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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes June 10, 2021 Page 7 of 15 were good with a lower square footage and this proposal didn't need the size of the buildings proposed. She asked what would happen if there were no takers in the buildings and they were left unoccupied. She stated that businesses were needed in the McCaslin area that weren't retail, to support other local businesses. She thought the team was delaying their answers to buy time and manipulating the process and they should be told to wait. Sherry Sommer, 910 Palisade Court, stated that two of the top five acquisitions for OSAB were from Redtail Ridge and that OSAB had been discouraged from speaking up for more land. She stated that Director Mosley had stated that he could have advocated for more open space but it was too expensive. She stated that the Code said it was not the job of OSAB to weigh cost. She added that the finished development would be a small part of the City budget. She also stated that the City should propose updates to technology in the development over the 20-year life of the project, not only the developer. The development should also have a smaller building amount as the planet can't handle all that we're doing to it. Jennifer Singer Rupp, 466 Muirfield Circle, had also thought that public comments were closed on this item. She stated that public notice signage processes were questionable and she had not seen notice signs on the property. She heard the developers talk about commitments but she hadn't see committed commercial partners. She stated the need for corporate campus as anchors to the development because more industrial parks wouldn't do service to this property. She asked the Commission to deny and go back to drawing board and get committed corporate partners. Cyndi Bedell, 662 West Willow Street, had looked into the history of the property and from 2010 had found the previous recommendation that half of the property would be open space. She read that language from 2010 and that it was similar to what was being talked about now. She thought that 2.5 million was sufficient urban sprawl without any tenants lined up. She added that the CTC had 1.6 million, so 2.5 was already generous. At the OSAB meeting, she had the impression that OSAB members were pressured not to recommend this property as the Director had said he was concerned by the cost of maintaining the property. She stated that they had found third -party people who might step up and help pay for this property including conservation groups. Josh Cooperman, 216 Griffith Street, stated that he was not opposed to development at this site, but he was still opposed to the proposed development. He concentrated on one of his issues, which was the revised sustainability plan with contradictory language about LEED commitments and the energy and carbon. The energy section only said that buildings would be required to pursue LEED Silver certification, which Mr. Cooperman said could allow them to get out of any LEED certification. Another member of Tamar Krantz's household, 691 West Street, read a letter from The Daily Camera called "Patience, Louisville, Patience," which summarized previous public hearings on Redtail Ridge and listed the numerous allowed uses and described them as "everything but the kitchen sink." The letter emphasized language such as "may" and "potential" in the plan and suggested that the development should secure an anchor tenant before moving forward on the last large, undeveloped plot in the city.