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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes September 14, 2023 Page 4 of 14 restricted affordable housing, or pay a fee in lieu to subsidize equivalent housing elsewhere. Howe asked if the commercial and retail spaces would be developed concurrently. Zuccaro deferred to the applicant. Krantz asked about traffic patterns and why residential development would not face the same difficulties in traffic access as the current commercial development. Zuccaro said businesses would see limited access as it is only accessible from the western side of the street, so they would be less likely to choose this location. Residential would not have this same constraint as they are not trying to capture highway traffic. Brauneis asked whether the rezoning was in the interests of Main Street, and how this related to the commercial corridor on McCaslin Boulevard. Zuccaro said bringing in more residents would have direct positive effect on Main Street businesses. Businesses on McCaslin Boulevard would be unlikely to be majorly impacted, though new residents would also utilize some of the services available on the McCaslin corridor. Baskett asked about points of access to the property. Zuccaro shared a map and specified that access points would be on Griffith Street and Cannon Street. There would also be a right -in right -out private driveway onto Courtesy Road. Krantz asked whether commercial development could be more feasible if traffic access were changed. She wondered whether the DELO Plaza site would be more viable if it were more accessible like Christopher Plaza is. Zuccaro said that would not be a signalized access point for this development. He noted that the City has been trying to actively encourage commercial development on this site for some time, but had been unsuccessful. He did not believe that changing access conditions would be sufficient to make commercial development viable on the site. Brauneis asked whether the lack of a set -back and step-up for the proposed heights of the rezoned property would negatively affect the neighborhood. Zuccaro said having taller buildings along the busier road would create a buffer for pedestrians and residents, and would make the interior areas more pleasant for residents. Choi asked whether there had been a calculation of the units per acre as part of the zoning adjustment. Zuccaro said that staff completed a density calculation for the whole project, not just the rezoning area. Staff found the proposed development would be within the maximum allowable density. Choi requested the density calculation for the rezoning area from staff. Applicant Presentation Hunter Floyd, non-resident, architect and developer with Liveforward Development, introduced the project. He noted that they were not the original developer of the DELO West project, and they had been crafting the proposal in consultation with the City of Louisville Community Development 749 Main Street Louisville CO 80027 303.335.4592 www.LouisvilleCO.gov