A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 301, 303 and 327 South Harrison Street in Belcaro. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property located at 301, 303 and 327 South Harrison Street from B-4 with waivers, UO-1, UO-2 to C-MX-5 and C-MX-8 (former Chapter 59 zoning code to urban center, mixed-use) in Council District 10. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 2-27-18.
Let's see, 11 up on one. All right. 11 eyes counts. Bill 171 has passed. Councilman Herndon, will you please vote caliber 172 on the floor. Mr. President, I move the Council bill through 2018 017 to be placed upon final consideration and to pass. It has been moved to get a second. Thank you very much has been moved and seconded. The public hearing for Carlsberg 172 is open. May we have the staff report? To Sally Sara with community planning and development. This is another map amendment. It is for property located at 3013303 and 327 South Harrison Street. The proposal is to rezone from before with waivers. You are one and you are two to urban center mixed use five and urban center mixed use eight. Property is located in City Council District ten in the Belle Carrero neighborhood. It is about 31,000 square feet, a little, almost 32.7 acres. Currently a car wash and vacant property. Again, the proposal is to rezone from an old code zone district b4 with waivers. You are one is the adult use overlay and you go to is the billboard overlay to urban center mixed use five stories and urban center mixed use eight stories. The purpose is to redevelop the property. So again, zoning current site and a lot of the surrounding properties are that before with waivers you will want a new oh two. To the north is GMU five general urban multi-unit five stories South and west. Before with waivers, you were one you own to an east on Colorado Boulevard urban edge mixed use three with the other one and you own two overlays. So again, the land use is a carwash and vacant property to the north, multi-unit to the south, another vacant property, but then a multi-unit structure to the east commercial on Colorado Boulevard to the west, an office building. So this gives you an idea of the scale of the area and the location of the property. It is relatively at the Alameda and Colorado Boulevard intersection, and this gives you an idea of the scale of structures in the area. The center top is the property itself. The property to the north across Alameda is top right. And then the property on Colorado Boulevard is a gas station that's to the east. And then lower left is the apartment building to the south of the property, and then upper left is the office building to the east, to the west of the property. So urban center mixed use is just that mixed use. The commercial and multi-unit residential are generally the use types. They are pedestrian oriented, diverse areas and are meant to be improve the transition between commercial and residential. The process for this one, it came in in October of 2017, an informational notice went out to council and the registered neighborhood organizations. The planning board hearing was held in February of this year and there was a unanimous vote to recommend approval. And then we cleared the committee in February of this year, and at last week's city council hearing, this matter was postponed until this evening's public hearing. So the rhinos in the area have not commented on this and nor have we received any other letters on this application. So, you know the criteria. There are three plans that are relevant in this area. Current Plan 2000 Blueprint Denver and the Cherry Creek Area Plan from 2012. And staff believes that this application conforms with our current plan in 2000 strategies as detailed in the staff report. This is in on the Blueprint Denver map, an area of change, the areas of the city where we want to channel growth. It is called a regional center as part of the Cherry Creek area, where you want to balance retail, employment and residential and have many uses concentrated in a small area. Street classifications for Harrison Street and other designated local street. East Alameda is a mixed use arterial and an enhanced transit corridor. Those, of course, arterials are our major streets connecting the whole city and the enhanced transit corridors are where we want to concentrate, hopefully transit, supportive uses and policies. Colorado Boulevard is a commercial arterial south of Alameda and a residential arterial north of Alameda and is also an enhanced transit corridor in the Cherry Creek Area plan. There is a framework plan that talks about Cherry Creek in general and basically says that we should acknowledge that to prosper, Cherry Creek needs to grow and change. Cherry Creek Plan Did Update Blueprint Denver. You can see on the maps in front of you that the map on the right is the update and the this property remains in an area of a change. The Cherry Creek Plan also did modify some land use and zoning regulations and design guidelines for the area, hoping to have positive change for the area within the sub areas of the Cherry Creek Plan. This property is called part of the Cherry Creek Triangle. Where there is it is does remain an area of change and where we want to have growth and reinvestment and new development should continue to be a mix of land uses should should respond to surrounding conditions of parkways and greenways and other development, and should transition to the neighborhoods adjacent to Cherry Creek. So in the Cherry Creek area plan this these maps show that it is part of the regional center and the height recommendations out of the Cherry Creek Plan are five and eight stories. So staff believes that this application is consistent with the three plans that govern the area or recommend the area, and that by using standard zoned districts, we are being consistent in our zoned districts. And so there is a uniformity of our district regulations and that by allowing this redevelopment and changing conditions that we are furthering the public health, safety and welfare changed circumstances is of course lots of change happening in Cherry Creek area and staff believes this is consistent with the urban center context, very pedestrian oriented, very mixed in uses both vertically and horizontally. So with that, staff recommends approval. Thank you very much. We have three individuals signed up to speak this evening. When I call you up, please come up to the podium to make your remarks. First up, Mark Johnson. Mr. President, members of the council, my name is Mark Johnson, a month old post development company, where at 999 18th Street here in Denver. And I'm the applicant and available to answer any questions you may have in our rezoning request. