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City of Louisville

USE TAX ON COUNSUMER GOODS MAY GO TO VOTERS IN NOVERMBER
Louisville is the only municipality in Boulder County that does not collect a consumer use tax. The city does have a use tax but it is limited to automobiles and commercial building materials. A use tax is the reciprocal of sales taxes. According to the City’s finance director, Louisville is foregoing between $500,00 and $800,000 of tax revenue each year, based on the average 5 percent use-tax collection rate. Council is scheduled to vote on a resolution containing the proposed ballot language on August 2, 2005.

POPULATION CAP DISCUSSED AT COMP PLAN HEARINGS
Over the objections of some city residents, planning officials are recommending staying away from including build-out population numbers in this year’s major Comprehensive Plan Update. At a July 7 public hearing, Planning Director, Paul Wood, said that establishing overall population numbers would make the land use approval process more difficult by requiring enforcement, making the advisory Comprehensive Plan a regulatory document. At the heart of the controversy is transit-oriented development envisioned along Colo. 42 south of South Boulder Road and at the intersection of Colo. 42 and South Boulder road, and, residential housing near StorageTek and on open space at South Boulder Road and McCaslin Blvd. The Louisville Planning Commission approved the Comp Plan Update on June 14, 2005. The City Council is scheduled to take final action on the Plan in August.