A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for multiple properties in Villa Park, Barnum and Barnum West. Approves a legislative map amendment to rezone multiple properties from E-SU-D and E-SU-Dx to E-SU-D1 and E-SU-D1x, located in the Villa Park, Barnum, and Barnum West neighborhoods in Council District 3. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 3-29-22.
Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 1111 I's Council Bill 20 2-307 has passed. Thank you, Edson, for the staff report. Councilmember Kasich, would you please put Council Bill 22, dash three, four, three on the floor for final passage. I move that council bill 20 2-0343 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded the required public hearing for Council Bill 20 2-343 is open now we have the staff report, please. Yes, thank you. My name is Libby Adams. I'm with Community Planning and Development, and I'll be presenting the MAP Amendment to allow accessory dwelling units in Villa Park, Barnum and Barnum West. This application is sponsored by Councilmember Torres and the Map Amendment rezoning all single unit residential properties that currently do not allow for use in Villa Park , Barnum and Barnum West to allow for aid to use as it had previously. The application is located in District three, and so the request includes nearly 3000 properties or 439 acres bounded by Sheridan Boulevard, Federal Boulevard and then Alameda to the south and 10th Avenue to the north. And the proposed zoned districts are the same as the current zone districts, except that they allow the accessory dwelling unit use either within the primary structure or in a detached structure. The proposed rezoning area is currently zoned urban edge single unit D and urban edge single unit decks. Both districts are single unit residential districts, allowing the Urban House primary building form with a maximum height of 30 to 35 feet. Additionally, the Eastside District allows a suburban house building form. There's one historic structure in this area located at 666 King Street, so any development proposed on this site would be subject to landmark review. The area is mostly single unit residential land uses with some public quasi public uses scattered throughout and a small handful of two in multi-unit uses. And the proposed rezoning is adjacent to a single unit two unit multi-unit commercial office mixed use public, quasi public and park and open space. Here's some images from within the proposed rezoning with Philip Park on the top, then Barnum and Barnum West. And then here are some images from the surrounding area. And then for public outreach. The District three Council office began outreach in the summer of 2021 and included postcards, fliers, yard signs, meeting with registered neighborhood organizations, a dedicated phone line, virtual office hours, virtual town halls, and in-person town hall, which is pictured here, and then a survey with 140 respondents. And these were both in English. We had bilingual, bilingual meetings as well. And so for the process, the informational notice was sent in the beginning of December and this went to planning board on March 16th where they unanimously recommended approval. And then for public comment, Councilwoman Torres included letters of support from the Community Coalition for Barnham and Villa Park Neighborhood Association with the application. And then during the process, staff received four letters of opposition, mostly citing concerns with increase in traffic, crime and trash. And then staff also received 33 letters in support, citing a desire to add an extra unit, particularly for family members, and to add density to the neighborhood. Additionally, the council office received mostly support for the rezoning from the survey they created. Because this rezoning is legislative, it is only subject to the three review criteria shown here. The first review criterion is consistency with adopted plans, and there are five plans that are applicable to this rezoning. The proposed MAP amendment is consistent with several strategies from Comprehensive Plan 2040, which are outlined in the staff report. So moving to Blueprint Denver, the future of the future neighborhood context is urban edge. And so the proposed zone districts are consistent with this plan direction of predominantly residential areas with single and two unit uses. And then most of the proposed area for the future place type is low residential and these are mostly single and two unit areas where 80 ewes are appropriate. The northern portion located in Villa Park is in the low, medium residential future place type, which is a mix of low to mid scale multi-unit residential options which allow for single unit with 80 ewes. And then there are small portions along corridors that are designated as local and community corridors which I permit primarily for shopping, dining and commercial uses and may also include residential uses. So overall, the proposed districts will expand the allowed residential uses consistent with all three of these future place types. And most of the future street types are local streets and residential collectors, which are mostly characterized by residential uses consistent