A bill for an ordinance designating the River Drive Historic District as a district for preservation. Approves the designation of River Drive as a Landmark Historic District for preservation, including 20 adjacent lots fronting River Drive, bounded by Clay Street to the west, 23rd Avenue to the north, North Bryant Street to the East and West Front View Crescent Drive to the south in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-4-19.
12 hours. Council Bill 406 has passed. Councilman Espinosa, will you please for council 547 on the. I move the council bill 0547 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 547 is open. May we have the staff report? Good evening. My name is Jenny Battenberg and I am going to present the River Drive Historic District Landmark Designation Application Number 2019 l0 zero two. So just to get us started off the ability for the city and county of Denver to designate Denver landmarks and districts came through the 1967 Landmark Preservation Ordinance. So over 40 years now, we have been able to enable this program, the purpose of which is to designate, preserve and protect, to foster civic pride, stabilize and improve esthetic and economic vitality, and promote good urban design. So basically to prioritize historic preservation for the city and county. The map that you see on the screen indicates all of the designated individual structures and districts that we currently have within the city and county. The colored areas represent the historic districts of which we have 54. And the individual red dots indicate the individual landmarks of which we have 344. This equals about 6800 properties of a total of 161,000 in the city and county, and that's about 4% of the city or one and 25 structures that are designated landmarks. The designation program is very much created to be a community driven process. Eligible applicants are owner or owners of the property, manager of Community Planning and Development, a member or members of City Council or three people who are residents, property owners, or have a place of business in Denver. In the case of River Drive, Councilman Espinosa submitted the designation application. Property owners reached out to Councilman Espinosa in 2017, expressing interest in the designation. I do want to note that this designation is actually a long time coming. There are two neighborhood plans that have recommended it for historic district designation once in 1976 and again in 2005. We have 19 properties within this proposed district, 16 of which are contributing. Three are non contributing because one has had too many incompatible alterations, so it no longer meets the criteria for designation. And then two are empty lots that you see on the north side of this map here. It includes multiple dresses on West River Drive. This is the Jefferson Park Neighborhood Council District number one. Again, Councilman Rafael Espinosa in Blueprint, Denver. This is a low neighborhood or excuse me, urban neighborhood context and low residential area future place. The current zoning is YouTube in you oh three. In order for a property or properties to be designated as a landmark, they have to meet a set of criteria. They have to meet designation criterion in at least two of the categories of history, architecture and geography. They have to maintain their historic and physical integrity, and they have to be considered by the Landmark Preservation Commission for its relation to a historic context or theme for River Drive Historic District. It actually exceeds meeting that criteria by meeting one in each of the categories and meets history A, Architecture A and geography B for history A It has direct association with the historical development of the city, state or nation. This is one of the oldest established residential areas of Denver. It is the 1881 riverfront addition to the town of Highland. So you can see an advertisement for this on the left hand of the screen. This was a girl, brothers, real estate investment company developments, and they had invested in a number of other areas in the areas in the area of Denver as well. This was primarily an area which was home to the working class residents representing immigrant the immigrant population at the time. If you look at the map on the right, you'll see the proposed district outlined in blue. In the top right, you'll see the location of the former Zheng Brewery in in the lower right, you'll see the former location of roundhouse a railroad roundhouse. So a number of these working class residents who lived in River Drive supported local early local industries like the zinc brewery and numerous rail companies like the Colorado and Southern Railway in Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. The owners and renters of cycled out over time. And if you guys were able to read the full application, you got some of the more unique stories of some of the residents who resided in River Drive. The district also meets architecture, which is to embody distinguishing characteristics of an architectural style or type. It exemplifies architectural styles and building types representing the Victorian Arts and crafts era and illustrates architectural trends over 38 years in Denver's early history. If you take a look at the screen, you'll see an example of these architectural trends from top to bottom, left to right. Queen Anne Dutch Colonial Revival, four square terraced type, which is pretty unique to Colorado and gable fronts. The similarity among all of these buildings, even though they have different