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1711 15th Street, Suite 200 Boulder, Colorado 80302 Charles Keim & Associates, Inc. Consulting Engineers Civil • Municipal • Site Design Date: January 21, 2004 To: Louisville Housing Authority Scott Simkus, Boulder County Housing Authority Cc: Peter Stewart From: Chuck Keim Subject: Update No. 3 South Boulder Road/Ridgeview Drive In accordance with the requests made at the Louisville Housing Authority Meeting on January 20, 2004, we have continued our evaluation of the site. The Authority requested that seven items be perused and a packet of the best available information delivered to the City Manager's Office by noon on Thursday, January 22, 2004. The seven items are as follows: 1. Prepare a schematic layout of a six -unit project for the site. 2. Evaluate the layout a. Workability and feasibility - b. Test site costs per unit compared to the four -unit project. 3. Prepare a, summary spreadsheet with side by side cost comparisons of the four and six unit projects. 4. Investigate options for cost reduction on the site. 5. Compare the differences in the water and sewer tap fees for the 4 -unit vs. the 6 -unit project. 6. Continue to field locate the utilities 7. Investigate the location and constraints posed by the recent Comcast fiber optic cable TV installation. This Update No. 3 includes the first four items on the above list. Item 6, the utilities were finally located today and painted on the ground. We will locate them tomorrow and have more information available for the Work Session with Council next week. We will continue with the other items and report as soon as information is available. 1. Schematic Layout Peter Stewart sketched several building alternatives for a 6 -unit project on the site. We selected the option that we believe is readily adapted to the site and prepared a sketch plan of the buildings and site improvements. That plan is shown on the attached Exhibit Plan entitled "6 Unit Schematic ". Due to time constraints, our selection was made on the basis of practicality and workability with the existing site design concepts. 2. Evaluation a. The site plan was laid out for practicality and we believe that it could work well. In order to develop the design to the detail as has been done for the 4 -unit project, additional time is required, particularly with the design of the building and the functionality of site. Generally, there are no "deal - killers" that we could discover in the limited time available. The knowledge of the site that we have gained in working with the 4 -unit project tells us that the 6 -unit could work. b. Site Costs The 6 -unit project is different in site development needs due to the size and shape of the structures. Indeed, there will likely be some landscaping walls around the southwesterly most patios. The quantities of earth moving and paving will be somewhat different but until a more developed design is available, new quantities are a guess. Although there would be some cost Phone: (303) 447 -0090 Fax: (303) 447 -9141 ckassoc @gwest.net