A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 4600 South Kipling Street in Marston. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property from OS-B to S-RH-2.5 (open-space to suburban row-house), located at 4600 South Kipling Street in Council District 2. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-18-19.
Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to the Council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Councilwoman, can we please put council will 576 on the floor? Yes, thank you. I move that council bill 576 be adopted on second reading and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. The public hearing for Council Bill 576 is open. May we have the staff report? Let me get this open. Teresa Lucero with community planning and development. I apologize for my voice. I'm getting over a cold. So this is a map amendment for 4600 South Kipling Street. The request is to rezone from open space B, which is private open space to suburban row house. Two and a half storeys. So the location of the property is City Council District two in the Marston neighborhood. The request again is to rezone two suburban context rowhouse two and a half stories. The suburban context is a single unit and multi-unit residential area with commercial strips and centers and office parks. The primary building forms allowed in this zone district are suburban house, duplex and row house with a height 30 to 35 feet. Again, the subject site, the zoning is open space B, which is private open space. To the north is a PD. Some mixed use two story and some row house, two and a half storey and then to the south and east. Chapter 59, r one, which is single family residential. To the west is Jefferson County R-1 A which is also single family residential. The property itself is vacant. There are a few barns and that kind of thing on the property because it was used for agricultural purposes a while. Back to the north is commercial strip mall and a gas station. South, east and west are single family residential. This just gives you an idea of the location of the property with a larger view. So the form and style or scale of the surrounding properties, the property itself is the center top which is vacant, and then three property, three single family homes to the southeast and west are the to right hand pictures in the lower left and then the commercial property upper left. It shows you the scale. So informational notice on this went out in January of 2019. Planning Board held a hearing in May of this year and unanimously recommended approval. Rudy Committee saw this on June 18th and passed it on to full city council. And of course, we're here tonight at a notice that has been properly noticed. So there is one R.A., the Glenbrook Autumn Run and Park West Neighborhood Organization. And then there's ANC. The R.A. has submitted a letter of support for this. And then there are three letters of opposition from individual neighbors, one expressing concern about the loss of open space. Another expressing concern about the drainage from the project. And another expressing concern about traffic to and from the project. So the criteria is consistency with adopted plans, uniformity of district regulations, furthering public health, safety and welfare, justifying circumstances and consistency with neighborhood context and zone district purpose and intent. The two plans that apply are Plan 2040 and Blueprint Denver 2019. Current Plan 2040 speaks to Equitable and Affordable Housing, inclusive housing, strong and authentic neighborhoods and environmentally resilient neighborhoods. And the details are in your staff report. Blueprint Denver talks about this as a suburban. In the suburban context, it's single family and multi-family residential commercial corridors and those commercial centers. The residential intensities are generally there can be some residential intensities, but they're generally separated from each other. And of course, there's not the regular grid street system that we're used to in the inner city, but curvilinear streets and irregular blocks. The future place that blueprint classifies. This is residential, low, medium. This is mid to low scale residential, with multi-unit buildings interspersed in single and two unit residential at a height of no more than three stories. Kipling Street is a residential arterial which basically tries to balance access and mobility and a few future growth strategies. All other areas of the city, which is anticipated to see 20% of the new growth in the city and 10% of new employment. Housing and Inclusive. Denver speaks to creating affordable housing in vulnerable, vulnerable areas and in areas of opportunity and promoting equitable and accessible housing options along the housing continuum. This suburban rowhouse will allow development of a mix of new housing units that is on an opportunity site. So staff believes this is consistent with our adopted plans that by using a standard zone district, we're furthering the uniform application of our zone districts and by allowing development redevelopment that is in character with the neighborhood in scale and intensity, we're furthering the public health, safety and welfare justifying circumstances. This property under Old Blueprint was originally single family residential and only would allow single family. Under the new blueprint, the residential low does open the opportunity for a place type that offers a little more diversity of housing, including multi-unit. So with that change, Steph believes that's a correct justifying circumstances change. Circumstances is justified. And we did. Excuse me. I'm losing my voice. We didn't talk