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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes November 11, 2021 Page 5 of 12 flexible, but he stated that they also had to deliver a product to the market and the community. He shared that he was proud of the community engagement they had done and stated that over 60 people had attended their presentations and they had made a number of changes throughout the process. He finished by stating that the proposal included things that were needed in Louisville. Williams stated that Lanterns was not 55+ and she did not think there were any 55+ in Louisville, and asked about Inclusionary Housing Ordinance requirement. Bair replied that they planned to meet the requirement but they had not decided how. Diehl asked how this proposal was less dense. Bair stated that it was less than what could be built and added that the current approved plan was for three-story buildings whereas the proposal was for two-story. Diehl clarified that 5,000 square feet would be added, which would increase density. Moline asked about how the developer had responded to requests from the community to having more commercial. Bair stated that they had looked into the commercial around the site and had found that in that area there was over 140,000 square feet of vacancy made up of different types of commercial. They planned to build something that was more neighborhood -serving, which was different from what was currently out there. Mark Thompson, 782 Treece Street in Steel Ranch, stated that he and his wife were impressed by the Mass Equities team and the changes they had made to the original plan, including eliminating a drive-thru option and lowering height maximums, among other changes. He noted that no other developers had been forced to provide 55+ and it did not seem to be fair to put that on Mass Equities. He stated that the developers were proposing to design homes that would be attractive to 55+ without the need to manage and police age restrictions. He stated that the commercial vacancies previously described in the meeting did not include the planned commercial developments that in the area and he supported the 20,000 square feet proposed. He had been told that the majority of residents closest to the development were not in favor of the development, but there were upwards of 200 more homes in the neighborhood and he knew firsthand that many of those residents were in support of that plan. He and his wife supported the plan overall and encouraged its approval. Gary Larson, 2189 Park Lane in Steel Ranch, stated that he lived directly across from the development and had been involved in the previous iteration. He stated that the adjacent community of patio homes with main -floor master bedrooms had not wanted 55+; instead, they had wanted the main -floor master concept. He and his wife had made the move to the houses with master bedroom that included other elements that worked for senior residents and that's what residents wanted, not necessarily the 55+ restrictions. The adjacent community would like not to see the townhomes creating a Highway 42 tunnel and they wanted to see something like a dedicated sit-down 7