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Bill Hayes, 839 McKinley, Louisville, Colorado, was concerned about traffic and the traffic circles, the setbacks and amount of open space. He wanted to see big mature trees in the landscaping. Janice Moore, 1425 Centaur Village Court, Lafayette, Colorado, stated that even though she lives in Lafayette, she spends a lot of time on Coal Creek Trail. She wanted the area developed in a way that fit into the landscape. Maryanne Haney, 1117 LaFarge, Louisville, Colorado, encouraged Council to support the recommendations of the Planning Commission, particularly the setback on the ridge line. This project would have a tremendous visual impact on the trail as you would see a 50' building quite easily from the trail. She commended Council and Planning Commission on having done a very commendable job of reversing the trend of irresponsible development in Louisville in the late 70's and early 80's. Mona Newton, 708 Grant, Louisville, Colorado, agreed with Haney. Terry O'Connor, 7312 Windsor Drive, Boulder, Colorado, stated that one of the conditions Planning Commission had was that Cherry Street be completed to 104th and 104th Street be completed to Hwy. 42. They have the funds at the District and have currently directed Kurth & Associates to move forward with the design. That will be built consecutively with the development in the Business Park. He spoke of the issue of the illegal subdivision of a lot back in 1987. He explained that he owns Lot 9 and half of Lot 8 and Knollwood owns the other half of Lot 8. Another designation had since been put on that Lot 8. In 1987, a building permit was issued to him on Lot 9 and their half of Lot 8. Subsequently, a Certificate of Occupancy was issued on that building and many times sequent to that, building permits had been issued for various tenant improvements within the building. Recently, by way of a letter from the Planning staff' to their lender that they were not going to be allowed to do any more sizeable tenant finishes or changes to their building until the matter was resolved regarding this illegal subdivision that was done by the City of Louisville. O'Connor's group was in compliance with all the regulations for planning, zoning, and building at the time they did it and have been since. To try to clear this up, they were amending the PUD to include half of Lot 8. Wood stated that Lot 8 was split in an unauthorized manner and the only legal description they recognize was what was created on the filing in 1979 as Lot 8. That was subsequently was divided by Deed and Quit Claim Deed. Between the adjoining property owners, the north half therefore is owned by Bellock Construction and the south half by O'Connor. He pointed out that O'Connor's building is a non-conforming structure and the lot needs to be split in such a manner that meets the City's statutory requirements. The issue could be resolved by O'Connor providing his consent by signing this subdivision plat. IfBellock did not agree that O'Connor could sign the plat, both of the property owners could come back and replat Lot 8 through a minor replat and merge those their respective properties into their adjoining parcels. O'Connor stated that he was at this meeting to sign the plat.