City Council Agenda and Packet 1979 03 20

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Memorandum to City Council and Mayor March 16, 1979 Page 2 with the developer concerning the needed transportation improvements. Said , improvements. agreement will be presented Tuesdey night. 3. Owes and alone, the air quality specialists, have submitted a rwtsed and : - expanded air gw1.i gp sutxyr, a copy of which is attached to this Memerandun. Once again they have found air quality deterioration to be within acceptable 1 and further, have determined that the impact an Lousiville and other arms a small di stamen from the shopping center Site will be so-small as to be insigmt u.: t .. firm?. 4. Ilpon review '? the revised cost revenue comparison as presented in the roil cwrp� Y ya leg statement. we found a few arrorsstill existed. This material has bese corrected and is attached. Even with a revised numbers, the comparison clearly illustrates an overall economic benefit to the City of Louisville and all other taxing entities iuldch will derive revenues off of the development. S. As presented in Planning Commission Resolution f5, Series 1979, attached, the Planning Commission has recommended approval of the annexation and rezoning with the conditions being presented herein. 6. 24 people made statements and raised questions at the Public Hearing of February 13, 1979. in-so-far as many of the statements were repetitive, I have grouped the concerns as follows: 1. General Objection - I believe the general objection expressed at the Planning Commission hearing was based on the consideration that Lousiville does not need the shopping center that the shopping center would deteriorate the over- all quality of life now being enjoyed by the residents of Louisville. Obviously this concern cannot be addressed only with facts and figures presented by traffic engineers, air quality specialists, economists, and so forth. Moreover, it ex- tends beyond those considerations and gets into an intitutive question as to what constitutes a high quality of life and what impact will the shopping center have on this quality of life. The various studies done in analysis of the impact of the proposal indicate that technically and quantitively the proposal will not result in any impact so negative as to exceed existing standards concerning those impacts. For example the air pollution generated by the commercial development will not exceed Federal and state standards. The traffic projections for the various streets including Via Apple (which was a particular facility of concern to a few Parkwood residents) are within acceptable limits. In many cases, staff believes that the impact from such items as traffic aan be further mitigated and to this end we anticipate hiring Centennial Engineering by the City to undertake even more detailed studies to determine how traffic can be physically routed outside the residental areas through such methods as channelization of turning movements, traffic signals, timing, and speed limit control. We also are studying the feasibility of immediate extension of Highway 42 to connect to South 96th St. to intersect with extended and improved Delaney Road to route traffic to the south of town. All these factors will serve to assure that the quality of life in exist- ing and new residential development will not be negatively impacted. The location of the shopping center in close proximity to the turnpike will, in the opinion of staff, result in a facility which will not be that noticeable to Louisville residents which choose to avoid the area. We concur that if the facility were planned to be contiguous to existing Louisville development, this would not be the case; however, that is not the plan. The case can be made that the addi- tional population which will reside in the residential portion of the development proposal will impact the City and various ways just due to larger numbers of people utilizing downtown Lousiville, conducting business with City Hall, etc. This condition has been debated numerous times in Louisville over the past several years and in-so-far as the comp plan provides for 13,600 persons to reside in Louisville someday, and that the development well occur at the rate of approximately 200 resi- dentiail units a year, we believe this question Is not appropriatley directed at the proposed annexation, in Louisville residents minds, it should be directed to- ward a comp plan amendment.