Approves the designation of 200 Block South Lincoln Street Historic District as a Landmark Historic District for preservation in Council District 7. (NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLANNING) Approves the designation of 200 Block South Lincoln Street Historic District as a Landmark Historic District for preservation 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 4-20-16.
This is a designation for 200 block of South Lincoln. My name is Karen. I am with Landmark Preservation at the CPD. This landmark designation was proactively submitted to us from the community. Three owners of the does three owners within the designated property submitted it to us. When a property is landmarked, it is designated as is. There's no requirements to improve it or to restore it to a particular time period. Any changes would go through design review. That is an objective process and it's not frozen in time. You can make changes to it. You can work on the interior of the building. We don't regulate paint color or anything like that. But within a historic district, demolitions are discouraged. There are also benefits to being listed in and being a designated property. In general, property values are higher in historic districts than in the surrounding neighborhoods. This is based on the economic power of heritage in place, which is a 2011 study done by History Colorado. And they compared property values of historic districts and then the property values of those around it. They looked at historic districts in Denver, Durango and Fort Collins and found that property values are stable or higher within historic districts. Also, if you are in a historic district, you have the availability to use the Colorado Historic Preservation Rehabilitation Tax Credit, which basically means if you are rehabbing your particular property up to 20% of the interior and the exterior repairs would be available for a tax credit, and I know that there are multiple owners within this district that are anxious to take advantage of this tax credit. So for this, the Landmark Preservation Commission reviewed it and recommended it be for it to city council. It then went to Planning Board and they also recommended it to come to City Council by the ordinance. City Council should give due consideration to the written views of the owners as well as the public hearing for the designation. The application was submitted to us in February. And when it comes in, land preservation staff does a thorough review and we actually do research on our own to verify that the information is accurate. Paucity permits from the 1890s to verify that the information within it is accurate. At that point, then we set a public hearing and put it before the Landmark Preservation Commission. It went before them and they approved it to go forward. It went to planning board as well is the plan committee. It went through first reading and we're currently here at the second reading. We went through and did all of the notification that was required. The registered neighborhood organizations sent out all the legal notices and put it on our website as well. The applicants did a tremendous amount of community outreach for this particular designation. They've been working on this for several years. There were multiple community meetings with John Olson from historic Denver. He participated in one. I then went this past fall and met with the community as well to answer any questions that they might have for that. So what we're looking at is the 200 block of South Lincoln. It encompasses the addresses from 201 to 246. It's on either side of the street in general between Cedar and Alameda. There are 15 structures within it all would be contributing to the historic district. The period of significance for this is 1889 to 1895, which is encompasses the time period in which the buildings were constructed. So in order to be designated according to the ordinance, it must maintain a historic and physical integrity. And then it must meet two criteria and one of the following three categories, and it must also relate to the historic context or theme in Denver. So this if you're looking at the historic physical integrity, well, you look at seven different qualities the location, the setting, the design, the materials, workmanship, feeling and association. Basically, the idea is, would you recognize this when it was constructed in 1895? Would you still recognize it today? And this historic district has excellent integrity. There are a few alterations to the properties, but those are almost all primarily in the rear of the building as they have been added on to over time. And overall it's in the same location. It's still along a historic thoroughfare. It retains its workmanship. The setting and feeling are also there as well. So after passing the bar of being maintained or meeting its integrity, it then has to meet two out of the three categories. So under history it meets it as having a direct association with the historical development of the city. This is just a map of the area. The blue lines there show the historic trolley lines of the area. The district is outlined in yellow. The little red is already an individual structure, and then the two brown sides on either side are existing historic districts. This district and its growth correlates with the growth of Denver in the 1890s, up until about 1893, when there was the panic of 1893. And the country went from from gold and silver to just a gold standard for our currency. Because Colorado was so highly reliant on the silver industry and the mining industry, there was a downturn in the economy, but this particular area was started growth prior to that, and it continued a couple of years after the panic of 1893 . It coincides with the growth of Denver as the city began incorporating other smaller towns to the south. And it also tax there's all of these trolley lines were developed in the 1890s and so the growth of this sort of reflects as people are able to commute in to downtown. So this area is sort of a reflection of the growth of Denver at the time. The historic district also meets two criteria under architecture. It meets it under the embodying a distinguishing characteristic of an architectural style or type, which is the queen and style. This district is sort of a queen, a quintessential queen, and they have asymmetrical forms. They have corner towers, they have varying wall textures that are seen in the village board or the barge board and the gingerbread detailing in the shingles on the gable ends. They have decorative chimneys and brackets as well. It is also significant as the work of recognized architects. There are two primary architects within this historic district. William Lang, who designed the Molly Brown house as well as the Castleman Mansion, designed most of the properties that are on the west side of the road. And these are slightly smaller versions of these mansions that he built. And it sort of reflects that you had a different group of people living in this part of the town that's a little farther from town and also sort of reflects that the economy then had a downturn. And so you were building slightly smaller scale versions then the Molly Brown house. It's also believed that this is the largest intact group of living homes in Denver. So this is a great collection of his work. There's also F.h. Perkins, who was an architect. He left after the panic of 1893, but he did design several homes on the east side of the road. He was noted in California and he's also noted in Washington. Several of his buildings are Seattle landmarks. This property, this district also meets it under geography as having a prominent location or being an established and familiar orienting visual feature within the contemporary city. Since I started doing this and talking about it, I've had a lot of people who come up to me and said, Oh, those are the tower homes or those are the turret homes. This is something that people are used to seeing as they're driving into Denver. It's sort of the entrance into downtown. And since it's such a large collection of Queen Anne Homes, it's very noticeable and it's orienting to the community. They recognize this. As part of the ordinance. It also has to relate to historic context or themes. So it relates to the growth of Denver, to the early streetcar development into late 19th century Victorian architecture. At the Landmark Preservation Commission there were a ten minute presentation done by the property owners and the applicants. There were 11 public speakers, ten were in support and one was in opposition at the time of the