A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 18300 East 66th Avenue in DIA. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property located at 18300 East 66th Avenue from C-MU-20 with waivers and conditions, AIO to S-CC-5, AIO (urban center, multi-unit to suburban commercial corridor with airport influence overlay) in Council District 11. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 9-24-19.
Yes, Mr. President. I move the council bill 967 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you, Councilman. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 964 is open. May we have the staff report? Jerusalem. Sara with community planning and development. This is another map amendment. Located at 18300 East 66th Avenue. The request is to rezone from a former Chapter 59 Zone District, CMU 20 with waivers and conditions. Air which is the airport overlay to suburban context. Community Community Corridor I'm sorry commercial corridor five stories air which is the airport overlay and I'm you aren't seeing and I have no. Reference to technical difficulties on the display here. Arrow so I'm going to use. So this is in city. Are you not seeing us? No. We have it in our system. But we're seeing this in the years. You know. The public seeing it, though? I don't think so. Maybe it will wait. So maybe here. Does that help, huh? Here we go. Thank you. Okay, so, city, this is in Council District 11 in the DIA neighborhood. Again, the request is to rezone to suburban commercial corridor five stories with an airport overlay, and the only building form allowed would be a general building form. And the airport overlay. I don't know if you're familiar with, but does accommodate airport operations and impacts to surrounding properties. So the existing zoning again is a Chapter 59 zone district with waivers and conditions and waivers and conditions. You have a copy of that ordinance in your staff report, but most of them are related to airport operations and impacts to surrounding properties. So the subject property again CAMUTO with waivers and conditions. To the north and east and west. The same zone district to the south is CMU ten. Another Chapter 59 zone district with similar waivers and conditions and the airport overlay. So a lot of vacant land in this area currently is property is vacant. To the north is a hotel and to the southeast is a new 7-Eleven that isn't even showing up on this map . South and west vacant. And on this map, you do see the 7-Eleven down in the corner here. So. That's what it looks like out in this area. The pictures also show you very much vacant. There is that, again, a hotel to the north and to the southeast, a new 7-Eleven. So informational notice on this went out in June of this year. Planning Board Notice was posted for a August hearing. At that hearing, there was unanimous support for this rezoning. And then we were at Liberty in September, and it was passed on to the full council. And we are here tonight with a properly notified public hearing. So there are several RINO's in the area, but no one has written in a letter, a comment letter, no R.A. letters and no other public comments. So, you know, the criteria, the plans that apply our current plan, 2040 Blueprint, Denver 2019 and the New Far Northeast Area Plan, the same year this year, 2019. So there is support for this in plan 2040 to build a network of well connected, mixed use centers and corridors to facilitate growth of a diverse business sector, to support our airport as the gateway to Denver and the world, and to promote infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place. The Blueprint. Denver The future context is suburban, as we said earlier. Single family, multi-family, residential on commercial corridors and centers, a mixture of land uses generally curvilinear streets. Although in the Gateway area or this area, the air area, we are actually getting some grade streets. So that's a good thing. And then of course, the DIA overlay future please type in Blueprint. Denver is community center, which is a mix of office, commercial, residential and different varying scales large to small. And then again that I o which is the overlay and a recommended height of five stories. Street classifications for 66th Avenue is an underserved needed local Yampa Street to the west is a commercial corridor and then tower half a street. Half a block to the east is a commercial arterial. Future Growth Strategy from Blueprint. Denver is community centers and corridors anticipated to see 25% of new housing growth and 20% of new employment growth. Far Northeast Area Plan again suburban suburban context which speaks to commercial development focused along main corridors and centers. Community Corridor Future Place, which is a mix of retail, food, beverage, entertainment, hospital, hospitality and office uses and oriented along streets. Far northeast area plan growth strategy is the same community centers and corridors with most growth going to greenfield areas and existing community centers and corridors such as Tower Road maximum recommended height in far northeast area plan is eight stories and the DIA neighborhood corridors are are seen to be on major through streets and major at major intersections. There is also a GDP for the area that is a 2000 to document. That speaks it's a very simple two or three page GDP speaks to development of the CMU 20 mixed use zone district two. Those standards, which are very similar to our SCC five that's being proposed with that staff, believes this is consistent with our adopted plans that we are by using a standard zoned district, we're furthering the uniform application of our zone district city wide by allowing new development on vacant property that's consistent with our