A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 4519 Pearl Street in Globeville. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property from E-SU-B to U-SU-B1 (urban edge, to urban context), located at 4519 Pearl Street in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 1-22-19. 
Everybody could get settled. We're going to get started. We have two public hearings this evening. Speakers should begin their remarks by telling the council their names and cities of residents and if they feel comfortable doing so, their home addresses. If you are here to answer questions only when your name is called, come to the podium. State your name and note that you are available for questions of council. Speakers will have 3 minutes. There is no yielding of time on the presentation monitor. On the wall you will see your time counting down. Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Stretch your comments to council as a whole, and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Councilwoman Gilmore, will you please put Council Bill 55 on the floor? Yes, President Clark, I move. That council bill 19. 0055 be. Placed upon final consideration. And do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. The public hearing for Council Bill 55 is open. May we have the staff report? Okay. Thank you very much. My name is Chandler Van Scott with Community Planning and Development. So this is for an official map amendment application number 2017 i00155 for rezoning 4519 Pearl Street from ESU B to UCB one. So the site is located in Council District nine in the Globeville neighborhood. It's just north of 45th Avenue. The lot size is approximately 600 or 6250 square feet or 0.14 acres. It currently contains a single unit residential use. Again, the proposal is to rezone from SB to USC to be one to allow for the addition of an 82 or accessory dwelling unit. So just a bit about the requested zoned district use stands for urban neighborhood context, such as single unit and B-1 refers to the minimum lot size. So the minimum zone lot area is 4500 square feet. Blocks typically have a pattern of 37 and a half foot wide lots and setbacks and lot coverage standards common eight front and side yard similar to UCB, but allowing a detached accessory dwelling unit building form in the rear yard. So that's what the one is. I'd go over the existing contest context quickly. So the existing zoning on the site is SUV, that's urban edge context. Single Unit B, the surrounding properties to the north and west are also sub to the south. You have IMX too, which is a mixed use zone district. And to the east you mix three with overlays and some industrial zoning further to the east. As I mentioned before, the existing land use on the site is single unit residential to the north and west. The neighborhood is primarily single unit residential as well on a variety of lot sizes, generally ranging from 3 to 6000 square feet to the south and east. You have a mix of commercial uses. Vehicle related uses on 45th and pearl and then some duplexes and multi-unit. Just taking a look at the existing building form and scale. The yellow dotted line is highlighting the subject property. That is the middle picture on the right there, the existing single unit home. And as you can see, just to the north of the site, there are more small scale one, two, one and a half storey single unit homes across the street to the east is a storage facility, which I believe is now actually completed. That's a slightly older picture. And then to the south, you have a liquor store and some other commercial uses. So in terms of process, the Pre-Application review for this application began in October of 2017. The applicant then conducted informal public outreach to Ana's and the council member. The application was submitted on February 8th, 2018. A planning board heard this item on January 9th, 2018 and voted unanimously to recommend approval. I'm sorry that I should say January 9th, 2019, as you mentioned, and literally apologies. They voted unanimously to recommend approval. The Land Use Transportation and Infrastructure Committee heard this item on January 28, 2019 and also voted to pass the item along to council. First reading was in February and we are now at the public hearing. So far there have not been any public comments received during the review. So to jump into the review criteria found in the Denver zoning code, there are five criteria. The first criterion is consistency with adopted plans. In this case, the Comprehensive Plan 2000 Blueprint, Denver, Globeville Neighborhood Plan, and the 38 template stationary height amendments all apply to this property. In terms of comprehensive plan strategies, staffs found there are several with which the proposal is consistent, including environmental sustainability strategy two F land use Strategy three B and Denver Legacy Strategy three A. All of these refer generally to increasing density and encouraging infill in sites where there is already existing infrastructure. In terms of the blueprint Denver 2000 to consistency. So the land use designation in Blueprint Denver is single unit residential that generally anticipates densities fewer than ten units per acre and an employment base significantly smaller than the housing base. And it anticipates single family homes being the predominant residential type. It is located within an area of stability which the goal of which is to maintain character while accommodating some new development and the future street classifications. Pearl is a local street and 45th is a collector street. So the Globeville neighborhood plan goes into a little bit more detail about this area. This highlights the area where the zone is located as residential neighborhood core. The vision for this is to maintain the single family residential character of the neighborhood while improving internal circulation and enhancing 45th Avenue as a neighborhood serving Main Street. The land use designation found in the global neighborhood plan is single family with accessory dwelling units. So this land use designation essentially anticipates the addition of 80 youths to the single family neighborhood to enable aging in place, multi-generational housing and additional income through rentals. Some additional strategies included in the Global Neighborhood Plan that are unique to the residential core strategy. B One mentions allowing accessory dwelling units for those benefits that I just mentioned. Strategy E1 talks about specifically updating the neighborhood context from the existing urban edge context to urban context, which this rezoning is also accomplishing. And then it refers or mentions tailoring minimum zone lot sizes, and specifically calls out maintaining the 4500 square foot zone lot minimum, which the request of zone district also does. In terms of the anticipated height in the global plan, you have two and a half storeys which this requested zone is well within and then the 38th and