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DISAPPROVED Q2/19/08 RESOLUTION NO. 2 SERIES 2008 A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT TASK FORCE TO PROVIDE ADVISORY RECOMMENDATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROCESS AS IT PERTAINS TO PROPERTIES WITH HISTORIC VALUE WHEREAS, there are sometimes unavoidable conflicts between our interest in preserving and maintaining valuable historic properties in Louisville, our interest in improving and expanding the usefulness of existing buildings in our City and our interest in developing new facilities to better serve the community; and WHEREAS, the current way we approach these conflicts sometimes aggravates the conflict instead of helping to facilitate productive discussions and reasonable resolutions; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Charter Section 10-2(f), the City Council desires to establish a Historic Preservation and Development Task Force to provide advisory recommendations to minimize and more productively resolve these conflicts. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE, COLORADO: 1. There is hereby created an Historic Preservation and Development Task Force. 2. The goals of this Task Force shall be to: a. Explore what other communities have done to help minimize and resolve the conflicts between the community's interest in preserving and maintaining valuable historic properties, improving and expanding the usefulness of existing buildings, and developing new facilities to better serve the community; b. Evaluate the City of Louisville's current development review process and identify ways to efficiently and effectively minimize these conflicts; and c. Provide advisory recommendations containing specific ways that the City of Louisville can improve its development review process so all parties' interests are better served and conflicts involving historic preservation, renovation and new development are minimized and efficiently and effectively resolved.