questions about use from the Commission. Rice clarified that properties previously zoned as commercial would no longer be available for commercial use. Ritchie confirmed that rezoning from commercial to open space would have that effect. Rice asked if there are open space properties that have not yet been considered for rezoning. Ritchie confirmed that there were remaining properties. There are two possibilities for why staff is not bringing them forth at this time. First, they may need survey work to develop a legal description that matches the area proposed for rezoning. Second, further study and direction may be need from the Parks and Public Landscaping Board and the Open Space Advisory Board to determine the designated areas. Hsu asked for clarification on criterion three, stating that the there was a potential discrepancy between the criterion and staff recommendation. He asked how something that was not anticipated in the Comprehensive Plan, as required in criterion three, also be contemplated, as suggested by staff recommendation. Zuccaro responded that staff applied the requirement to consider zoning at the time of the adoption of the plan to the current plan, which shows the properties as open space. He added that staff interpreted the criterion to mean was the property contemplated to be open space at that time. Staff used the current plan and judged if the property was open space based on the most recent plan. Ritchie stated that the Commission could find criterion three not applicable. Ember Brignull, Open Space Manager for the City of Louisville, 595 Gillaspie Drive, Boulder CO was available for questions from the Commission. The Commission had no additional questions Pritchard asked for comments from the public. Barbara Holub 848 Trail Ridge Drive, Louisville, CO asked if current management responsibilities in PUDs for the properties would change after rezoning. Zuccaro stated that this rezoning would not affect management and there would be no transfer of responsibility.