architectural styles, is found in similar materials like brick and stone and design elements like arched window openings, brick bell courses and front porches that create a cohesion among the properties. Each structure remains in good condition, with impressive retention of character defining features. The district also meets Geography B, which is to promote an understanding and appreciation of the urban environments by means of distinctive physical characteristics. A rarity for River Drive. This is the curving layout of the parcels in the street. If you take a look at the map on the screen, you can see that in this area and throughout most of the city and county of Denver, we have a very North-South East-West grid pattern in this area, has a very curvilinear layout. This was due to its proximity to the river. There's also another unique feature, which is the above grade front entrances that were designed to accommodate the street slope and topography down to the river. So we don't see this very often where you have what we might call subterranean entrances to buildings. So this is very unique to this district and to the city as a whole. Additionally, this is a very rare intact portion of that 1881 Riverfront Edition. It represents the most complete portion of the Gurley Brothers original development. The neighborhood has lost a great deal of its physical integrity, historic integrity due to the demolition and construction of residential infill that has happened over the last few years. That stands in sharp contrast to the district's historic character. If you take a look at the photos on the screen, the one on the left is looking East and West River Drive at the Clay Street intersection. And you can see the right photo looking south west at the south side of the West River drive block and how both ends of the block are now kind of bookended by much larger development. I do want to note that this was part of the Jefferson Park survey that was done by Discover Denver. This is the citywide building survey that is being done in partnership with the city and historic Denver. And the information that was gathered in that survey helped to inform this designation application. The 16 contributing structures in the immediate setting of the district also have a high degree of physical and historic integrity related to the district's period of significance from 1885 to 1923. Each building retains its original residential dwelling in the location where it was constructed and continues to serve in a residential capacity. There have been minor alterations, but they have been compatible in size and material to the original. It also relates to a historic context or theme again, the period of significance since 1885 to 1923. This represents the early growth of Denver, the working class of the city, some of whom were immigrants that supported nearby industry and commerce. The images on the screen represent the ordinary family who lived at 2550 West River Drive for over seven decades. John Denver, who's pictured in the lower left there, moved into the house in 1915 and purchased it in 1921. He worked for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in the Colorado and Southern Railway as a brakeman and engineer. Because this is a historic district. The planning board also has the ability to review the designation application. They are specifically directed to consider a proposed designation with respect to its relationship to the Denver Comprehensive Plan. The effect of the designation upon the surrounding neighborhood and such other planning considerations as may be relevant to the proposed designation or amendments. The Planning Board found that the proposed district is consistent with the applicable plans, including the Denver Comprehensive Plan 2040 Blueprint. Denver, the 25 Jefferson Park Neighborhood Plan, the 2013 South Platte Corridor Story or study excuse me. And it will have little impact on the surrounding neighborhood. Just a reminder, YouTube you oh three for zoning. This is a lot of words up on that screen, but these are all the vision elements and strategies that the district meets. It advances several of the comprehensive plan vision elements, goals and strategies. It's most directly consistent with a strong and authentic neighborhoods vision element, which includes the goal to preserve the authenticity of Denver's neighborhoods and celebrate our history, architecture and culture. It also meets goals and strategies within the equitable, affordable and inclusive, economically diverse and vibrant and environmentally resilient vision elements. Given that this application came forth in partnership with the property owners in historic Denver through its action fund, the proposed district also meets implementation strategy to to build diverse partnerships to help promote and implement the plan. According to Blueprint Denver, the proposed district's neighborhood context is again urban, and the future place type is low residential. The proposed designation will help preserve the unique character of the block within the urban neighborhood context and allow for infill that is compatible with the existing neighborhood character per the design guidelines for Denver Landmarks, Structures and Districts. This meets the blueprint strategy that recommends using historic designation to ensure residential neighborhoods retain their unique character as infill development occurs. It also meets the blueprint vision to improve quality design that preserves and creates authentic places. In terms of the 