A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 2900 North Eudora Street, 2685 North Dahlia Street and 3025 North Glencoe Street in North Park Hill. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-C to U-SU-C1, located at 2685 North Dahlia Street, and E-SU-DX to E-SU-D1X, located at 2900 North Eudora Street and 3025 North Glencoe Street, in Council District 8. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 3-29-22.
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May we please have the staff report? Good evening. Council members and members of the public. My name is. It's an evaluation. I'm with CPD before you. Today we have three specific properties, one located on in Door Street and the other one in Gallia Street and then Glencoe Street. All three of them are single unit zone districts and they're applying for a single unit zoned district that allows for an accessory dwelling unit. Two of the properties are in the urban edge neighborhood context and one of them is in the urban neighborhood context. All three properties are located in Council District eight in the North Park Hill neighborhood. Um, as you can see, the three specific properties are single unit dwellings. The properties on Endura and Glencoe are 6000, just above 6000 square feet, and the Dahlia property is just over 8000. Close to 9000 square feet. Like I mentioned, each of these properties are single unit zoned districts that are applying for an accessory dwelling unit, which allows for a maximum height of 24 feet. And the minimum lot size for the urban neighborhood context is 5500 square feet, and the minimum lot size for the urban edge context is 6000 square feet, which. Um, now the zoning, like I mentioned, are two specific zoning districts. The first one, Dahlia, is located in the US, you see, which is a urban single unit city with a 5500 square foot minimum. And the other two properties, Endura and Glencoe, are in the east, which is the urban edge single unit D, which is a 6000, and the X would allow for urban and suburban forms. As you can see here, the indoor property is a single unit, land use. It is a one story structure. You can see it on the top left corner and then some of the single families across the street from it. The same thing with daylight. You can see here, it's a single unit, residential land use and the value property you can see on the top left is a one story structure and you can see similarly one story structures across the street as well. Then here is the Glen Cove property, which is like about 1.5 storeys in height. And you do have a mixture more here about between one and two stories. As you can see, some of the single families across the street is one and two stories. And so this went before planning board on March 16th. It was approved unanimously and it is before you. Today we have three comments, three letters of support, two letters of support, and then one letter of opposition. That letter of opposition pointed specifically on the quality of life. They had some concerns around traffic and parking. All three letters are attached to the staff report. And then there are five review criteria that we analyze that we get from the Denver zoning code, and I will jump through some of these. The first one is consistency with adopted plans. There are three plans that fall under this area which are comprehensive plan 2040, Blueprint, Denver, L.A. and Transportation Plan 2019 and the Park Hill Neighborhood Plan of 2000. There are several strategies specified in the staff report which these zone districts are consistent with, but I would just highlight a few of these under the equitable and affordable inclusive go to strategy a create a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood for all individuals and families within the strong Atlantic neighborhood. Go one Strategy B Ensure neighborhoods offer a mix of housing types and services for all diverse populations, and then the environment for resilient goal h strategy a promote infill development where infrastructure and services already in place. When we're looking at a blueprint. DENVER The future neighborhood context for the Dahlia property is urban, which is more of a small multi-unit, residential and low intensity mixed use buildings, which are typically embedded in single unit and two unit residential areas. And then the properties for Endura and Glencoe are urban edge future neighborhood contexts, which are predominantly residential, and it tends to act as a transition between the urban and suburban areas. For the future place type it's all three properties are classified as residential low where it's predominately one two unit uses and accessory dwelling units are appropriate and as well as all three streets are classified as local or on designated streets, which are categorized predominantly by residential uses. And all three properties fall under all area, all other areas of the city for their future growth area, which we anticipate to see 10% of new employment and 20% of new housing, new housing in these areas. As well as blueprint has a policy regarding accessory dwelling is found in the in the land use and built form housing policy number four which talks about diversifying housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. Now when we jump into the Park Hill Neighborhood Plan, their specific sections, they talk about maintaining the existing character and the residential character, Park Hill, as well as compatible mix of housing types and densities, as well as action number three, which talks about create and maintain a mix of housing types that are all that are attractive and affordable. Now the staff report, it specifies how criteria two, three and five are consistent. And now for the fourth criteria justifying circumstances, a city adapted plan is highlighted based on what we discussed earlier in Blueprint Denver that talks about allowing accessory dwelling units in all residential areas. Therefore, CPD recommends approval, basing that based that all the findings of the review criteria have met. Staff is available for questions and the applicant is here as well, available for any questions you might have. Thank you. All right. Thank you for the staff report this evening. We have three individuals signed up to speak. Our first speaker. Are all three are on line test already. Okay. I'm going to talk to our producers. We don't have tests. Dougherty joining us tonight, so we'll go ahead and move on. David Hagan. David Hagan. Not seeing him there either. We're going to go ahead and move on. Our next speaker is Jesse Paris. Yes. Members of council can be heard. Yes, go ahead, please. Yes. I just want to start first off by saying Sam on you, Denver City Council, Oakland and Chambers, all those people. It's been a decade of this urban campus banner needs to be repealed. Somebody needs to take in this before the next election and repeal this urban camping ban in regards to the rezoning as set out to council the back office down there with the people in regards to this rezoning. Excuse me. My name is just with Tom Perez and I'm represented for Blackstar at the Movement for Self Defense, Positive Message Move Sultan's speech as well as the guilty party of Colorado. The East Denver Residence Council Front Frontline Black knows and I'll be the next mayor of Denver in 2023 and I reside in District eight and Councilman Hardy's this district. I'm in favor of this rezoning tonight. I supported 80 youth when I ran for City Council At-Large in 2019. I continue to support its. We're the city, just like we need to state our faces and other forms of attainable housing all over the city. We have a housing crisis, and if you didn't recognize that someday you will never recognize it. This has been a decade of doom and we can do better. It looks like it's going to take a whole new administration in order for us to do better. So I'm in favor of rezoning me of the criteria, which is consistency with adopted plans, a uniformity of district regulations as far as public health, safety and wellness and means justifying circumstances to say one neighborhood context zone, district purpose and intense song about zoning fight will once again slam on council members like days to let the people speak. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers this evening for this hearing. Questions from members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 307. Councilmember Flynn Thank you, Madam President. Edson Could you address something I'm trying to figure out in the application or in the planning board comments, it includes a comment from someone who lives a couple of blocks away who said, What is it? Park Hill is not designed to have commercial businesses in the middle of a residential neighborhood. I would note that that, of course, there are commercial local commercial business strips in Park Hill. But I'm curious. Was there something about this application that prompted that remark? Is there any thing in the application that I didn't see that I missed that opens up commercial business with these ideas? Maybe they're going to use it for short term rental or. Was anything stated along that line. That wasn't specifically stated by the applicant? Okay. And I believe the individual got confused and maybe it was a short term rental. I did reach out to the individual, but they never responded. Okay. Um, so I was just trying to understand more if it was more of a short term rental concern when they were describing that. Thank you. I think then I, I share your your mystification at that remark and why it was made. Thank you. That's all, Madam President. Thank you, Councilmember Flynn. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 307. And I'm not seeing any. And so I'll go ahead and weigh in. The this rezoning meets all of the appropriate criteria, and I'm happy to support it this evening. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 22, Dash 307, please. Black. I see. Tobacco, I. Clark. All right. Flint. All right. Hinds. Cashman. Kenny Ortega. I swear. I. Torres. I. Madam President, I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 1111 I's Council Bill 20 2-307 has passed. Thank you, Edson, for the staff report. Councilmember Kasich, would you please put Council Bill 22, dash three, four, three on the floor for final passage.