A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 10 S Colorado Boulevard in Hilltop. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property from E-SU-D to E-TU-C (urban edge, single-unit to urban edge, two-unit), located at 10 South Colorado Boulevard in Council District 5. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 3-19-19.
Council is reconvened. We have two required public hearings and one one hour courtesy public hearing this evening. If you could wrap up your conversations so that we can get started. Speakers should begin their remarks by telling the council their names and cities of residence and if they feel comfortable doing so, their home addresses. If you are here to answer questions only when your name is called, please come up to the podium, state your name and note that you are available for questions of council. Speakers will have 3 minutes and there is no yielding of time on the presentation of On the wall. You'll see your time counting down. Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Councilman Cashman, will you please put Council Bill 240 on the floor? Yes, Mr. President. I move the council bill 19 dash 0240 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you, Councilman Cashman. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 240 is open. May we have the staff report? Good evening. Teresa Lucero with community planning and development. This is a rezoning at ten South Colorado Boulevard. The request is to rezone from urban edge single unit to urban edge to unit. So if this is in Council District five in the hilltop neighborhood. I'm sorry. I'm having a hard time seeing my thing, and it's not so. Okay, so it's in the hilltop neighborhood. And the request, as I said, is to rezone from single unit to two unit and. We're working on the technical side for working on tech support here. I'm standing up there and it doesn't show up. So. So anyway, so the urban edge context is that blend of suburban and urban. Here we go. And it is intended to promote and protect our residential neighborhoods. It allows urban house, random house, duplex, building form with 30 to 35 feet height limit on a 5500 square foot zone lot. So the existing zoning in the area, north and east is that urban edge single unit to the south is pretty G17, which I think council remembers. And then West is grade three, which is a row house zone district. So the subject property is vacant to the north and east are single unit residential to the south is a vacant church. To the west is a mix of two unit and multi-unit residential in the Cherry Creek neighborhood. So this gives you an idea of the form of the surrounding buildings, a lot of one and two storey buildings . And so that just gives you that idea as far as the process goes. The informational notice of receipt of a complete application went out in January of 2018. The application was. Revised. After some discussion with the neighborhood, so a notice of that revised application went out in December of 2018. And then Planning Board was held in March of this year. And they recommended unanimously approval. And then Ludie Committee was just March also. And then we're here and this hearing has been properly noticed. We do have one letter of support from the R.A. in the area, the Cranmer Park Hilltop Civic Association. And no other letters have come to staff. So you understand the criteria. We have plans that are relevant are Blueprint 20 2019 and Plan 2040 and the Boulevard Plan, which is a 1991 plan for Colorado Boulevard comp plan 2000 2040. Sorry, I keep saying 2000 increase development and housing units close to transit create a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood. Ensure neighborhoods offer a mix of housing, encourage quality infill development consistent with the neighborhood, the surrounding neighborhood, and an infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place. Blueprint 2019. This is within the urban edge context that mix of suburban and urban, where there are low scale multi-unit and commercial areas embedded in one and two unit residential areas and a regular grid block pattern. The police type in Blueprint. Denver 2019 is low, medium residential. This is small scale multi-unit with single and two unit residential within single and two unit residential areas up to a height of three stories. Colorado Boulevard is a residential arterial, a high capacity transit corridor and a parkway. So the thought is this would be primarily residential. But because of the high capacity transit that is envisioned for Colorado Boulevard, this would be considered a transit corridor. And of course, on Parkway, as we seek to reestablish the landscaping of the parkway, Ellsworth Avenue is a designated local street. The growth strategy for this. Area, for this property, is all. Other areas of the city. That's the lowest one possible. They're anticipated to see 20% of the new housing growth in the city and 10% of the new employment by 2040. With that staff believes, Oh, I'm sorry, Boulevard plan the land use goals. No wholesale increase in overall development on the boulevard except where in on individual projects where a specific site it might work and seek to retain a diversity of land uses on the corridor. This plan was mostly an urban design plan for the corridor approved in 1991 and not very well implemented, I might say. So with that, the staff believes that this application is consistent with current Plan 2040, with Blueprint 2019 and the Boulevard Plan that by using a standard zoned district, we are contributing to the uniform application of zone districts for similar, similarly situated properties that excuse me by further that we're furthering the public health, safety and welfare by implementing our plans and allowing some redevelopment in our neighborhoods. And the justifying circumstance is changed conditions. There are multiple changed conditions in this area. As you know, the 3350 property to the south and multiple changes in the Cherry Creek area. So staff believes the changed conditions is an appropriate justifying circumstance and the urban edge context. That mix of urban and suburban with single and multi-unit zoned districts and sorry land uses is a is the hilltop neighborhood and Cherry Creek neighborhood. So staff believes the purpose and intent of the one and two unit zone district to further the existing pattern in the area is the appropriate zone district and with that staff recommends approval. Thank you very much. It looks like we have five, five individuals signed up to speak this evening. So I will call you up and step right up to the microphone as your time will begin. First up is Adrian Parra Chavez. All right. Next up is Mike Dick. