A bill for an ordinance establishing a temporary voluntary disclosure and compliance plan process for existing buildings that have undergone unpermitted work, and temporarily amending Section 142.2 of the administrative section of the Denver Building and Fire Code to allow occupancy of certain existing buildings prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy through a conditional certificate of occupancy. Amends Chapter 10 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code (DRMC) to allow occupancy of certain existing buildings through a conditional certificate of occupancy. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 6-28-17.
Man. A man, councilman. Can we give it up for Councilman Lopez, please? How? All right. We're going to go right to presentations. Madam Secretary, do we have any presentations? None, Mr. President. Communications. Do we have any communications? None, Mr. President. How about. Proclamations? Proclamations? None. Mr. President. Great. Can you read the resolutions, please? From Business Arts Workforce Aeronautical Services 736 Resolution Protocols Agreement Change City and County of Denver. J.C. Watts, Inc.. Concerning Project Management Services at Denver International Airport 737 Resolution New Oppose Agreement between City and County Denver to Follow and Associates, Inc. concerning project management services at Denver International Airport 738 Resolution Approve any post standard concession agreement between City and County Denver Rocky Mountain Hospitality Partners, LLC concerning concession at Denver International Airport 739 Resolution Approve New Post Standard Concession Agreement between City and County Denver Host ESL DNF LLC concerning concessions at Denver International Airport 740 Resolution of Universal Standard Concession Agreement 13 City Encounter HFA Ltd HD An LLC concerning concession at Denver International Airport 741 Resolution of Revenue Agreement for Professional Services between City and County of Denver Metrics Advisors, LLC. Concerning the Premium Value Concessions Program at Denver International Airport. 742 Resolution Approve any post agreement between City and County for ABM Aviation, Inc. concerning operation of curbside transportation management services at Denver International Airport. 743 Resolution Approve any post office lease agreement between City and county Denver DNA Solutions LLC concerning office space at Denver International Airport 744 Resolution of Rooney First Ninth Amendment to Agreement between City and County of Denver Sky Port Holdings, LLC concerning concession at Denver International Airport Financing Governance 749 Resolution for new post temporary crane license agreement between City and County Denver South Broadway Station Improvements LLC for the temporary operation and use of a crane swing 753 Resolution approved impose a mandatory agreement between city and county Darren Caplan, Kersh and Rockwell LLP to increase compensation lane use transportation infrastructure 650 resolution approving post second amended three Concession License between City and county Denver ABC Evergreen LLC for Food and Beverage Concession, Evergreen Golf Course and a Modified Concessionaires Improvement Responsibilities and special event procedures for non golf events. 747 Resolution Laying out opening instruction as part of the City Streets System Paso Lane as a public alley founded by West 44th Avenue Zone. Rio Street. Sheraton Boulevard in West 46th Avenue. Safety. Housing. Education. Homelessness. 506. Resolution Approving Foes Agreement between City and County. Denver, Colorado Women's Employment and Education, Inc. Doing Business Center for Work Education. Employment to provide case management support for employment and Training Services to Temporary Assistance for Needy Recipients. 507 Resolution Approving Proposed Agreement to Man City Encounter and Jewish Family Service to Colorado, Inc. for Employment and Training Services to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF Recipients 733 Resolution Approving and Providing with execution Post Grant Agreement between City and County Office of National Drug Control Policy concerning high intensity drug trafficking area fiscal year 17 program and the funding therefor 748 resolution approving the Mayor's appointment to the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee. All right. Thank you, Madam Secretary. Now read the bills for introduction. For Finance and Governance 659 Before Norton is naming the city owned building located at 2051 Fremont Place in a Joe Haines Early Learning Center 691 Bill for an ordinance monkey supplemental appropriations at Denver Municipal Airport System Enterprise Capital Equipment Improvement Fund and 735 bill for an ordinance establishing any new fund in the general government. Special Owner Fund for the Firefighter Heart Benefit Program. Madam Secretary. Is that it? That's it. All right. All right. Councilmembers, this is your last opportunity to call out an item. Now do a quick recap. Under resolutions, nothing has been called out under bills for introduction. Nothing has been caught out on the bills for final consideration. Councilwoman Ortega has called out Council Bill 726 for an amendment under pending. Nothing has been called out. Madam Secretary, can you please put the first item on the screen? 