A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3759 North Inca Street and 3760 North Jason Street in Highland. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from I-A, UO-2 to U-RX-3 (industrial to urban, residential mixed-use), located at 3759 Inca Street and 3760 Jason Street in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 2-8-22.
Hi, Madam Secretary. Please close the voting and announce the results. 13 Eyes. 13 Eyes Council Bill 21 Dash 1455 has passed. Thank you, Edson and the community members and development team that joined us here this evening. Our next rezoning. Councilman Clark, will you please put council bill 22, dash 160 on the floor for final passage? Council President I move that council bill 20 2-160 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. All right. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded the required public hearing for Council Bill 20 2-1 60 is open. May we please have the staff report? Good evening again. This is anyone else with CPD before you today we have 3760 Jason and 3759 the street. It's currently a light industrial billboard use overlays non-district in the applicant is requesting you residential mixed use up to three stories. Um, so the site is located in Council District one in the Highland neighborhood. Um, and so the site consists of two parcels, approximately 8750 square feet. It's currently vacant and a four bay car wash. And the applicant's requesting is a urban residential mixed use, up to three stories, which allows for residential mixed use development, which would be commercial uses on the first floor and residential on above that. Um, so the existing zoning, like I mentioned, it's a light industrial use overlay, as you can see, to the north and to the west is in this industrial mixed use up to three stories. You do have some two unit directly to the south and the yellow as well as some to the north. And then industrial. To the west. To the east. The land is commercial retail and vacant. There's a lot of single unit, residential, office and industrial in close proximity to the site. And then on the top, right corner is an aerial view of the site looking south on 38. Likewise, on the bottom right corner is street level looking south on 38th of the carwash, on the top left corner, you can see the billboard and the car wash. And on the bottom left corner is some single family residential road on the 1 to 2 stories in close proximity, as you can see, directly south of the site. This went before the planning board on January 19th and was approved unanimously. It is before you today and it has received a letter of support from honey. Now in there are no they have a unanimous approval for this and then this specific map amendment, we will have to we base it based off the Denver zoning code review criteria, and we're looking at five review criteria. And the first one is to see with adaptive plans. And so for this specific site, we're looking at four plans, which is Comprehensive Plan 2040 Blueprint Denver of 2019, the Highland Neighborhood Plan in the 41st and Fox station area plan. So this specific map, I mean, it's consistent with several goes down in comprehensive plan as specified in the this for here under equitable affordable inclusive goes to a strategy a create a greater mix of housing and options in every neighborhood for all individuals and families. Environmentally resistant goal. Resilient goal. A strategy to promote infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place and environmentally resilient strategy. We encourage mixed use communities where residents can live, work and play in their own neighborhoods. Now looking at a blueprint anywhere within the future neighborhood context for this area, it's classified as urban. Within the urban neighborhood context, it's widely distributed throughout the city. Homes vary from a multi-unit development to compact single family houses, and then these areas offer access to neighborhood areas and commercial nodes with some small mixed use nodes within the neighborhood. Now within the future place type. This area is classified as order where primarily provides an option for dining and entertainment and shopping and may also include some residential employment uses with building heights generally up to three stories. 38th Avenue is a main street arterial with Inca and Jason Street as local streets. Within the growth area strategy. This area is classified as all areas of the city where we anticipate 20% of new household, new housing, as well as 10% of new employment within 2040. Now when we look at the highland highland neighbor hand Highland neighborhood plan of 1986 plan is intended to promote patterns of land use. Urban design as well as the overall vision for Highland is to create a stable, low density residential neighborhood, which offers a variety of housing opportunities. Um, specifically in this plan, it calls for a primary revitalization area within 38th Avenue from Federal Boulevard to Income Street. And some of that cost for the encourage re-use of vacant or abandoned commercial structures, as well as rezoning vacant industrial parcels back to residential for redevelopment and discourage further residential encroach. Industrial sorry, industrial encroachment. Now when we look at the 41st and Fox station area of L.A. 29, it's just outside of the quarter mile buffer. And this plan classifies this area as urban, residential, 2 to 8 stories here. And these areas are intended as new moderate density neighborhoods. Now for review criteria two and five, it's consistent as specified in the staff report for review criteria three, furthering the public health, safety and welfare. This is done by implementing the adopted plans as well as the building on standards for improved site and building designs that promote pedestrian interest and activity which is linked to improved built environment and improve safety and for justified circumstances. The applicant stated change changing conditions specifically in the neighborhood as well as the city adaptive time. Therefore, CPD recommends approval for approval based at all the findings and the review criteria have been met. And so staff is available for any questions