On the record and the applicable criteria established under the municipal code, which are highlighted in the staff report.

Does any commission member believe that he or she isn't capable of evaluating and voting on the application consistently due process requirements?

If so, please describe the situation and refuse yourself further participation.

Sorry, um.

I think we're not greens, and there is no public hearing.

Um do you want to do that?

Oh, that's a good thing.

Okay, yeah.

I think that's a good idea.

Ah, okay.

So you might want to back on the agenda.

Okay.

I know there was no way to do that.

So yeah, but maybe where's Daily Greens.

Okay.

So I think there's some folks here to talk about an Echo Hotel project.

Um, so that would be the previous um time when that I said if you'd like to come here and talk about something other than Daily Greens, that would be the time to come.

So if you would like to, we'll we'll go back to agenda item number two.

And um sorry, I didn't see that particular subject line.

So um we'll go back to agenda item number two, and um we will call the first person on the list.

That'll be Anna Blythe.

Hello, thank you for going back and apologize.

Yes, understanding the agenda.

Um, a lot of my neighbors are here.

Um, and I live at 914 Hard Eye Trail in Lafayette.

Um, and there is an echo suites proposed across the street from Otis and Aspen Ridge Drive.

Um, you know, just two lanes away from our public school bus stop, and we all have concerns just about the uh fabric of the neighborhood and what that's going to bring to our residential community.

We understand that the the zoning for the area was um put into place long before our community was put in, and we're the first phase of the community, it's gonna continue to expand and be full of um children and families, and um we just feel like it's not the right uh commercial use for this site.

We know that it's going to be commercial, and we know that it'll bring in other people, and we want it to be something that is community focused and brings um positives to our community instead of bringing in uh negatives like heavier traffic late at night, um, people that aren't community-minded that aren't part of the community being so close to the children in our neighborhood in particular.

Um, and then in addition, just for like the planning portion of it and the rules of zoning, they're proposing a um to bring the hotel higher than the height limits allow for that site, and so it's already uncongruent, and they're trying to break the rules of the zoning.

Um, and so we would appreciate your consideration for um not allowing that to move forward.

So thank you.

Next we have next we have Bryce Stout.

I live at 843 for away in the silo, and I also wanted to express um my dislike of the uh Echo Suites project.

I think Lafayette is one of the best cities around here.

Part of the reason for that is the way that um we have like a classic city with a downtown, it's walkable, it's approachable, and I'd like to ask the city to um ask the developers of this project to attempt to make it something that's more in line with that type of a city as opposed to a big box sitting in a sea of asphalt type of development.

Thank you.

Next we have Amanda Ludwig.

Hi there.

Uh I'm Amanda Ludwig, my wife and I live at 873 Larry at Lane.

Um, familiar with many of the folks in this room and have spoken to our city council members as well.

So thanks for the opportunity to share tonight.

Um, we moved here in 2020 intentionally because we were really thrilled by the way that Lafayette was growing.

I'm a Denver native, have lived in Colorado my whole life, um, and would echo similar thoughts.

So I won't drain my speech, but really have serious concerns about this being the commercial proposal for that space.

Um, this is certainly not part of the design.

Um we had in mind, I mean it was a commercial space um when we moved in, but that this was not this was not what we had in mind when we were purchasing the property.

Um so concerns about property value, concerns about safety for the many young families and kids that live in the neighborhood.

Um, and we just ask for your partnership and consideration in in working with the developer to find um an alternative solution to that space.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Jill Summers.

I am Jill Summers and I live at 900 Heart Eye in the Silos community, and unlike Amanda, I am gonna do my speech.

And I do have notes.

So the three major things that we are most concerned about is having this extended say hotel set up in our community in neighborhood that as others have said are near our children and are is not set up for community sustainable type of uh situation.

Three major things I want to share with you.

Crime and police demand.

In Denver, the city shut down the Regis Motel on Colfax after police documented drug dealing, stolen vehicles, illegal firearms, prostitution, and even homicide.

Wheat Ridge officials reported that just nine hotels generated over 3,000 police calls a year.

They were forced to create a special licensing program just to deal with that.