Planning Commission Minutes 2015 09 10

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes September 10, 2015 Page 19 of 21 Selective Action Items • Expand Planned Unit Developments (PUDs) waiver allowances to include preservation (year 1) • Promote Live/Work ordinance (year 1) • Evaluate modifying ordinance to allow for use of Design Guidelines and/or Pattern Books as a preservation tool concurrent with neighborhood plans (year 2-3) • Evaluate creating accessory dwelling unit ordinance as a preservation tool concurrent with the development of neighborhood plans for Old Town and other neighborhoods within the City (year 2-3) • Evaluate modifying ordinance to allow for creation of conservation areas as a preservation tool concurrent with neighborhood plans (year 2-3) • Modify parking requirements for landmark structures as a preservation tool concurrent with neighborhood plans (years 2-3) • Consider changes to setbacks, lot coverage, and floor area ratio (years 3-5) • Engage neighborhoods eligible to become historic districts (years 5+) Upcoming Review Dates • September 15th: Louisville Revitalization Commission • September 23rd: Historic Preservation Commission • October 6th: City Council (adoption) Please send any comments to: Lauren Trice, laurent@louisvilleco.gov Follow @Plan4LsvICO on twitter and instagram Commission Questions of Staff: Tengler asks about specific areas for PC to look at? Russ says the items I just went over. Most particularly, would you consider historic preservation actions as a qualifying waiver or to qualify as an exchange for waivers? Are there more tools in the Municipal Code that we can use to give more economic incentive to preservation, namely yard and bulk parking and accessory dwelling units. Tengler says to follow-up, you mentioned the one about the neighborhood designation as an historic district. I am assuming that has some fairly significant implications in terms of how properties could be developed or properties torn down. Russ says historic districts are very similar to landmarking, instead of a single house, you are landmarking the neighborhood. Are you a contributing structure? I come from a neighborhood that was in an historic district and I was a contributing structure. The way they work, they treat you like landmarks. It is all in design review. There are alteration certificate requirements and they go and evaluate the home as if it was a landmark and if you are a contributing structure. This says "identify the neighborhoods that are eligible to be historic districts" and go with information so residents, if they wish, can volunteer to designate themselves as landmarks. We are not going out and designate the neighborhoods as districts. We are saying they are eligible and let them know about all the incentives that this would bring. We want to increase incentives for districting. Are there public investments and streetscapes or other things that would benefit a district more so than an individual home? This is simply about public engagement. Moline says he thinks it is a great document. He requests that it recognize some of the historic preservation work that the Open Space Programs have done, particularly at Harney Lastoka. It sounds like the City alone has spent around $700,000 from the Historic fund. I would hazard that we have spent almost that much over at Harney Lastoka doing the same kind of historic stabilization of the features that are important to characterize the history of this area such as mining and agriculture heritage. Perhaps the document could allude to that. In that particular case, the Open Space agencies from the three entities have been working on doing it.