Sustainability Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2018 09 19

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Cityot Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 Louisville Sustainability Advisory Board Meeting Minutes: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 City Hall, 749 Main Street, Maple Room Chair: Laura Lvesque-Catalona Secretary: Seth Adams I. Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 6:32 pm. a. Roll Call: (Members present in bold): Seth Adams, Heather Braithwaite, Dan Delahunty, Allison Johanson, Laura Lvesque-Catalona. Marianne Martin, Mark Persichetti; City -Staff Liaison Kurt Kower , City Council Liaison Susan Loo, City Sustainability Coordinator Katie Baum, Visitors: Historic Preservation Commission Debby Fahey b. Approval of June 20, 2018 Meeting Minutes: Approved minutes with no changes. c. Approval of July 18, 2018 Meeting Minutes: Approved minutes with no changes. d. Public Comments on Items Not on the Agenda: None Mark: Al Organics update. Proposal form plasma development at Weld county property. Extraction of materials and sell back to users. Seems like a good project. The dispute is ongoing with the neighbor. April hearing on the dispute of leakage from Al onto neighbor's property. Odors and ground water contamination. Not verified by state officials. Postponed until November. Fence was proposed by Al organics. Owner seems open to the idea. Minutes have been slow to come to light. State inspections have been successful. II. Dan : Green roofing guides available from planning department III. Sue : Planning has hired 5 new employees to process over 2,000 permits. There is a current backlog on permits e. Sue's Minute: I. Mayor appointed himself to the climate action committee, the crowd roared in response. II. Renewable connect in this last round help with changing the building to 100°/0 renewable III. Council is reviewing Marijuana rules and regulations. Two readings. County has a marijuana energy offset penalty of $.02 KW per hour penalty. Sue thinks it is a 50/50 council vote on allowing grow operations. The council is looking at all the regulations currently on the books for marijuana. Coming up in October. IV. Gentleman is looking at a local grow operation on conventional vegetables. V. Sam's club location is still for sale. The location is a complicated code zone. The city is doing a marketing study on what would be feasible in that location. VI. Second reading of building codes. IECC going for 2018 instead of 2013. This would be leapfrogging 2013 which may cause more issues. We would be the first Public Works Department 303.335.4608 (phone) City of Louisville 749 Main Street 303.335.4550 (fax) Louisville CO 80027 www.louisvilleco.gov