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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes June 09, 2022 Page 10 of 14 The Delo West PUD mirrors the style, density, and quality of the four existing Delo apartment buildings. In order to ensure seamless connection with existing product, LCP retained the architect of the previous projects, which is OZ Architecture. Demand for the quality apartments in this location is demonstrated by the 98% occupancy of the existing Delo apartments. To meet the mixed -use requirements, a dedicated commercial building was designed vs. live -work units. LCP has the following goals for the Delo West development including: • Deliver high quality apartment units with ample on -site amenities to the Delo Neighborhood. • Design buildings consistent with the existing characteristics of the surrounding area. • Design appropriate scale and density in the heart of Louisville's mixed -use district. • Provide meaningful and usable commercial space oriented towards neighborhood uses. There would be three buildings: Three, three-story apartment buildings with 33 units in each, and a separate 1,500 sq ft commercial building. There will be 66 market rate and affordable apartments. The developer will enter into an agreement to provide eight affordable units (12% of units). The 1,500 sq ft commercial building is intended to provide neighborhood -friendly services such as a coffee shop, bakery, cafe, or office space. 105 parking spaces would be provided (82 off street and 22 on street). There will be usable open space, which is incorporated into the PUD, including a pickleball court, grilling station, and pocket park. Murphy ends the presentation discussing the dwelling unit density waiver, which requests residential density of 29.5 DU/AC (66 units). The zoning allows up to 20 DU/AC (45 units). Commissioner Questions of Applicant: Diehl asks if they have a chart or spreadsheet of bedroom counts. Murphy says they do not have that readily available but can get that information to city staff. Diehl asks if they can speak on what type of units they would be, such as a studio or one bedroom and what the market value would be on them. Murphy says it is hard to comment on the market rates without the data. He mentions that there will be some units that are as small as 500 sq ft, which will most likely be a studio unit. They will have two bedroom units but he believes the amount of them will be much lower than the standard mixed units. Diehl mentions in terms of the amenities, the middle amenity between the two buildings seems small. Murphy says there are other requirements we are required meet such as frontage. Given that the site width is much smaller than the length width, we have certain maximum building footprints that we have to abide by. Osterman says in your analysis, the previous live -work units were not viable. Can you speak more on why they were not viable and why yours may be more viable? Murphy says is the zone requires the development to have commercial space. The previous applicant for their PUD designed it with live -work units. We do not believe the 12