Rezones 770 South Federal Boulevard from B-A-1 with waivers to E-MX-3 in Council District 7. (NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLANNING) Rezones 770 South Federal Boulevard from B-A-1 with waivers (Old Chapter 59 Code - Business Arterial 1) to E-MX-3 (Urban Edge, Mixed Use, 3 Stories) in Council District 7. 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 11-18-15.
I sure will. Mr. President, pro tem, I move that council bill 891 be placed on the floor for final consideration. Thank you. Councilwoman, it has been moved in second in a public hearing for council bill 891 is open. May we have the staff report? David Gasper. From Community Planning and development. Guzman-Lopez Councilmembers David Gaspar, principal city planner and community planning and development. Happy to be here tonight for the rezoning of 770 South Federal Boulevard. This is a rezoning that would go take be a one with waivers as former Chapter 59 zoning to the BMX three zone district. This is in Council District seven, Kathleen Clark's district, right on Federal Boulevard and Atmore, Moorpark on the far western edge. If we zoom in to the location a little bit closer, it's at the intersection of Federal Boulevard and Ohio Avenue. It's on the east side of federal really essentially between the major arterials of Alameda and Mississippi. The request here tonight is to rezone parcel just over a an acre in size, 45,000 square feet. It's currently a single story church. The property owner, Central Federal Investors is requesting the rezoning to allow for mixed use development. And Representative Dennis McClean is here to answer any of your questions to him. The rezoning is from be a one with waivers. That's a commercial zoning and the old code. The waivers reduce CFR the buildable amount in the area to 1 to 1 from 2 to 1 in limited the amount of uses to the annex to read. I'll quickly go through the existing context the zoning, the transit service on the corridor, land use and building and scale existing zoning on site. There is still be a one with waivers both to the north and south. The same zoning and beyond. That impacts three is also on the map. To the west there is B2 and to the east. In the Upper Park neighborhood is Eastside. So that's single unit urban edge transit. This is an enhanced transit corridor. RTD has significant amount of service on here with four routes providing a high frequency service on Federal Boulevard. Route 11 is the nearest east west route exposition on the northern border of the block. If we look at the land use, as I mentioned, the church surrounded by commercial and residential uses quickly through there's the church there looking from federal single storey, surrounded by parking. Out of the north, there's two and a half storey apartment buildings to the west, single story strip, commercial to the south, additional apartments. And on the east backside of the property, essentially, this is, I believe, Elliott Street, where there's the single family residences process. Notice of receipt of the application came in late September. Planning Board was scheduled their public hearing on November 4th. At that time, Ashmore Park, a neighborhood association, did speak in favor of the rezoning. I went to a plan committee in November and we're here in front of you tonight and January the next three. It's urban edge, neighborhood context, mixed use, and it's three stories, maximum heights. We'll go through the review criteria, mainly focusing on review criteria. Number one, consistency with the adopted plans. We have a comprehensive plan 2000 blueprint, Denver and the Ashmore Park neighborhood perimeter plan to look at for a review criteria. There is significant consistency with adopted plans through the comprehensive plan with promoting infill development at the site. We zoom in a little bit more to Blueprint Denver. The land use concept is commercial corridor and it is an area of change. We look at federal for many features through classification. It is a commercial arterial and an enhanced transit corridor. So the next three fits very well with Blueprint Denver. We zoom in with Ashmore Park with the neighborhood plan was adopted in 2000. There is strategies that speak directly about redevelopment along the transit corridors and promoting having rezonings for tomorrow mixed use transit sporting development also strategies to target new commercial retail to come to Ashmore Park and to promote commercial industrial areas, good investment opportunities. So there is significant consistency with adopted plans here through those three documents. There also is uniformity district regulations. The mx3 is mapped along Federal Boulevard near the property and along other commercial corridors. The application is consistent with furthering public health, safety and welfare with just varying circumstances. There is change in changing conditions at the site since the zoning, which dates back to the seventies. There has been the adoption of the plans I just mentioned, in particular the neighborhood plan in 2000. Also the adoption of the new Denver zoning code, which has mixed use districts that implements the goals of those adopted plans and that redevelopment along commercial corridors that align with the mixed use zoning standards that were not prevalent at the time of the existing zoning adoption all lead to a justifying circumstance of changed conditions, and there is also consistency with neighborhood context. If you look at the urban edge neighborhood context, it does speak of being characterized by low scale buildings, except for some mid-rise commercial mixed use structures, particularly at nodes and along arterial streets. And it makes you zoned districts in particular intended to promote safe, active and pedestrian skilled development in those areas. So with that, CBT does recommend approval of the rezoning of 770 South Federal Boulevard from B A-1 with waivers to the Annex three zoned district. Based on all on finding all review criteria have been met. You're for any questions. All right. We have one. Thank you for the staff report. We have one speaker this evening. Dennis McLean, if you want to come up to the podium. And forgive me if I'm not pronouncing your last name right. That's okay. McLean Council Members Dennis McLean City with McLean Commercial Addresses 4007 Bryant Street. Denver, Colorado 80211. I'm just here to answer any questions that you guys may have about our project. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council Councilman Ortega. Mr. MacLean, would you mind coming to the microphone, please? Can you give me an idea of what you're planning to do with the site? You know, we're not sure we bought the site some time ago and the zoning is pretty interesting. On the site. Typically, it's my. Understanding when the new zoning came around Denver, anything that had a waiver just got not looked at. So we bought the site knowing that someday we redevelop it and it's gone. So you have no immediate future plans to level the building and to put something else in there? Not immediate. Okay. And about how many acres is the site? It's about 1.17. It's about 47,000 square feet. Roughly three. Pretty good sized parcel on federal. Right. I'm familiar with it. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Councilman Ortega. Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Mr. President. Pro tem. Dennis, can you answer? Is this property vacant right now? It is not. Vacant. It is not. Is it? Is there a church, a congregation still meeting in it? We have a couple groups that meet in there regularly. We have English as a second language group that meets in there and a couple churches that use. A customs or a couple of churches. Of different church groups that do things in there. I see. And you haven't given them notice or how they are month to month arrangements? They're all month to month. They know that we're working on something. Okay. Thank you very much. That's all. Are there any other questions for members of council? All right. This public hearing is closed. Comments by members of council will go to Councilman Clark where this is located. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Pro tem. This is, you know, something that is right in my district. And I want to commend the applicant. The original application that came through was for a different zoning classification, and my neighborhood organization had expressed some concern with that. And I was actually at the meeting that Mr. McLean came to with the park neighbors and he introduced himself, had talked about, you know, his history with this city and then said to this community, I don't want to build something that you don't want in your neighborhood. So tell me what you would like. What zoning would you like? And we just hear so much, you know, sitting up here and in the news about when zoning is contentious and about developers and neighbors not working together and to sit there and watch that and then see this come forward with full support from the neighborhood organization, I think is a model for how we can have neighborhoods and developers working together to move Denver forward to bring positive, engaged use to a corridor that needs it that the neighborhood wants it at. And so I will be enthusiastically supportive of this tonight, and I would encourage my colleagues to do the same. I think this is one where we really got it right, and that's because we had a developer who really cared about the property that someday he will develop. And and as I heard him, you know, just as I can go say, I don't know what I'm going to develop, I'm sure that that's because he's going to sit down and talk to the neighborhood about what they want. And I think that that is something that is really spectacular and the way that we should have our community and our developers as a city working together to build this city. So I'm enthusiastically supportive tonight. Thank you. Councilman Clark, are there any other comments from city council members? All right. Before that, I'll make a comment. I used to represent this this area. I'm right across the street. You guys will probably know this from if you've ever sat down at the first 75 or the crawling crab and looked out outside the window as you're enjoying your bowl of this is what you're staring at and it is this whole property. The good thing about this property is that under the old chapter 59, this would you I think you would be able to allow a junkyard here at one point. And that's how outdated the zoning was here. So to move 4amx3, which allows that mixed use, allows, you know, residential income and commercial to mix. This is exactly the vision for four federal boulevard. It's been underutilized under visualized and it looks like this is the right move. And Councilman Clark, I think you're exactly right. I think this is a good example of what happens when there's good communication ahead of time and when there's collaboration and with the community. So having said that, Madam Secretary, Roll Call. Clark Espinosa, Flynn, I Gilmore, I Cashman. All right. Can each. Lopez I knew Ortega I. Sussman Black, I. All right Madam Secretary close to voting. Announce the results. Lebanese Lebanese Council Bill 891 has passed. Thank you very much for attending tonight. There is no pre adjournment announcement and seeing that there's no other business before the body, this council meeting is adjourned.