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-_.. The City of Boulder is interested in providing an alternate site. Louisville City Council authorized Mayor Fauson to contact the Forest Service to see if Louisville would be considered as a possible site. The Forest Service must have a site secured before the end of December to use funds for design and construction. The Forest Service does have money to build, but does not have any money to purchase land. Although, the Forest Service has money to build, land needs to be acquired for them. To be economically feasible, the site needs to be public land which could then be replaced by way of an agreement with Boulder. The Forest Service does have vehicles they would bring with them and have approximately twenty employees. The Forest Service would have a wood working shop that makes the signs for the Mountain Services. The vehicles would not be serviced at this location, they would be serviced by local area dealers, the same with gasoline. Only materials stored on site would be paints used in sign making. John Franklin, III, Director of Community Development, explained to Council some of the issues that were being looked at regarding land. Franklin: There were several objectives and criteria that governed the search for potential sites during discussion. The key concern to the Forest Service, who was interested in the area, was visibility from US 36. Another key criteria was sufficient acreage. Through the effort of the City of Boulder, cooperation of Stan Zimmler, Director of Environmental Service, and others, we determined that the Forest Service Facility would readily fit on a 4 acre site of vanous shapes and sizes. The primary consideration to the City of Louisville and City of Boulder would be cost; cost of the site; cost of providing the site. One of our goals was to look at sites that could be readily converted from unused or presently unused dedicated land or acquired through potentially new land dedication with the idea of receiving compensation once the site was delivered. With that in mind we narrowed the list of sites down to seven (attachment A). The sites generally are oriented along US 36. (Franklin did a video presentation of the proposed seven sites). The seven sites that were looked at were; A.) 6 acres of City open space north of Biella property; B.) 23 acres Richard Biella property; C.) portion of Homart's Centennial Valley, Parcel L; D.) 1 acre triangle-shaped open space parcel adjoining McCaslin; E.) 9.7 acres owned by Robert Brisnehan; F.) 10 acres owned by Chuck Bellock; G.) 8 acres owned by Thomas Stelmach. 3