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WHEREAS, these additional regulations and guidelines are intended to address numerous key issues related to development within Downtown Louisville, including but not limited to building mass and scale, parking, compatibility of buildings, lighting, signage, and other matters; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds and determines that it is of critical importance to the City and its citizens that such regulations and guidelines be applied to future applications for development within Downtown Louisville; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds and determines that since 1996, there has been an increasing number of inquiries and applications related to development within Downtown Louisville; and WHEREAS, the City anticipates additional applications for development within Downtown Louisville; and WHEREAS, the citizens of the City have expressed significant concerns relating to development within Downtown Louisville, including concerns about the type and scope of development; the compatibility of development with existing uses, including residential uses, within Downtown Louisville and immediately adjacent areas; the impacts of development upon the limited supply of parking currently existing in Downtown Louisville; the variety of design of development; the impacts of development on public facilities, view corridors, the rural, historical, or "small town" character of Downtown Louisville, and other aesthetic resources; the potential for inappropriate development; and the impact of development upon property values; and WHEREAS, the citizens of the City have also expressed significant concerns relating to the needs for a comprehensive set of zoning, development and parking regulations and guidelines to regulate development within Downtown Louisville; and WHEREAS, through the public processes being undertaken, the City has been formulating a proposed set of zoning, parking and development regulations and guidelines for Downtown Louisville, which public processes have involved input from various interests, including owners of property and businesses within Downtown Louisville, other private citizens, City officials and staff, the Louisville Historical Commission, private consultants and others; and WHEREAS, the City requires additional time to prepare and consider appropriate zoning, development and parking regulations and guidelines for development within Downtown Louisville, and to complete the public processes related thereto, in a manner that ensures that the concerns of all interested parties are addressed; and