Agenda Date: 04/23/2019
Subject:
Title
Joint Study Session with the Planning Commission regarding Envision Littleton
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Presented By:
Gary Mitchell, Kendig Keast Collaborative
Keith Borsheim, HDR Consultants
Kathleen Osher, Envision Littleton Project Manager
REQUESTED COUNCIL ACTION:
Envision Littleton is now in Phase 3 and this Joint Leadership session will be an opportunity to discuss and provide direction on future scenarios for land-use and transportation. The attached handouts and maps will serve as aids to the discussion.
BACKGROUND:
City Council adopted a unifying vision and 5 guiding principles on December 18 in anticipation of the update to the City's Comprehensive Plan and creation of the City's first-ever Transportation Master Plan. Joint Leadership's previous session (March 12) recapped the existing conditions data book and kicked-off Phase 3, the future city scenario planning.
STAFF ANALYSIS:
Both consultant teams are making progress and the project is on schedule.
HDR has built on the vision and guiding principles created by the community and adopted by the City Council in 2018 to develop a draft mission statement for the City's transportation system. Joint Leadership will discuss the mission and goals for the Transportation Master Plan (TMP). Staff finds the drafted mission and goals consistent with the community's unifying vision and guiding principles.
Kendig Keast Collaborative will introduce the concept of borrowed space (handout and map) and how this additional character factor will play a role in developing a map of future community character and land-use. Since our last meeting, KKC has developed the start of our future land-use and character map; about two-thirds of the map has been drafted.
To help in the discussion, KKC has created a map of areas for discussion, and identified a number of policy implications for Council and Planning Commission to consider. These considerations are found on page 8 of the Future Land-Use and Ch...
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