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2022 Planning Commission <br />Page 2 of 3 <br />WCity,of <br />Louxsvxlle <br />COLORADO • SINCE 1878 <br />3. What is your vision for Louisville as it relates to land use/development and maintaining Louisville's <br />small town character? <br />Louisville has an amazing small town character that has not happened by accident. Old <br />Town is certainly the flagship destination but the care taken to preserve the feel of the <br />neighborhoods surrounding it is just as important. I think that we should focus our <br />energies on economic and commercial growth in the McCaslin corridor and to support the <br />creative retail in Old Town. Let's also be open to mixed use developments along our <br />major artery roads. Since I have served on OSAB, I can also say that finding ways via <br />smart planning and land acquisition strategies to preserve buffers between Louisville and <br />the surrounding communities of Superior, Lafayette, and Broomfield is very important too. <br />4. How can Louisville achieve economic sustainability through zoning and land use planning? <br />Economic sustainability is obviously hugely important to any community and we need to <br />find a way to provide a solid sales and property tax base, housing, and retail and <br />commercial to support those who currently or would like to live here. The small area <br />plans have helped identify what this intelligent development might look like and much of <br />that comes down to keeping the commercial areas commercial and the residential areas <br />residential. In some cases, this will mean redeveloping some areas such as the area <br />around Ascent Church, the former Kohl's, and the Cinebarre movie theater to adapt to a <br />changing economic climate. I realize that Redtail Ridge is a controversial topic, but within <br />that project are opportunities to redevelop areas in a greener fashion while also keeping <br />natural those areas that have never been built upon. <br />5. What do you think are the most important planning issues facing the City? What insights could you <br />bring to the Commission's deliberations and recommendations? <br />The city is struggling to determine how to move forward with development projects in a <br />climate that isn't terribly supportive of this type of growth. Light commercial has been <br />impacted by COVID-19 and the political climate in the city is more slow -growth in nature. <br />However, growth can be done intelligently and the history of Louisville shows us that. <br />Louisville is quite a bit different than it was 20 years ago, but it still retains its small town <br />character as a result of some key decisions that were made along the way. So, what I would <br />like to see is for city staff, city council, and planning commission to work together to make any <br />necessary refinements to the master plan and small area plans to make them more <br />representative of the Louisville of today. These are governing documents that are key to <br />evaluating development proposals and we owe it to potential developers to make it clear what <br />we expect. This will help make the planning process more efficient and allow us to get to our <br />desired end state more easily. I have experience with quasi-judicial roles on the open space <br />advisory board and I feel like I could jump into this set of responsibilities without much of a <br />problem. <br />32 <br />