with the proposed rezoning. And then under the Blueprint Growth Area Strategy, a majority of the area is within are expected to see 10% job growth and 20% housing growth by 2040. And then the areas along shared in Alameda are designated as community centers and corridors and are anticipated to see 20% of new jobs and 25% of new housing by 2040. So the additional 80 use permitted by this proposed rezoning are consistent with the strategy. And then blueprint also includes other specific policy recommendations. So policy for of the land use and built form housing section says they've tested diversify housing choice and through all of our residential areas in the city and then policy 11 of the land use and built form general section provides guidance to implement plan recommendations through larger scale legislative rezoning such as this one and then policy five of the land use and built for general section focuses on the importance of mitigating and voluntary displacement, which I'll discuss in the coming slides. So all large map amendments should be guided by the equity concepts detailed in Blueprint Denver. The Access to Opportunity Score is a composite of the neighborhood equity indexed event developed by Denver's Department of Public Health and Environment. Proximity to high capacity in frequent transit and access to centers and corridors. These neighborhoods have moderate scores in this category, with lower access to health care, grocery stores and transit, and high access to parks in centers and corridors. So the proposed rezoning to allow it to use throughout these three neighborhoods will bring more residents to an area that has access to job services and parks. And then the vulnerability to involuntary displacement score is calculated by the Department of Housing Stability and based on median household income, percentage of renter occupied units and percentage of residents with less than a college degree. And this area scores as more vulnerable, based on two of the metrics median household income and educational attainment. So the proposed MAP amendment will provide opportunities for existing homeowner homeowners to supplement their income, while also increasing housing options in the neighborhood, allowing people with a greater range of incomes to live in the area. And then this equity concept also includes supplemental data that highlights demographic and market changes in the area to give us a better understanding of the areas of vulnerability to involuntary displacement. So all three neighborhoods have a lower percentage of non-Hispanic whites than Denver as a whole, which could make it more vulnerable to displacement . And two of the neighborhoods have seen an increase in the non-Hispanic white population. And while Barnard West has seen a decrease. And then Villa Park Barnum and Barnum was all have lower median household incomes than than the Denver average. And Villa Park has seen incomes increase significantly, which may indicate that some displacement may already be occurring. And then the three neighborhoods have similar percentages and residents who are over the age of 65. But in recent years they have seen an increase greater than the citywide percentage. And then the neighborhoods within the proposed rezoning have all seen a greater increase in median residential property taxes than the citywide average, which again may make these areas more vulnerable to involuntary displacement. And then moving to the housing diversity score. And the housing diversity includes five measures percentage of middle density housing, home size, diversity, ownership versus rental housing costs, and the number of income restricted units. And then the neighborhoods have below average diversity in terms of missing middle housing, housing costs and affordable units. And this map amendment to allow it to use will introduce a new housing type that is typically smaller and at a lower price point than what exists today. Additionally, is constructed through the West Denver Renaissance Collaborative, an organization that helps finance AIDS are required to be income restricted and which could lead to more affordable units in the area. And then lastly, this map shows the mix of jobs in areas of the city with the dominant industry depicted by color. So you can see this area shows a greater percentage of retail jobs in the city as a whole. However, there's not enough data in to classify the mix of jobs in the majority of the area, which is why it's not depicted by color in this map. And then it will have a negligible impact on jobs and that it doesn't allow for any commercial uses. And there are efforts underway in the West and other neighborhoods to help reduce barriers to ADA use, including the West, Denver Renaissance Collaboratives West Denver Single Family Plus Accessory Dwelling Unit Pilot Program. And this program allows moderate and low income homeowners design, finance and build an ADU in nine West Denver neighborhoods, including Villa Park, Barnum and Barnum West. There are also resources to help with the permitting process that CPD has developed in the ADA use and Denver project is currently underway to make it easier to construct drives and make sure they fit within