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Planning Department <br />749 Main Street Louisville CO 80027 303.335.4592 www.ci.louisville.co.us <br />Date: September 2, 2009 <br />Memorandum <br />To: Jeff Lipton, Planning Commission Chairperson <br />Susan Loo, Planning Commission Secretary <br />Peter Stewart, Historic Preservation Commission member <br />Steven Williams, Historic Preservation Commission member <br />CC: Paul Wood, Planning Director <br />Malcolm Fleming, City Manager <br />From: Sean McCartney, Principal Planner <br />Subject: Planning Commission Historic Preservation Commission Joint <br />Worksession Downtown Design Handbook and Old Town Overlay <br />District regulations <br />This memo is intended to provide the background information that will be <br />discussed at the Planning Commission Historic Preservation Commission Joint <br />Worksession on Wednesday, September 2, 2009. The items listed were <br />gathered directly from the work plans both boards presented to City Council at <br />their respected work sessions. <br />The following is a brief description of the adopted documents which guide <br />requests for structure remodels or new construction in downtown and adjoining <br />old town residential area: <br />Downtown Framework Plan <br />The Plan is a policy document adopted in 1999 representing the collective input <br />of the City Council, Downtown Steering Committee, property owners, residents, <br />the business community, Planning Commission and Staff. The Plan as well as <br />the Downtown Design Handbook were developed with consulting support from <br />Winter and Company. Over the course of 15 months, several public workshops <br />and public hearings were held to solicit broad community input on the Framework <br />Plan. <br />The Framework Plan has the following components. <br />1. Identifies specific issues for the downtown district and overall project goals. <br />2. Defines the `Vision' for Downtown Louisville. <br />3. Identifies nine essential systems that have important influences on <br />Downtown. Those systems include the following: 1) Streetscaping, 2) <br />G: \Planning Commission \2009 \HPC_PC_worksession agenda \Joint Meeting with HPC \Memo_PC HPC Joint <br />Worksession 090209.doc <br />