A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3600 North Cook Street in Clayton. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-B to U-SU-B1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 3600 North Cook Street in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 10-12-21.
Good evening. I'd like to welcome folks back from recess. Tonight, we have five public hearings for those members of the public who are participating in-person when called upon. Please come to the podium on the presentation monitor. On the wall you will see your time counting down for those who are participating virtually when called upon. Please wait until our meeting hosts promote you to speaker. When you are promoted, your screen will flash and say, Reconnecting to meeting. Please don't leave the meeting. You will be reconnected and you will need to turn on your camera if you have one. And your microphone. You will see your time counting down at the bottom of your screen. Once you have finished speaking, you will change back to participant mode and see the screen flash one more time. All speakers should begin their remarks by telling the council their names and cities of residence and if they feel comfortable doing so, their home address. If you have signed up to answer questions, only state your name and note you are available for questions of counsel. Speakers will have 3 minutes. There is no yielding of time. If translation is needed, you will be given an additional 3 minutes for your comments to be interpreted. We will alternate between in-person and virtual for efficiency by calling in-person participants and then alternating to virtual participants. 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. Direct your comments to council as a whole, and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Councilmember Ortega, will you please put Council Bill 1187 on the floor for final passage? Madam President, Speaker Wasserman, I move that council bill 21 1187 be placed on final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 1187 is open. May we please have the staff report? And I believe we have Fran Benefield and Tracy Huggins joining us virtually. And so we'll get them promoted here and we'll have Fran introduce yourself. Apologies for that. Can you hear me? Yes. Thank you. I'm sorry I'm presenting remotely today, but hopefully it will work just fine. And you see my screen there? Yes. Perfect. Good evening, members of the city council. My name is former NFL associate city planner with CPD. And today we're looking at the rezoning request for 3600 North Cook Street. Subject property is in Council District nine, represented by Council member Candice Jedlicka. Sorry. I'm having trouble. In the Clayton neighborhood. The property is located at the northeast corner of 36 Avenue and Cook Street. The site is 6250 square feet and currently contains a single unit house. The applicant is requesting to rezone from U.S. to U.S. one to allow for an avenue at the rear of the property. All other forms and standards will remain the same. The property is currently in the urban single unit Eastern District, which allows for a minimum slot size of 4500 square feet. As you can see on the map, the property is surrounded by other properties. Also shown us you be to the west, north and east and by some public park on the south. The current land used for the site is single unit residential and in the immediate vicinity. The area's land use are mostly other residential uses, with the park open space used to sell. It's shown on these photos. The character of the neighborhood is mostly residential. Subject property can be seen in the bottom left image of the slide. Throughout the rezoning process, application modifications have been provided according to code requirements. Planning Board recommended approval anonymously on October six and a press and no letters of support or a position have been received from the public for Arnold's. Now moving on to the Denver zoning code criteria, it must be found that the requested MAP amendment is consistent with five criteria. The first criterion is consistency. Read a book. The plans they have to plans are applicable to this reason. The first one is comprehensive plan 2040. The second one is Blueprint Denver. A stated in the staff report. The rezoning is consistent with several goals in the comprehensive plan 2040. 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 live in Denver, the subject property's map is part of the urban neighborhood context. If it replaces mud, designates the subject property as law residential place type displays that have predominantly single and two unit uses and accessory dwelling units are appropriate. Street and 36 are in a designated as local streets, which are mostly characterized by residential uses. The growth area in Denver is all other areas of the city. These areas are anticipated to see 10% employment growth and 20% housing growth by 2040. Finally, we also include specific policy recommendations. Housing policy number four focuses on the first find housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. Stuff also finds the request that Sony meets the next two criteria. The rezoning will result in uniformity of district relations and will further the public health, safety and welfare primarily through its implementation of adopted. Justified circumstance for the rezoning is a city adopted plan. Since the approval of the existing U.S. lease on district, the city has adopted the comprehensive plan blueprint. Denver, a stated throughout this presentation, the proposed rezoning meets the intent of both these plans. Overall, the proposed rezoning is consistent with the urban neighborhood context residential districts and the SUV ones on the. With that stuff. Requirements, approval based and finding all review criteria has been met. All right. Very good. Thank you, Fran. And I'm waiting for my system to catch up. I don't have the number of speakers for this first hearing, but it looks like we have at least one. Is that correct, Madam Secretary, for this first hearing? We have two. Okay. All right, great. Thank you. Just trying to get my system to catch up here. All right. We're going to go ahead and go virtually to our first speaker, Jessie Parris. Do we have Jessie in the queue? Okay. Do we have Jesse ready? All right. Well, we're trying to get Jesse into the queue. We're going to go ahead and we have Matthew Leek. If I mispronounced your name. I'm sorry about that, Matthew. If you want to come to the podium. It's going to be tough. Matthew, I'm speaking. Okay. Go ahead, Matthew. Did the proposed changes, as the staff report outlines, are completely in line with several of the city's goals. It'll be a pretty straightforward win. Glad to see the neighborhood is getting a little more density and it can support. All right. Thank you, Matthew. And we're going to go back to Jesse Perez and hopefully get him into the queue. He locked the doors, watching the whole bookstore. His powers of massive was in the file. I'm like, No, I'm in favor of this rezoning to make it meet the criteria. And I supported it when I ran for city councilor last in 2019 when I got almost 15,000 votes for no money, and I continue to support them in 2021. We need to do all units all over this city, just like we need to work spaces all over the city. So I'm in support of this result. That's my. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Jesse. Questions for members of Council on Council Bill 1187. Not seen any. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 1187. Council members said about the. No comments. All right. Thank you, Madam Secretary. Roll call on Council Bill 1187 CdeBaca. Clerk. All right. So when. I went in. Hines, I question. I. Can each i. Ortega I. Sandoval, I. Sawyer, I. Torres, I. Black Eye. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 13 of 13 Eyes Council Bill 21 Dash 1187 has passed. Thank you, Fran, and the two speakers for that hearing. Councilmember Ortega, would you please put Council Bill 1188 on the floor for final passage?