Blake stationary height amendments also anticipate two stories here. The zoning does allow two and a half storeys, but there is not really a two storey zone district. So we found it to be consistent. So in general, CPD finds a rezoning consistent with the Comprehensive Plan 2000 Blueprint, Denver, the Globeville Neighborhood Plan and 30 and Blake stationary Hyde Amendment in terms of uniformity of district regulations. The proposed rezoning to U.S. would be one would result in the uniform application of zoned district building form, use and design regulations, as there are no waivers or conditions requested and staff finds that the requested rezoning would further the public health, safety and welfare, primarily through the implementation of the city's adopted plans, as well as by adding to the diversity of the housing stock and your transit. So the fourth criterion is justifying circumstances. In this case, there is a city adopted plan that was adopted since the zoning was put in place. That's the Global Neighborhood Plan 2014. And this plan sets out a specific vision for the area that includes changing the neighborhood context from edge to urban and also allowing accessory dwelling units. And there's also significant development in Globeville and nearby Reno. And then finally, the fifth criterion is consistency with neighborhood context, zone, district purpose and intent. So the urban neighborhood context is primarily characterized by single and two unit residential uses. Small scale multi-unit, residential and some commercial areas are typically embedded in residential areas and single in two unit residential units are primarily located along local and residential arterial streets. The requested zone district for the site is consistent with that context as well as the U.S. use on district purpose, which is to allow a single unit district allowing urban houses and detached accessory dwelling units maintains a minimum zone lot area of 4500 square feet, 37 and a half foot wide. Lots and setbacks and coverage standards very similar to U.S. Hub. So in closing, CPD recommends approval of application number 2017 II 00155 based on finding that all the review criteria have been met. Thank you. Thank you very much. We have two individuals signed up to speak this evening. So when I call your name, come on up to the podium and your time will start to elapse. Our first speaker just signed up as a he. Am I right in guessing that that is an Elizabeth? Yes. Okay. And Elizabeth, you're up. Here I am without focus. Let's see what happens. I appreciate any opportunity to address the Council as a whole regarding what's going on in Globeville, because many things will be coming before the council. This is an important property and I fully support the granting of this zoning change because it is owned by a gentleman, Phil Falco, who really cares about the neighborhood, lives there and likes the ideas of accessory dwelling units creating more, more housing. And I would like to just kind of sensitize the council to this corner and why this is so important to be specific. There are single family dwelling homes all along the west side of Pearl from East 46th to East 44th. Even though there are businesses, perhaps the rest of the city will benefit from the restrictions of the self-storage around Tod. There's one right there, smack dab in front, one block to the south, and across the street is the angst banks driven conversation about the tiny home village that is being discussed in Globeville. It's that intersection of great stress and this exemplifies the hope to me. I was involved in the neighborhood planning process back yo many years ago when the conversations had to do with diversifying the income on single family properties, which increases the likelihood people can stay in place along with cottage industries and things like this. This is a gesture of hope. I wish there was a way to accelerate the the the and use more across the city and prioritizing. I hope that we will see more of this. I do want to encourage different language and I talked to the property owner to about in the in the when we say that it's the right no neighborhood is encroaching in the second to last page right now is not a neighborhood it is a very vital art district. The neighborhood historic boundaries remain beneath the art district. I would ask the city council to look at the beautiful neighborhood map that's up at Denver gov talk and memorize those boundaries. I support the right to art district, but we really need to embrace the organism of the neighborhoods block by block by block. I would love that self-storage to be removed at some date so that the views from this new beautiful adu etc. could be home to the reconstructed multi-use Washington Street that is the corner of the historic Main Street. East 45th Avenue is the historic Main Street. So I really want to thank Mr. Falco for hanging in there with these visions. He said that property for a long time and I really think this is a really excellent step. And I bet it's going to be beautiful, too. Thanks. Would you would you mind introducing yourself for the record? I'm sorry. I'm an Elizabeth and right near East 50th Avenue in Washington, in Globeville. Thank you very much. Sorry about that. All right. Next up, Jesse Pearce. Good evening. My name is Jesse Pierce. I'm represented for Denver. Homeless out loud, black star action, movement for Self-defense and Positive Action Commitment for Social Change. And I'm also an at large candidate for May 2019 Denver election. And I'm on the top of the ballot. We are actually in favor of this rezoning for once as a reasoning that I'm in favor of. Wow. Yes. So this neighborhood is under rampant gentrification. So to hear that there's a rezoning that's going to be actual affordable, that is great news. I wish more people were like Mr. Falcon and seen the need for affordable housing in the city because we are in a housing crisis. So. Mr. Falcon, my hat goes off to you as well. Thank you for this. And I hope that members of the council approve this. And just keep in mind that there could also potentially be a tiny home village right across the street. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers. Are there any questions from members of Council on this item? All right. Seeing, no question, the public hearing for Huntsville, 19 0055 is closed. Are there comments by members of council? All right. Seeing no comments, I'll just say thank you to a staffer for putting this word and for the robust staff report. I think it clearly meets the criteria and I'll be voting to support because of that tonight. Madam Secretary, roll call. Black eye. Brooks I. Espinosa. Sorry. Flynn I. Gilmer, I. Herndon, I agree. Cashman I. Can i. Lopez I. Knew. Ortega I. Assessment I. Mr. President. Hi, Madam Secretary. Please close voting. Announce the results. 1212 I Council will 19 US 0055 has passed. Desmond Brooks, will you please put Council Bill 79 on the floor?