the different types of neighborhood contexts. So then host five year strategic plan was adopted this past fall and contains recommendations that are directly relevant to this MAP amendment. The plan recommends supporting efforts to advance affordable housing strategies and blueprint Denver, such as expanding its use. And then the Villa Park Neighborhood Plan applies to the properties that are north of Sixth Avenue. And so the land use and zoning recommendation strategy, too, recommends discouraging development that is incompatible with the scale and quality of the neighborhood, and adds are a way to introduce general density that will fit within the existing character of the neighborhood . And then the Barnum Barnum West Neighborhood Plan applies to the properties that are south of Sixth Avenue. And this rezoning will meet several of the land use and zoning goals, including maintaining the existing low density residential character, upgrading the quality of the present housing stock, and encouraging the construction of new low density housing. And this map amendment will result in the uniformity of district regulations within the urban and neighborhood context, in it furthers the public health, safety and welfare by expanding housing, diversity and opportunities to help residents at a range of income levels to continue to live in these neighborhoods. So finding that all review criteria have the Met staff recommend City Council approve this legislative proposal? And that concludes my presentation. Thank you, Libby, for the staff report. This evening, we have seven individuals signed up to speak. Our first speaker all are joining us virtually via Zoom. Our first speaker is Mara Owen. Can you hear me? Yes, go ahead, please. You mean devastate council? My name is Mark Owen and my address is 1035 Osage and the program manager for the West Immigrant Science Collaborative EDU Pilot Program, which is a program of the work with Habitat for Humanity and the city of Denver to help qualified homeowners design, finance and build affordable EDU on their residential property. So the EU pilot program began 2019. We have had 157 inquiries from West Denver homeowners. Without zoning, these homeowners reached out to our program. Interested in learning about building an affordable adu only to find out that their zoning does not currently allow it. Even if their neighborhood neighbor across the street or a friend in a nearby neighborhood can. Of those who did have zoning, the overwhelming majority of homeowners who have inquired to build an idea are hoping to house family, whether that's housing a grown child who is struggling to live in the neighborhood where they grew up. A parent in retirement, wanting to age in place near family, or a family member with a disability who needs a long term affordable housing option near their support network. In addition to housing families, aides are also a tool homeowners can use to create long term stability and prevent displacement. You can write a homeowner with additional income and flexibility to be resilient in the face of economic instability, such as job loss or sudden medical needs. There are now 42 individual homeowners in Villa Park, Farnham and Barnham West who applied to our program and are unable to participate currently because their zoning does not allow it. Supporting this rezoning would give those homeowners and many others in those neighborhoods access to the same tool and the option that many of their neighborhoods already have. Building an 80 year old house family create long term stability and economic resiliency to stay in place. Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jessica Calderon. Hello? Can you hear me? Yes. Hi. My name is Jessica Calderon and my address is 613 Equipment Street. I am a resident of Villa Park. My history in the neighborhood is that. When I was two years old, my parents moved here from Texas so that we could have additional opportunities. We were from a very small town. Moved to Denver where I had an uncle Emmanuel, who lived on 10th and equipment. And so I spent my first couple of years of my time in Colorado as a two year old in West Denver. I went on to live in other areas of the metro. Before finding my way back. To West Denver with my husband, where we bought the home we currently live in. We spent a lot of time raising our. Three. Boys there and one one of which has recently passed. And so that is our family home. It is our foundation and and where we are strong together. Currently, I have a 25 year old son. Who has a child type of grandson. He could not buy a house in our neighborhood. If he wanted to because he's priced out. I have a 19 year old son who is a sophomore at Sea Boulder, and unfortunately, in two years when. He graduates, even if he gets a decent paying job, he likely could not buy a home in our neighborhood because he's priced out. I have. Aging parents who maybe someday would need to live. Near me. And so for those reasons, I would like the zoning change so that we can take this opportunity to build an EDU on our property, so that if our family needs support. And they want to be near us and they want to be in the neighborhood where we feel closest as a family, they would have the opportunity to do that. I also. If there were. Even if it weren't family or it's not needed by. Family right now, we could offer it to other people who want to stay in West Denver in a place that they can afford. If they don't want to leave the neighborhood. So for that reason, I am asking all of you. To consider passing the. Zoning for these adus. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Rene Martinez Stone. Go ahead, Renee. You'll just have to unmute. Can you hear me? Yes. Okay. Great. Good evening. My name is Rene Martinez Stone. And my camera is not quite. Okay. Might want to. Tilted a little bit more. Renee. Yeah. My shirt is clean. Yeah. They got anything? Thank you for having public comment tonight. I'm a resident of Denver, and I'm the director of the West Denver Renaissance Collaborative. It is, or one of the new tools that can help current affordable housing needs in Denver. As you've heard tonight, there is a solution that do not require an existing home to be demolished. They utilize existing lots, locks, utilities, and they fit in the character of existing neighborhoods. This is welcomed by residents that are seeing a lot of change within their neighborhoods where affordable homes are being replaced by quite expensive homes. It is provide a way for residents to personally invest and be a part of the housing solution in the neighborhood. And this is very often cited by homeowners who want to build a use. If approved, this legislation, this legislative rezoning, eliminates the first step in a process that is complicated, costly and takes too much value time for homeowners as well as staff. It's the type of regulatory regulatory change that's needed to increase the number of use built in Denver. Overall, there's just not enough. Our pilot program, which Mara introduced to help homeowners navigate the process of building affordable homes. We have 12 debuts in development, and our participants have been in the neighborhood on average 18 years, some over 20, some over 40 years. All of the units are ground level and many have 2 to 3 bedrooms. So their housing family is a family unit. 83% of the participants identify as persons of color, and most have immediate need to house family. They aim to create multigenerational stability and secure a family asset. Just as Jessica described, is the desire to house family, students and school participants, the need accessible unit. And many residents have moved and are now doubled up living in another household because they can't afford. They are essentially homeless, temporarily housed by a friend or neighbor. I want to thank Councilwoman Scores for her leadership and responsive to the community. I want to thank many residents who did not understand their views but welcomed a solution for their neighborhood. And I respectfully ask the council advance this and future policy to help homeowners and renters access the relatively untapped. Time we have allotted fight. Speaker Thank you so much. We're going to go ahead and move on to our next speaker. Janice Morris. All right. We're going to go ahead. And I believe Janice is on the phone. And Janice, we'll have to have you go ahead and unmute yourself. It's Star six. I did. Oh, wonderful. Go ahead, please. Good evening, counsel. My name is Janice Morrell. I've lived in the Barnham neighborhood at two, two, two Lowell Boulevard for about 36 years. I bought this house from my aunt and uncle. I would like to be able to pass this house on to and create generational wealth for my kids. But at the same time, be able to if I'm able to build an Adu on my property, not only could I rent it now to my son or even to provide separate space for my daughter to visit. Or allow my in-laws a safe place to live. That would be awesome. This is one tiny step that we're asking you to pass to clear the way so that more of us can utilize our properties. In a better way. Providing for our families, providing for our kids. Maybe even renting to people that are new to us. Our neighborhood, I feel, is inclusive and welcoming. But I think that we also need in Barnum the ability to stay or age in place at the same time keeping the wealth of our homes. We're lucky enough to have bought in this neighborhood and we want to stay. So we're asking you to consider clearing the path, clear the road, so that we can stay in our homes and provide additional income for ourselves and or help support our family. Thank you for listening. Thank you. Our next speaker is Valerie Kotch. Do we have Valerie with us? Valerie, I believe we're trying to bring you in to the panelists so you'll have to accept the promotion. I'm still seeing you and the attendees. We'll try to get Valerie into the queue. In the meantime, we're going to go ahead and move on to Adam Calderon. And Evening City Council. My name is Adam Calderon. I grew up in Villa Park. I attended Cal Elementary Lake Middle School and graduated from Denver West High School. I'm also a proud graduate and alumni of the University of Colorado, Boulder. My home address is 613 Quitman. I would like to see aid use allowed in our neighborhood. I have a I have a mother who is a 38 year employee of the city and county of Denver who lives off of 11 