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Rob Zuccaro From: Ken Wilson <kenwilsonaux@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 10:52 AM To: Planning Commission Subject: Inclusionary housing I strongly support the inclusionary housing ordinance. Too many families whose members work in Louisville and surrounding Boulder County communities can't afford to live here. People who make valuable contributions as teachers, nurses, mechanics, builders, and service workers must commute long distances to work here due to ever-increasing housing prices. The modest early-70s ranch homes in my own neighborhood are selling in the high six figures. The trash hauler, FedEX dispatcher, Forest Service employee, and Xcel worker who inhabited our neighborhood when we purchased our home in 1987 could not purchase a home here today. Thus, some permanently affordable housing is necessary in order to accommodate our workforce, reduce commuting pollution, and promote valuable diversity in our town. The market is failing in this respect. I recommend that the requirement of 12% affordable units for new developments be increased to at least 15%, equal to our neighbor Superior's standard. With so little land developable for residences in Louisville, 12% for new building will not make sufficient progress toward the 12% regional goal for Boulder County. Our contribution should be greater. I appreciate that the draft ordinance is well -thought-out and allows developers options for how to meet the requirement. I welcome the preference for families who live and work in Louisville when allocating the inclusive housing. Obviously adoption of this ordinance would constitute only a single step in addressing our housing affordability problem. Other tools will need to be applied. But this is an important step. Ken Wilson 261 Short Place Louisville, CO 80027 10