A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 4710 North Pennsylvania Street in Globeville. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from E-SU-D to U-SU-C1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 4710 North Pennsylvania Street in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 4-13-21.
Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for council bill 577 is open. May we have the staff report? And welcome back, edson. Hello everyone. At 21 years with CPD here. 4710 north Pennsylvania Street is requesting a rezoning to allow for an accessory dwelling unit. It's currently on Eastside, which is a single unit zoned district asking for us. You see one. It's currently located in Council District nine. Seelbach is a district in a Globeville neighborhood, so the site itself is just over 6000 square feet. It's a single unit, residential. It's across the street from Argo Park and they're requesting an accessory dwelling unit. The current zoning is ESU. D it's surrounded by you. You do have some, um, x three, which is a mixed use, up to three stories in close proximity as well as s, which is open space. And then when we look at the land use, it's a single unit residential with single unit residential, some industrial and open space across across the street. And the site itself is in the upper left corner. As you can see, it's a one story structure and the park across the street. And it went before the planning board in May and it was approved unanimously. And as a present we have received no comments for this item. And when we're looking at specifically a rezoning, we have specific review criteria that we analyze based off the Denver zoning code. And the first one is consistency with adopted plan. So we're looking at comprehensive plan 2040 Blueprint, Denver, L.A. and Transportation Plan of 2019 and the Global Neighborhood Plan of 2016. There are several strategies found in the staff report that this case is consistent with. And so I would jump into Blueprint Denver. And so Blueprint Denver classifies this area as urban, which where you see the small area plan as well as a blueprint deviate from what it's currently zone, which is the urban edge. And so urban edge is more a transition between urban and suburban. But this area is one of the few areas in the city where Blueprint Denver, as well as the neighborhood plan, specifically call out for a change in the neighborhood context. And so this neighborhood context is urban, which is a small multi-unit, residential and low intensity mixed uses buildings typically embedded in single unit and two unit residential areas , and it offers good walkability with short predictable blocks as well as when we look at the place type, the place type is single and two unit uses and accessory dwelling units. ADAS are appropriate as well as Pennsylvania Street is a local street which are primarily served by residential uses. As well as Blueprint has policy around AIDS, which is policy for which talks about the expansion of accessibility throughout all residential areas. And then when we when we dove into the neighborhood plan, the global neighborhood plan of 2016, this plan specifically calls this area a single family with an edu. And more importantly, the plan has specific recommendations, such as recommendations B one that says all accessory dwelling units. Units to enable aging in place, additional income through rentals, and to increase population density in the neighborhood without altering the character. And then, more importantly, this area says update the neighborhood context, the Denver Zoning Code's Urban Neighborhood context, as opposed to the currently mapped urban edge context, better reflects the use of the alleys limiting or prohibiting curb cuts for street access and the continuation of detached sidewalks where possible. As well as it talks about tailoring the minimum zone lot sizes in areas where existing zoning requires a 6000 square foot minimum zone that size. The Future Zone district should have a 5500 square foot zone minimum. So that's what the Zone District is doing here. But the applicant's applying for. There are several other review criteria that the staff report classifies and therefore CPD recommends approval based on all findings of the records. Your having met and I am open for any questions and the applicant Eric is also on as well. All right. Thank you, Ensign, for the report. We have three individuals signed up to speak this evening and all are joining us virtually. The first one is Tess Dougherty. Is that me, Stacey? Yes, I did. Go ahead and say that. I'm so sorry. I didn't hear because it was changing over. So I'm in support. I think I actually mark the wrong thing for both of these ones on the thing. I just I don't know what happened, but I I'm in support of the aid to you. And I just, you know, this is in Globeville, where they haven't had they haven't had gas for three days. And, like, I don't know what's going on because, like, why why do we continue to allow the environmental racism in this town ? You know, there was a time in five points where they there was there wasn't even indoor plumbing because, you know, the city and county of Denver refused to service that area in the same the same time the rest of the city had it. And, you know, we've since renamed well, not we, some real estate developer renamed Fivepoint Reno, which is absurd to me. How about right? Never. It's five points. And I don't understand why we allow people to come into our spaces and to completely I mean, they got to change the name. And now we have clans named after with the rhino. Something clean. I mean, why did we even allow that to be named that? You know, and we have people in hilarious ones here who are literally in Globeville who can't even breathe right now because of the I-70. All the particulate matter in the air. Not to mention they're near Suncor, which we know went unregulated for 11 years. No idea how that, you know, just slipped the mind of everyone and, and like we have, I mean John Evans is one of two people who ordered the Sand Creek massacre and we have a mountain named after him. We have a boulevard. Like these are the things that we want you guys to start actually doing and taking ownership of because you have the power to change some of these things that are just racist and they're just blatantly racist. There's an unquestionable. And like in these meetings about zoning and all of these plans that are coming forward, where are the plans that address this? Where are the plans that address the racially restricted covenants of this city's zoning? We'd like to start seeing that as well in these plans because it's really gross to think that there's a mountain and a boulevard and a light rail station named after a man who slaughtered 300 women, children and elderly. And what would you do if you had to if your family was impacted by that, your ancestors and you had to hear people talk about Evans Boulevard every day? I mean, it's just the legacy of displacement and racial segregation is so strong in the city that we really need to start addressing it, thinking you. We're going to go ahead and move on to our next speaker. We have Helen Herron, Mushfiqur. And we're going to be able to allow them to speak. To. The camera. Go ahead, Helen. Hello? Hello? Can you hear me? Yes. Hello. I'm sorry I followed. Hello? You hear. Me? Hello? Can you hear me? Yes. Yes. Yeah. I was going to speak at La La. Okay. I'm sorry. That's what we had to. HELEN So if it's okay, we'll go ahead. And skip over you for this hearing and we'll make sure we've got you. I believe we had you with Llama Lincoln Park as well. Okay. Thank you. All right. Our last speaker for this hearing is Jesse Paris. Yes. This is all me. Yes. Members of council. Those watching at home. Those who are still in the chamber. My name is just Allison Pearson. I'm representing for black sites a move to self-defense self the positive action command for social change as well as the Unity Party of Colorado and frontline black males. And I will be the next member in 2023. I'm in favor of this rezoning. So I of this 80 year request, this neighborhood has been rapidly gentrified, as already had alluded to earlier. So we need more accessible dwelling units throughout the city, especially in areas that have been rapidly gentrified and have suffered rampant displacements. So it meets all five of the criteria. So please pass this. You request to my good job, Candy. I think you got this one. Thank you. Thank you, Jesse. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 577. Seeing no questions. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 577 council members say the Barca. No comments. This is something that I think. You know, we've talked many times about it. People shouldn't have to go through all of these hoops to get here. So I definitely support this idea. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Council members say to Barca and see no other speakers. I agree that this meets the zoning criteria and will be supporting this this evening as well. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 577 CdeBaca. I Clark. Hi. Flynn. I Hinds. I Cashman. I can. I. Sandoval. I. Sawyer. I. Torres. I. Black. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 11 Eyes. 11 Eyes. Counsel Bill 20 1-577 has passed. Thank you, edson, for the staff reports and for the community members who joined us. We are on to our final hearing this evening. Councilmember Torres, will you please put council bill 758 on the floor for final passage?