Landmark Preservation Commission . There were eight letters of support within the application itself, plus 19 letters or emails received by our office at that point. We have since received one other letter that is not in support of this and it should be in your packet that was emailed to you. So when the Landmark Preservation Commission reviewed this, they felt that it met the historic and physical integrity, that it meant history to under architecture and one under geography, and that it related to historic context or theme. The Landmark Preservation Commission voted unanimously, unanimously to forward it on to city council. Thank you. We have 14 speakers on this one. I'm going to call up the first five. Make your way up to the first pew. Anita Lynch, Terry Garrison, Chelsea Wyatt, Charles Brannigan and Carolyn Bennett. You five can make your way up. And Ms.. Lynch, you may go ahead and begin your remarks when you enter. Good evening, council members. My name is Nita Lynch. I live at 2 to 7 South Lincoln Street and I'm one of the owners of that home and I'm also one of the three applicants. When this application was unanimous, unanimously approved by the Land Landmark Preservation Commission on March 15th, one of the board members even stated that it could serve as a template for other district request. Extensive research, thoughtfulness and outreach was done in preparation for this request. Of the 15 houses included, 14 of the owners are in strong favor of designation and one is opposed. I do want to address some items maybe of misinformation that could have been presented to council. One is a question of did indeed William Lang design the houses on the West Side? I spent hours and hours and hours of research at the library on the history fifth floor, going through the great big, huge books, making copies, cross-referencing the building permits. And it is clearly documented that William Lang did for sure design at least eight of those of the nine houses on the West Side. One of them, we have not been able to find who the architect was. And further, it was mentioned that F.h. Perkins, who was a famous architect, particularly in Seattle now, because he has a number of buildings there that is designated, that are designated, that he was the architect of some of those on the east side. Another thing that might have come to council as not a correct statement is a question of are these clean and houses? They clearly are. They meet the criteria of turrets and the steep pitch roofs. All of this is documented and explained in the application. And also the Molly Brown house is a queen. And the Queen Anne's were eclectic. There was not one single type of queen and. The applicants have worked diligently to achieve the goal of preserving these buildings. And we have overwhelming support from owners, nearby businesses, neighbors which include our West WISCH Park Neighborhood Association and the Baker Historic Neighborhoods Association. We fully recognize that there must be a balance between property owners rights and the rights of other neighbors who strongly want these homes preserved. And it is important to balance change with the respect and preservation of historical architecture and history. I believe that the balance tips in favor of the latter. I urge you to approve landmark designation for the 200 block South Lincoln Street Historic District to honor and protect the block, special place and Denver's history and architectural evolution. Thank you. Thank you, Terry Garrison. Possibly me. I'll be at Terry anyway. I'm Terry Gulliver. Oh, I live at 227 South Lincoln with Nita Lynch, my partner. I'm also a co applicant. Nita did all the work for the application for our house individually and obtain designation for that. Some time ago, the point of this application that's before you now is for the integrity of the district. The cluster of 15 houses was two famous architects built in a period of just six years. At the end of the 19th century, individual owners have spent a lot of invested a lot of money in maintaining and in some cases, rescuing these buildings from. Pretty awful fate. And we have we have one member in opposition. I believe that most of the points of that opposition are actually addressed inside the application that you had before you. And some of the other points may be addressed by other speakers here tonight. I would ask you to support the application on its merits. Thank you. Thank you. Jesse, your wife. Hi, everyone, and thank you. I own the home. At 233, South Lincoln straight and I am the sole member. Who's opposed. There used to originally be eight out of 21 homes that were opposed in this group and minds the unfortunate one stuck in the middle. So mine's the unfortunate one that couldn't be carved out or excluded. According to landmark preservation, current regulations, which I recommend be strongly changed to be able to exclude those of homeowners who don't want to be included in this type of block. This was my first home purchase. This was a huge mark of pride and represents hard work paying off student loans, which I'm sure everyone is familiar with and is a huge amount of my personal net worth and eventually potentially my retirement. I'm in opposition to choose 72 because this is a bill that forces historic designation on something that's not the community's home, not the neighbor's home. It's my home. First, it places additional restrictions on the home. It reduces the number of contractors that I can actually use to those who may be able to understand or want to work on historic homes. And as we all know, the cost of construction is only going up. It also takes additional time for permits to go through for anything that I would like to do to the home. The current time for landmark preservation approval is an additional three weeks for anything that I'd like to do to the outside. This was something that actually cost me personally, financially, an extra $3,000 in just the last month, because I was told by John Olsen through extensive conversations I had with folks as well, that a desired step out door to an upper deck that already exists, I would never be able to do I'd have to stick with the Juliet balcony. That's a window that's broken now. So that's a property improvement. That would be better for myself and my renters, and it's something that I would be unable to do if this had been passed ahead of time. Forth. This not only limits development, but can actually limit the pool of buyers for folks potentially largely reducing value. There's a home at two 3 to 9 Elliot Street that had a published article on it in Denver describing how the seller actually lost 300 to $400000 in resale value upon this gigantic nation. And the Supreme Court has already said as well, if you restrict property rights, you largely reduce value. You don't encourage it or increase it. So that's been stipulated different ways. I've suggested several other options to the Landmark Preservation Company or commission for excluding my home and having it left out. The response was that the current regulation says that this has to be a contiguous block. That's a landmark preservation rule, as far as I know, and maybe it's time to change that rule. When I offered another viable option that one neighbor has already taking advantage of for applying for individual designation on their homes. The Landmark Preservation Commission mentioned in their deliberation that this the case for historic to. Acquire. Several homes actually. Was to. Apply individually. So I urge you to consider that. Thank you. Charles Brannigan. My name's Charles Brannigan. I live at 2105 Lafayette Street in a house designed by the architect William Lang. Who you've heard of today. I'm William Lang's official. Biographer. I think. And I've researched him and his career both in Nebraska and Denver. I'm also the creator of the Lafayette St Historic District, and I am prepared to give you some ideas about why landmark preservation is good. First of all, take William Lang. He was Denver's best presidential architect of all times. And the proposed district includes a perfect collection of. His middle class buildings. As opposed to the mansions that he's better known for. Lang began his architectural career as a grocer in Albion, Nebraska. Somehow he became an architect. In 1885, he moved to Denver and hung out there, single as an architect. And over the course of the next the next decade, he and his draftsmen built hundreds and hundreds of houses. He met and met an untimely end. He died in 1897. When he was hit by a train. He had red hair, blue eyes and a gold cap tooth. I got that from his autopsy report. This landmark designation accomplishes many good things. When we moved into what became the Lafayette Street Historic District, we were considered urban pioneers by the police. Gunfire was common. There was a chop shop up the street from us, which was eventually gobbled up. By the hospitals. Our house was in relatively good condition compared to. Most on our blog, but the water in the dog's bowl froze in our dining room in the winter. Some of our neighbors protected their motorcycles by parking them in the living rooms. The landmark designation stabilized our neighborhood and made it to hospitals. Couldn't gobble up more land. There's been a steady influx of stakeholders who see this landmark protected district as a place that to achieve the American dream. State tax credits have helped with renovations. Property values have increased tremendously. Crime is down. Landmark designation started at all. Why do we protect landmarks? They give the city a sense of identity which is missing. When the bulldozer challenges Denver's heritage. I encourage you to support the landmark application for this this district. