Planning Commission Minutes 2020 07 09

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes July 09, 2020 Page 7 of 17 Banks says that there was certainly a rush and competition, so yes there was heavy competition. Diehl asks to get his perspective on staff’s lighting condition and asks if he can discuss how he came up with the proposed hours of operation. Banks says he understands staff’s recommendation of the lighting and he does want to be a good neighbor. He says he will do everything in his power to not have any light pollution. As far as the hours of operation, those hours were chosen because that is what Louisville’s code allows. Moline asks if he could address the concerns related to the extra parking. Banks mentions that he has presented to other commissioning boards and says that typically people want more parking. Usually individuals say that there is not enough parking spaces being proposed. The decision behind the parking was very simple though. We have the ability to have 5 parking spaces so we went with that additional availability. Hoefner says that he is interested to know their take on the screening along the open space trail and their response to all the public comment regarding that topic. Banks says that their intent is to beautify that plot, not make it worse. He thinks with the mature landscaping put it in, it will enhance the area. Jessica Emilia, property manager / owner of Emilia Construct, LLC, says that they worked with the city planners to increase the landscaping evergreens above and beyond what code required, in addition to the concrete wall. Instead of the concrete wall, she mentions that they could have just used landscape shielding but thought headlights would still be an issue so they proposed a concrete wall instead which is not required by code. Hoefner asks if they could address the concern regarding the truck turn around. Emilia says they have been working with the owner of Lot 4. In the owner’s original plan to divide the lot, their design proposal is what they actually preferred. Hoefner asks if they prefer to have the trucks back in on how they are doing it now. Emilia says she does not know if she would say preferred, but that was their original plan and intention to have the trucks back in that way once the land was divided and sold. Howe asks if she can speak on the public comments received about the buffer from the north side of the parking lot to Clover Lane. He asks if she can go over what the buffer is like between the north and east parking lot to the residential property.