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, Jesse Paris. She has a Paris like star action moment. Under further consideration, I renounce my opposition to this bill. We know that. We know it's the people's champion. So we are for this. Thank you. And our last speaker tonight, Chairman CQ. German say God bless the Irish and movement for self-defense. Representing poor, working, poor, homeless youth and senior citizens. I take great pride. And this project happening, especially in council the news district. We honor his work that he is done to make sure that folks who are out the loop are included in the loop, especially when it comes to contracting and jobs. He is headed up many subcommittees around this issue. He's got in your support on these things. And so because we know him personally, talk to him any kind of day, he'll pick up the phone, he'll talk to me. And because of that, I can talk to others and tell them honestly. He has never, ever lied to me, even when we disagree. So. We know that this already is the criterion. We know that. Hands down. Nothing special, nothing slick going on here. It's the way they do what they do. And we know that CAZENEUVE Manu's going to hold them according to what has been happening because he makes the extraordinary effort after the zoning changes to be there for us to find out what are you doing, what this is going to do? Are they including us? Are there jobs for people? One, two, three, ABC. We can get that from him. And he's a sterling example of what a city councilman needs to be about, whether it's male or female. People call, make sure they can pick up the phone and talk to a person, not a machine. And that creates the bonding. Because the truth is. It takes teamwork to make the dream work. And you're the only team I got. I'm just going to talk about straight up. You all I got you all the people got. Because we voted for you all to be here and all that opposition and people talking about you about this and that. And we'll do voodoo. Hey, they don't do what you do. They don't have no clue about how this works. So the name of this game is this. This is for the masses of the people and all those folks who got opinion about what you do. No investigation, no right to speak, because you have no data to back it up and you're spreading chaos. And Chairman Jim Insecure, can you can you stay on on the topic of this? That's all it. Thank you. That concludes our speakers. Are there any questions from members of Council Councilman New. Well, first, I want to thank Sharon. Thank you for those kind words. But I didn't hire him as my public relations service. Anyway, thank you. I would like to see Mr. Johnson. Next question, please. Thank you. Thank you for developing this property first thing. Looking forward to it. Could you tell a little bit to council a little bit about the uses which you're going to be developing there? Yeah. So what we're proposing as a senior housing project will be mostly independent living and assisted living units 148 total. It'll be eight storeys. We'll have an amenity deck up on the eighth floor to take advantage of the views to the West. There'll also be some activated spaces on the first floor facing Alameda with restaurant and bar area for the residents. We're going to have roughly 67 car parks below grade one level, and we'll have another eight spaces on the first floor level. And the operator is Soltero. There are group out of Phenix, Arizona, but they also operate a facility down in Castlerock. They currently on and manage about 950 units, so they're very seasoned and experienced in this product type. We plan to get started, hopefully this August with construction and we had complete in February, March of 2020. Thank you very much. Senior housing is very needed. So appreciate what you're doing. Thank you very much. Thank you, Councilman. New Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Mr. President. Mark, on the. Rezoning application, you are the owner, the representative of the owners of the property. Correct. Which are Shea and Kwame and Joseph Mix-A-Lot put on the suit. I'm sorry, but on the third page where the owners are supposed to verify that you are their representative, you signed as the owner. Also, can you explain due to I'm just trying to make sure that we have the consent of the owners of the property. For that one of the owners is here so. Okay and I'm sure he would you would. That would be helpful. If you're going to be come on up to the podium to answer Councilman Flynn's question. My name is Joseph MC Sood. I'm the owner and I totally approve of this project. I think it's excellent. I've been waiting for this for almost 40 years. When I built the car wash. So I think it's time. Mm hmm. Okay. You built. You built a car wash instead of a senior living. Okay. That's correct. And is someone here from Shea? Who. Who is Shea? And and and Shea Properties owns a small portion, I think it's about 6000 square feet. The vacant parcel, you know, they're a large honored developer based in California, but they have an office here in Denver. Right. They've been in support of this from day one. So I'm surprised that they're not here. Okay. Thank you. You know. Just. Teresa, can you. Can you explain, you know, the page I'm looking at where it says if you're the owner's representative, you have to have the owners sign that you do represent them. Right. And so further back in the application, there should be letters from the owners authorizing Mr. Johnson to represent them. Okay. In this matter. Thank you. I will look for that. I didn't immediately see it. Thank you. That's all, Mr. President. All right. Thank you, Councilman Quinn. Are there any other questions? All right, Zenon. Public hearing for Council Bill 172 is closed. Comments by members of Council Councilman New. Thank you, Mr. Chair. We look forward to the development of this property. The senior housing is such an important issue in that whole area around the city as well as especially Cherry Creek. So. So I really appreciate what they're doing with this property and look forward to your starting up this project as soon as possible. Thank you very much. Seeing no other comments, Madam Secretary, roll call. New Ortega. Like. Sussman I Black Flynn, I Gilmore, I Herndon, I Cashman can eat Lopez. Right. Mr. President. Hi, Madam Secretary. Please close the voting, announce the results. Lebanese two days. I think we have. To absent. Two absence of 11 eyes, zero nays, zero abstentions, two absent councilwoman 72 has passed. On Monday, May 14th, 2018, Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 18 0325 Changing the zoning classification for 2391 South Sherman Street in Rosedale. Any protest against Council Bill 18 0325 must be filed with Council officers no later than Monday, May seven, 2018, saying no other business before this body. This meeting is adjourned.