you may have and as well as the applicant, Michael McCarthy is on line as well for any questions you may have. All right. Thank you very much, Edson. This evening, we have one individual signed up to speak online. Jesse Perez. Go ahead, please, Jesse. That's the reason it starts to move. It's part of the vaccine command for social change as well as the part of your car. The East Denver Residents Council and from black knows now I'll be the next my number 2023. I'm against this rezoning tonight. I don't believe it's going to be good for the people of this neighborhood. I have a question and several questions. That's going to be the my level for the residential as proposed for the site. What is there a neighborhood agreement that's been put in place to guarantee there's going to be affordability for the site as a parking study done. Has there been a real study that someone can please answer those questions? I would really appreciate it. There's nothing I can say that's going to change your mind on this. It meets all five of the criteria, which is consistency with adopted plans. Uniformity of district regulations versus public health, safety and wellness. Justify circumstances. Inconsistency with neighborhood context. This purpose. And it's so. So I could please answer those questions. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions for members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 160 Council Councilmember Sawyer. Thanks, Mr. President. This is Councilwoman Sandoval's district. So if she's got questions, she's welcome to go ahead of me. I don't have her in the queue. And so we'll bring her up first on comments. So go ahead. Okay, great. Just wanted to ask a question about the 1986 Highland Area plan. Is this part of the, uh, is that the West Area plan that it's happening right now? I'm just curious whether this is set to be updated sometime soon because I was eight when that plan was written. Correct? Yes. It is part of the Near Northwest area plan. Okay. We are looking at the site. Okay. Great. Thank you. Really appreciate that. Thanks, Madam President. All right. Thank you. Councilmember Sawyer. Councilmember Flynn. Hey, Madam President. Edson, with the rezoning of these two parcels, that leaves one parcel. Let me get over to my map here. One parcel remaining at 3749 anchor just to the south of the other one that would still have the industrial, a zoning and sort of isolated. There was are you aware was there any attempt to include that parcel? It seems kind of odd to have an industrial parcel the size of a small home lot six 200 square feet zoned industrial in an otherwise not industrial area. That was probably better answered by the applicant. I believe they did try to reach out to that specific property owner, that applicant there. Maybe it can answer this. Okay. It just leaving a remnant zoning in in an area that has changed and it just seemed I'm not saying that that's that they should have done that or or should not have done that. I just wondering if they had done that. So. Thank you, Madam President. All right, great. We'll go ahead and get Michael McCartney moved in to the panelists. Okay. We've got Mr. Michael McCarty, one of the owners reps in the queue. And so, Mr. McCarty, did you hear Councilmember Flynn's question or would you like him to repose it? I heard it. Can you hear me okay? Yes, go ahead. Hi, Mike McCarty. I live in Englewood, Colorado. To answer your question. Yes, we did reach out to the neighbor to the south, and they they were not interested in combining or or rezoning at the time that we started this process. Thank you very much, Mr. Mack. And to the rest of the the rest of that block appears to be a two unit zoning. So I imagine we may see the other person at some future date. Thank you, Madam President. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Flynn. And seen no other questions from my colleagues on Council Bill 22, Dash 160. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 160. Council Member Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. Although this parcel said and is called out the 41st and Fox station area plan, it is actually, as the crow flies, very easy to get to. But if you're walking in a pedestrian, absolutely challenging, which has left this parcel vacant and really, really hard to get to, it's a one way street. So even as if you use the car wash, you are required to use the alley. And it's very complicated. I agree with this rezoning. I think that this is a good use of the zone district to have required commercial at the bottom and have co-living space. A lot of times, especially during the pandemic, people have changed the way that they live. Where you work below and but you want to live up top. The property owner met with the community and myself several different times, probably like three different times to talk about the esthetics of the building materials and other things that aren't necessarily taken into a rezoning application but are very important to my community. And with that, I would ask that my colleagues support this rezoning in Highland. And yes, thank you for calling that out, Councilwoman. So this is part of the neighborhood plan which will be coming forward in the next couple of years. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval. And next up, we have Councilmember Flynn. Or was that a carryover from the last? That's a remnant. Okay. We got that remnant taken care of. I'll go ahead and chime in saying that this meets all of the rezoning criteria. I am happy to support it as well. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 22, Death 160. See the ball. I. Sawyer, I. Torres. I. Black I. See tobacco. Clark, I. Flynn. I. Herndon, I. Hines Cashman. All right. Kenny Ortega, I. Madam President, I. Madam Secretary, close voting and announce the results. 13 Eyes. 13 Eyes Council Bill 20 2-1 60 has passed. Thank you again, edson and community member who testified on that bill. Our pre adjournment announcement on Monday, April 18th, 2022. Council will hold the required public hearing on Council Bill 20 2-168 changing the zoning classification for 4116 Decatur Street in Sunnyside and a required public hearing on Council Bill