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PRINCIPLE NH-5. There should be a mix of housing types and pricing to meet changing <br />economic, social, and multigenerational needs of those who reside, and would like to reside, <br />in Louisville. <br />Policy NH-5.1: Housing should meet the needs of seniors, empty -nesters, disabled, <br />renters, first time home -buyers and all others by ensuring a variety of housing types, <br />prices, and styles are created and maintained. <br />Policy NH-5.2: The City should continue to work with Boulder County Housing <br />Authority and others to ensure an adequate supply of affordable housing is available <br />in Louisville. <br />Policy NH-5.7: The City should define standards for low-income and affordable <br />housing units, and consider reducing or waiving building permit and impact fees for <br />all qualifying projects. <br />PRINCIPLE NH-6. The City should define City-wide goals for affordable and low-income <br />housing through a public process. <br />Policy NH-6.1: The City should determine to what extent it would like to allow, <br />encourage, or incentivize affordable and low-income housing. <br />Policy NH-6.2: The City should develop specific and achievable actions to meet the <br />defined goals. <br />Commission Finding: The Commission finds that the proposed changes to <br />Chapter 17.76 may be inconsistent with HB-1117 which requires that cities take <br />actions to increase the overall number of housing units within the City or that the <br />City creates and promotes incentives to the construction of affordable housing. <br />Commission Finding: The Commission finds that approving this ordinance <br />without understanding the following issues that will be evaluated during the <br />upcoming housing study and comprehensive plan through extensive public <br />outreach could be detrimental to the city: <br />• Community support for areas within the city that could be rezoned to <br />allow additional housing. Currently, there are few properties within the <br />city that have policy support within the comprehensive plan and small <br />area plans to rezone to allow residential development <br />• Community support for potential incentives that could result in an <br />increase of inclusionary housing within the City <br />• Financial feasibility analysis to understand the impact of requiring 30% <br />inclusionary housing and whether or not this requirement is feasible or <br />would be a detriment to provision of new housing units <br />The Commission finds that additional outreach and evaluation is warranted prior <br />to adoption of the draft ordinance. As the housing study and comprehensive plan <br />2 <br />19 <br />