Rezones property located at 5050 South Syracuse Street from B-8 with waivers, UO-1, UO-2 to S-MX-12 in Council District 4. (NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLANNING) Rezones property located at 5050 South Syracuse Street from B-8 with waivers, UO-1, UO-2 to S-MX-12 in Council District 4. IF ORDERED PUBLISHED, A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON THIS ITEM.  REFER TO THE "PENDING" SECTION OF THE FUTURE COUNCIL MEETING AGENDAS FOR THE DATE. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 2-17-16.
Madam Secretary, please positively announce the results tonight. Tonight, 1937, as amended, has passed. All right. That's not the tempo for the next two. All right. Next, we have two bills, 69. Councilman Brooks, would you please put accountable 69 on the floor for final passage yet? Yes, Mr. President, I place Council Bill 69 to be placed on the floor for final consideration and do pass. Moved and seconded. Public hearing for Councilor Bill 69 is now open. May we have the staff report? Tourism research with community planning and development. How I ended up in the wrong place. So this is a rezoning located at 5050 South Syracuse Street. The request is to rezone from B eight with waivers and use overlay one and use overlay to two suburban mixed use 12 stories. Eight is the former chapter 59 zone district waivers will get into, and the use overlays are for adult uses and for billboards. So this is located in Council District four in the Hampton South neighborhood, generally north of Bellevue Avenue, south of Union Avenue, east of Interstate 25, and west of Goldsmith Gulch. It is within a half mile of the Belleview Station Transit Station. The property is about an acre or 55,000 square feet. Currently a restaurant use and the waivers are for fabrication and wholesale and warehousing and reducing the four area ratio from 4 to 1 to 2 to 1. Property owner is requesting rezoning to get rid of that far limitation. So again, the request is to rezone from eight, which was a heavy business zoned district and very intense business zoned district with waivers. Use overlay one and use overlay two to suburban context. Mixed use 12 storey height. So the suburban context is characterized mostly by single unit and multi-unit and commercial strips and office parks. Single unit is generally suburban house forms. Multi-unit are primarily located on archer arterials and collectors, and the block pattern can vary from a modified grid to in some of the office parks like in this location , very different block shapes and sizes depending on the street on the street system. So again, the context surrounding context is B eight with waivers u0102 The land use is restaurant. It is a one storey building currently. So the waivers that we're talking about do apply to all of the surrounding properties as well. Waive the right to fabricate anything other than art goods, custom clothing, costumes, custom furniture, jewelry and needlework. Waive the right to sell at wholesale and warehouse, but reserve the right to sell at retail. Waive the right to the amount of gross floor floor area allowed in the Bay Zone District, which was that four times the size of the property or the zone lot, and instead have a two times the area of the zone lot requirement. And then the addition of the you will want and you ought to use overlays, allowing adult uses and billboards. And so all of these waivers are the same for the surrounding properties. Again, it is an existing restaurant adjacent to another restaurant to the south, and then surface parking and office buildings of varying heights. You'll see that in the pictures here. The restaurant itself is in the upper right hand corner. The surface parking lot to the east is the middle of the right. The restaurant across the private drive is lower. Right. A five story office building across Syracuse and the lower left. And then a 12 story office building to the northeast of the property, surrounded also by surface parking. So that there is no registered neighborhood organization in the area other than I.N.S. and the Denver Neighborhood Association. So those are the organizations the applicant reached out to. And all of the written notice and posting has been correctly done for both the planning board hearing, the plan committee hearing, and for this hearing and of course, written notice of the receipt of the application. As soon as the application was thought to be complete on November 5th, we notified council and the registered neighborhood associations and to date we have no public comment on this application. So you know the criteria very well. Let's get into them. The plans that are relevant. Our current plan 2000 and Blueprint Denver Current plan tells us to enhance the existing business centers, particularly the DTC Denver Tech Center, which is our second largest employment center, to preserve and enhance the vitality of our business centers and to encourage quality infill development that's in character with the surrounding area. Blueprint Denver Land use concept for the property is employment, where we typically see office warehouse, some light manufacturing and some high tech uses as described in Blueprint. And there are definitely fewer residences with some commercial and industrial uses and the property is in an area of stability. Future street classification for Syracuse Street is mixed use arterial, where we want to see a high degree of mobility and these types