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ORDINANCE NO. 1285 SERIES 1998 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 17.28 OF THE LOUISVILLE MUNICIPAL CODE TO PLACE A TIME LIMIT ON APPROVALS OF FINAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENTS. WHEREAS, substantial delay in the development of a commercial or industrial planned unit development can have an adverse effect on the neighborhood and community as a result of changing conditions, changes in the City's master plan, changing community needs and desires, and for other reasons; and WHEREAS,the City Council finds it is in the best interest of the City to place a reasonable time limit on the development of a commercial or industrial planned unit development. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE, COLORADO: Section 1. Section 17.28.200 of the Louisville Municipal Code is hereby amended to add a new paragraph E to read as follows: 17.28.200 Construction procedures and building permits. E. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Chapter 17.28, for any area covered by a final development plan for a commercial or industrial planned unit development approved after November 9, 1998, No building permit shall be issued more than thirty-six (36) months after City Council approval of the plan unless an extension of time is approved pursuant to § 17.28.210.B. and issuance is within such extended time. Section 2. If any portion of this ordinance is held to be invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each part hereof irrespective of the fact that any one part be declared invalid. Section 3. The repeal or modification of any provision of the Municipal Code of the City of Louisville by this ordinance shall not release, extinguish, alter, modify, or change in whole or in part any penalty, forfeiture, or liability, either civil or criminal, which shall have been incurred under such provision, and each provision shall be treated and held as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any and all proper actions, suits, proceedings, and prosecutions for the enforcement of the penalty, forfeiture, or liability, as well as for the purpose of sustaining any judgment, decree, or order which can or may be rendered, entered, or made in such actions, suits, proceedings, or prosecutions.