about the neighborhood context, the suburban context. And Steph believes this zone district is consistent with that. And so staff does recommend approval. Thank you very much. We have seven individuals signed up to speak this evening. So if you signed up for this one, feel free to come up to the front row. I'll call you up when I call your name. Come right up to the microphone. You have your 3 minutes. First up is bonny nasal like. Good evening, Bonnie. Angelic with Norse Design 1101 Bannock Street. I'm here representing the applicant and also the potential homebuilder, which is Meritage Homes, who is here in the audience this evening. Thank you, Miss Lucero, for your very thorough staff report and summary. As Ms.. Lucero noted, the proposed MAP amendment to as RH 2.5 enables development that is in character with the surrounding single unit properties. It enables development at the same scale as the surrounding properties, and it encourages development where infrastructure and services are already in place. We have been working with the Glen Brook Park, West Village, West Neighborhood Organization on this MAP Amendment, and we're part of a large neighborhood meeting last fall. As a part of this outreach, we have established a good neighbor agreement with the neighborhood, and I want to read two sentences from that agreement. So it's clear what we're proposing for use limitations. The owner agrees that with respect to any portion of the property located within 100 feet of the eastern and southern boundaries thereof and located adjacent to lots containing existing single family detached residential dwelling, the property may be principally used and developed exclusively for single family detached dwelling units. With respect to all other portions of the property, the property may be principally used and developed exclusively for single family detached dwelling units or two family duplex detached dwelling units. So on page two of your staff report, it notes three different building forms the suburban house, the duplex and the real house as available within the stone's stone district. We would be limiting it just to the suburban house and the duplex. Based on our conversations and in our agreement with the neighborhood association. Unfortunately, the R.A. president was not able to attend this evening, but she did include a letter of support in your staff packet. Thank you all for your time this evening and our team is here if you have any questions. Thank you. Next up, Curtis Williams. I'm part of the team. If you could come, just state your name for the record and state that you're here for to answer questions. That would be great. Hi. Good evening. Curtis Williams, engineer on the project and here to answer any questions if you have any. Thank you very much. Next up, Alyson, all Tara's. Good evening. I'm Allison. Terrorists without and Johnson. Legal counsel to the applicant. I'm just here to answer questions if there are questions. Especially as they pertain to the good neighbor agreement. Thank you. Next up, Glenn and Glenn near. Good evening, Glen. Near with Meritage. Homes. And I'm here to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Alicia Hemet. Hi. I'm Alicia Hammett. Amateurish design, and I'm here to answer any questions. Thank you. Next up, Chairman Sekou. Good evening. Chairman Sekou Blackstar. Some movement for self-defense representing the oppressed, the poor. The homeless, the elderly. The youth disabled. I'm having a conversation earlier today. We talked about how we can do better. And then. We do the same old, same old like. This is my last hit. I'm a crack head, and as soon as God delivered me from this, I'll never do it again. Then come back around. I'm on the set of crack head legislation because I know you can do better than this. Come on, man. Who got occupied this poor people. No. No. So where do we go? Does anybody care? Anybody here in us, we need to know what is it that is going to resonate with you? What is it going to take? Or maybe later. I mean, for you. Come on, go. This is not affordable housing. Before people. And yet you act as if there's no poor people in your district. And we're everywhere. Everywhere, including the help in the mountains and universe of you. Where do we go after we work? Well, we got to go live in Milton. We got to go in Westminster. Oh, we got to go anywhere but the city county of Denver. And yet you talk about this is the place for everybody. Why don't we stop lying? And that's not casting aspersion on nobody. That's not talking about nobody's bad intent. I've been down here for 15 years. I know what your intent is. So you ain't got to protect that because you talk out of both sides of your neck with this book. And those are conjunction that negates everything that follows that. And we're talking about this will be about this and that, rich and poor. But it's just chatter. So here we go, little rascals. Here we go. Adults playing like children because chicks are for kids. How long do you think you can get away with this? I'm sorry, but your time is up. Jesse Paris. I do not want to go home. And not see him. All right. That concludes our speakers. Are there any questions from members of council on this item? Councilman Flynn. And thank you, Mr. President. Bonnie, or the attorney, could you address what form the agreement with the R.A. takes? You said it was a good neighbor agreement. So the actual format, it's called a development agreement. We currently have it signed by the landowner, the prospective developer and the registered neighborhood organization, and it can be recorded assuming the map amendment passes. Okay. It will be recorded. Yes. Okay. Right. As