A bill for an ordinance approving and accepting the park building plan for the Rosedale Maintenance Facility in Rosedale Park pursuant to the provisions of Sections 39-210 and 39-211 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code. Approves the park building plan for the Rosedale Maintenance Facility in Rosedale Park in Council District 6. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-8-21.
I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 11 911 I's Council Bill 20 1-0516 has passed as amended. Thank you, everybody, for joining us for that second public hearing. And now we're on to our third. Councilmember Hines, would you please put Council Bill 649 on the floor for final passage? EU Council President. I move that Council vote 20 10649 be placed upon final consideration and you pass back it. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 649 is open. May we please have the staff report? And I see we have Mike Pritchard here. Go ahead, please. Yes. Thank you very much. Thrilled to be here today. Sorry. This always happens to me. I'll just. Starting to scream screen. That's the problem. No worries. Yes, but my name is Michael Bouchard and I am with Denver Parks and Recreation, Planning, Design and Construction. And we are pleased to bring before you tonight the park building plan approval request for a new office building at the existing maintenance site in Rosedale Park. So just as a quick refresher, we are required for structures over 3000 square feet to bring a formal park building plan request before council, when we are proposing to do a new structure or a renovated structure for that matter. And so this one occurs at an existing maintenance facility that we have located in Rosedale Park, which is in District six of Denver. Actually a lot of luck. And for us as Denver Parks and Recreation, it's really an equity issue, making sure that our staff have adequate resources, adequate facilities, adequate restrooms, ADA accessibility, really wanting to provide to our maintenance staff the same level of resources and facilities that the staff at the Webb have and some of our other office sites around the city. So really an equity issue for us wanting to do right by our field staff so they can continue the great work that they do taking care of our parks. This is the existing maintenance site at Rosedale, located across the street from Rosedale Park proper. And as you can see, it did, but it's a community garden located just to the south of it. And then Rosedale Park proper to the south. And so it sits already in a pocket. It's set back from the street, away from any residential uses. And so our intent here is to enhance this site, provide the office space required, as well as some additional side improvements that you'll see here shortly. So Project Background is a new office building to support Parks Maintenance staff funded in part by 2017, Elevate Denver Bond as well as part of legacy finance. And there's much, much more information that we'd be happy to share. A link to our website. If you want more detail, you can see an elevation here. This is the view from the street. I would add one of the things that this project does is actually, we think helps to clean up visually the views into the maintenance sites. Maintenance sites are not necessarily the prettiest things to look at. There's frequently lots of vehicles, lots of materials, lots of stuff going on. One of the things that this project does is actually situates this new office building along the street frontage establishes that that elevation along the street, and it essentially screens a lot of that back of house use from people who are walking or just driving down Logan Street. The added benefit of this is that it also increases security. We have a lot of issues with security in our maintenance sites, lots of people breaking in because they can see right through the fence and say, hey, I want to go take that truck or that piece of machinery. So by establishing the street presence, we essentially screen a lot of that back of house and reduce the security issues we have and really just create a better scenario both for our elevated and staff and the operations there, but as well as park users and residents driving by. This is a view from inside. So part of the proposal is that we actually create a courtyard inside the facility and create some outdoor spaces for our staff to go out and have lunch. You can see some picnic tables here, some areas where they can just go out and frankly enjoy the parks that they spent so much time maintaining. Michael, I'm going to ask you to pause for a second. I think you're slides are off from what you're telling us. And so we're seeing an exterior view of the maintenance office, not the interior. Is that correct? You let me break. I'll come back to that. Thank you. This is an exterior view, but from the interior of the site. And the point here is just that, you know, yes, we're creating an office facility for our maintenance staff and a functional facility for operations. But we're also creating places for people. You know, these are these are these are human beings and making the place where they can go and eat lunch. So this picnic table here is is that kind of space. I'll talk a little bit more about the site layout in a minute. We have done some community outreach. We presented to the R.A. back in March. We've had extensive discussions with the adjacent community garden and are actually going to do some good neighbor improvements for them. Help keep. Mike. I think we lost your audio. Unless it's my connection. You might need to turn your camera off, Mike, so you get better bandwidth for your audio. I think he's gone. Yeah. All right. We'll go ahead and see if we have another. Parts rep that we can bring up into the presentation here. Hey, Steve, do you want to go ahead and take it over? I'm not as knowledgeable about the project. Mike is on. That Mike back. So, Mike, we're going to ask you to go ahead and not have your camera on so that we can give the full bandwidth to your audio. But you do have to unmute. One of those days. I'm just glad to be back. You can see the site plan here, as I mentioned, and the building sits along the street screens, views from the adjacent park and the roadway. It says water quality because of the new paving. We're actually renovating the existing historic structure back to its original use as vehicle storage and really just making a, you know, frankly, a 21st century maintenance facility for our staff out there. This is the approval timeline. We were at Luti on June 8th. First reading last. I'm sorry, Mary council the 15th first reading last week final reading a public hearing tonight and that closes the formal presentation from us. Happy to take questions. Answer anything that you guys might like to know about our proposal. All right. Great. Thank you so much for the staff report. And we'll go ahead and ask you to take down the screen sharing here. And council has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 649, and we do not have any individuals signed up to speak this evening. And so I would welcome any questions that we might have from members of Council on this one. All right. Not seen any questions by members of council. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 649. Council Member Hines Thank you. Council President We just in the last week had the opportunity to go by the maintenance building. I think I have to use air quotes around it at sinking gardens. And if this maintenance building is anything like that one, we need to we we need to we need to fund more maintenance on our maintenance buildings. That's all I was going to say. Thank you, council president. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Hines, and should have called on you first, Councilmember Cashman, since it's in your council district but didn't see your hand raised. So. Go ahead, sir. Yeah, that's just fine. Thank you. Council president. Yeah. I just want to thank the Parks Department for coming up with a unique design that preserves the views from Harvard Gulch Park to the East. It does a nice job of closing in the yard, as Mike said, but I especially appreciate the roof angles go a long way to preserving the sunlight in the community garden to the south, which is a beloved part of that community, as we all know, or our residents love the community gardens. And this design, I think, respects that historic presence. So I think it's a be a nice addition to Rosedale Park and I certainly look forward to approving this. Very good. Thank you, Councilman Cashman. And I'm not seeing any other hands raised. I'm happy to support this one this evening as well. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 649, please. Cashman by. Can each. I. Sawyer. I. All right. I. Black. I. Peter Barca, I. But. I. When I. Granted. I. Time I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, closed the voting and announced the results. 11 911 I's Council Bill 20 1-0649 has passed our pre adjournment announcement on Monday, July 26. Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 21, Dash 0526 changing the zoning classification for 4012404040 46 and 4058 North Fork Street in Globeville.