Approves the designation of 1899 York Street as an individual structure for preservation in Council District 9. (NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLANNING) Approves the designation of 1899 York Street as an individual structure for preservation in Council District 9. IF ORDERED PUBLISHED, A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON THIS ITEM.  REFER TO THE "PENDING" SECTION OF THE FUTURE COUNCIL MEETING AGENDAS FOR THE DATE. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 5-25-16.
No. I mean. Good evening. My name is Karen. I'm a landmark preservation planner with community planning and development. This is for 1899 York Street Ghost Rose House. It is named after the first owner, Allen and Ghost and after Ryan Rose, who saved this property from demolition. It is a owner supported designation. So the ordinance was passed in 1967 for the purpose of designating, preserving and protecting, fostering civic pride, stabilizing and improving the esthetic and economic viability, and promoting good urban design. There are currently 337 individual landmarks and 52 historic districts in the city and county of Denver. This application actually started as a certificate of non historic status about a year ago after there was concern from historic Denver and members of the public. The certificate of non historic status was withdrawn. There was a zone layout amendment and the lot was split and the current property was purchased by Ryan Rose for the purpose of preservation . And he is the one who submitted this landmark designation application. He understands that as a property is designated, it's designated as is. There's no need for improvements or any requirements that are that are required to be done. And he understands that any permits would require going through design review and that demolition is discouraged. Brian Rose is also really excited because this opportunity of being landmarked provides the opportunity for a historic preservation tax credits, which would allow for a 20% credit for any work that would be considered qualified or would meet the Secretary of the Interior standards. We are currently at the public hearing. It was the application was submitted in April. It went before the Landmark Preservation Commission in May. The Neighborhood and Planning Committee at the end of May. And the effective date would be the end of this week. All of the applicable posting and notices were put out by community planning and development, and all of the registered neighborhood organizations were notified. So this is 1899 York Street. It is on the corner of York and 20th. It's right across the street from City Park. It's currently zoned gr03. The applicant is Ryan Rose, and the period of significance for this particular property is 1906 to 1911, which is the time period in which Alan Ghost resided in the House. In order for a property to be designated, it has to maintain its historic and physical integrity and meet one criteria out of two of the following categories history, architecture and geography. And it has to relate to a historic context or theme in Denver history. For this particular property, it meets the physical and historic integrity. There have been minimal changes to the property. There was quite a bit of deferred maintenance from the previous property owner and is currently being worked on. The roof has just recently been replaced. There's been minimal other changes, which would really just be the garage door on the on the garage. Overall, it has really excellent integrity. The property also meets the criteria of history under C, having a direct and substantial association with a person or groups of persons who had influence on society. And this is primarily for Alan M Ghost. He was a very prominent developer. He had the AMA a m ghost company. He developed properties throughout Denver. This particular one is the Parkside Edition, which he purchased in the 1880s. He didn't really begin development on this particular property until the early 1890s in the 1800s due to the Silver Christ crash. This particular property was was built in 1906 as a way of selling the park site edition, which wasn't really selling. And so he intentionally built this as a showcase property to help sell his development. The property also meets architecture as a mission revival style. It has the shaped parapet, stucco siding, broad overhanging, eaves exposed rafter tails and arched openings, which are all strong characteristics of the mission style architecture. It is also designed by noted architects Wagner and Manning. That's a noted architectural firm. Wagner died in 1910 and Manning continued designing for the next several decades. They are noted for a variety of works, including the Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, which is in Parkville, and it is already a Denver landmark, as well as the Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, which is part of a current landmark landmark district. And then the Moffitt Mansion, which has since been demolished. It also needs. It also meets geography as having a prominent location and being an established or familiar visual feature of the contemporary city. This house is