Approves the rezoning of 4300 East Warren Avenue and 4275 East Iliff Avenue from PUD 205 to G-MU-3 in Council District 6.  (LAND USE TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE) Approves the rezoning of 4300 East Warren Avenue and 4275 East Iliff Avenue from PUD 205 to G-MU-3 in Council District 6.  A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD AT LEAST FOUR WEEKS AFTER PUBLICATION. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 4-1-14.
That was lovely. Difficult to go back to our other business, but we will go forward. Councilman Lopez, will you please put council bill to 67 on the floor? Thank you, Madam President. I move that council bill to 67 series of 2014 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Council bills to 67 to 45. Approve Zoning Map amendments. The Council is required by law to conduct hearings on zoning map amendments and Council's actions are subject to court review in order to provide a record for court review. Testimony is recorded and any items presented to the Council are marked as exhibits and become a part of the record. With that, we will open the public hearing and ask for the staff report. Miss Lucero. Good evening. Tourism Sarah with Community Planning and Development Council Bill 267 is a proposal to rezone a property located at 4300 East Warren Avenue and 4275 East Iliff Avenue from 5205, which is a Chapter 59 PD to General Urban Context Multi-unit with a three storey height limit. The property is located in Southeast Denver in Council District six in the University Hills statistical neighborhood. The northern portion of the neighborhood, it is east of Colorado Boulevard, west of Interstate 25, south of Evans and the Colorado Station Transit Store, northeast of Denver Academy and adjacent to Denver Christian School and northeast of the University Plaza Shopping Center . The request is for a piece of property about two acres or 100,000 square feet. There is an existing office on the property and an apartment structure. There are two parcels to this property, a northern one and a southern one. The northern one is where the office is, and the southern one is where the apartment structures are. The purpose of this request is that the ownership of the Northern Parcel has changed and the use of that property is proposed to change from office to daycare center. The use of the southern property won't change, but we do need to rezone the property. Although the daycare use isn't allowed. Use in the feud. The parking requirements in the PD are unable to be changed. So we need to reason from this beauty board. The owners are the Denver Metro Association of Realtors and Jobe Construction. And again, this is a rezoning from a Chapter 59 PD to General Urban Multi-unit with a three storey height limit. So the multi-unit zoned district is one of our more urban zone districts with multi-unit structures and the new three, the three story is the lowest height of those residential districts in the general urban context. You were seeing on your screen the surrounding zoning. There is general urban multi-unit three north of the property. Either side of the property is urban edge context mixed use with a three storey height limit and then to the south of the property is single unit with a 6000 square foot property size and this is a picture of the existing land uses. We do have the school next door. We have a green house to the east. That to the west is the school. We've got some single family and multi-unit surrounding the property and generally low density residential and commercial uses. This is just a picture of the surrounding uses. Starting at the top right is the greenhouse to the east of the property. The property itself, which is the office building we're talking about lower right, is the apartment building on the southern parcel of the property and then some single family on the left, lower left that is directly across on the south, the school that is west of the property, and then another single family house north of the property, excuse me. And the process for this application was planning board on March 19th, where the board unanimously recommended approval and then land use committee on April 1st, where this was passed out of committee. This hearing was publicly noticed to all affected registered neighbors organizations, and the property was posted for the required amount of time the R.A. was listed on the screen. Here are were the ones electronically notified? We did receive comments from two of these organizations in support of this application. So the review criteria you're well aware of consistency with adopted plans, uniformity of district regulations, furthering public health, safety and welfare, justifying circumstances and consistency with neighborhood context, and zoned for district purpose and intent. The applicable plans are current plan 2000 and Blueprint Denver. Current Plan 2000 does support this rezoning. It talks about balancing and coordinating our mix of land uses and sustaining a healthy economy encourage or encouraging infill development that's consistent with the surrounding neighborhood and that offers opportunities for increased amenities, promoting mixed use development and enhancing access to quality child care. The Land Use Concept for Blueprint Denver's Urban Residential. It is a higher density and primarily residential concept, but does mention including a number of complementary commercial uses in our urban residential areas. The street classification for Warren Avenue is an undesignated local street and I Live Avenue is a residential collector and the area is an area of change . So we do believe this conforms with our current plan in 2000 and blueprint Denver and that it does has no effect on uniformity of district regulations and that in furthering the public health, safety and welfare, it does do that by implementing our plans. The justifying circumstance is changed conditions. As I mentioned, there's a change in the ownership. There is going to be a change in the land use. And since this is in an area of change, we believe this is an appropriate justifying circumstance. We did talk a little bit about the neighborhood context. There is a are a grid system. There is a standard urban context. One thing I forgot to mention is that Warren Avenue is the southern boundary of the Colorado Station General Development Plan and just north of Warren Avenue, the general development plan for Colorado station does call for urban development up to four stories and residential development. And Warren Avenue is a pedestrian primary pedestrian connection into the neighborhood from in that general development plan. So given that this is an existing commercial building, we are simply changing the use and we're rezoning out of an existing chapter. 