726 Thank you very much. Councilman Lopez, will you please put Council Bill 726 on the floor? Thank you, Mr. President. I move that council will certainly be placed upon final consideration and do pass. All right. It has been moved and seconded. Councilwoman Ortega, go ahead and make your amendment. Council members a move to amend Council Bill 17 0726 as follows on page one 926 Strike July 19, 2019 and replace with January 17, 2020. On page two Line 14, add the following phrase to the end of subsection four A except as specifically allowed in subsection four. See below on page two, line 18. Add the following phrase to the end of subsection four C except during the period July 21, 2017 through January 19th, 2018, on page two, lines 22 through 26, strike all references to 270 and replace with 365 on page two line to strike the word and on page to line 29 strike the period at the end of the line in insert and at the end of the subsection four print F and page two line 30 insert new subsection 4G that reads as follows. G during the period July 21, 2017 through January 19, 2018. Owners or tenants of existing buildings who have received an order to vacate from the city from December one, 2016. That's a typo. Through July 21, 2017, due to unpermitted work and or no valid certificate of occupancy may apply for a compliance plan subject to the conditions of subsections. Four Perin B Perin D for an E and print F above a light on page two Line 31 strike July 19, 2019, and replaced with January 17, 2020 2020. On Page three Line two Strike July 19, 2019 and replace with January 17, 2020. On page three, line 28, strike the word and from building official on page three, line 30, strike the period at the end of the line in insert end on page three line 31, insert new subsection six E that reads as follows For any owners of tenants who may apply for a compliance plan as allowed in Section four G above may also apply for conditional certificate of occupancy subject to the requirements of Section five through ten of this ordinance. And on page six Line one, insert a new Section 11 that reads as follows. Section 11 Every six months from the effective date of this ordinance, Community Planning and Development shall prepare a written report to be delivered to City Council, explaining CPD's activities related to an assessment of outcomes of applications and issuances of compliance plans and conditional certificates of occupancy. No later than October 18th, 2019, CPD shall conduct a policy review of this ordinance and report any recommendations to City Council. It has been moved. I need a second. However. David Braswell I see a typo in this. It says. Did you say owners of or owners or. Councilman Ortega. I which. I'm sorry. It's e g. E parentheses e below. Page three. Owners of tenants that should be owners or tenants. Okay. Just just just want to make that. Let the record show that it's not of us or. Okay. It's been moved and seconded. Um, let's see what your comments. Yeah, go ahead. Okay. Councilman Ortega. So let me let me first say that there were a number of meetings that took place between CPD and the D y, a group that represents the artists in the Reno Arts District. You know, we had a public hearing last week on this ordinance. There were some concerns expressed, and I think we were able to work through all of the issues by sitting down with CPD. I was not party to the actual meetings but was in the loop on all the discussions going back and forth. So I'm going to just read this to explain what the amendments do. So this amendment extends the time frame of the ordinance for an additional six months. The amendment allows owners and tenants of existing buildings that have been modified without permits required by Denver's building code to apply for a compliance plan and conditional certificate of occupancy. Even if the owners and tenants have not voluntarily disclosed the existence of unpermitted work, but only for the first six months after the effective date of the ordinance. Additionally, owners tenants of existing buildings that have received an order to vacate from the city due to unpermitted work or no valid certificate of occupancy from December one, 2016 to the effective date of the ordinance may take advantage of the compliance plan and conditional certificate of occupancy process. Last, the amendment creates a requirement for CPD to prepare reports of the Conditional Plan and Conditional Certificate occupancy programs for City Council every six months and for CPD to review the program three months prior to the end date of the ordinance and report any recommendations to City Council. Lastly, I do want to acknowledge that there are representatives of the d y arts community in the audience. Just ask if maybe you raise your hands, acknowledge your agreement with the amendments. We are not having a second public hearing tonight, but just want to thank you for your input last week and to say that your input made a difference. So I just want to encourage my colleagues to support this amendment tonight and allow us to move forward and have safety issues addressed while at the same time really working with the artists community who are challenged. The last piece I'll mention is that we will. Councilman Cashman