A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3625 North Krameria Street in Northeast Park Hill. Approves a map amendment to rezone property E-SU-Dx to E-SU-D1x (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 3625 North Krameria Street in Council District 8. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 4-27-21.
Ten I's Council build 20 1-0448 has passed. Moving on to our second hearing. Councilmember Herndon, would you please put council bill 461 on the floor for final passage? Yes, Madam President, I move that council bill 20 120461 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been very good. Thank you. Councilmember Sawyer, the required public hearing for council Bill 461 is open. May we have the staff report? And I see we got Fran here. Afternoon. Members of City Council. Madam President. Can you see? Me on my screen. Go ahead, Fran. Perfect. My name is Fred Benefit and I'm an associate city planner with CPD. And I'll send you today an overview of the MAP Amendments. Four 3625 North Columbia Street. We should not go into the next leg. The subject property is located in district eight. We have Councilman Christopher Herndon. Herndon. In the northeast. You are killed neighborhood. Some trouble passing this lights. Give me 1/2. The applicant is requesting to rezone the property to allow for an accessory dwelling unit. Well, all other forms and standards would remain the same. The property is currently in the Urban Edge Single Unit District, which allows for a minimum of 6000 square feet. And as you can see on the map, most of the surrounding properties are also an SUV. We can see some I am x three half a block to the north and some you see a block and a half to the south of the subject property. The current land use of the site is single unit residential and it is surrounded by mostly other single unit uses with some two unit uses and some multi-unit uses nearby. And also you can see a school half a block to the southwest. We can also see some industrial uses half a block to the north of the property. This slide shows the existing form and scale of the area with the site of the proposed rezoning on the bottom right and some images to show the residential character of the neighborhood. Now looking at the process, the informational notice of the application was sent on February 22nd, 2021. Planning Board unanimously recommended approval on April 21st. To date, staff has not received any public comment from neighbors or the owners. The Denver zoning code has five review criteria. The first one is consistency with the departments. There's three plans applicable to this rezoning. We have comprehensive plan 2040 Blueprint, Denver and the Parkfield Neighborhood Plan. The rezoning is consistent with several of this prejudicing comprehensive plan 2040 Balgo just over a couple of them. 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 Blueprint Denver the subject property is mapped as part of the urban edge neighborhood context. The future places map designates the subject property as low residential place, though displaced types have predominantly single and two unit uses and accessory dwelling units are appropriate. Street is designated as a local street, which is mostly characterized by residential uses. The growth area in Denver is all other areas of the city. These areas are expected to see 10% employment growth and 20% housing growth by 2040. Therefore, that stuff points out that the request is consistent with the applicable adopted plans. Lupine also includes specific policy recommendations. Housing Policy four focuses on diversifying housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. No. The Park Neighborhood Plan was adopted in 2000 and is applicable to this type property. This plan is silent on residential rezoning specifically. However, the proposed rezoning is consistent with the land use and zoning goal and the land use and zoning action. Recommendation number three stated in page 32 and 33 of the plan. The proposed city you would win would maintain the existing integrity of Northeast Square Hill and increase the mix of housing options in the neighborhood, which is comprised of single unit, two unit and multi-unit dwellings, as is thereby. And they're very consistent with this malaria plan. Stuff also finds that the requested rezoning meets the next two criteria. The rezoning will result in uniformity of district regulations and will further the public health, safety and welfare primarily through its implementation of adopted plans. Justified circumstance for this rezoning is a clear adopted plan. Since the approval of the existing ESU Dixon District, the city has adopted the Comprehensive Plan 2040 and blueprint. Denver stated throughout this presentation. The proposed rezoning to East One X meets the intentions of this plan's. Lastly, the proposed zoning is consistent with the urban edge neighborhood context residential district and the ESU. Do you want to the district? Stuff does recommend approval based on finding all review criteria has been met. All right. Thank you, friends. And this evening, counsel has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 21, Dash 0461. And we have three individuals signed up to speak this evening. And so we'll go ahead and start with our first speaker. And it's Sandra Knight. Hi. Yash Chandra. Thanks. Thanks. Madam President, thank you to the rest of the Council for letting us speak tonight. And thanks for all your hard work in the city. We are asking for our home 365 area street to be resold so that we can build and you for my mom or grandma so that the kids can be closer to her and she can age in place with us. She is 82 this year. And still healthy, but. So that's the perfect time to get her out here. And we sent out 22 letters to the neighborhood. I had them all translated into Spanish, so everybody in the neighborhood could read them. We got three letters of support back and nobody that. Pushed back on the plan at all. It's multi-generational neighborhood and. We got a lot of verbal support for the idea. So I am asking that you approve our rezoning plan. All right. Thank you. Our next speaker is Bruce O'Donnell. Thank you, Madam President. As members of council, this is Bruce O'Donnell at 3:36 a.m. in Denver. And we've been helping Sandra with the rezoning. And I am consistent with staff's recommendation. I ask for number of council vote to approve the rezoning request and I'm available answering questions. The City added Thank you. All right. Thank you, Bruce. And our last speaker for this hearing is Rochelle Safir. Okay. Everybody hear me? Okay? Mm hmm. Actually. Good evening, City Council. Thanks for. Thanks for being with us. My name is Rachel Scofflaw, and I live in the bridge neighborhood in Denver. I work with Russ O'Donnell on helping the client. With the application process for this proposed rezoning. I will try to keep this to the point and not repeat too much information you've already heard. So first, the proposed rezoning was recommended for approval by Planning Board as it meets the rezoning criteria for an amendment. Second, it has been support from citywide planning, such as Compliant 2040 Blueprint Denver 2019, and it's also supported by housing and inclusive Denver of 2015, which is Denver's Guide to excuse me setting housing policy strategy and Investment Priorities. It aligns with land use and zoning goals and recommendations of the Park Hill Neighborhood Plan. And of course, the integration of accessory. Dwelling units will kind of. Add to the much needed housing stock and diversifying the housing stock in addition to the neighbor outreach conducted by the homeowner. We reached out to local partners on January 25th to be contacted. Three are nodes in the area. The greater partner community think Northeast Denver friends and neighbors as well as Northeast Parkville Coalition. We provided them a copy of the application and inform them of the homeowners plans. We invited them to meet with us so they could so we could share more information if needed. None of the answers replied needing any other digital information, nor did they hold an opposition. For these reasons, I ask council members to please vote yes on this bill for the rezoning of 3625 Camaro. Thank you for your time. And. Q That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 461. All right. No questions of counsel. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council bill 461 councilmember Herndon. AMA President. I think this is quite clear the criteria has been met and I just want to applaud the the applicant and her work for reaching out to the neighbors as possible neighbors as possible. So I would urge and encourage my colleagues to support. 461. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilmember Herndon. And seeing that it does meet all of the rezoning criteria, happy to support it as well. And Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 461, please. Herndon. I. Cashman. Hi. Sandoval. I. Sawyer, I. For it. I. Black. I. Clark. I. Flint. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce results. And I can I counsel bill 20 1-0461 has passed. Councilmember Herndon, will you please put council bill 464 on the floor for final passage.