2005 Jefferson Park neighborhood plan. That plan specifically identifies River Drive, as I mentioned earlier, as a sub area with a vision to enhance it as an important and unique part of the residential core of Jefferson Park. It also specifically recommends potential local designation as a historic district. So this designation proposal implements the plan recommendations. And lastly, for applicable plans, it relates to the Water Street Opportunity area that is called out in the South Platte corridor story that study that calls for revitalization of the parking lots on the north side of Water Street as residential and retail infill. When you head west, Water Street turns into 23rd Avenue, which runs a half block north of the proposed district. Water Street was the site of early residential and commercial development, like the Zane Brewery. The plan notes that surrounding neighborhoods and areas like the River Drive Historic District could be well-served by any revitalization of the water street area through potential greater connectivity and economic impacts. So the proposed designation helps retain the residential character of the block and reinforces the potential benefits of safer and better connectivity to the South Platte River and a revitalized water street. The proposed designation will help preserve the character of the district and the Jefferson Park neighborhood. The designation ordinance and the design guidelines that go along with it are only enforceable by the Landmark Preservation Commission within the district boundary. The intent of the designation is to recognize this unique district. The buildings that define it and their contribution to the historic fabric of the Jefferson Park neighborhood and city as a whole. So in terms of recommendations and public comments, both the Landmark Preservation Commission and the Planning Board unanimously recommended approval of the River Drive historic districts. We received no registered neighborhood organization comment. All comments that have been submitted to CPD by individuals by last Thursday had been in support of the designation of those 11 comments. Eight are from property owners within the proposed district and you guys should have had a map within your packet that indicated the location of the online comments that we received. Of those eight property owners, those individuals they own 11 of the 17 properties within the historic district boundary. After that point from Thursday, when we were selecting comments directly sent to CPD yesterday, an email was submitted to City Council from a property owner, which you guys should have received as well in the district in opposition of the designation. We did also receive three comments in support of the designation, which were shared verbally at the Landmark Preservation Commission public hearing. Two of those comments were from property owners within the historic district who also provided online comment. And then there was one from Historic Denver. There was no public comment shared at the planning board meeting. So right now we are at one in opposition and eight property owners in support. So based on ordinance designation criteria and the findings of the Landmark Preservation Commission that the application meets the criteria for designation of a district. Staff recommends approval of the application. Thank you. Thank you very much. We have seven individuals signed up to speak this evening. I'm going to call the first five up if you could come up to the front bench Kim Foster, Ashley Morgans, Ashton Altieri, Joan Bondy and Kristi Mineola. If you could come up to the front, Kim Foster, you are up first. Thank you, counsel. Kim Foster I live at 2606 River Drive and a 1906 house. I've lived there 20 years. I've raised two children. We I am involved in the Japan neighborhood organization have been on the board for years. I'm on the land use committee and we this past year established a neighborhood watch. I would base the neighborhood watch purely on the fact that we are a close knit neighborhood. We all have front porches, we know each other and we have a community. Unlike some of the newer buildings that are kind of separated from the street and from each other, we are a group. One of the things I think that's super important is when people walk down the street, they only comment how much they love it. I hope you do, too. Thanks. Thank you. Next up, Ashley Morgan's. Good evening. My name's Ashley Morgan. I live at 2620 River Drive. It's that beautiful blue house that you saw in the PowerPoint. I have a husband, Ryan Morgan, two young children, a nine month old and a two year old. And I love the street I live on. I really love it. Our neighbors that lived down the street from us, we've known them for a decade. They're the reason we live on that street. They knew our house was going up for sale, told us about it, and we bought it. We've done substantial renovations to our home. We plan to live there forever. I don't ever see myself moving. I know that things change, but I just love every piece of my heart. I love our streets. We had a wedding on our street a month ago. I'm sorry. Could you make sure to speak to the reverend? Thank you. We had a wedding on our street a month ago. It's that beautiful and charming. I love everything about it. I love my neighbors. All of the people that you're going to hear from. I know really well and I respect. I really care about them. When a year ago, neighbors came to me and asked me how I felt about this, my position, and it still remains today