desired character. As described in our adopted plans, we're furthering the public health, safety and welfare justifying circumstances changed conditions. We are zoning out of a Chapter 59 zone district. We have three new plans with new direction for this area. So staff believes change conditions is a correct justifying circumstance. And then we did already discuss a little bit about this being consistent with the suburban context and the intent of the CC Zone district for our corridors. With that Stafford. Approval. Thank you very much. We have three individuals signed up to speak this evening. First up is Mark Throckmorton. Of the four of you, if you could just come up to the microphone, introduce yourself and just say that you're here for questions. Mark Throckmorton with Elsie, full and whiner representing the landowner, and I'll defer for questions. Thank you. Next up, Jesse Pearce. Good evening. Members of Council Council President Clark. My name is just Paris. I'm representing for Denver Homicide Lao Black Star Action Movement for Self-defense Positive Action Commissioned for Social Change, Unity Party of Colorado and the Universe of African Peoples Organization. Denver Chapter. We are neither for or against this. I really want to know exactly what the army level is going to be for the housing proposals house and that is going to be in this area. I was just out in this area recently, about a couple of months ago, and I seen rapid development going on. It looks like this is going to become another Denver Tech Center. This would be Texas in our number two because we have Panasonic and other tech companies out there as well. So I would like to know what the AMA level is going to be for the proposed House in this area and exactly who is going to occupy this space. Thank you. Thank you. Next up for both. Good evening, Council President and Council Member Thanks for having this. Ferdinando 725 17th Street, Denver, Colorado. I am president of LC Film and Writer Inc the landowner and the applicant. I think I'll just keep this very simple. We were in the old zoning code and we're looking at flexibility uses and SCC seems to be the best rate along town road and commercial corridor. And over time we will probably come in with other land to try to get out of the old zoning code into the new code. So marker or I are here for any questions. Thank you. Thank you very much. That concludes our speakers on this item. Are there questions from members of council? Councilman Ortega offered, if you wouldn't mind, coming back up. So where is this in proximity to the the development that is closer to the transit stop? So it's about just over a mile north, probably a mile and a quarter north. It is a long tower road. Long tower road. We're experiencing more auto and type uses. And right around the rail stop, we're saving that for more dense uses. We have a hotel that's going to be opening soon and we're working with additional users to have a densify closer to the rail shop. Any idea on what percentage of housing might be included in this proposed site? According to the airport overlay district, we cannot have any housing north of 64th Street, so we will know. That was going to be my next question about the noise contour. Yeah, I'm looking at this contour map right here. And so I was just trying to understand this map is not showing me the actual street grid of where the southernmost part of the noise contour is. That and I know we've already encroached into that with the development that is part of the 64th and pioneer area. So so this will not and cannot have any housing at all, is what you're saying? Correct. There's no no housing north of 64th on our land and there's no single family housing north of 56. And this being north of 64, there will be no housing. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman Ortega, I'm seeing. Oh, Councilman Hernan. Teresa, is this the first rezoning where we are using the far northeast neighborhood plan? I would just. It is. Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Herman. All right. Seeing no other questions, the public hearing for Council Bill 967 is closed. Comments by members of council. So I'm Gilmore. This one's in your district. Would you like to go first? CHAIR Thank you, President. Clerk I will be supporting this rezoning tonight. This was this entire tower road corridor was the point of many, many conversations during the far northeast neighborhood planning process and folks really wanting to see commercial corridor businesses along this area and you know, looking at some collision repair auto uses is something that the neighborhood really wanted to have close to home. We a lot of times have to go to Aurora or outside of Denver to get those services. And so I see that it meets all the criteria and I'll be supporting it today. Thank you, President Clark. Thank you, Councilman Gilmore. Seeing no other comments, I'll just add my thanks to staff for all your hard work on this report. I think it clearly shows that it meets the criteria and I will be supporting it this evening. Madam Secretary, roll call. Gilmore I. Black I. Said about that. I'm going to abstain. Flynn. All right. Gilmore. I earned it. I. Hinds. High Cashman. Kenny Ortega. I. Sandoval. I. Sawyer. Torres. I. Mr. President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting. Announce the results. 12 Eyes one abstention. Provides one abstention. Council Bill 967 has passed. Right next up, the council will recess and reconvene as the board of equalization. First up, Golden Triangle pedestrian mall. Though a protest letter was filed for the Golden Triangle Pedestrian Mall because no speakers have signed up to speak, council will forgo holding a public hearing on this local maintenance district