miles. And she's aging gracefully, thank God. But one day it's my hope that we could build an 82 onto our property so that she could come and live with us. It strikes me because a couple of weeks back, my neighbor across the street, Judith, was taken away to a nursing home. She was he she's about nine years old. She specifically wanted to stay in her home, but her family lives too far away. I don't want that for far from me. I want to be able to provide the opportunity for my mom to stand with her family as she is. She gets older and ages gracefully. I hope that you will find it in your hearts to pass this so that we can continue to grow as a family and and keep our people in place. Thank you. Thank you. We're going to go ahead and try to get you into the queue, Valerie. So we're going to send you the promotion again for it. Our next speaker is Jesse Paris. Do we have Jesse with us? Okay. The producers are telling me that we seem to not have Jesse with us, so we're going to move on. Did we get Valerie? Into the queue. Okay. We don't have either of them. And so that concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash three, four, three. Councilmember Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. I wanted to ask if we could maybe have Renee Martinez Stone back in for just a minute. Yes. We'll go ahead and get her back into the panelists. Rene Martinez Stone. Okay. We've got her great back in the panelists. Go ahead. Humor. Renee, I wanted to ask you about. Whether or not we are seeing. An issue of some of the homes not having enough equity that affords the ability for borrowing against their property to be able to build the affordable adu on the property. And if if that is the case. Have there been discussions with the city about looking at funding to assist? This area of town in this particular these particular boundaries to assist the families in being able to build in aid to you. A lot of the applications we have seen come forward are our folks that may be in different economic. Categories, if you will. And I want to make sure that we create the same opportunity for people that may live in neighborhoods where the housing prices may be lower. And the either the value or the amount of equity that's in the home that could, you know, otherwise be used to help borrow the money to build and add to you. So if you can just kind of help address what efforts are in place or under discussion to try to ensure we're creating that same opportunity for folks in these neighborhoods. Okay. Thank you, Councilman Ortega. Briefly, I will respond to participants within our program that we're piloting with the Department of Housing. Stability provides an affordable adu subsidy on any am I. And it reduces the cost of any of you by $30,000. So that goes with a 25 year restriction on who's ending you and how much the rent can be. That's quite means that an incentive for participants within our program. To your second question, the majority of the participants in our program do utilize equity in their homes because we when someone applied to the program, they get a bonus or they've been in the neighborhood a lot of time and so many of them have many years of home equity built up and they're utilizing that. We have seen a few homeowners who refinanced and did not retain those funds to build the yield, and they have a little bit more difficult time financing. We do provide housing counseling, which is available to most anyone in West ever that seeks it, even if they're not within our program to look at their options for stabilizing their situation. And so we observed of the 12 way to use that we have developed, there were 50 homeowners that participated in housing counseling. Just want to thank you for your efforts in working with the families in West Denver. I actually grew up in Westwood when I moved here from New Mexico and lived there for a number of years through graduating from West High School and Cowboys. So we had a speaker who was a West graduate earlier in. And so I think this is important work that you have been doing for these neighborhoods, and that's it for my question. So thank you for answering them. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman Ortega. And thank you, Renee, for answering those questions. We've got Councilmember Flynn. You're up next. Thank you, Madam President. Libby, could you tell us, was there discussion during this process about the rule that says properties with an ADU, one of the units must be occupied by the owner of the property. The reason I ask is I noticed that one of the supportive statements from a member of the public stated that that she wished that that would be taken away so that both units could be rented at some point down the road. Was was there discussion about that rule during the process? No, not to my knowledge. But, you know, I'm sure I can go if I see she's aware that she must live on the property to do NATO. But there wasn't specific lease. I didn't have specific discussion. I don't know if Councilman Torres at any of the virtual town hall. Madam President, could if Councilwoman Torres has information on that, could she. Got right into the queue. Councilman Flynn. So go ahead, please. The reason the reason I asked is I'm I am up in the air over the issue of ADOS and how they. Result in long term affordability. Especially when there's this requirement that the owner must live there. The reason being that assessor, the assessors figures show that in the last two years. 