59 PD CPD recommends approval. I'm here. Thank you. Thank you. Miss Lucero, we have three speakers. I'll call on Bob Golic. Madam Chair, members of Council. Good evening. My name is Bob GARLICK. My address is 609 South Gaillard Street in Denver. I'm here this evening on behalf of the owners of the subject property in support of Council Bill 267. This is a Chapter 59, APD that goes back almost 30 years. And if you recall this Chapter 59 would have a very site specific district plan, not just showing parking areas, but specific number of parking spaces throughout the site. That's the primary reason we are here. The southern portion, which Teresa referred to as the residential portion, will remain unchanged. And that's a completely separate program that's part of this beauty. It's fenced off. And so parking has two and a half and three story walk up residential facility on it, and that will remain the same. The northern portion has a structure that's about 10,000 square feet, and it's owned by the Denver Board of Realtors. And that site, along with the structure, is being purchased by Primrose Schools. And Primrose is the leading educator of childhood education in the United States, and that's what they're proposing on the site. The problem, the issue we have is we're completely over part for the zoning code. We need about 11 parking spaces. In reality, we're going to put in about 40, but on site we have over 90 for just this area. We want to do an outdoor playground for the kids that are going to be at the Primrose School. So we will absorb some of that parking in the playground. That's the catalyst for this rezoning. We need to change that district plan. The you three is the right zone just because it allows the residential project as well as our daycare. It meets the area of change requirements for this area and it meets the urban designation for the site. We've had a very successful outreach program with the nearby registered neighborhood organizations. There's two letters of support in your packets, one from the Warren University Community Council and the other from the University Hills Register Neighborhood Organization. I'll answer any questions you might have. Thank you. Mr. Garlic. Michelle Alexander. Good evening. Thank you for having me. What a great night to be here. My name is Michelle Alexander and I reside at 1925 South Kearney Way Denver. And I'm actually the future owner of hopefully this Primrose School that's going to be going on this property. So I'm here to answer any questions that you have about the school, about the program, or any way that I can help. Thank you. Thank you very much, Miss Alexander Sekou. Yes. German said group lesser action movement for self-defense. Oh, we actually support the zoning change. And one of the processes that is important to us is that as we move to become a more diverse city, then also we look for more diverse opportunities for people to participate in these type of projects, which means what this project represents for my community and my people and the people that I represent poor, working, poor and homeless people whose jobs, as you break it down and you do the asphalt and you change the parking, all the rest of that, we would like to be considered as part of the working crew so that we can come up with the projects too, because we need to go to work. We need jobs. Unemployment inside our community is running rampant. Rampant. Any other community that's experiencing what we're experiencing will be a national epidemic, and yet we treat it like it's nothing. So we ask for the urgency. And for people who are participating and doing these only changes, they represent more than just the numbers and the figures and this standardized recommendation. For us, it represents a way of living. It's about survival for us. So as you go about hiring the contractors, hiring the workers, think about poor, working poor and homeless people and how we can get in and fit in with that so that we don't have this huge gap between the rich and the poor because only those who have it can give it up and reach out and do the right thing. To make pizza. Mr. So Suku, you have to dress. So my man is over with. I'm through. I got to come. So that's it. So all those developers, all those black folks, men, minority folks, homeless folks, all of that, you need to come down here and meet this lady. So she can see her face, not stay at home and look at the NBA finals and all that mess. You know what I'm saying? Because this is where the real work is done. This is where your life is being decided for years and years and years down the road. So the decisions that we make here today are crucial because they impact the lives of generations, people. And we have to take this serious. I mean, for real, because we got urgent care needing to happen now. Otherwise we have nothing to lose. And only power is what? Die. Go away. Fate. We think better of our animals and dogs and our pets than that. So come on, Joe, for. We can do better than this. So that that racist mess that's going on on the West Side. Your time is up, Mr. Reality. Mr. Sekou, did something take your secret? Okay. Hey, are there any questions from those? Are all the speakers we have? Are there any questions from council? Councilwoman Robb. Thank you, Madam President. I would like the applicant representative to here. I think your microphone is on. Sorry. I would like the applicants representative, Mr. Gorelick, to address the changing circumstances. Could you talk a little bit about that, the requirement in the code and what has changed, please? Sure. There are well, there have been several changes in this area. This, as Teresa mentioned, as part of the Colorado Transit Station plan. And one of the aspects of this change is this has gone to a urban residential site and an area of change in Blueprint Denver. And that's why the Gimme three is the appropriate zone district. It is the urban residential three story zone district. So I think the fact that it's so close to the Colorado station, we anticipate that being a terrific market for the parents who will be dropping the children off here and then using the light rail to get into town into work. So we think that's one of the that's the primary change condition. The primary change is the plan that was in place. Correct? Transit that's in place. Is a change of ownership part of that? Well. It's a change of use because it's going from office to school because it's a PD prompts this rezoning, but the use of the ownership on the southern portion is staying the same. It's the ownership on the northern portion. And these these two projects are just it's like they're joined at the hip because of an old PD. And this is the way to separate this. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. I don't see any other questions. So I'm going to close this public hearing and ask for comments from counsel. And I first call on Councilman Brown. Thank you, Madam President. This project is in my district. This is a lot of work to be able to construct a playground, but that's the project, the process, and we have to follow it. I'm pro playground. Perhaps I spent too much time there as a child and I'm also pro daycare. And so I gladly support this project and I would encourage my colleagues to support it as well. Thank you, Councilman Brown. Councilwoman Robb, this is not the reason for my vote, but I want to thank Primrose Schools for being a sponsor of the Colfax marathon. Thank you, Councilwoman Robb. All right, look, I think we are ready for the vote, madam secretary. Brown High. Fives i. Herndon I can eat lemon. Lopez All right. Monteiro Nevitt I Ortega I rob shepherd i. Brooks Abstain. Madam President. Hi, Madam Secretary. Kosovo announced the results. 12 days, one abstention, 12 as one abstention. The bill does pass now. Councilman Lopez, will you please put council bill 245 on the floor?