Approves a rezoning of 3226 W. 19th Avenue from P.U.D 81 to G-MU-3 in Council District 1.  (LAND USE TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE) Approves a rezoning of 3226 W. 19th Avenue from P.U.D 81 to G-MU-3 in Council District 1.  The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 3-11-14.
Thank you, Madam President. I know that Council Bill 154 would be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved. I need a second token. Thank you much. I have moved. It has been removed. And second Ed Constable's 154, 145 and 199 approve zoning map amendments. The Council is required by law to conduct hearings on zoning map amendments and Council's actions are subject to court review in order to provide a record for court review. Testimony is recorded and any items presented to the Council are marked as exhibits and become a part of the record. They may be picked up from the council secretary after 30 days or after the conclusion of any court cases. Speakers should begin their remarks by telling the council their names and cities of residents, and if they feel comfortable doing so, their home addresses. The public hearing for Councilor Bell 154 is open. May we have the staff report? Good evening, Madam President and members of Council. My name is Tim Watkins with Community Planning Development here to present rezoning application 2013 I 53. This is for property located at 3226 West 19th Avenue, located in Northwest Denver Council District one and right at the top of West Colfax neighborhood, just bordering Sloane Lake on 19th Avenue. And here the property is highlighted just half block from Halleck Park to the West, two and a half blocks to the east. As Federal Boulevard, we have higher capacity transit, getting folks to towards downtown and other areas of the city. This is a carriage lot with alleys on two sides. Here's a shot from 19th Avenue. Looking at the property frontage, you can see an alley on either side. This is a view to the south. Along one of the alleys, you can see the rear facing garages of the residential properties to the east or to the west. Excuse me. And this is a neighborhood with a mix of multifamily structures, as well as single family units mixed throughout the neighborhood. This is a property just to the north, just to the south, the other carriage lot, the adjoining carriage lot. So the applicant is Abby House LLC, ABC House LLC, represented by Mary Rivas and the representative is here this evening and available to respond to questions. Comments. The request is from PD 81 to GM. You three were general urban multi-unit maximum of three stories. PD 81 allows for two additional units in addition to the existing single family home. Here's a map of the district map and PD 81 showing the existing single family home and the allowance for an additional duplex option to the rear of a maximum of 40 feet high. The existing contact surrounding the property is you can see the orange colored lots represent multifamily units. These tend to be older structures, one or two story duplexes, some three or four or more units, as well as a number of single family dwellings mixed throughout. In fact, this is a neighborhood undergoing quite a bit of transition. The center image, in fact, if you were to go there today, those homes have actually been demolished and there will be a new project built on that property. This is an example of some of the newer infill development occurring in the neighborhood just to the west excuse me, just to the east is this single family property. And further up the street to the west, you see some of the new infill development. Tivity taking place in the neighborhood. So the public review process has included applicant and R.A. letters and emails to the various groups that you see listed here. There was written notice of receipt of application. There was proper notification prior to planning board. There have been no formal responses. Only one inquiry planning board recommended approval on February 19th and there was proper written notification for Ludie and as well as for this public hearing tonight. Legal posting and written notification. So looking at our review criteria, the consistency with adopted plans includes references in Plan 2000, which encourages for sustainable development and infill development within sites where services are already in place and meeting the needs of increasingly diverse housing. Now, Blueprint Denver actually calls this an area of stability and single family residential. But I would point out the zoning prior to Blueprint Denver's adoption in 2002 was our two zoning, which allowed for two units and then PD 81, which allows for three units, was adopted in 1982, also prior to Blueprint Denver and then in 2010, as part of the comprehensive legislative rezoning, the surrounding properties were re zoned from our two to GMU three. And that's seen here in this zoning map. You can see that on all sides surrounding this property, the new zoning is GMU. Three are general urban multi-unit, three storey maximum height. So PD was not free because there were just too many pads during the comprehensive legislative rezoning to examine each each PD individually. And so 81 was not re zoned with the surrounding area. So the West Colfax Neighborhood Plan adopted first in 1987 re adopted in 2000 supports infill housing at a slightly higher density than what was allowed in our two zoning. And so PD 1881 is consistent with that slightly more dense than our two zoning was prior to 2010. So we find that there is adopted plan support primarily based on the West Colfax Neighborhood Plan. We find that this rezoning would would result in uniform application of district regulations. It would further public health, safety and welfare based on implementation of adopted plans. The justifying circumstances would be that this is consistent with surrounding recently zoned property two, GMU three, and that it is an area of investment in infill development where existing services are in place and transit service and that this is consistent with neighborhood contact zoned district purpose and intent. And therefore CPD recommends approval based on finding that all review criteria have been met. Thank you very much, Mr. Watkins. We have two speakers signed up and I will call on Mary Rivas first. Good evening, Madam President. Councilman and councilwoman. I am Mary Rivas, and I live in northwest Denver. And available for any questions. Thank you very much. Thanks for being here. Now we call on Mr. Sekou. Good evening. Chairman CQ flexed our action movement for Self-defense. Advocate for poor, working, poor and homeless people. Well, tonight we have the honor of standing with Sister Mary Bills and supporting this zoning change for a couple of reasons. One, she's outstanding and she's willing to work with us to begin to develop economic units for poor people who can actually own their units through cooperative housing programs that are now existing upon the federal government of $60 million that haven't been accessed by the city yet over the last four years before people own their own unit cooperative housing. So we talked to her. She's also have experience of working with organizations like Habitat for Humanity, which allows us to build the people as we build the houses, because out of that, we get people who are trained in painting and plumbing and this and that and the others so they can actually own and pay for the unit that they build themselves so that we have no more exodus of poor, working, poor and homeless people, no more excuses of unintended consequences of why we don't get the job done when we have everything to work with other than the political will. So we would like for you to approve this. And bottom line is everything else around her is already zoned for this. DMU three And for whatever reasons, not to put any onus on anyone. Things happen. There's unintended consequences. She was missed out and she has every right to be included. Thank you so much. That concludes our speakers for this evening. Are there questions by members of council and seeing no questions, a public hearing is closed. Comments by members of council. Councilwoman Sheppard is not here. Is there anyone else? Councilwoman Kennish. I just as an at large representative, thought it would be nice for you to hear from one of your council representatives and terms of appreciating your willingness to work with our process. We did not. Do the. PEDs during the overall city rezoning, and. We understand that that puts. The burden on some individual owners. But it seems well-planned in this case in terms of the matching of the zoning. And so I would urge our colleagues. To support it. Thank you very much, Councilwoman Kennish. All right. It looks like we are ready for roll call. Kenneth Lehman I Monteiro Nevett. Hi, Rob. By Brooks Brown. I fight. II. Lopez All right. Madam President. I am secretary close of voting. Announce the results tonight. Ten Eyes and the zoning has passed. We'll move on to the next one. Councilman. Councilwoman, first, will you please put council vote 153 on the floor. Thank you, Madam President. I move the council bill 153 be placed upon final consideration and do pass.