as that while my husband and I don't like to have infringements on our ability to do what we want with our property. If our whole neighborhood wants it, we're on board. I believe all of my neighbors here have good intentions and they want to maintain the historic character of the street for good reasons. But there is one person on our street who doesn't want this to happen to his property. He's upset and he's let all of you know that, but he refuses to give public comment about it. I don't know why. I think that's kind of hard for some of us to really understand, because that's his right as a citizen. But there could be a lot of reasons why you wouldn't want to come here and be emotional, which as you can tell from my voice, I'm emotional about this. He's upset because he bought this. It's his house 18 years ago as an investment and he wants to sell it and potentially sell it to a developer. And that's the house that I look at right outside my home. And I love his house. It's beautiful. But I think he should have the right to do it with that property. What he wants. It's his property. He made the investment. And if we decide that people can come together and tell you what you can do with your property and don't consent, I think we really need to think long and hard about what that means and how you would feel if that were your home and someone came and told you what you could or couldn't do with it . I truly believe that all of the people here that want this designation want it for the right reasons. They don't want anyone to feel alienated or hurt or upset. But I do think at the end of the day, everyone here needs to ask themselves whether they think it's okay to do this with the with the procedures that we have right now. I think the process is flawed and that every homeowner who this affects should have to opt in to it or have the ability to opt out. I'm sorry, but your time is up. Thank you. Thank you. Ashton Altieri. Good evening. My name is Ashton Altieri. I live at 2608 River Drive, and for the past year or so, I have been proud to be the chair of the steering committee that has helped put this application before you this evening. I do want to point out, we do have a couple of residents from the proposed historic district who are here this evening who will not be able to speak. So I just wanted to recognize that we do have a few additional people from our street that do support the designation who unfortunately you will not hear from. Our special st is largely all their remains from the 19th century subdivision riverfront. And remarkably, more than 120 years after most of our homes were built, our street remains largely intact and serves as a vestige to the past and a vast sea of change. Speaking personally, my home was built in 1888. It turns 131 years old this year. But its age alone is not why my wife and I support the designation. It's more about all 17 homes together in our proposed district, exemplifying the best of the past in our area of the city. I want to share with you how we got to this point tonight. As city staff noted in the presentation, the conversation about preservation on River Drive goes back decades. The most recent concerted effort, however, started about two and a half years ago in January 2017. That's when a group of homeowners, myself included, started to learn more about the process for designation and the responsibilities that come with being in an historic district. We organized a committee and from the beginning our goal was to communicate often and offer total transparency about the process. After many informal conversations among neighbors, we hosted a community meeting one year ago in June 2018 that included nearly 100% of the homeowners within the proposed historic district. The meeting was attended by Councilman Espinosa, as well as city staff who made a presentation and answered many, many questions at the meeting. All homeowners were encouraged to contact Councilman Espinosa's office to express support or opposition, and the same message was communicated by email about two months after the meeting. We contacted Councilman Espinosa's office, who informed us that all they had heard at that point was positive feedback, and his office encouraged us to proceed with the application to save money on the application. Many of us on the street volunteered our own time to go and work on the research, which I think illustrates the deep passion many of us have for this designation from. Even before that first meeting, we had one homeowner who has shifted many times between skepticism, opposition and support. Throughout the process, we worked incredibly hard to answer his questions and earn his support, and many times we have encouraged him to express his opinion through the many channels that the city makes available. He chose not to do that, but did write an email that all of you received over the weekend. And while we truly respect his opinion, we strongly disagree with his statements describing a nontransparent process and his inquiries being ignored. I want to sincerely thank all of you for your consideration of this designation, and I'll certainly be available if anyone has any questions. Thank you. Next up, Joan Bondy. Good evening. My name's Joan. Bondy. I've lived on. River Drive for 35 years. My house was built in 1886, and when I moved to River Drive, it was a very depressed. Part of town. Well, the city. Was kind of in an economic slump at that point anyway. But my street was really grim. The next door house was abandoned, gutted and had no