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have Carolyn Bennett. And as Carolyn comes forward, I'll call the next three speakers John Olsen, Simone McGinnis, Karen Hinkle, Anthony Hinkle and Lucia Browne. You can go ahead and get your remarks. Hi, my name is Carolyn. Myself and my husband Eric are fairly recent to the neighborhood. We purchased 2 to 4 South Lincoln in April 2014. After many years of looking to get out of the suburbs, we appreciate the architecture of the neighborhood and are honored to own one of the homes that are on the block that is up for historic designation. The history of the area was a huge appeal to us and the history and architecture of these unique homes is worth protecting and saving. We feel honored to be one of the owners who have the opportunity to buy here and hope we can maintain that for others. We understand the responsibility of living in a uniquely historic home, and we want to respect and maintain its authenticity for future generations to appreciate. As we do, we are in the process of renovating and we would have no reservations going through the historic approval approval process or the extra time it takes. We want to get it right. We would value the knowledge and recommendations of the historic society and would not want to do anything that would alter the authenticity of our amazing Victorian home. We would like the protection of this designation so that no one could come and destroy the character and historic value of these homes. For selfish reasons, we fully support the historic application. Excuse me. Thank you. John Olsen and Mr. Olsen, you have 6 minutes. All right. Thank you very much. My name is John Paulson. I'm the director of preservation programs at Historic Denver. We're a private, nonprofit. Advocacy organization, and we're at 1420 Ogden Street in Suite 202. I'm here to express my support of the Landmark District Designation Application for the 200 South BLOCK of Lincoln in Denver, Colorado. The application brought forward by residents on the block is for 15 properties in a contiguous geographic area along both sides of the street. Currently, it is thought to be the most concentrated block of William Lang design houses in Denver. Eight, possibly even nine of the 15 houses are laying design, but all are various interpretations of the Queen Anne style. Built between 1889 and 1895, Lang was one of Denver's most prolific architects of the late 19th century and the architect of historic Denver's very own Molly Brown House, a Queen Anne style building. In its own right, though, it's very different from the. Elegantly muted style that we find here. The neighbors first brought their hopes of designation to historic Denver way back in January of 2013. They were seeking our assistance and our advice. The very first outreach meeting for neighbors took place in March of that same year, and I was privileged to attend this meeting to. Outline that. Outline the district designation process and answer questions, as well as pass out informational sheets related to the responsibilities of owning a home in a historic district. Further outreach was conducted by the neighborhood through the spring and summer of 2013. An application for district designation was submitted. To the LPC later that year. However, that application was ultimately withdrawn on the recommendation that the applicants conduct additional outreach to ensure that all affected property owners had all the necessary and accurate information to achieve this goal, the applicant group hosted several additional gatherings to which all property owners were inviting, leading a very proactive effort. Additionally, handouts and summaries of meetings have been mailed, emailed and or hand-delivered to every household and owner in the district. The handouts and discussions targeted common questions about the effect of historic designation. One of those relates to property values and historic districts confirming that they tend to go up, not down. The assertion is conferred by both a local study of three historic districts in Denver and as a part of the economic power of heritage in plays published by History. Colorado as well. As several other. National studies. And the value of these districts is due in large part not to the individual building components, but to the collection of. Buildings as a whole, providing both. Stability. And context. Historic. Denver wants to commend the neighbors who have worked diligently and patiently to. Achieve this goal. The overwhelming, overwhelming support for this district from the owners and nearby neighbors is a testament to their dedication. A historic district, like a zoning district, does not require unanimous support. However, this district has demonstrated tremendous favor from its residents. We are very pleased with the application and believe a historic district on South Lincoln honors an important part of our local history, fosters our city's unique identity and character, and supports economic vitality. It is a pleasure to support this work to protect an integral piece of Denver's history. Thank you for your consideration to vote in favor of creating this district. Thank you. Simon McGuinness. Hello, council members. My name is Simon McGuinness. I am the. Owner of 223 South Lincoln. This property is also my first. Personal property ownership. I was immediately. Drawn to the beautiful architecture in the neighborhood and it was about eight years ago, 2003, really rough in the area. At that time. But it was definitely something to. A vision. For the future and invest in. And I just couldn't believe anyone not wanting to protect that and having an opportunity for anybody to come in and get rid of any of those buildings. Is. A little. A little hard to handle. So I didn't write anything down, but I just wanted to come in and say that I support this and I hope that. You all do as. Well. Thank you. Karen Hinkle. Hello, everyone. My name is Karen Hinkle. I first bought 243 South Lincoln Street in 2000. I was a flight attendant with the United Airlines. I couldn't afford a house in Denver. However, I could afford. This house because it had two rentals in it. I lived in one, I rented out the other two, and I was able to afford a house. And that's how I bought 243 South Lincoln. And I lived there for three years in and then the house down the street went on the market at 209, South Lincoln, the single family house. And I was thinking, well, I've got these rentals now. I add to my income, I can buy this house too. And I did. So that's how I ended up with two houses, and I could only afford them if they had rentals. I was a flight attendant. We didn't make a whole heck of a lot of money at United Airlines, even though we had a lot of fun. So that's my story and how I ended up on Lincoln Street. People told me I was crazy to buy on Lincoln Street. I looked at Lincoln Street. I've traveled all over the world. I grew up in Nevada. And I said, You call this a bad neighborhood and the house. I just love the house. I didn't care. Where it was. And it's not a busy street. I don't care. I've spent years fixing it up. I don't have the big money to go in and totally redo everything. So I've been doing it slowly. However, I just did refinanced. So I put up new gates and new fences and painting everything. It's going to look beautiful soon as it stops raining. So I take a lot of pride in it. And my neighbor Grady, who's lived across the street from me since 1976, proposed that we become