Planning Commission Agenda and Packet 2024 05 09

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L Cityof Planning Commission Louisville Staff Report COLORADO • SINCE 1878 May 9, 2024 ITEM: Comprehensive Plan Discussion STAFF: Jeff Hirt, AICP, Planning Manager Rob Zuccaro, AICP, Community Development Director PURPOSE The purpose of this item is to: 1. Provide a Comprehensive Plan ("Plan") update to Planning Commission; 2. Share existing conditions reports that will act as a foundation for development of the Comprehensive Plan; 3. Share preliminary results from the first window of Comprehensive Plan community engagement; and 4. Get Planning Commission feedback on several questions related to development of the Plan's values statements and growth scenarios. The project's consultants (Design Workshop) will facilitate the discussion with Planning Commission on May 9. BACKGROUND The Planning Commission will continue to act as the Plan's advisory group to City Council. The last time the Commission discussed the Plan was on March 14, at which time Commissioners provided initial feedback on Plan focus areas and the 2013 Plan's value statements. Since March 14, the project team has been focused on reaching a wide range of community members during the Plan's first community engagement window. This included an open house on March 21 with over 200 attendees and a Plan survey that was open for one month and received about 2,000 responses. Attachment 2 provides initial results from the Plan's survey. A more detailed engagement report is coming soon with the full results from all of the survey questions and other community engagement. The project webpage also has summaries from discussions with seven City boards and commissions (excluding City Council and Planning Commission) and focus groups during this first engagement window at: https://www.engagelouisvilleco.org/comp-plan. Attachment 1 includes a suite of existing conditions assessments. The purpose of these assessments is generally to develop a foundation of information to build off of for the Plan's next steps. Specifically, the project team will take the information from the community engagement and these assessments and create potential scenarios related to the preferred location of transportation connections, commercial and industrial development, residential development, and areas for preservation. These potential scenarios will be shared with the community as part of the second Plan engagement window. The questions in the Request for Planning Commission Feedback section below II