located in a prominent corner on York Street and on the corner of 20th. It was intentionally sited to be across from City Park. It was built as a showcase. It was noted in a lot of Denver newspapers of the time that this is one of the finest buildings that was built and it was intended to be noticed by the community then and is noticed now when you drive down York Street directly across from City Park. It also needs to relate to a historic context or theme. So it relates to early 20th century architecture, development and growth of Denver and then specifically the park site addition. At the Landmark Preservation Public Hearing. Prior to the public hearing, we received six letters of support and then we received two additional letters after the public hearing was held at the public hearing. The owner spoke for his allotted 10 minutes and then there were three speakers who are all in favor of the designation. The Landmark Preservation Commission reviewed it and they found that it met its historic and physical integrity, that it also met the criteria of history architecture as an embodying a architectural style and as the work of a recognized architect. And three having a prominent location are being an established visual feature of the city, as well as relating to historic context and theme. The Landmark Preservation Commission unanimously voted to recommend this forwarding on to City Council. All right. We've got two speakers. Ryan, Rose, Becca. Dear. Ciao. Sorry if I got that wrong. Mr. Rosen can go ahead and begin your. Good evening, counsel. I'd like to thank historic Denver and everybody involved in saving this property from demolition. I would also. Like to thank Kara. For all her support and help with getting this property designated. I'm Ryan Rose, the owner occupant of 1899 York Street. I am not a house flipper. This is my primary residence and I intend on staying there and doing all this work to bring this home back to its original glory. Ironically enough, this is the third home I've purchased from this decade. This house is very special. It was truly built by artisans and designed by an architect. I'm very thankful that this is saved from demolition. I would also like to comment on the historic tax credit and how essential. It is for. Historic homes and how grateful I am for it. As an example, restoring the tile roof cost $30,000 in that roof the last 100 years. I could have replaced it with an asphalt roof, which would have cost about $12,000 and will only last 10 to 15 years. So it's a great incentive to kind of balance a little bit some of those cost effects. But also it's important to be a steward of historic properties and a steward to the historic context of Denver by making these choices and honoring these homes that will last hopefully 100, 200 years longer versus the current developments which are not showing age very well. So. Yeah, I, I sorry. I lost my momentum there. That that's all I have to say. Thank you for everybody's time. Thank you. Thank you, dear. Ciao. Thank you. There. I'm sorry. I apologize. So good evening. Mr. President, and members of City Council. My name is Beckett Kershaw. I'm the preservation and research coordinator with Historic Denver, and. I live at 1515. Vine Street, so right around the corner from 1899. York. And for those of you who are maybe still listening at home. Historic Denver's a private nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to championing Denver's built environment. And tonight, we would like to offer support for this local historic designation of the Allen M Ghost House. In February 2015, Historic Denver received a notice that the previous owners of 1899 Dirk had submitted an application for a certificate of non historic status. This residence, which Kerry mentioned, sits across from City Park on a well-traveled thoroughfare, is an impressive structure and one which merits further conversation with the community and the owners. Further research indicated that the home was designed by the architect Harry Manning. And was built for one. Of Denver's most famous real estate developers, Alan Ghost. These details, combined with the home's prominent location across from City Park, made it clear candidate for local landmark designation. The City Park neighborhood was active and supportive, supporting the preservation of this building. And after several meetings with historic Denver, our board and other neighbors, the previous owners agreed to withdraw their application. Ultimately, they sold it to. The current owner who is demonstrating his commitment to preservation with this designation application. Excuse me. The successful preservation of the home along York Street serves as an important anchor for this entire block adjacent to City Park and the surrounding neighborhood. Together with the recent renovation of the former Loop restaurant, which no one saw coming, least of all me and the Parkside Manor, this block retained its historic Parkway character, which serves as the transition between the park and the residential neighborhood to the West. This designation also allows the owner to qualify for historic tax credits to rehabilitate this building and make it a stunning example of the mission revival style once more. Historic Denver would like to congratulate the new owner of his the ghost house on this step forward. And we encourage City Council to approve the landmark application to ensure the preservation of this most deserving historic building. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers. Time for questions of counsel. Counsel? Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President. Just one question. Maybe, Carrie, you can answer it. And it has to do with the historic tax credits. I think I ask this question in committee, but I want to ask it again, because I think it's an important subject. Tell me the limits that we have in our state for the state. Historic tax credits. So the tax credits on a it's different for between residential and commercial. The commercial has been recently increased and it's not a program that's run through the city and county of Denver. We only administer the smaller commercial tax credits as well as the residential, and those are capped at 50,000. Okay. $50,000 in, I believe the commercial statewide is 275. It's from my understanding, it is higher than that. The problem is that there's a cap to how much is allowed per year. So it's sort of on a first come first service serve basis. Okay, great. So and that's all about resources at the state. If we wanted to increase our capacity, that'd be we had to find some place in the budget for that to happen. But just wanted to just want to highlight that. Thanks. Thank you, Counsel Brook. You know the questions. 395. Councilman Flynn. Thank you. Kara, maybe could you tell me what the effect of the zone lot splitting was? I see that. What is the status and what's the. The prospects for that the remainder of the lot, which is that the sliver on the south side. Right. So. So it is a small sliver on the south side. In fact, that owner was one of the people who came and spoke at the LPC hearing and he wanted to ensure that the designation of this particular property wouldn't affect his. And when he said no, he was very supportive of it. So it's my belief that they are my understanding that they are intending to build something there. I think it's going to end up being pretty narrow, but they. Can they build something there. Do we know that? I believe they can, yes. I haven't spoken to him directly. All right. Thank you. That's all. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. Any other questions? 395. CNN Public Enemy is not closed. Time for comments, Councilman Brooks. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President. District nine is in the house tonight. This is exciting. And I'm glad that the. This is an owner supported designation. I'll just say this. I'm so supportive of this. This neighborhood is I think Facebook was going crazy around, you know, supporting this property and supporting properties like it. And so I for the City Park West neighborhood. But I do think there's a larger issue statewide. Some states don't have caps on their historic tax credits. And, you know, I think if there was enough support, I think statewide to start seeing commercial and and residential uses to have I'm not saying no caps, but a higher threshold . We may be able to save some of these historic buildings and have a lot more adaptive reuse. And it just would just encourage to keep the historicity in this city. And so I just you know, I just wanted to make those comments and encourage anybody at the state to take that on. I do know that it does require more of our budget and there's only so many resources. And we do have TABOR in this state which limits our resources, but is something that's really important in other states are taking full advantage of. Thank you. I'm supportive. Thank you. Councilman Brooks. Councilman Espinosa. I just wanted to thank you. It's actually the Ghost Rose House. And I'm glad that we're attaching your name and that I assume it's going to appear in the record as being the Ghost Rose House because, well, they you know, Allen and Ghost put it on the on the planet. You're going to keep it there. And so just thank you for having the wherewithal and the ability and desire to do that, because I know on behalf of thousands of preservationists in District one. Thank you. Thank you, councilman. That's knows it. Any other comments? 395 The Nonmembers secretary. Brooks. I. Espinosa Hi. Flynn Hi. GILMORE Hi. Catherine. Absolutely. Can each. Ortega I black eye. Mr. President. All right. Madam Secretary, please, because voting now the results nine eyes, nine eyes, 395 have been placed on Fox's iteration and do pass. All right, colleagues, we got 437 that resolution. So let's first get that on the floor. Councilman Brooks, could you please have resolution 437 order adopted? Yes, Mr. President. I put resolution. I make Resolution 437 adopted. All right. We'll catch up with. Take that. I'll defer to Gabby. Did you have a response for us now? I did. And so I think, Councilman, until you would like me to read the current members of the board. Yes, please. Okay. So there are eight. And they are Charlie Brown, Ronald Younger, Sheryl Crow Invader, Andrew Johnson, Barbara Pols, Peter Berlin, Steve Garcia and Sally Vander Loop.