240 242, 240 properties in Denver with 80 use on them were sold on in the open real estate market. The median sales price was $980,000. And it seems to me that once you put an ADU on a property, you have substantially escalated the the market price for that, which pretty much limits the the universe of buyers for that. And I'm wondering if that's an aspect that's been examined. The. Absolutely. I can talk about the first question because it came up a lot while we were doing community engagement. So a lot of the community. Community meetings. Thank you. Okay. I think I can still hear. Okay. I think that came up frequently in residents wanting to make sure that that the city was very clear to folks who build to use that they know those rules and further really wanting to make sure that the city's enforcing those. So for, for example, a neighborhood association conversations centered a lot around how does the city enforce those rules? I think the biggest concern tends to be too many of them being used for short term rental. I think the neighborhoods are overwhelmingly interested in long term housing for folks and in particular for keeping residents housed who who currently own homes. Anti displacements are a key factor for that piece. It has been raised and I don't think we've seen a property turnover yet on that kind of price point for selling any to you. We certainly are seeing properties that are getting flipped that current that have the zoning for you to use that are not building them probably to stay within a different kind of price point. But we just haven't seen the turnover yet on how homes that have built them and are now selling them. But it absolutely is still one of those tools for trying to keep residents there who want to stay and giving them either a source of income or a place for additional family to go. So it has been that that largely that kind of source of the conversation for why folks have been supporting this, but still very much with an eye toward long term housing stability. Mm hmm. Thank you. You know, there's a lot of things to weigh here, obviously, and we don't have a track record long enough to be to be able to draw a strong conclusion if this rule limits the universe of buyers to those who are wealthy. Enough to afford almost $1,000,000 investment and then live in that property. Is that better or worse than removing the rule and having both units open as rentals to outside investors out of town? Investors. Out of state investors. So it's it's something I think we need we need a lot more data to learn from. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilwoman Torres. Thank you, Councilmember Flynn. Uh, and we'll. Go next to Councilmember said. Thank you. I have some of the same tensions around support and opposition to use. I think it's. An incredible opportunity to keep families together, to keep people aging in place. And also, I've seen how it exponentially increases the value of land in a speculators market. And so I am to a little bit curious about if there's a plan or potentially putting into place some more parameters around. Making sure that they're being used for affordable housing and not just becoming an income stream for someone's Airbnb who you can't necessarily prove is there 50% of the time or not? We've seen that challenge with the Short Term Rentals Advisory Committee and people in our neighborhoods, but I don't know if we have a real plan to go back and figure out how to track this information better. Yeah. Thank you for that question. So I will say that because the Western Renaissance Collaborative is in this area, those units do have to be income restricted. And, you know, I don't know the numbers of what's being built under that program versus not. But so that's in place. And that will those who are required to be, like I said, deed restricted. And it's possible to tie all of these that are being resigned to a condition that makes them go through a pilot or a similar program like the West Denver Renaissance Collaborative, just to make sure. I think the challenges that the West Denver Renaissance Club also has income restrictions and so not everyone will be eligible for that program. And so I think I think that would be a challenge to tie it to that program or something similar, at least at this point. When we first heard the stories. Yeah. So thanks for the questions. And I'd also invite Rene if she had any comment on on those pieces. That's one of the critical for reasons why IWD RC is so valuable in the space, because they do apply a long term deed on that property. And I think that's only triggered because you're accepting funding in order to in order to access that affordability. And and they're deliberately working with families who might otherwise get pushed out because of property taxes or or because family really wants them to move to a larger location. So both of those have been the crux behind DRC. I think one of the things that we can