long as you're here. Just a couple of quick questions. One of the concerns that was brought out was the traffic on Kipling. This is a landlocked parcel. And Mr. Van Orden, the owner, has been trying for years to find some kind of a development concept that would work here . Jefferson County came in maybe 20 some years ago and put the median down. Kipling So this would only be a write in and write out or are there other have there been talks with Jefferson County about allowing a left turn in from southbound, as they did with the the development up north by Quincy, that that is in the county and not in Denver. So we've been working with city staff as we've been preparing a site development plan, working with public works and traffic to work through the details of access. And we'll continue to work through those details as we do the site development plan and the transportation engineering plan. I think our civil engineer might be able to give a few more specifics of those conversations. Okay. Thank you. Just quickly, I don't I don't need, you know, chapter and verse, but there was a concern from one of the folks who wrote a letter, one of the three letters of opposition that he had been struck by a truck on trying to cross Kipling Street some years ago. And he's so he's concerned about traffic having to make U-turns at Stanford if they cannot get out to go southbound otherwise. Yeah. I appreciate your concern. We have been working with the city engineers on requesting a left turn lane in the median for access on our south access point. And we were denied through the city engineering. They reviewed it and they came back saying that they feel that the situation of the right in, right out is acceptable. And so they did deny that left turn movement. Okay. We would prefer to have it, but it was denied. Okay. Thank you. Thanks. And one more question. Maybe for Barney or I'm sorry, the engineer there, the bowls lateral irrigation ditch that cuts diagonally through the property. Is there has there been any talk with the ditch company as far as reconfiguring that? And along with that, having a sort of a public access. Access. Easement because the wagon trail park trail dead ends at Tim's property and it would be great for the community to have that daylight and for all the the pedestrian and cyclist to who right now are kind of winding their way around Kipling in order to get through. We have spoken with a Dutch company and we are trying to set up some additional meetings right now to talk about the details of that. We have discussed relocating the easement and or the ditch and have received favorable comments towards that. But we do need to discuss the details of the trail. We believe they will need access for maintenance of that ditch. And so we are pushing to have a trail, but we do need to work with the ditch company and make sure that they agree to that. But we will continue to push for that. Okay. Thank you. The ditch company, as you probably know, has under grounded some of that ditch on the west side or on the east side closer to Wadsworth or to Dudley. And, you know, they they probably will want you to do that, but they do have access along that. Well, make sure to remind them of that. Thank you. That's all, Mr. President. Thank you. Councilman Flynn. Councilwoman Ortega. I just have one question. Councilman Flynn asked a couple of my questions. Can you tell me if there will be new roads put on the site? This is, what, about an eight acre site? So to give access to the new homes that will be put in there, I'm assuming. So, first of all, can you tell us approximately how many homes that can accommodate? And then talk about the the roads that would be put in there. There will be at least a road planned through there. We currently have two access points. And so with only those two access points, we will use those connect to connect a road so that the homes will be accessed off of a local street, not Kipling. The current yield studies that we've done and we have submitted a site development plan for show, it's in the low fifties. I forget the exact number, but between 50 and 55 homes. Okay, great. Thank you. I have no further questions. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. See no other questions. The public hearing for Constable 576 is closed. Are there comments by members of Council Councilman Flynn? Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. I've lived down. This is my neighborhood as well, and I've lived down there for the past 38 years. And Kipling was still a two lane street. And this was an Gordon Tree farm, I believe. And I know that the family has been wanting to have this turned over and developed in some fashion for for many, many years. And there have been many attempts to do that. And and it's good to see a solution come along that introduces a new mix of housing type as well to the neighborhood. There are some duplex and there are some townhouse just to the north of that along Stanford. So being right on Kipling I think is an advantage. I wish we could work out that with the city engineer and with Jefferson County work out the left turn as well, though. But other than that. Mr. President, I'm very happy to support this and ask my colleagues to do likewise. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. Seeing no other comments, Madam Secretary, roll call. Flint are black. I see tobacco. I. Gillmor, i. Herndon Hines. High Cashman. I can teach Ortega. I've seen the vote. I swear, I. Torres. All right, Mr. President. I. I'm secretary. Please. Cause voting in no results. 12 hours. 12 hours counts. Bill 576 has passed. Councilwoman, can we please be accountable? 577 on the floor.