Tuesday the Louisville City Council approved the annexation and rezoning of a 32-acre parcel on the west side of Hwy 42. Called Takoda Village, residential and commercial development is planned, which could lead to enough critical mass of traffic to add a stoplight to that section of 95th Street. Years away, but it will happen. Read about this in the Louisville Times.
The annexation ordinance says: The subject parcel is an enclave parcel located on the west side of State Highway 42 with approximately 377 linear feet of frontage on Highway 42. The subject property is currently zoned Boulder County Rural Residential. Contiguous parcels to the north and south of the subject parcel are within the City of Louisville and are zoned as Planned Community Zoned District (PCZD).
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Is there going to be any separation between Lafayette and Louisville in this area? I keep hearing about new development out there but can't piece together how this will all fit.
Dream- Probably not. I'm not sure where this property is, but I think it's north of S. Boulder, west of 42? There has been nothing but contention between Lafayette and Louisville over this area, which means no one is actually working together for a solution. I'm not sure that there is a solutions, since most, if not all, of the properties along 42 in that area are under some sort of development plan.
Hind-sight is 20/20 and if both cities had to do it over again, I think more attention would be paid to preserving land in this area. Each development will have some open space and parks and buffers, but not sure how that will look in the end.
Maybe Alex could shed light on development plans along this stretch of 42. Is there a "vision" of what this will look like in 5-10 years?
This parcel is not, as Dan notes, on the boundary with Lafayette. I think it is the next parcel to the south, though I'm not completely certain of that.
As to whether there will be separation, the final answer now lies in Louisville's court. Planning for the area is a mess, with several potentially applicable PUD/GDP/ODP and comp plan documents, which, much like North End across the street when it started review, give some general direction for trails along the ditches through the general area, but otherwise give no clear picture of what is going to happen.
The talk of low density residential makes me want to dust off my copies of the old PCZD documents, which maybe don't run as far north as the Lafayette line (e.g., probably not, since the parcel was just annexed), but I'm pretty sure I remember this general area being set up for just about anything but low density residential.
The combination of lack of vision and lack of cooperation between Lafayette and Louisville in making some permanent separation between Lafayette and Louisville, or a collective vision for the area) has resulted in some atrocious planning all along the Lafayette/Louisville line. One of my bigger pet peeves, actually.
To Lafayette's credit, there will be a continuous trail and landscape buffer averaging over 50 feet wide all along the city limits at the SW corner of Baseline and 42 (the "IP 17" parcel). Ideally, that should have linked to a pedestrian underpass at Bullhead Gulch, but the squelch factor trying to push for any vision beyond the four corners of a development parcel in this area of town is unbelievable. Unfortunately, perhaps, finger pointing is useless, because the history of missed opportunities and dealmaking along the Louisville/Lafayette line goes so far back that much of it simply cannot be undone.
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