City Council Minutes 1982 04 06 (2)

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Page - 2 - of councilor members of the City Engineering Dept. say _ you told me you were going to put only 180 autos, now you have 320 autos. What we are proposing is what is the maximum on both building conditions and parking. Councilman Leary I think I would probably prefer though that you would say that we may have to go to 320, but put 200 in or something like that. We would be aware of that situation. Ken Taniguchi What is a good consideration? It is something that I think we have to think about more, and it is kind of hard in today's market - actually today we know fairly close that 25% of the employees are carpooling. But we don't know whether we can push it to 30% or 35% like we would like to. Right now in a sense this is a guessing game and we are trying to give our best estimates. Councilman Lear~ But with aggresive programs for example I thin Mobile Oil has about a 75% rate and Arco Oil which they do for public relations purposes is running up in the 90% in terms of rider-share efforts. So there is a lot of potential in that area. Ken Taniguchi I agree. Councilman Ferrera On the landscaping, is it going to be just natural area or are you going to plant grass, or sod? Ken Taniguchi We will have some sod areas, shrubbery, and quite a bit of tree planting. What we are going to try to do is impact areas of landscaping to maximize as far as the overall intent of the project. Ken Taniguchi Basically around parking areas to the north, to the southeast coming east from South Boulder Road and around that lower southwest corner, adjacent to Continental View Estates. My understanding is that Continental View Estates was to provide some type of landscape or fencing screen - which they have not yet done, and we are willing to work with them as to provide something that could possibly tie with their open space. In a sense continue with their open space feeling that goes thru the dedicated open space area. Councilwoman Morris I live up on the Mesa, and I tried to get in touch with as many people as I could today to get a general feeling. The general feeling, which I have to really agree with, is that Neodata is the kind of industry, quote - unquote industry, that we want in Louisville. It's excellent as far as tax purposes is concerned, it's clean. The one problem that we have up on the hill is that it is gonna effect - I understand what you are saying as far as traffic is concerned" However, having structured outside right now, the building that is there is what? 16,000 - 17,000