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Council President Clark and council members. For the record, my name is Mike Court and Dick is spelled k r t n d c k. And I'm the principal of Land Incorporated. Having a business address, a P.O. Box nine Evergreen. I might add a very snowy evergreen this evening. Colorado 80437. I am joined by Adrian Parrish of his the the owner or the manager of ten Colorado LLC. That's the business entity that was formed for this project. Not present today is Jeff Kline with the Kline Design Group. Jeff is the project architect. We're very appreciative to have worked with three. Lucero, you're senior planner who just spoke about this case. I think we were one of the first cases that was reviewed against both your Denver Comprehensive Plan 2000 and the Council Apprehensive Plan 2040. And we did a similar exercise with Blueprint Denver basically meeting and conforming with those planning policies as well as the new comprehensive plan 2040. So we're very appreciative to have had Teresa work with us and give us some guidance as we navigated those plans. I'm a resident of Northwest Denver in commission member Rafael's District Espinosa's district, but live in live here but work in Evergreen. So it's good to be finally back in front of you all here in city county of Denver. Most of my work is along the front range. Additionally, we we've done a lot of work with with this project, specifically with some of the neighboring communities, more so it was Jeff Cline with Coin Design Group, again the architect. But I was brought in later on when some of the complexities of these various plans sets arose, and we wanted to go out and make sure that we complied or exceeded the language of both your former regulatory environment as well as your new one. So we really don't have a whole lot to say. What I'd like to do is put it back to you all. If you have specific questions of us and we've gone through the Land Use Committee, we've gone through the the hierarchy of your different hearings, and we think we've emerged with with a really good product that's going to be a good neighbor on on Colorado Boulevard. And I think there's a gentleman here that we've we've spoken with in the past representing those groups. And we're very happy to to have, at least my understanding, to have satisfied that group with with this proposal. So, again, I'll leave it to you if you have any questions of myself for the applicant, Adrian, and leave it at that. I know you've got a robust agenda ahead of you. Thank you very much. Next up, Chairman Sekou. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Chairman Siku. I am the founder organizer of the Black Star Action Movement for Self Defense and also will be the next mayor. 2019, a city council. We come before you to. Share with you some thoughts around this zoning change. And while it seems to be relatively small in scale. It represents another opportunity to address some of the housing needs of the city that has grown exponentially in a way that seems as if we're being driven to make things happen that necessarily might not be good for the city . In the long run. Down the road. 2020, what we do today will impact 2020. And so when we look at some of the criteria that is being proposed, we're talking about diversity of housing and also ensuring that we have a diverse population for the city and county of Denver. And so we support this. Zoning change in the hopes that. The owners of this property will consider. Making this housing available for people who can afford to pay for it, not what they can afford to make in terms of profit. But we got way too much housing for profit first. And people last. And so. Oh, I'll close with this. What we would like to see for poor people is for council to embrace them like they did the cats and dogs that was presented earlier today with a smile. To provide housing for the poor with everything on top of the poor. It works like this scientifically. When you have everybody on top of the poor and you lift the poor up. All the classes in ethnic groups rise also. So what's good for poor people is good for everybody. Thank you. Next up next up, Tom Hart. Good evening. My name is Tom Hart. I am the I the 4530 East Cedar Avenue. I am the zoning committee chair for the Criminal Park Hilltop Civic Association, and we support this rezoning. The owners approached us and showed us what they wanted to do. They took our suggestions and changed some things. What they're proposing to do is to build two duplex units here, total four units and what is now vacant land along Colorado Boulevard. And we are excited about this, are excited about having more housing options in our neighborhood. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next up, Jesse Pierce. Good evening. My name is Jesse LaShawn Pierce. I represent for Denver homeless out loud Black Stocks, a movement for self defense and positive action, commitment for social change. And I'm a at large candidate for the May 2019 election. I'm on top of the ballot. Make sure you vote May 7th. We are against this rezoning. We have a housing crisis in this town and this is not going to be affordable for anybody. I want to know what the RMR level is going to be for this, because this is for Cherry Creek Hilltop neighborhood. That's usually 80 to 120% at my level. So is this actually going to be affordable or it's just going to be more luxury housing that people cannot afford? We already have 23,000 units that are sitting vacant that nobody can afford. So those are the questions I have. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers. Are there any questions for members of council on this item? All right. Seeing no questions. The public hearing four counts, bill 240 is closed. Comments by members of council. Councilwoman Sussman. Thank you very much. I want to thank the owners. Of the property and the folks that have been helping. Him design what can go here on the vacant lot. And particularly want to thank Tom Hart, our volunteer. Architect who helps the Kramer Park Hilltop Association with all. The zoning considerations. Appreciate everybody working together to create this project and look forward to seeing it when it's completed. Thanks very much. And I and I would encourage my. Fellow council people. To vote for this rezoning. Thank you, Councilwoman Sussman. See no other comments. I'll just add. Thank you to staff. Went somewhere. There you are, Victor. Thank you for the comprehensive staff report. I think this clearly meets the criteria and I'll be voting yes today. Madam Secretary, roll call. SUSSMAN My black eye. Rose Espinosa. Hi. Flynn, I. Gillmor, I. Herndon All right. Cashmere. I can eat, right? Lopez I knew. Ortega, I. Mr. President. Hi, Madam Secretary. Please close voting. Announced Results. 1313.