a historic district. When I first bought there in 2000, then I. Looked in. Awe how our block was really, really trashy when I bought there. I mean, the police were in our alley every other day, sometimes twice a day, people peeing in the front yards and, you know, and it was like, I didn't care. I had a house and it was beautiful. And and slowly over the years, people have moved in and fixed up. And then in the downturn, which actually was kind of good for us, people died there of foreclosures where flippers came in and they actually did very good work flipping these houses where they're still historical. They're still they created a house that invited people to move in. And so now we have a good concrete group of people who live there and who support the designation of being a historic district. And it's unfortunate, I think, that Chelsea doesn't support us because she's our neighbor. You know, she's also our friend. And I would hope that she would see that this this is going to be good for us. I agree. I think so. I agree. I support. Personal property. Rights 100%. However, in this instance, I think the whole is is takes precedence over the individual because it is a whole block. So I urge you to support us to become a historic district. And then next time you drive down like this, Hinkle, and say hi. It remains minutes thank you and I to work for you tonight. It was a lot of fun. Anthony. Anthony Hinkle. Good evening, everyone. My name is Tony Hinkle. I live at 209 South Lincoln, along with my charming wife, Karen. And I just wanted to say, you've heard a lot of arguments, mostly for, I think that the for far outweigh any negative impacts. I think that the. Benefits to individual homeowners as well as the. Population of Denver and everyone who drives up the street and notices all those homes. I think the benefits far outweigh any any detriments. So I'm totally in favor of this, and I hope you are, too. Thank you. Q Jay Brown. And as Ms.. Brown comes up, I will call the last four speakers. Carey Samuelson. Cherry. Gordy Grant. Adrian Brown. Charlotte Winsberg. In any good beginning remarks. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Lucia Brown. I live in the Baker. Neighborhood at 132. West Fourth. I am the immediate past. President of the. Baker Historic. Neighborhood Association as of last Tuesday. Also, the western side of this block is also within the boundaries of our neighborhood association. In the year. 2000, I was involved. In. Getting historic designation for Baker. I was assigned a couple. Of blocks and I had to research all the homes on that block. And back then, Debbie Ortega was our councilperson and helped. Us get it, get it through. And it has worked out wonderfully for Baker. Our property values have gone through the roof, no pun intended. When we're talking about houses. There's no need to fear. Of any values going down in this location. That's for certain. Had we not received the designation, we would have seen wholesale. Destruction of the houses. Which is now happening on the western western unprotected side of Baker in our neighborhood. So designation allows future generations. To enjoy the beautiful. And representative homes of the 200 block of South Lincoln. And I do encourage you. All to support this. Designation. Thank you so. Much. But my thinking was Brown. Kerry Samuelson. I hate speaking in front of crowds, so my presence up here should be evidence enough that I support this this designation. My name is Carey Samuelson, and I'm here to voice support for the Landmark District designation of the 200 block of South Lincoln. My husband and I own and reside at 214 South Lincoln Street. I'm a Colorado native. My parents are natives. Their parents are natives. My mother's side of the family moved to the state. During the silver rush. My great uncle was actually the mayor of Fairplay. Most of my relatives settled in Castle Rock, where four generations of my family graduated from Douglas County High School. I know Colorado. I am part of this state and I have spent my entire life watching it change. I still remember when County Line Road was a dirt roller coaster. I still remember when the star of Castle Rock could be seen for miles and miles because there wasn't an outlet mall or a suburbia maze blocking its view. I also remember what a pain it was that only one grocery store existed in town. I remember when my mom cut her arm on her windshield wiper and we had to drive 4 hours to find an emergency room which would stitch up. Good things come with growth and good things can come at a cost. As I say, you can have your cake and eat it too if you want. Convenience. Perhaps the forfeit of the small, quaint town you remember from your childhood is inevitable. I have seen the benefits of growth in Denver. I did not grow up in the city and I don't have the same childhood memories of Denver as I do of Castle Rock. But my husband and I have lived in the city for over ten years. I'd be lying to say we don't enjoy the new and nicer restaurants that have accompanied the growth or the fact that by person parks are clean and safe. But it's no secret that there are quite a few more people in town. It takes a long time to keep down Speer Boulevard. It's nearly impossible to find a quiet tree under watch. Read a book at Wash Park on a Saturday afternoon. It's crowded. This is an unavoidable cost to all of the great things we are enjoying, enjoying about our growing city. I'm willing to accept the pains of growth in Denver. I am not willing to define the. Potential removal and destruction. Of our city's history and beauty as one of these growth pains. We purchased our home because it's stunning, because the care and attention that went into its construction does not exist in homes today. Prior to living to our home on Lincoln, we lived in a similar style home in the Baker neighborhood, which is under historic designation. This designation did not prevent us from purchasing the home, but rather. Compelled the purchase. Much like Castle Rock. Denver will never be the same once. A Cowtown is now one of the fastest growing cities in the nation. As a Colorado native, I am a dying breed. Every everyone I meet is not from my state and they don't know the Colorado I once knew. And they crowd the parks and they jam up the roads and they cheer for teams other than the Broncos. I guess I accept this, but I do not accept one of them tearing down the gorgeous home next to me to build a modern cement spaceship. The block on which I live is beautiful. There is no reason not to protect the beauty of the older homes in Denver, if possible. The 200 block of Lincoln submitted. Miss Samuelson. Thank you. You did a great job, though. You do a great job. Next, we have Jodi Grant and Ms.. Grant, you have 6 minutes. Good evening, members of City Council. My name is Gurney Grant or Gertrude Grant, and I am one of the three applicants for this historic district. I want to thank the landmark staff and historic Denver staff for their help and support. But I also want to thank Karen Henkel, who started this process, and Nita Lynch, whose drafting and diplomatic skills have brought us thus far. I bought 242 South Lincoln Street in 1977 when I saw it from a bus on my way home from work. I also co-own 246 South Lincoln with Doris Bird, who is here tonight. We bought it a few years after I bought 242 because it was only four feet south of our house. And the thought of someone playing loud music late at night was disturbing to folks who work 8 to 10 hour days. I'm also a member of an LLC that bought 213 South Lincoln a year ago to save it from demolition because it sits on a large lot and was in deplorable condition. The four LLC members are working hard to save the House. In 1977, I was the youngest owner on the block. Now I'm almost the oldest. I bought my house because I love the fancy woodwork both inside and out of my house, but also the houses across the street and the other houses on the block. Since 1977, I have witnessed many challenges in the block drug needles, in the bushes, in front of my house from a drug dealer who lived across the street. Bullet hole in my front living room window when former gang members lived across the street, intoxicated men across the street celebrating there in their boxer shorts on a porch roof after a successful garage sale where some of the discards from our alley were sold to homicides in the block, a porch across the street collapsing after the intoxicated men removed the support columns in their jubilation for the roof. Now people are improving the houses and I welcome the change. This group of 15 houses