A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 4735 North Quitman Street in Berkeley. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-C to U-SU-C1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 4735 Quitman Street in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 3-16-21.
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Direct your comments to council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Council Member State Abarca Will you please put Council Bill 257 on the floor for final passage? I move that council bill 21 dash to 57 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It's like a. Thank you. It's been moved in our second by councilmember flynn. The required public hearing for council bill 257 is open. May we have the staff report? And I see we've got Fran here with us. Can you see my screen there? Yeah. You're good, friend. Perfect. Sorry. I'm dealing with many a monitor, so it's all good. It afternoon. Members of City Council. Madam President, my name is Fred Benefit and I'm the associate planner with Planning Services and I'm here today to present an overview of the MAP Amendment for 4735 Quitman Street. Subject property is located in Council District one with Councilwoman Amanda Sandoval. In the Berkeley neighborhood. Just have a look. So for my 70. The property owner is proposing to rezone to a district that allows for accessory dwelling units. If approved or other forms and use standards would remain the same. The property. The property is currently in the urban single unit season district, which allows for a minimum of 5500 square feet. And if it's owned, it is completely surrounded by other properties that are also shown us, you see. The site is currently occupied by a single unit home and it's mostly surrounded by other single unit and two unit uses as well. Some multi-unit uses just northwest from the property and some public quasi public open spaces do exist. You can see there that's the school to the west. This slide shows the existing area with the site of the proposed rezoning on the bottom right and on the bottom left, the top right. There's some images that show you the residential character of the neighborhood. Now speaking to process information on notice of the application was sent on January 5th, 2021. Planning Board recommended approval on March 3rd and a present one letter of support of three letters of opposition had been received from the public. One of the leaders of opposition expresses concerns with spot zoning, but notes that they would support a rezoning for the whole neighborhood if there was an option. The second letter opposition refers to their concerns with the applicant's intentions of renting the main property while living in the. Just as a reminder, the Denver zoning code requires the property owner to reside in either the primary dwelling unit or the accessory dwelling unit while residing in one unit. The owner might rent the other unit. Third letter only notes concerns, but does not specify what the concerns are. And finally, the letter of support explains that the way to use I already allowed nearby Sony would allow the owners to invest in the property with an appropriate use. As you know, the Denver zoning code has five review criteria that we're going to look at. The first one is consistency. We looked at months. There are two plans applicable with this rezoning. The first one is a comprehensive plan 2040. The second one is Blueprint Denver. The rezoning is consistent with several of the tragedies in comprehensive plan 2041 example. This MAP amendment will promote equity by creating a greater mix of housing options in the Berkeley neighborhood, and it will lead to an environmentally resilient Denver by promoting infill development with the structure and services already in place. No nothing at Blueprint Denver. The subject property is mapped as part of the urban neighborhood context. The future places map designates the subject property as no residential place type. This place types have predominantly single and two unit uses and states that accessory dwelling units are appropriate. Now looking at the street designation with my street is a local street, which is mostly characterized by residential uses. The growth area in Blueprint. Denver is all areas of the city. These areas are anticipated to see a 10% employment growth and 20% housing growth by 2040. You also include specific policy recommendations. Housing Policy four focuses on diversifying housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. Stock also finds that the requested Sony 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 its implementation of adopted plans. The justified circumstance where this rezoning is a city adopted club. Since the approval of the existing you. As you see on the street, the city has adopted a comprehensive plan 2040 and blueprint deliver a stated throughout this presentation. The proposed rezoning meets the intent of this plus. Lastly, the proposed zoning is consistent with the urban neighborhood context residential district and the U.S. U.S. one stone district. So that's a recommend approval based on finding or review criteria has been met. All right. Thank you, Fran. Council has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 257. And we have one individual signed up to speak this evening. And we have Jesse Paris. So we'll go ahead and get. Jesse. And to the cue. All right. Go ahead, Jesse. Jesse? Yes. Good evening. Members of council, those watching at home. My name is just bizarre. Person represents the black self-defense class, the best of social change as well as the United Party of Colorado and my front line black nose. And I will be the next mayor of Denver in 2023. I am in favor of this rezoning tonight. I just had a quick question for Amanda Sandoval. How many of these additional requests have you received within the past year and have been approved? Because those brother that called in on general public comment earlier that had some issues with the process of which is racially biased. So I would hope that the person that is nurturing or proposing this Ed is a person of color or black. Especially after. Hearing how Brian Johnson was treated in regards to these rezonings and his obsession with women, that he won it for his brother, who was just able and he wanted her to be close to home. So if Amanda Sandoval could please answer that question, I really appreciate it. Also, we're in favor of this rezoning. I supported a use when I ran for office in 2019 and I'll continue to support them in 2023. Just for the poor people all across it. Reporter Urban camping. MAN Thank you. Thank you, Jesse. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 257. Seeing no questions from members of council. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 257 Council Member Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. So just wanted to clarify something for our public comment on this rezoning. The public comment that we had prior to this rezoning, not for the public hearing, was regarding a board of adjustment case, not a rezoning case. So the Board of Adjustment case is totally separate. Then a possible rezoning, which is a change of entitlement. We don't have the right to build it. And then if you get through this rezoning, you would have the ability to rezone it. So I just want to clarify that and as we got the wonderful presentation from Fran, thank you CPD and it meets all of the criteria. So I asked that my colleagues support this. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval, Councilmember Hines. Thank you. Council President. I wanted to thank CBD for all your hard work. I'll just say this for this and the next presentation as well. And. And thank you for ensuring and promoting access, including access to housing. And so thank you. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Councilmember Hines. All right. See no other hands raised. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 257, please. Sandoval. I. Sawyer. I'm Torres. I work. I need tobacco. I Clark. I. Flynn I. Herndon. I ain't I. Cashman. I can h i. Ortega. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, closed the voting and announced the results. 13 813 Ies Council Bill 21 Dash 0 to 5 seven has passed. Council members say to Barker, Will you please put Council Bill 258 on the floor for final passage. And move that Council Bill 21 dash to 58 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Second. Thank you. We have the second by councilmember hines, the required public hearing for counsel. Bill 258 is open. May we have the staff report? Okay. Okay. So. This one is similar. I'll present you a map amendment for 4530. We know what occurred and 4345. Ryan Street. This is the first one for me where I present two cases, but they're very similar. For simplicity, throughout the presentation, we refer to the properties as we know what occurred and Ryan's three. Both properties are located in Council District one with councilmen Councilwoman Amanda Sandoval. We know what occurred is in the Berkeley neighborhood, and Brian Street is located on the Sunnyside neighborhood. Their request is to resign from the current US USOC one Sony to you as you be one a southern district with a smaller minimum standard size that would allow to the touch accessory dwelling unit in each property. All other forms and standards would remain the same. The standard know record is 4690 square feet, and the one in Bryant Street is 4710 square feet, both under the 5500 square feet required by you, as you see. Want to build that attached to you. So that's the reason why they can because they can build in the current state. They can build the bit that you. On these two zoning maps, you can see that we are on a court surrounded, but to the north, west and south, they probably also shown us, you see one end