of arterials generally interconnect major urban centers like downtown, major shopping centers, major office centers and Syracuse Circle itself is a private street, so we would consider that a local street. Staff believes that the criteria for consistency with adopted plans is met and that we, by getting out of the customs zone district of waivers, that we are furthering the uniformity of district regulations. And by implementing our plans, we are furthering the public health, safety and welfare. The justifying circumstances has changed conditions. The applicant cites the obsolescence of this, of the waivers on the property changing in the property from the restaurant to the office use and the new zone district, allowing care for the property to redevelop in character with the surrounding area. Staff believes this is the appropriate and justifying circumstance. So as far as consistency with the zone, district purpose and intent, we talked a little bit about the suburban and context, the single unit, multi unit in strip centers and office parks, the multi-unit and commercial uses primarily on arterials and collectors and the varying block shapes and sizes depending on the whether it's a modified grid or not, even a grid street system. And then the mixed use zone district does promote safe, active, diverse uses and is appropriate on major arterials, which is, of course, or South Syracuse. So with that staff recommends approval of this rezoning, believes all the criteria are met. Thank you, Miss Cicero. We have one speaker tonight, Michael Campa. Good evening, Mr. President. Members of the Council. My name is Michael Campa and I'm representative of the applicant. And I am here and thank you. In the interest of time, I will remain available to answer any questions. Thank you. That concludes our speakers. So questions from members of the Council, Councilwoman Ortega. I have one question in all of the drawings that were in the PowerPoint. It shows the boundaries actually encroaching into Syracuse Street. Is that intentional or help me? Yeah, I guess if you could address. When we rezone property, we do rezone the street to the center line of the street. Okay. Okay. I hadn't always noticed that in many of the other applications that have been brought forward. No, that's the way we do it. So that there is no in-between. There's always the zone district right up next to another zone district. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman Ortega. Councilwoman Black. Thank you, Mr. President. I have a couple of questions for Mr. Champa. This building is in the Denver Tech Center, and this council is often asking questions about development plans, and you actually have development plans. So I think it would be interesting to hear from you about the architectural controls that are enforced by the Denver Tech Center and also to talk a little bit about your parking situation. Okay. As you are probably aware, the Denver Tech Center has a very strict set of architectural controls. We've been through two of four meetings with them already. The building will be essentially a glass curtain wall facility. And rather than going to the sea of parking sort of approach that some of the buildings out there have, all the parking will be contained in a structure within the building envelope. So there will be virtually no surface parking on the site. As to the traffic movement, we had a number of discussions with the tech center as to how best to orchestrate the traffic on the site. And the parking in particular is three and a half spaces per thousand, which is one space per 200 and some square feet. Okay. Thank you. And another thing I found interesting about this project is you're fairly close to the Bellevue Light Rail station. And can you tell everyone here about your thoughts on getting people to and from that light rail station? We are the property is about a ten minute walk from the Bellevue Light rail station, which is easily walkable. We also have a bus stop at the property. We are looking at a bike station there and we are also talking with the tech center about the shuttle to transfer some of the building occupants to the light rail station. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Black. Any other questions on 69? CNN public hearing is now closed. Time for comments, Councilwoman Black. Thank you, Mr. President. This is in my district. It's currently a restaurant called Garcia's of Scottsdale, which has been there since I was in high school. So I'm sad to see it go, although I haven't been there since the eighties. Anyway, the Denver Tech Center is an office park. It's a very thoughtful development. The developer and I have met several times. I've been out to see the property and I think it's very thoughtfully done. One thing we didn't bring up is the fact that it's going to be LEED certified as well, which I think is another great aspect of the building. So I think it's very appropriate and I will be supporting it this evening. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Black. Any other comments on 69? Scene on Madam Secretary, Roll Call. Black Eye. Brooks Espinosa. Hi, Flynn. Hi. Gilmore Cashman. Hi. New Ortega says Hi, Mr. President. Hi. Madam Secretary, please quote a very nasty result tonight. Tonight, 69 has been placed on final consideration and does pass. All right. We've got one more. That is Councilor Bill 87. And Councilman Brooks, would you please put 87 on the floor for final passage?