presents to today's passers by and I hope for passers by for years to come. Examples of the 1880s and 1890s Queen Anne style architecture built for families of different size and of different incomes. They were all built within a short span of six years when the Broadway trolley was extended down to Alameda. The houses on the West Side, most of them, those wonderful torte houses, were built on small lots for working folks who could take the trolley in to downtown Denver to work and shop. The houses on the east side are a little larger on slightly larger lots for people of slightly higher income. And all those had staircases down the back for a maid's room into the kitchen. But they were also built so the residents could take public transportation into downtown for work and shopping. In this one single half block, viewers can see the contrasts and yet the similarities. There are similar front setbacks, front porches, some with fancier brickwork than others, and none out of character. Owners of 14 of 15 of the houses support this historic district. Both named both Baker and West Watch Park. Neighborhood organizations support it. Numerous letters in your file support it. I hope you will support the creation of this historic district. Thank you very much. Amos Grant. Adrian Brown. Good evening. I'm Adrian Brown. I live at 132 West Fourth, and I share my house with my lovely wife, Luciano. I wanted to make two points. First, in response to the concerns, Speaker was while I was president of the Beacon Neighborhood Association, which just before in fact was registered as a historic district, and there were opponents and vehement opponents who really were concerned. There are none now after the council and the residents took this important but dangerous step. So I can offer that comfort to the opponents to this. But I also want to point out. What a wonderful. Opportunity these residents have given the city in offering their homes to be a cornerstone on a very busy road. And I applaud them for doing that, because otherwise it would be denuded of these historic houses, as Broadway has been. And we lost all of those wonderful mansions because it was a main road. And single family homes particularly ceased to be viable on there. These people have done a wonderful job for us as citizens and for you as the council in coming forward to make this happen. And I certainly hope you will you will support it. Finally, you in doing so, I think you also make some sort of a commitment to at least think about ameliorating traffic on all of our main roads and from this all the way through to our freeways. I think this council and subsequent councils need to take a long, hard look at the livability of of the houses along major thoroughfares. And you make a wonderful step in approving this tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Brown. Charlotte Winsberg. My name is Charlotte Winston. I live at 590 South Sherman. Not. Not on the famed Lincoln Street block here. Batting cleanup and going be kind to you because you have heard so many wonderful things about why you should support this landmark district. And I can't think of anything I could add that would improve it. Everybody almost everybody in this town recognizes those houses because everybody has driven up and down Lincoln and many don't. And they there's dependance. Those of us who live in all Victorian homes treasure them deeply. And I wish my block could meet all the criteria for designation as well. But I want to hold you. Why don't you just all raise your hands and vote yes now and then you can go home. Thank you. Thank you. Mrs. Lindenberg. That that concludes our speakers. Now, time for questions of counsel and I will I'll chime in first. Chelsea, you want to come back at the podium? I'm curious. How long have you owned the property? I've owned it since 2012, and it was a lot more affordable. So I'm curious, you know, this they they mentioned that this process has been going on for a couple of years. And I thought I heard you say that you weren't at some point you weren't the only one that was against it. Did you say eight of 21? I wanted to make sure I heard that correct. Yeah, there were eight of 21 in the original 2013 application, and this has since been carved up so that there aren't any additional opponents. There also are two opponents who were on the east side who sold in that time frame. So they've decided to reapply. And now I'm the unfortunate one stuck in the middle. So of the eight. So the other seven that were against it. The other the other seven you were saying were carved out. They were either carved out on either side of the historic designation because it apparently still has to be a continuous block or those two sold. Okay. And if you could just and I apologize, I had to cut you off because the 3 minutes is up. But you could just kind of some kind of summarize what your what your concerns are and why you're opposed to this. So unlike some of my neighbors, I'm a young person and I have potential, you know, young family needs for growth. I may want to expand the back of the house. I may want to make modifications to the house. I love Victorian homes and that's one of the big reasons why I bought this as well. I would never demolish the home and I don't think any of these homes, which are all largely valued over half a million dollars now is in danger of being demolished, except for potentially 213, which has already been purchased and is being lovingly restored. I don't know that this is something that needs to be an application for all of these homes. I think that individuals can do the applying. Great. Thank you, Mr. Olsen. Yeah. I'm not sure if you were a part of the original application, but I'm curious if you were if you could explain why I went from 21 to 15. Because in the original application, Chelsea was saying it was 21 home, but then it was done again. And just to the 15, I'm curious what the reason was for that. Well, you know, it was based. On. Some reevaluation of the what style of homes were being a part of it, as well as the geographical aspect of getting all those homes together. So there were some homes to the south that were were decided that they did not. Fit necessarily with the. The type of architecture so that were taken out. And also they were, you know, Chelsea is correct that they were opposed. And so because they were on the edge of the district or at the edge of the proposed district, it was possible to take that out and still have a very viable, historic district. Her situation is that she's in one of the Lang homes right in the middle of the district. And from a standpoint of, you know, in terms of how districts are formed, they're formed in a contiguous way, especially for a district of this size. It needs to have a cohesiveness to it. And her home fits all of the criteria. And so it needs to be included in that as a part of the district. Then I do understand, but I'm just curious if it the optics of eight out of 21 homeowners are opposing versus one out of 15 certainly goes better in your favor. So I was just curious what the real reason was for the shrinkage. So if you say it's it had a little bit to do with architecture or was it just because, you know. The ones on the ones on the edge. In terms of I believe in and we're not a co-op looking on this one. Of course we support it. But, you know, the three applicants were their reasons of, you know, why they're there. Certain homes are included or not included. But from from a standpoint. Of initially it was trying to get as much of the. Block as possible. And then after, you know, having that outreach and then realizing that there were some opposed, it was a relatively easy factor to be able to carve out those edges to the district. And then, you know. There were some aspects of a couple of. Sales did happen. So, you know, everybody that's involved now. As much as. Possible. You know, is for that particular district. Okay. And in terms of the you know, in terms of the outreach, the original application in 2013 was put forward there. And because of the opposition that came forward, it was the role of the neighborhood in the role of historic Denver and really even the role of the Landmarks Preservation Commission to do even more outreach to show them because. They're some of. The reasons for the opposition were based on inaccuracies in what they thought the district would actually mean. And in that conversation, we were also able to have, you know, some clarifications of that, why that was occurring. And so when the new owners came in and when the owners that were a part of this, they