glass windows. So obviously, our neighborhood has improved quite a bit since then. Thank goodness. So now we have a lovely neighborhood. Which was. Threatened many times in the. Past by developers. But I'm. Very gratified to see that we have. Everybody. Here in this place. Right now, and I wholeheartedly support the designation. I think it's a wonderful. Gem. Of a neighborhood for Denver and deserves to be rewarded. By a historic. Designation. And I thank everybody who. Participated in the hard work of bringing all of this information together. And putting their heart and soul into it. So thank you very much. Thank you. Next up is Kristi minnillo and then I'll invite Shannon Stage and Jeff Rogers to come if we can make room for them. If you've already spoken up to the front, you'll be next. Go ahead. Good evening, council members. My name is Kristi Minnillo and I live here in Denver as an architectural history consultant. I was hired to. Prepare the application for the River Drive Landmark Historic District. I support the bill designating it the city's 55th such district. The neighborhood offers a glimpse of what life was like in one of the oldest established residential areas of Denver. Those 17 houses that comprise this small district. Were part of the 1881. Riverfront addition to the town of Highlands. As Jenny mentioned. And they remain. As some of the. City's oldest building stock. Although small in number. Several architectural styles and building types are represented here. Including the terrace. Type, which previously mentioned is unique to Colorado. The Queen in Gable Front. Dutch Colonial Revival and the four square. The topography of the street gently slopes from west to east, a feature that builders incorporated into. The design of those houses along the north. Side of the street, with their unique subterranean entrances. Set on a bluff. Overlooking. South Platte River and downtown Denver. The district was originally home to a number of working class residents. Many of whom were employed by some of the city's earliest and most influential industries. Including the Zane Brewery and the various railroads. And those were within walking distance at one point. Or a short streetcar ride away. If you read the application, you will likely agree that its history is quite colorful. The steering committee that was formed by five residents in River Drive was instrumental in assisting with my research. And several residents allowed me to borrow personal belongings that. Were associated. Associated with the district's history so I could develop a better connection and express its history effectively. Along the way, they proved to be willing, motivated. And eager to reach the point where we are today. I'd be happy to answer any. Questions that you may have that landmark staff or historic number may not be able to answer. And I thank you for your time. Thank you very much. Next up, Shannon Stage. Good evening, council members. My name is Shannon Stage and I am the preservation coordinator at Historic Denver. My colleague and the executive director, ENI Levinsky, is also here tonight and we can both answer any questions that you may have. Historic. Denver is a membership based preservation nonprofit here in Denver. We are thrilled to be here tonight to show our support of the proposed River Drive Historic District. The area has been known to be historic for quite some time, as you have heard a bit tonight from Jenni, as well as other speakers with one of the earliest neighborhood area plans in 1976 and then again in 2005 indicating River Drive's significance. Then the Discover Denver City Wide Survey reconfirmed the significance and its eligibility for local historic district status. While there has been many conversations over the years to create a historic district among the neighborhood, a couple of years ago, some of the homeowners of River Drive came to historic Denver to discuss the potential of a historic district and what was needed to begin an exploratory phase and then pending neighborhood support a district application. Eventually, the neighborhood applied to historic Denver's Action Fund to proceed. We provided River Drive homeowners with technical assistance. Guidance through the process, helped as a resource at meetings and connected the owners to many ELO consulting who researched and ultimately completed the application. As she just mentioned, the Committee of River Drive homeowners have really been involved, as you have seen, with the passion. They not only just through consistent neighborhood outreach, but really got involved with researching, providing additional information that they had on their homes to the consultant as well as organizing the project. Throughout, this really has been a community driven effort from the bottom up. River Drive was one of the first residential blocks from the 1880s in this area of the city known as the Riverfront Addition and is now the last remaining intact block in the quickly changing Jefferson Park neighborhood. Many of the early owners and renters of River Drive homes were employed, as Christy mentioned, by the earliest and most influential industries within walking distance, including housing, brewery and the railroads. Because of River Drive's historical association with the growth of Denver, as well as the blocks intact architectural character of the homes many built between 1886 to 1896. It is worthy of being classified as a historic district. Historic. Denver is here to support the proposal, and we strongly urge you to consider this to be Denver's next historic district. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next up, Jeff Rogers. Hi. I'm Jeff Rogers. I'm a homeowner a homeowner on River Drive. And I just want to say, it is a wonderful neighborhood. And I think part of the reason why the the friendships and the families that get together every week, one of the great reasons that that happens is because of the historic nature and the way it creates a sense of community in our neighborhood. And I really want to say how thankful I am for Ashton for running a process to inform all the neighborhood residents in a way in which their voices can be heard. And and I think what I'm most extremely proud of is the overwhelming support that exists from all our neighbors. And it probably doesn't happen often, if at all. But I think tonight all of you would probably cheers with a beer for the folks in our neighborhood that say thank you for helping to support something that we cherish so much. Thank you. That concludes our speakers. Are there any questions from members of council? Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Mr. President. Jenny, could you address just a couple of questions I have on the the compatibility with plan 2040. A number of these seem I have trouble seeing how they apply here. And it's not that you don't have enough. To begin with. It's not like we would eliminate all of them if they didn't apply. But I don't see, for instance, the vision element, environmentally resilient goal. One, mitigate climate impact by significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Strategy B Reduce energy use by buildings and advance green building design, including green and cool roofs. How in the. World does that apply to this? There has been a great deal of research, especially in the last 5 to 8 years, on the environmental benefits of retaining historic buildings. The vast majority of buildings across the country are existing buildings and there is an embedded energy. So you're talking about not demolishing. Right. So by maintaining them and protecting them and not demolishing them, we are. Yes. But that's not the purpose of designation necessarily. No, but it is. Right. But it is a is a benefit of designation, let's say. Okay. I was thinking that maybe there were plans to put green roofs or cool white roofs in these buildings and landmark designation would prohibit that. No, actually, we would allow for that. Now we had in the. Front part. The we are design guidelines for solar panels, especially assets in the rear. But they are a lot of allowable and historic properties. Yes. Okay. And then there were a couple of others. But given that, I can see how you can thread the needle here. Thank you. That's always a problem. Thank you. Councilman Flynn, council mechanic. Thank you so much for the staff as well. Pardon my ignorance, but why did this go through the planning board? Our landmark ordinance doesn't require that. So I'm just. Is there another. Trigger that I missed? I'm sorry. It actually does require it. So the landmark preservation ordinance for historic districts only requires review by planning. Okay. Thank you for refreshing. Thanks. All right. Thank you, Councilwoman Canete. Seeing no other questions, the public hearing for Council Bill 547 is closed. Are there any comments by members of council? Councilwoman Kennedy back in there, is it? No. Councilman Espinosa. So just this is you know, this is in my neighborhood. It's not just in my district. It's in my neighborhood. And it's interesting to see Joan and Kim, longtime residents. Kim is, you know, bonding with Ashley and Jeff and Ashton, you know, and them all recognizing that sense of community and river drive. If you're ever in Jefferson Park and you make the mistake of driving down that crooked street, you know that the one that's off the grid, you you immediately recognize that it's a special place and that that that community sense of community that you guys have now has persisted actually for a long period of time. It's just a natural thing that occurs on River Drive, and it's always just been this sort of eclectic place with eclectic homes. It is a commented at at the landmark meeting how it was sort of the greatest hits of workforce housing for the last 140 years of Denver. And and so, you know, I just appreciate the fact that you guys were finally the group that didn't just talk about our uniqueness and wanting to to memorialize it, but actually then doing it, you know, it's probably no, it's probably somewhat circumstantial because of what's going on around the rest of Jefferson Park that you finally recognize that if we don't do this, things could happen. And so, you know, it is so I just want to applaud you guys for everybody that spoke and everyone that worked to get to this outcome. Hopefully, my colleagues will will support this as I do, because it was codified in the 2000 and certainly 1979 plan or 76, I can't remember 76. And in the 20 in 2005, which both Dave Burton, who was the prior applicant and I, co-chaired the steering committee for that neighborhood plan. So, you know, I just will acknowledge. Mr. TOBIN Yes. Your concerns have been heard. I did speak to him specifically and directly at that community meeting that we had a year, more than a year ago. And I will just say that unfortunately for the in to speak to that situation, that he opined to me at that time that his hope was that one day a developer would buy his land and he would go five or eight stories like River Clay. And I made it very clear to him