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Planning Commission <br />Meeting Minutes <br />March 11, 2021 <br />Page 7of9 <br />Zuccaro responded that larger developments typically had to create comprehensive <br />drainage plans and for single lots there were other drainage options available. He noted <br />that the situations Commissioner Williams was described would be unique <br />circumstances for Louisville and if someone were in that situation they could apply for a <br />zoning variance with the Board of Adjustment. <br />Williams summarized that there were other mechanisms that would address her <br />concerns and therefore they didn't need to be addressed here. <br />Zuccaro confirmed. He noted that any water table issues wouldn't be addressed with <br />grading anyway. He stated that he did not know enough about the water table issue <br />from a technical standpoint but he had not seen basements being raised because of <br />water table issues, though he had heard of not putting in a basement for that reason. <br />Chair Brauneis recognized Andy Johnson, 922A Main Street, who shared that this topic <br />had been done many different ways over the past 20 years based on the different <br />interpretations of the height restrictions, particularly in Old Town. Johnson shared that it <br />had been tricky to figure out how to do the heights on hilly development areas in <br />Louisville based on the current regulations, as well. He complemented staff for taking <br />this on, simplifying it, and making it easy. Johnson explained that floodplain <br />developments were FEMA-regulated projects with national standards, especially for lot - <br />by -lot developments, and that larger developments would have an overlot and a grading <br />plan to deal with those issues. He stated that the geotechnical engineers for new <br />homes, major additions, and new developments, set the standards for what drainage <br />looks like beyond the generic standards set in building code. Drainage then became <br />part of the design criteria and should not be accommodated in a height code, because <br />the simpler the better. <br />Hoefner asked about the purpose of Section 17.16.90B. <br />Zuccaro replied that it was trying to anticipate a situation without a base grade <br />document in which someone had dumped some dirt on the property, to avoid having the <br />stored dirt included as part of the natural grade. <br />Hoefner commented that the change to the definition of natural grade was a little <br />ambiguous. It could be read to refer only to green fields and he wondered if the <br />following language would help — "the elevation of a lot undisturbed by development, or if <br />the property has previously been developed, redevelopment" — to make clear that <br />natural grade did not mean going to go back to the very origin of time. <br />Zuccarro agreed and said that Commissioner Hoefner's language matched staff's intent. <br />Moline asked about fill and grading regulations. He had concerns about asking staff to <br />determine the natural grade legally. He was supportive of the idea but he asked if it put <br />a little bit of pressure on staff to determine the grade before fill arrived. <br />Zuccaro replied that there was probably no perfect way to solve that issue, but there <br />were appeal processes for disagreements. He stated that he had worked under a <br />similar Code to this and if there was a real disagreement on a natural grade a soil <br />
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