understood everything you could possibly understand about being in historic district. This is over three years of doing, you know, outreach. And I had several discussions early on with Chelsea about those, you know, issues in terms of, you know, what are the responsibilities and what are the benefits. Unfortunately, a number of those things that I offered in terms of additional advice were not taken up by her. And I you know, in the in her testimony talking about, you know, what I was saying, what is allowed and what is not allowed. I advised her to contact both the Landmark Preservation Commission, as well as just the city, from a permitting standpoint to figure out what would be allowed and what would not be allowed. Like when she's talking about putting additions onto the back, those are very much allowed as a part of historic district. So I feel that those are fears are on fire. I absolutely understand that. And I just wanted to question about the the downsizing and I got my answer. So thank you. I appreciate that. That's all my questions. Councilman Flynn, you're up. Thank you, Mr. President. Gurdy, would you mind coming back up for a second? Thanks. I used to take the Zero Limited also all the time, and I wanted to thank you for bringing this forward because one of the nicest parts of the commute on up from Broadway station to Civic Center was passing through this part of Lincoln Street. But I notice that you also own two other houses to the south of this district, to 58 and to 60. That's correct. And the reason for not including those is exactly what we've been exploring here, the lack of contiguity because there's a house in between. Is that one of the properties that. The Queen Anne's and the houses, the one house in between 246 and the two houses that I own is in. It's owned by an absentee landowner and it's an incredibly bad shape and I think it will probably be demolished when it's sold. Okay. Thank you very much. Kara, can I ask a quick question? I guess that's. Can I ask a quick question? Because everybody's wondering that I notice that there are some historic districts that also that lack contiguity along a block face and are some like Wyman that actually has an exclave or an enclave of non historic within it . What is the rule that prevents us or prevents landmark from considering not including a a certain property or otherwise along the block? We generally like to have historic districts that are contiguous. There are cases where it's not. Sometimes those were cut out. Sometimes they were for political reasons. They were often designated a while ago. So I personally don't have a history of why they were done. But in general, it's preservation policy. It's part of the landmark ordinance and part of what we look at here in Denver. But it's also overarching preservation policy that you try to have something that is contiguous, that doesn't have what we call a donut hole, which is something in the middle that's missing or that has not just cut in and out. It's something we try to avoid. Okay. But we haven't been able to avoid it all the time in the past. It has. But does that reflect a change in the policy or could that happen again? I mean, it could happen. And again, when you're looking at something that's a district that's this small and you start cutting things out, you lose the continuity of a district that's only two faces of a street. If you're looking at a larger district, you can still maintain the continuity and the history of it a little bit better . So a non contributing structure might be carved out in a larger district. Yeah, well, it would oftentimes just be non contributing. It would still be within the boundary of the historic district. It would just be determined, non contributing. These all were built at the same time, so they would all be contributing structures. I think that's on this problem. Thank you, Councilman Flynn, Councilman Espinosa. Just maybe a question for John and possibly for Chelsea as well. What is that? And I feel bad because I'm a licensed architect here. Yeah. What is that? What does that turret form that. What is the official name for that thing. For the turret. Yeah. I mean, it's. It's a. Turret. All right. Yeah. All right. That's exactly what it's called. Yes. Question for Chelsea. Is your house one of the turret houses? My husband's one. Chelsea, we're gonna we're going to need you to come up to the podium, please. I have a loud boom, but sometimes not that much. My home is one of the targeted homes. I also, in my letter of opposition, question whether these are all Queen Anne's. There's other impacting factors like Queen Anne's are usually would a lot of these are brick that don't meet Queen Anne architecture whatsoever. And this is the first time, Kyra, that I've ever heard that it was a possibility to have the home excluded. I was told through and through, including at the landmark preservation hearing on 315 that that was not an option. So that's very shocking information. But so here's the question for you, Chelsea. All right. So did you know that you can, in fact, do additions? There's this looking I've been exploring the aerial maps. To the back. I have been told that some things that I actually do want to do that I've now gotten permits for, including renovating the deck or doing a window to a door conversion to my upper deck to make it easy to access and actually step out to the upper deck rather than winding a window and trying to crawl through which you currently have to do would not have been an option. So it's really in the how. It's not necessarily the what unless it's really sort of egregious, but you'll find that, yeah, these really want to use this opportunity to let everyone know and yourself that actually there's a lot you can do. It just has to be within reason. And then there's going to be an emphasis on one side of the building versus all sides of the building. You know, there's there's other, you know, caveats depending on the house and everything else. But it isn't as if people sort of bothered to take their ideas to the landmark commission. I think you'd be surprised how much latitude you have and being part of the district does in fact give you access to other financial tools that that don't that aren't afforded to people outside these districts. I think the other concerns of the time frame it would take for approval and the additional cost, I've been told by several contractors who I got to come. Over for the original door to. Window conversion that I'm trying to do. They won't even touch a historic home. It's just not within. Their contractors will tell you a lot of things that you know and a lot of it is and it's just I'm being asked not to be believed. Sorry. It is additional time, but with a little bit of planning, it makes no difference in the in the end result. And and I just speak to that from experience, having renovated the state house of this of this entire state. Give me some good contractors if it goes through. All right. Thanks. Thank you, Councilman Espinosa. Councilman Brooks. Yeah. Just a quick question, Carol, or one. I wanted to allow you to provide feedback. After what Jose just said, that that was the first time she had heard from that. Did you want to respond? Look like you want to respond. You know, we it wouldn't be allowed to be cut out just simply because of the size of the district. It isn't something. So while it has been allowed in the past, it's not something that would have been an option here. And I don't know that the landmark commission would have allowed it to go forward as that. So while yes, it has happened in the past, it isn't appropriate for this historic district. Right. And so in the district, there are 15. Every house is a contributing structure to the district. Correct? Yes, they all are. And I'm looking at it here and I can't tell. Are there any empty lots in the district there? Not necessarily an empty lot. There was a house that burned down. And so that lot has been combined with the one that the LLC purchased, I think. And so it's just one larger lot. But it was basically a sister house to the one that's currently there and it burned down a hundred years ago. So can it be built on? Sure. Come on. If you want to keep going after that. Come on. Come on up. You got to come to the microphone, sir. We actually I purchased. Two feet of land from the vacant lot from my neighbors in order to further prevent the double lot from being split and also to add a walkway path from my front yard to my backyard which the property was lacking. So it is. Not. Formally a double lot any longer. It is two feet under, so 48 feet. So