do to support is to actually get a DRC type model elsewhere in the city. I think we've proven that it's very effective. I think we've proven that not just the navigation through the complicated process, but the access to capital in order to help build has been a difference maker that the families that DRC is working with is exactly who we want to make sure that they're able to stay. And and all of that is really working beautifully there. But there is a component that we can't control. We have not, though, seen a flood of 82 permits run for four properties that currently have a to use zoning in West Denver. So it's still a bit of a hurdle for any property owner in West Denver to build in to you. Yeah, I mean, I guess when we started with DRC, we were curious about how to have a parallel program in on the east side of Denver and would love to if anybody is exploring that, we would love to to do that. And I think the land trust is positioned well to do the 99 year leases to ensure that. So I think that would be great because we too, have, you know, contemplated what would it mean for me to pursue a legislative rezoning? Is it putting us more in harm's way because we now have, you know, these million dollar properties for speculators, or does it actually help us to do it? So I think it's a great opportunity and potentially can help us meet the need. I just really, really hope that we can do some intensive tracking and take on some responsibility as the city, make sure even in our rental registry we have a category to identify these to somehow show us in our portfolio where these exist and what kind of people are applying and what support they need so that we can expand the work that we're doing. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember CdeBaca. And I've been asked by the producers to ask folks if they're not speaking into their mikes, to please turn off their mikes, because apparently we need a few adjustments and that might be contributing to the feedback. And so thank you. Not seeing any other questions from members of council. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 20 2-343 Council Pro Tem Torres. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Libby, for shepherding us through this process. This this has been one that was responsive to community and what a lot of folks really wanted to see take place, especially as we were moving through conversations with the West Area plan, where folks were really identifying the limitations of blueprint and what needed to be allowed to get folks through. I think a really complicated and cumbersome process which is rezoning individual properties and just want to think, I think the the real initiator of of this model of thinking, which was Councilwoman Sandoval and really helping us think through what is a neighborhood wide process look like, what kinds of things do we need to consider to make sure that we're hearing from folks that we're giving them an opportunity to find out more information and get questions answered? And then, of course, to the residents who came out to support in DRC, always, I think, when establishing the foundation of empowering residents with information both about land acquisition, about development, about zoning in general, but then really trying to make it part of our civic vocabulary, what an edu is, what purpose it can serve, and how to really make it accessible to families who were absolutely threatened with displacement and having to find somewhere else to go. They have made it as affordable as possible by partnering with Habitat for Humanity, by really being there to walk folks through the entire process. This is one of those efforts that in and of itself does not solve displacement in West Denver, but it absolutely puts a new tool in property owners hands that if they want to stay in Barnham, in Villa Park and in Burnham West, they have a new way to make sure that they can do that and then pass on an asset to their children and family members. So I. Very grateful for everyone who supported this. We started it nearly a year ago to my team and I really do think all of the folks involved and would appreciate a lot of support from my colleagues. Thank you. Thank you, Counsel Pro Tem Torres, and happy to support this this evening. I think at least in my neighborhood and others were following closely the edu conversation. And I want to congratulate you, Counsel Pro-Tem Torres, because when you look at this, it's nearly 3000 parcels, approximately 439 acres. And this is creating a path forward. One of the speakers spoke about adult children living with her, and that is a reality in the city and county of Denver today. And so thank you for your leadership on this. And I am more than happy to support it. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 22, dash three, four, three, please. Torres, I. Black I. CdeBaca, I. Clark All right. Flynn. I. Cashman can h. I. Ortega. Sandoval. I swear, I. Madam President, I. Madam Secretary, closed the voting and announced the results. 11 Eyes. 11 Eyes Council Bill 20 2-343 has passed. Thank you to the members of the community who spoke. And thank you, Libby. We're going to go ahead and move to our final hearing this evening.