A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 900 North Monaco Street Parkway in Montclair. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from E-SU-G to E-SU-G1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit) located at 900 North Monaco Street Parkway in Council District 5. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 2-1-22.
Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Council Member Sawyer Will you please put Council Bill 20 to dash 116 on the floor for final passage? I'm not going to do that. Based upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded the required public hearing for Council Bill 22, Dash 116 is open and we're going to go ahead and get the staff report here in just a moment. We're trying to get our. Podium computer set up so that we can go ahead and have our planners share the PowerPoint presentation. I'm going to text. And we'll go ahead and welcome Fran with us this evening. Go ahead, Fran. Good afternoon, members of City Council. My name is Frampton Ifill and I'm a city planner with Planning Services. And today we are going to look at the rezoning request for 900 North Street Parkway. The subject property is located in Council District five. In the Montclair neighborhood. The request is to return to a district that will allow you in the rear of the property. All other forms and standards will remain the same. The property is currently shown ESG and the request is to respond to ESG one which requires a minimum standard size of 99,000 square feet and allows for the touch to you in the rear of the property. The site is 10,000 square feet and the current land use for the site is single unit residential and it is totally surrounded by other residential uses. As shown on these photos. The character of the neighborhood is mostly residential and the subject property can be seen on the bottom left image of the slide. Throughout the rezoning process, application notifications have been provided according to code requirements. Planning Board recommended approval unanimously on January five, and to date, staff has not received any comment letters from Orange or from the public . Now moving on to the Denver zoning code review criteria, it must be found the requested MAP amendment is consistent with five criteria. The first criterion is consistency with adopted plans. There are three plans applicable to this rezoning. We have comprehensive plan 2040 loop in Denver and the East Area plan. A stated on the staff report. The rezoning is consistent with several goals of the comprehensive plan 2040. This MAP amendment will promote equity by creating a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood, and it will lead to an environmentally resilient Denver by promoting infill development where infrastructure and services already in place. The subject properties mapped as part of the urban edge neighborhood context blueprint Denver. And the future places map designated as low residential place type displaced types have predominantly single and two unit uses and accessory dwelling units are appropriate. Monaco Street Parkway is designated as residential arterial street type, which are mostly characterized by residential uses. The growth area enveloping Denver is other areas of the city. These areas are anticipated to see 10% employment growth and 20% housing growth by 2040. Blueprint also includes specific policy recommendations. Housing Policy four focuses on diversifying housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. Now the East Area Plan adopted in 2020 updates the guidance in comprehensive plan 2040 and Blueprint Denver within the East Area Plan. The subject property is within the east. Within the urban edge neighborhood context. The proposed ESG one district will allow single unit development within and with an accessory dwelling unit in conformance with the urban edge neighborhood context. The East Area Plan designates the subject property as within the low residential single unit future place. The plan recommends this category in areas where single unit homes with accessory dwelling units are appropriate. Land use and build firm policy states that east area neighborhoods should inclusive, should be inclusive places and integrate missing middle housing and accessory dwelling units. The ESG one's own district allows for a single unit residential use with an additional dwelling unit accessory to the primary single unit use. Therefore, the proposed ESG one zone district is consistent with a low residential single unit. Place description. Stuff also finds that they requested signing meets the next two criteria. The rezoning will result in uniformity of district regulations and will further the public health, safety and welfare primarily through implementation of adopted plans. Justified circumstance for this rezoning is a city adapted plan since the approval of the existing ESG zone district. The city has adopted the comprehensive plan in Denver and the East Area Plan, a stated through this presentation. The proposed rezoning meets the intent of this plan's. Overall, the proposed rezoning is consistent with the urban edge neighborhood context, residential district and the ESU one zone district. With that stuff recommends approval based on finding or review. But the area has been. All right. Thank you very much, Fran. This evening, we have one speaker signed up, Mr. Hunt. And we have that. Mr. Hunt will be in chambers. Mr. Hunt. Okay. Looks like we don't have the speaker and we don't have anybody by that name on the zoom either. All right. Well, that we do not have any speakers for this public hearing. Then questions from members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 116. Seen no questions by members of council. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council. Bill 20 2-116. Council Member. Sawyer Thanks, Madam President. No comments except to say that this is the lack of speakers and the lack of response from the community is clearly the results of the East Area Plan Process, which was three years worth of community conversations about what neighbors wanted to see in the East Area Plan neighborhoods, Montclair being one of them. And so, you know, those conversations were had and the East Area plan is reflective of that. So I'm not surprised to see that there are no speakers here tonight and no feedback from the community. This is well within the discussions of what we had during the East Area planning process and I'm supportive of it. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Sawyer and I agree it has met the requirements and happy to support this this evening. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 22, Dash 116. Sawyer, I. Torres. I black. I CdeBaca. Clark. I. Flynn. I. Herndon. I. Cashman. I can teach. I. Ortega. Sandoval, I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, closed the voting and announced results. 11 Eyes. 11 Eyes Council Bill 20 2-1 16 has passed. Thank you, friend, for being here this evening. Councilmember Sawyer, would you please put council bill 20 2-1, two, five on the floor for final passage?