has committed to assist in trying to help us find some dollars that may be available to assist and hopefully work with the other groups in the Reno Arts District, whether it's the bid or maybe some of the businesses that are down there to match funding that might be used and assist the folks who are trying to get some of those safety life safety issues in your facility addressed. So just want to encourage your support for this amendment tonight. Thank you. Thank you, gentlemen. I say again, thank you for your support of this to get this going. Councilman Espinosa, you're up. And Mr. President, are we asking questions if we have a breath since you're here? Quick question. The the ordinance is clearly written around the 2015 code, which I like, because it offers some predictability. But since we're going out to 2020, there is a chance that something could come. There might be an M and a another adopted code between now and then. Do you see that happening? I wouldn't think so. I wouldn't think we'd have a coat of another coat adoption before the expiration of this time period. So, well. We could certainly address that. If we if that turns out to be, we can certainly mean that it would be for our version. You're saying no. She's not doing it again. I think we're going to have another code amendment. Yeah. Right. All right. Great. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Councilman Espinosa. Good question. Councilman Cash, when you're up on questions, questions, comments. Yeah, you turn on your mike. Thank you very much. I just first want to thank Councilwoman Ortega for putting this together along with the. CPD in our DIY community. And I just couldn't be more. Proud. Of community planning and development and our artistic community. For. Coming to a compromise that works. It's going to be. The. Beginning, I think, of of changing or of giving a future to our bohemian arts community that I think is so important. And, you know, at the hearing last week, the number of issues that popped up, I wondered how it was going to resolve and the level of commitment on both sides made it fall into place fairly quickly . I don't know if it, in fact, does answer each and every detail of concern from from the artistic community. But I think it goes a long way and we can look and we will keep our eye on how this evolves and if it needs to tweak along the way, maybe we need to get back together. But thank you all for for some hard work. It's important. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Councilman Kasper and Councilman Councilwoman Canete. Thank you very much, Mr. President. Little mea culpa for throwing out the idea of amendment, but then not having the capacity to really work her lead on it. So I just want to say that I appreciate the staff and Councilman Ortega really leading on the implementation. And I want to also just commend the department. You know, the idea of regulatory enforcement and flexibility are kind of an anathema. The two concepts don't really go well together. And so this kind of creative thinking is is really important. And I think it's it's a sign of our evolution, the idea that if we have a certain goal, which is safety and folks, you know, being able to come forward, that it's best served actually by something like this than it is by rigidity, because people are more likely to hide safety hazards without something like this, and that doesn't make us safer. So I think this focus on the end outcome and vision and goal versus the details along the way is is the right approach. And so thank you to the community for working with the department to find some of these changes this week. And I'll be happy to support these amendments. Great. Thank you. Councilman, can you tell someone to take you back up? Yeah, I just wanted to extend my appreciation also to our city attorney, Adam Hernandez, who drafted the amendments, sat in on the meeting. And the meeting in Brad's office actually included the other agencies that would need to weigh in, like the fire department and and others, the building department, so that we weren't having to schedule more meetings and postpone the the the bill and the amendments, but really be able to bring everybody together all at once and and hash out the the issues and the concerns that were outstanding. And Brad, to you and Jill, in, you know, your efforts in pulling everybody together, I just want to thank you for helping make this happen. So I think this will be a good thing for the city of Denver. And just appreciate your support. My colleagues support as well. That's great. Thank you. Councilwoman Ortega, I just want to remind everyone, we're voting on the amendment that we have to vote on the bill 726 as amended. And my final comments are, I think CPD, our legal team building code, I said this last week, you all came quite a ways. And I think our artists, the fact that ours or in this building went through security and are sitting in these seats to to fight for an amendment, y'all came quite a ways. But this is not it. There's a lot of work that we have to do and this proves that we can do the work together. So thank you all for working very hard. Madam Secretary. Raquel Ortega. Hi assessment i black clerk. Hi Espinosa by Flynn I Gilmore I question can each Lopez I knew Mr. President.