at that point in time that that was never articulated in any sort of plan. It was never in any sort of entitlement. And just to be clear, six years ago that land was pre zoning. I will not bore anybody with the details of PRV zoning, but Larry's laughing. And I know that Councilwoman Ortega understands the difficulty of redeveloping in pre zoning that has no sub area plan and that will also mean something to the attorneys in the room. And then it was deliberately rezone in the 2010 legislative upset of zoning. I mean rezoning to sue be consistent with our neighborhood plan are adopted you know city council adopted neighborhood plan. And I can also then tell you that in the 2008 rezoning process, we deliberately created the SUV so that we could recognize small parcels like what you have in River Drive because they didn't have a designation that went that small. And so the the redevelopment potential that is there remains and persists, you know, and that is consistent with everything that has been articulated and codified and written, you know, in the last 20, 20 plus years in this neighborhood, if not longer, particularly, again , the the the landmark designation of this potential of this particular neighborhood has been codified or written in adopted plans with the city for almost 40 years. So it's been a long time coming. I'm born you with technical details, and that's not what you need tonight. You just need a vote. I just want to thank you all again for the work that you did, the research that you put together. And I want to mention this two landmark commission specifically noted that this was the they praised the quality of this application. You know, about the. A little of research. And so just kudos again to to the entire neighborhood for pitching in on that and the research that was done. So thank you all. I will be voting in support of this rezoning a long time coming. Thank you. I mean, a landmark designation. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. I just wanted to express my support for the application as well. I've had a long history with this neighborhood. This used to be part of my old council district. I just want to know by a raise of the hand, which one of you lives in less than Lucille Bloom's old house? Oh. Okay. All right. So any of you who were familiar with Jefferson Park, Lucille Bloom was a very active community member after her husband, Les, had passed away. And I'll just leave it at that. She was very lively in her communication with with the neighborhood about preserving her community and to see you all step forward. And, you know, among all of the change that's happening and has already happened in this neighborhood, you know, those of you who had a chance to go to the old La Loma, that site sits vacant. Right now we've rezone that property. Nothing has happened on it is primed to have some some high density development in the neighborhood. Councilman Espinosa worked to try to save a couple of properties on 23rd Avenue. I supported those and we weren't successful in making that happen. But really, to see this come forward from the residents and be supported pretty much across the board by the entire community is is really exciting. One of the pieces of history that I think is important to share is our neighborhood association used to be just Jefferson, Highland, sunny side that represented all three neighborhoods. Frank Quintana, who was a firefighter in northwest Denver, was the the chairman or the president of the neighborhood association. And now, as you know, we have probably more than one association in some of these various neighborhoods with a lot of activity that's happening across north Denver. But to see the work you have put in to bring in this forward, I just commend you in preserving part of the history of our city by stepping forward and saying, pick me. I want I want this for my neighborhood. So thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Councilman Kinnick. Thank you so much, Mr. President. I just wanted to briefly acknowledge the the research that was done and how well they described the way that each of the criteria were met, both in the original application and then in the staff report. So in terms of, you know, a particular geographic feature, this, you know, the flow of the street and the ways that it related to the river, the way that the criteria was met with regard to the different architectural types. So I just wanted to say that I will be supporting this this evening because of the strong application and the way that this fits the criteria and to thank the neighbors for the dialog and the work that they've done to to really work together as a community. And I think for me, I always think of historic designation as the bookend of a responsible plan for growth, which is that if the city will grow, it's important that we have pieces of our history preserved while we then channel growth into, you know, neighboring areas and that the two can complement each other, that they are not incompatible. And so I really appreciate the opportunity to establish another district that definitely meets the criteria. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Kennedy. See no other comments, Madam Secretary, roll call. Espinosa. Black eyes, I. Flynn i. Gilmer i. Herndon, i. Cashman Clinic. Lopez I knew. Ortega, I. Assessment i. Mr. President. I. I'm secretary. Please because voting announced results 12 days. Well, I. As Council Bill 547 has passed. Councilman Espinosa, will you please put Council Bill 401 on the floor.