it's not you can't legally build on that. Okay. So is there a you know, in just all are in this district? I just I'm curious can you build anywhere in the district? Not that I'm aware of. No. Great. Thank you. Actually, I want to make the exception you could build out and on. So I mean that there's space there that theoretically could have something built on it just couldn't do a new stand alone as a usable right. But with variants, you could also look at that because we've done that in Ghost. Right. Any other questions to 72? So, you know, public hearing and now closed time for comments. Councilman Clark. Thank you, Mr. President, and thank all of you for sticking it out this late with us tonight. I. You know, whenever we look at these designations, you know, one of the things that always weighs heavy is property rights and personal property rights. And this one's a little bit different in that it's not a hostile designation, but there's one person who feels that it's hostile. And for that property it is. And so, you know, I think that does weigh. But I think in this case, it it is outweighed by what's going on here. I am a Denver native who always cheers for the Denver Broncos. And I, I remember as a kid trips up and down Broadway and Lincoln to get to downtown. And I remember this block from when I was a kid. And it's a block that I always look for as I'm driving and as I'm riding through this part of town. Because it is it's this place where all of a sudden you're transported in time. And it's just a very, very special place. And this part of town has, as Denver has grown and will continue to grow, has absorbed a lot of that growth. We have to light rail stations that are very nearby. We just approved, you know, a stationary plan for the former gate site, which is less than a mile away, and the Almeida site around it that has a development plan for a lot of density that's a block away. And I think that, you know, as we grow and as we change, we have to identify those areas where we can do that, where we don't just sprawl out and we have to be smart about that. And those areas are identified around those two light rail stations. But then we also have to find that balance in preserving the magic that is Denver and our history. And this is one of those places that I think is is a slam dunk for us. Preserving it is that gateway to downtown. It's also that gateway between a traditional neighborhood and neighborhood in which park that so many people think of when they think of Denver. And it's that gateway now between that and between multimodal development and a light rail station. And I think that we have an opportunity in front of us to preserve something that is very, very special. And we have a group of of neighbors who are so passionate about where they live and about this preservation that a group of them have come together to buy a house when it came for sale, to restore it , to protect it and to bring it back. And so I am I'm very excited to represent this group of people. And I, I will say to Chelsea that I will be voting to support this. But if you are lucky enough to still own this property for as long as Jersey has owned hers, I'm I am positive. And you can come find me and tell me I was wrong that you will not lose money because this is preserved, that this historic district where it's located, unfortunately for affordability and for other young people and young families who want to live there, it's not going to get cheaper and it is really going to be a gem by our city that that the value will will be tremendous, both to us as a city, to us as Bronco loving Denver rights and 2 to 4 generations to see what what the city was and how it how it grew up. So I will be supporting this tonight, and I strongly urge all my colleagues to do so as well. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman Clark. Councilman Black. Thank you, Mr. President. I couldn't say it better than. Clark just said it. So I'm not going to add much except for to say Chelsea. I also am supporting this, but you do not have to wait as long as gurdy. I'm not calling you old Gerd, but it's 1970. Whatever was a long time ago. I would. I believe in personal property rights. I know your property is going to be worth more as soon as this passes. The tax credits are available. I, too, have driven down that street. I continue to drive down that street on my way to work every day. It's an important block to preserve in our city, and I know it will not be a negative thing for you. So I also will be supporting it. Thank you, Councilwoman Black. Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Mr. President. I couldn't say it better than Councilwoman Black, but I want to and I just want to put out there that in my district, there are some. There's an enclave of historic homes that's not designated. But there are people in there who are faithfully restoring them to the mid-century modern style. And the folks who are doing that are realizing substantial increases in in their values compared with the few, unfortunately, that have been re re styled outside of the bounds of the mid-century modern cliff may style, they have sold for substantially less than the gain of the ones that have been faithfully restored. So I just wanted to echo what Councilwoman Black said, that I believe historic preservation in a district context will will only add to the value. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Flynn. Councilman Espinosa. I hope for your sake that Chelsea is not a hoarder and a cat woman. In 40 years, that could be a rough property. You're in one of the tenant homes and. And that matters. And that's unfortunate for you, but it's actually, in the long run, going to be fortunate for you. I would support it because that because I've seen this property over the course of 30 years, used to commute right by it every single day, and you don't not notice the turrets. What you did notice was the condition of that block, which was not good for a really long time. And when one person finally there was one person that always sort of maintained his house, but then when one person took one that was in that was very much neglected and started to transform it, that transformed that block. I don't know what you guys were all doing, but at some point it turned a corner and a domino effect occurred. And the profit that log went from from one of roof rental to one that that's achieving a potential that it had always been there. The nice thing is these are durable homes that are that are capable of withstanding neglect and then being brought back to life to their former glory, which is really tough to say for I mean, I can't say that for some. A lot of the new construction that goes on in in northwest Denver, a lot of people, when those things start to leak, are going to be coming looking for you to pay with their million dollars, provided you take care of it, asking for a real house, one that's got more than a 30 year shelf life. So that's the thing is it would really I, I respect the fact that they they basically insisted that you be part of it because because you you notice the pattern, you notice all those turns and your eye is drawn to it and it makes part of commuting up Lincoln wonderful. And so it's a sacrifice, but it's, it's, it's part of what makes Denver unique. And I'm going to be supporting this, but I do think that in the long run, you'll find that you can capture most of what you want to do. You can do it not as economically as you need to. And and you're going to have a very stable neighborhood, because that's what happens in historic districts, is is it becomes a known quantity and a very, very desirable part of town. So so I will be supporting this. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Espinosa. Councilman Lopez. Thank you, Mr. President, I. When I saw this come up, I just had a lot of memories. And that memories, those memories for me are living off a link, living right off a Lincoln Street on 664, South Lincoln. And I was when I first had my first apartment and 17, 18 years old, and that was it. And so commuting up and down, I remember walking every single day to school over at UCD, every single day going up Lincoln on the bike, walking with groceries and those. The thing about historic districts is as you know it when you see it. Right. And and this was one of those areas of town you come in from South Lincoln where you you know, it. The houses have a particular flavor to it. The block has a particular flavor to it. And, you know, I you know, I definitely understand your concern. It does it does bother me that this is the first time you realized that you were able to actually possibly opt out of it. You know, the question of how they were selected still remains in my mind, because I think there's probably some houses there that are probably left out that perhaps could be included in it. And when you drive down that, you just you just see it, you know it. And so, you know, I, I know that you have a great councilman representing that area. And, you know, I think, you know, any time you have any kind of issues running into permitting or questions about what you can and can't do, I think that's a just an amazing resource to have as that, you know, as it develops . But, you know, I, you know, I have a villa park Bab house on a slab. Right. And it's nothing like the house that you were in. Those houses are solid. They last for a very long time. And if you take care of last forever, I just you know, I'm supportive of the of the historic district. I am supportive of this moving forward for preservation. However, I do think that we should be, as we start identifying some of these blocks, that we should be mindful and very, very flexible with some of the residents. I had no idea that they're going to be buying into a historic district. Right. So thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. I'll try to be brief and not be redundant. I live in a very old home. Mine was built in the late 1800s and just being able to do work on these older homes that have just incredible woodwork and just unique characteristics, it's it's a work in progress and it takes time and money to be able to do the kind of improvements that we all want to do on our homes. I also was very intimately involved in the Baker Historic District. The Lower Downtown Historic District and the Potter Highlands District, which are all some of the larger districts that we have in the city. And in every one of those districts, the property values immediately increased. And this was long before we saw this uptick in our economy and the impact to the housing market all across the city. These were neighborhoods that saw some real stability in knowing that, you know, the property next to them was not going to be torn down , particularly in the lower downtown district when we worked on that. We had a number of property owners who were reluctant to have their building designated as a historic building. But, you know, fast forward to today and everybody really appreciates the fact that those buildings were, in fact, preserved. And it's a thriving part of our downtown. I mean, you know, we've extended the downtown all the way to include lower downtown and beyond. And so I think the concerns that have been expressed about. Impact to property values are not going to be realized. I think you'll you'll see just the opposite of that, as we have seen in other parts of the city where these historic districts have been around for some time. And I don't I don't see John Olsen still out in the audience, but correct me if I'm wrong, but in these historic districts, you can actually access grants to be able to do improvements to your properties. And if you can just kind of shake your head to confirm that. That's correct, John, because we're in comment period now, not question answer, but yes. Yeah. Okay. So, you know, I think there are opportunities available to folks who have historic properties. And it's to that that very point. But this is a beautiful part of the city. And being able to preserve it for future generations is, I think, important. I regret the fact that we had some incredible buildings that were in our downtown when at one point our urban renewal authority was part of the the vehicle that was helping tear down and work with developers to do some of these buildings. And there was a big push from folks to try to save some of those buildings. And, you know, we're lucky to have a number of them along our 16th Street corridor and in other areas of downtown. So. For people who come to this city and to try to recall what once was in my neighborhood in lower highlands, which is drastically changing, you know, being able to see some of that preservation is is really important to just knowing the history and the culture of our city. So I will be supporting this tonight. And I just want to thank the community for all of the hard work that went into putting this together. It takes time. It takes a lot of energy. And for every one of you who were involved in shaping this, congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Councilman Sussman, you're at I'm getting ahead of myself. I have a much more pedestrian comment to make. Not so high minded as my council of people. Thank you for one of the most entertaining public comment period we've had in a very long time. I appreciate it very much. Thank you. Councilwoman Sussman, in the comments to 72. I will I will chime in briefly. One thank you all for coming out and sitting here in those chairs. I thought they were going to be here sooner than we got to this. But Chelsea and and being knowing you're the one lone opposition to this is come and speak your mind I appreciate you doing that. I didn't I didn't ask this question. But I imagine one of the reasons why you purchased a home was because of the charm and the esthetics is something that you really appreciated. And you even mentioned yourself that, you know, you wouldn't even consider tearing it down. And I understand your concerns, and it's easy for us to say we're property rights advocates when it's not our property and how we can easily just wave that magic wand and say, Oh, yeah, we should do this. I don't think it's a slam dunk as much as other people say this is something I will support. But I, I have concern about the optics of that and whether or not it was intentional to shrink the size to have a better view. I just think that that doesn't look right and doesn't sit well with me. I also think that we're a little naive to say you can accomplish all the things you want to do. It's not that hard. I respectfully disagree. I, I was looked really long and hard into finding an adaptive reuse for the Stapleton Tower, and one of the things we considered was historic preservation. And when I did some research and all the restrictions on that, and once you did, that gave me pause. And so that's something that I didn't want to consider, and that was just my personal opinion. So there will be some challenges and that's just the reality. But the greater good is that we'll have a beautiful collection of homes that show a part of Denver that can never be taken away. And I think that that's something we need to consider as well. But I just think it's unfair for us to just look at you and say, Oh, it'll be easy. You'll gain all this money back. And that's just not the reality of it. But we appreciate I sincerely appreciate your comments and sharing your thoughts. And I also appreciate all the other neighbors that worked really hard. And I know we love our neighbors and we all want to get along and sometimes we don't. But I, I can tell you, I really do get along. So I think that that's great. And no matter how this felt goes, I can I can imagine still be good. Neighbor So see no other comments, ma'am. Secretary Roll call. Clark is Vanessa Flynn. Hi, Gilmore. I can eat. Lopez. I knew Ortega. SUSSMAN Black. Brooks Mr. President. I. Madam Secretary, please, for the very nasty results. 12 eyes. 12 eyes to 72 is in place on final consideration and death penalty. All right, we've got one more. 311. So, Councilman Lopez, will you please put 311 on the floor for final consideration and do pass? Mr. President, I move that council bill 311 series of 2016 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved. Call it up. It has been moved and seconded. Public hearing on 311 is now open. May we have staff report? We got quorum. Two, three, four, five. Give me. Do you got. Me? Do you extend it. Got eight. Go ahead. We have seven. I can count. It. So I am Karen again with Landmark Preservation at CPD. This is for 1250 Welton Street, the Emily Griffith Opportunity School for landmark designation as a structure. And I will try to move through this quickly. So this is 1250 WELTON It's also known as. 1261 Glenarm The applicants are Denver public schools who are the owner. So this is an owner supported designation as well as a start. To my birthday just got excited go ahead you got. Oh he's excited about the owner supported. Yes so it is an owner supported this is for the entire block and it is divided into contributing and non contributing areas. The contributing areas include the 1926 schoolhouse as well as in 1847 and 1956 editions.