A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 2000 West Virginia Avenue in Athmar Park. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from E-SU-Dx to E-SU-D1x (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 2000 West Virginia Avenue in Council District 7. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 3-30-21.
I move that. Council Bill 20 10308. Be. Placed upon final consideration and do. Pass. Thank you. It has been moved and we have the second the required public hearing for council bill 308 is open. May we have the staff report? Afternoon. Afternoon. Can you hear me? Hi, Fran. Hi. Okay. All right. There you go. Good afternoon. Members of city council. Madam President, my name is Fran Beneficial, and I'm an associate city planner with planning services. And today I am going to send you an overview of the MAP Amendment for 2000 West Virginia Avenue. Subject property is located in Council District seven with Councilman John Clark. In the upmarket park neighborhood. The property owner is proposing to rezone to a district that allows for accessory dwelling units. If approved, all forms and standards would remain the same. The property is currently in the urban single unit zoned district, which allows for a minimum zone, lot size 6000 square feet. And as you can see on the map, the property is surrounded by other properties that I also saw SUV X to the east, south and west and to the north. It's actually up to 50 9r1 where there is a school. The Green Lane use of the site is single unit residential and is surrounded by mostly other single unit residential of course, public, quasi public to the north where the school is located. This slide shows the existing area where the site of the proposed rezoning on the bottom right. And some images that show the character of the neighborhood. Speaking of the process, information on notice of the application was sent on December 21st, 2020. Planning Board recommended approval on March 17 and. Beside the application in the middle of the match. Let me see. The level of the incident manual. Meanwhile, we're hearing you in the main part of the meeting. My apologies. I thought the interpretation was on. They must have gotten turned off during the recess. I'd have to ask the facilitator. Okay, great. Thank you. We'll go ahead and go through that process again. But my apologies. No worries. I'd rather you catch it now. It's not working again, so I will make I try. I added Indira. She came into the meeting. I'll have to make him a host again. Okay. Should I continue or wait or. Let me. Get confirmation here. Just a moment. Okay, Manuel, we have you as the host now. Okay. I'm turning on the interpretation now. Just give me a minute, please. Okay. Okay. I believe we're all set. Go ahead, please, Fran. No worries. So back to the process. The information on notice of the application was sent on December 21st, 2021, and Planning Board recommended approval on March 17. Date We have not received any letters of support or opposition from the public or from any of the emails. Denver zoning code has five preview criteria, which I will go over. The first one is consistency with the plants. There's three plants applicable to his rezoning comprehensive plan 2040 Blueprint. Denver The Park Neighborhood Perimeter Plan was 2000. The rezoning is consistent with several of the tragedies of comprehensive plan 2040. For example, this MAP amendment will promote equity by creating a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood, and it will lead to an environmentally resilient Denver by promoting infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place. Now looking at Denver, the subject property is mapped as part of the urban edge neighborhood context. The future place map designates the subject property as low residential place type. This place type have predominantly single and two unit uses, and accessory dwelling units are appropriate while Virginia and is designated as a local street, which is mostly characterized by residential uses. The street is designated as a residential collector street. The growth area improve in Denver is all other areas of the city. These areas are anticipated to see a 10% employment growth and 20% housing growth by 2040. Blueprint also includes specific policy recommendation housing policy. Ford focuses on diversify diversifying housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. The Akamai Park neighborhood perimeter plan was adopted in 2000 and is applicable to his site property. The plan is silent on residential rezoning specifically. However, the proposed rezoning is consistent with action. Agenda item number five Implementation Strategy Maintain existing residential are one or two zoning in the neighborhood except for sites that run on Federal Boulevard and with on the West Alameda Avenue and which do not extend beyond mid-block into residential zone areas and also to continue to monitor zoning change variance three to all evacuation and conditional use requests to ensure the continued opportunity and character of the neighborhood. In some districts, the properties rezone to allow for the Dutch accessory dwelling unit. The subject site, the residential character of the park will be maintained. SAP also finds that the requested zoning meets the next two criteria. The rezoning will result in uniformity of district regulations that will further the public health, safety and welfare, primarily through the implementation of the Department's. Justified circumstance for this rezoning is a city adopted decline since the approval of the existing ESU DCS on the street, the city has adopted a comprehensive plan 2040 and blueprint. Denver stated throughout this presentation, the proposed rezoning to ESU units meets the intent of these plans. And lastly, they proposed Sony is consistent with their Vonage neighborhood context residential district and the as you do an excellent district. Staff does recommend approval based on finding or review criteria has been met. All right. Well, thank you, Fran. And this evening, counsel has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 21, Dash 0308, and we have two individuals signed up to speak this evening. The first speaker is Jesse Paris. So we'll go ahead and get. Jesse into the queue here. All right. Jesse, please go ahead with your comments on Council Bill 308, please. Yes. It's good in November. The council cannot be hurt. Yes. Yes. Good evening. Members of council. Can I be heard? Yes, go ahead, Jesse. Okay. Okay, great. So that's Tom Harris number presenting for. I'm positive. Mexican-American social change as mayor of Denver in 20. Anything? I'm in favor of this rezoning tonight. Five is why Sean Johnson, a black man, is traveling so much issue, getting an. 82. Pass for his disabled aging mother who wants to age in place. My question is, what is the. Racial. Demographics of your comment and the question. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Jesse. Our next speaker is Tess Dougherty. Hi. This is test. And I. I echo Jess's question about what the. It seems like there's a need for us to include the racial demographic on these on these presentations from the, from the planning board. And I'm just to make sure that we're remaining equitable, since it seems like the head of the planning department. Doesn't. See a concern or or want to, you know, address the gross negligence and and the discrimination that's happening based on Shawn Johnson's application. So maybe. Yeah, I would like to know the same as Jesse and to see if maybe we could start including some demographic information on these reports. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Tess. That concludes the speakers this evening. Questions from members of Council on Council Bill 308. So give it a moment here. All right. I'm seeing no questions. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 308 Council member Clark. Thank you, Madam President. And thank you to Ryan and staff for putting all the work into this. I think this clearly meets the criteria and I'll be supporting it tonight. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Councilmember Clark, I share that same opinion that it meets all of the criteria that it needed to meet and we'll be supporting it as well. Madam Secretary, roll call, please. On Council Bill 308. Clark. Right. Flynn. I. Herndon. I. Hi. I. Cashman. I can. I. Sandoval. I. Sawyer. I. Torres, I. Black I. CdeBaca. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results.