A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3428 West Moncrieff Place in West Highland. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-A to U-SU-A1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 3428 West Moncrieff Place in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 8-24-21.
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Will alternate between in-person and virtual for efficiency by calling in-person participants and then alternating to virtual participants. Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Councilmember Sawyer, will you please put Council Bill 939 on the floor for final passage? I move the Council Bill 20 1-0939 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 939 is open and we have Fran here and we have the staff report, please. Great. Um. Great. Good evening, members of City Council and associate city planner with Planning Services. And tonight we're looking at a rezoning request for 3428 West Moncrieff Place. The subject property is in Council District One represented by Councilmember Amanda Sandoval. In the West Highland neighborhood. The property is located mid-block between Julian Street and Laurel Boulevard along Moncrieff Place. The site is 4625 square feet and currently contains a single unit home. The applicant is requesting to rezone from U.S., U.K. to U.S. U.K. one to allow for an EU at the rear of the property. All other forms and new standards will remain the same. The property is currently in the urban single unit Asian district, which allows for a minimum zone lot size of 3000 square feet. As you can see on the map, the surrounding properties are also shown us a to the east, north and west of the property. But south you can see some GM you eight zoning and you may see three to the southwest. The current land use for the site is single unit residential and in the immediate vicinity. The area's land use are mostly other residential uses with a parking lot right next to the property to the west and a multi-unit residential building to the south. Shown on these photos. The character of the neighborhood is mostly residential. The subject property can be seen on the top right image of the slide. Throughout the rezoning process, application modifications had been provided according to Code Requirements Planning Board recommended approval analysis on August 18, and to date, staff has not received any letters from the public or any. Now moving on to the Denver zoning code, we have five review criteria that we must find. The request map amendment is consistent with the five with you. The first criteria is consistency with the adopted plans. There are two plans applicable to his rezoning. The first one is comprehensive plan 2040. The second one is Blueprint Denver. Stated in the staff report. The rezoning is consistent with several goals in the comprehensive plan 2040. This MAP amendment will promote equity by creating a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood, and it will lead to an environmentally resilient Denver by promoting infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place. Now moving on to the consistency with Lupe in Denver. The subject property is mapped as part of the urban neighborhood context. The future places map designates the subject property as low residential place like this place types have predominantly single and two unit uses and accessory dwelling units are appropriate. Moncrief Place is designated as a local street, which is mostly characterized by residential uses. The growth area in in Denver is all other areas of the city. This area is anticipated to see 10% employment growth and 20% housing growth by 2040. Finally blueprint also includes specific policy recommendations. Housing policy number four focuses on diversifying housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. Stuff also finds that the requested signing meets the next two criteria. The rezoning will result in uniformity of district relations and will further the public health, safety and welfare primarily through its implementation of adopted plans. The justified circumstance for this rezoning is clear. The plan sees the approval of the existing U.S. UAS en district. The city has adopted the Comprehensive Plan and Blueprint Denver, a stated throughout this presentation. The proposed rezoning meets the intent of this plan's. Overall, the proposed rezoning is consistent with the urban neighborhood context residential districts and the you as a one zone district. With that, a recommend approval based on finding all review criteria has been met. All right. Thank you, friend, for the staff report. And this evening, we have two individuals signed up to speak and they are both joining us online. And our first speaker is Simon, Toronto. I suspect that these are. Hello, everybody. My name is Simon Taranto and star daughter Luna. We're the property owner and applicant of the change. We recently welcomed our second and third kids as twins to our family and we love our house and neighborhood and are looking for ways to help our family come help us. So our main motivation for the ADA expansion is that we can stay here and have our family come help, help us. We gathered input from our neighbors through this process and we're requesting that the City Council vote to approve Council Bill 210939 and rezoning 3428 West Moncrief place to usou a a1 to allow for an 80. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you very much, Simon, and your little helper there. Appreciate that. Our next speaker is also joining us online, Bruce O'Donnell. Hello there. Madam President, can council hear me? Yes. Thank you. Good evening. Bruce O'Donnell and I've been helping the applicant on this application and consistent with staff's recommendation for approval and planning board's recommendation for approval and the consistency with adopted plans. I also asked the City Council to approve Council Bill 20 1-0939 Rezoning 3428 West fifth place to you sue A1 to allow for you and I'm available to answer any questions that count. Members of Council have it. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Bruce. That concludes our speakers for this first hearing. Questions from members of Council on Council Bill 939. And we have first up, Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. So I'm not sure who to direct this to. But first of all, these are very narrow lots. And I. Can you clarify what the minimum size is that can actually squeeze another building on a lot? Or is this intended to be an addition to the existing structure? The applicant didn't specify if he was going to build a detached edu or an attach, but I mean, he could do either the Lord would allow it be sure that the lot is 35.5. So is there a minimum size then that the building. If it's a detached. Does it have to be significantly smaller than the structure in the front assuming it's in the back? Well, it's going to have to comply with the setback. So it's going to have to comply with the I don't know if it's three or five would set back on the side and then in the back. So as long as it complies with the setback, that's what the building can as wide as it can go. So let me ask the applicant if he'll come back on to just let us know if he's looking to do a separate structure or just add on to the existing structure. Simon, would you mind coming back on? Hi. Thank you for the question. We would be planning to do a detached fracture. Were you able to hear me? Sorry, but I'm sorry. Could you repeat the question? I lost the first few words. Go ahead, Councilwoman, if you want to restate your question. Simon, will your structure that you're requesting this rezoning for be attached to the existing building, or are you looking at a separate building on the site? Got it. Thank you for the question. Can you can you hear me? Yes. Perfect. Thank you. It would be a detached building. I'm just curious how big of a structure you're able to get on such a small lot? It doesn't allow more than 645. I'm pretty sure that the number four. Is that square feet 645. Okay. So that's not a big structure then? No. So it has different tiers. So depending on the lot size. So if it is smaller than 6000 square feet, I think it's 650. And then if it is between seven 6007 thousand, it's 845. And then anything bigger than 7000, it's like a thousand square feet. So it has tiers depending on. The size of the loft, depending on the size of one. Okay. Thank you. I have no further questions. Uh, Councilwoman Bruce O'Donnell has his hand up virtually. Did you want to hear from him? Sure. Okay, you can go ahead. So, Bruce. Thank you, Madam President. I was just going to explain exactly what Fran just explained, that the zoning code on a lot of this size has a maximum limit of 650 square feet for an 80. A detached 80. You so much. All right. Great. Thank you, Bruce. And thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. We don't have anyone up in the queue for any other questions from members of council. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 939. And we'll start out with Councilmember Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Simon. This application meets all the criteria, so I would ask that my colleagues support it. My office has met with the West Highland Neighborhood Association, which this property is located within, to see if they would like to go within legislative rezoning or to allow accessory dwelling units throughout the neighborhood. They are still deciding that. So until that time, we will continue to see one offs throughout this neighborhood. Thank you. And I ask my colleagues to support this this evening. Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval, and I agree with you. This meets all of the rezoning criteria and happy to support it this evening. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 939. Sandoval. I. Yeah. I. Torres. Black eye color. Eye. For an. Eye. Herndon. Eye. Catching I. Can. Each eye. Ortega, I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 11 Eyes. 11 Eyes Council Bill 20 1-0939 has passed. Thank you, Fran. I we'll go ahead and move to our second hearing. Councilmember Sawyer, will you please put Council Bill 944 on the floor for final passage?