A bill for an ordinance approving the Service Plan for the creation of 2000 Holly Metropolitan District. Approves the service plan for the formation and establishment of the 2000 Holly Metropolitan District in Council District 6. If ordered published, a public hearing will be held on Monday, 9-10-18. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 8-14-18.
Now, we were missing 112 eyes. 12 eyes, constable. 880 has passed. Councilwoman, will you please put Council 81 on the floor? Yes, I move that council bill 18 Dash 881 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved. Can I get a second? It has been moved and seconded. The public hearing for Council Bill 881 is open. May we have the staff report? Good evening. I'm Andrew Johnston with the Department of Finance. And here to give you your staff report on Council Bill 1881 series of 2018, which is for an ordinance approving a single service plan for a new metropolitan district supporting redevelopment at the site located at 2000 South Holly Street. The district is called 2000 Holly Metropolitan District. The service plan being submitted to City Council approval is on behalf of CR F Holly LLC, pursuant to the requirements of the Special District Act. Sections 30 2-12001 and more particularly 32 Dash 1 to 4.5 of the Colorado Revised Statutes. The service plan contains the district's purpose, powers, requirements and financing plan. The district shall be responsible for compliance with the city's municipal code rules, regulations and policy and all other applicable laws. The District shall ensure that the District's public improvements are designed and constructed in accordance with the standards and specifications of the city and other governmental entities having jurisdiction. The new Metropolitan District will be responsible for coordinating the financing, acquisition, construction, completion operation and maintenance of all public infrastructure and services within and without the service area, including without limitation street and sidewalk improvements, parking infrastructure, water, storm drainage detention, sanitary sanitary sewer improvements, landscaping, irrigation, public spaces and traffic and safety controls and improvements. The new metropolitan district will have the power to raise revenues pursuant to the authorities granted by the Special District Act, including the imposition of up to 50 mills plus rates, fees, tolls and charges for debt and district operations and maintenance. Once the district imposes a debt mill levy, the district's operations and maintenance mill levy cannot exceed ten mills. The total estimated cost of the public improvements necessary to serve content contemplated development is approximately $3.8 million. In order for the new Metropolitan District to have the fiscal wherewithal to provide the funding for the upfront costs of the public improvements needed in the service area, the new metropolitan district shall have the ability to issue debt and impose a debt mill levy to provide funding for the upfront infrastructure costs. At this time, 2000 South Hadley site is not currently located in a urban renewal area, and a developer is not seeking authorization from the Denver Urban Renewal Authority to use tax increment financing. At completion of the current completion. The current plan projects the residential and commercial mixed use development to include approximately 140 to 180 for sale residential units and either 40 to 60 affordable senior housing apartments or 5000 square feet of commercial space. Approval of the service plan establishes the following There is sufficient and sufficient existing and projected need for organized service in the area. The existing service in the area is inadequate for president projected needs. The district and the districts. The district is capable of economically providing sufficient service to the area within the proposed boundaries. The land and proposed development to be included does and will have the financial ability to discharge the proposed indebtedness on a reasonable basis. And the facility and service standards will be compatible with the service and facility standards of the city. Staff recommends approval of the service plans. The applicant, their representatives and city staff are here tonight to respond to any questions regarding this bill. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Johnston, you've been down here a lot. Thank you for all your good work. I do fear that at the end of the year and our council awards ceremony, you're not going to fare well in the best PowerPoint presentation category. But we do appreciate all the work that you put in and thank you for that presentation. We have five individuals signed up to speak this evening. I think you're probably all sitting right here in the front already. But if you're not, come on up. First up, Kristin Baer. Good evening. Again, Kristin Baer. With the law firm of White Bear Brinkley. Tanaka and Waldron. And again, we represent the petitioners in this matter. I am. Wholeheartedly for the passage of this. Bill and would welcome any questions you might have regarding the service plan of the districts. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next up, Chris Scardino. I'm Crispus Guardian with the control group. I represent the applicant. And again, we're in support of putting this matter district in place. And I'm here for any questions that I can answer. Thank you very much, Sam Sharp. Sam Schaap with D.A.. Davidson and Company. You are the financial. Consultant to the applicant here for questions. Thank you very much. Chairman Secret. Yes. Chairman Sekou likes saw some movement self-defense as a group of poor working poor homeless people. Senior citizens. Students. Again. We. Support. This metropolitan district. Thinking about. What's right about it as opposed to what's wrong about it and what's wrong about it. Councilman Guzman has committed himself. Mr. Sekou. Thank you for your. If you could just refer to the. Our expectations refer to the council as a whole not to individual council members. Think you can please continue. Okay. I can use a name as I would. You can just address us as a body instead of picking out individual members. Thank you. All right. So. Strike that. So what's right about this thing is that it can be. And it shall be. To. For the development of the city and the neighborhoods. And when we have. Folks who are willing to step up to invest. In the city and especially on this one, where they coming out their pocket, they're not asking for the financing and and getting folks caught up in future debt and they see the possibilities of them. Making a contribution to the city and in the process they get something out of this too. It's a win win thing. It's a win win thing. Now, the caveat is not why are we doing it, but how we do it, how we do it. And if we apply the standard of. The greatness and goodness of the possibilities that can happen with it, with our actual behavior in doing what we say we going to do. Then this is a good thing, especially for poor, working, poor and homeless people, because there's a lot of jobs in this part of jobs in this city's bangin jobs. And I just came from the gemstone show after the Coliseum. Oh, man. Big. Great. When I saw people at stops and they were doing construction, there were no black workers there. Now what? Like, how could you do this? How could you have all this going on? Ain't no black folk working. And we got black folk on the council. Come on, now. Talk to me. So saying one thing out, one side to mouth and then doing something else. And that's not critical. That's just the way things have been going. On. And on and on with no one having the courage to stand up and do it because they don't want to risk their careers, their political associations, their friend, whoever they've been hanging out with for the last something died before they got up in here. Sherman Sager, again, thank you so much for speaking. As far follow our expectations state to the topic that we're discussing. And again, number three is no remarks about council members personality, appearance or perceived motives. Did you change some rules? I didn't. Is this supposed to be read out loud so we understand this thing? Those are just our expectations. Same rules we've always had while. We come up here. No, I didn't know this is for this. And you didn't even explain this suggestion before you had the conversation. These have always been our rules. Your time is ticking. So people will know what is about to win is up here. We can follow rules. My chairman said. What do you have? Do you have any comments? Study and ask, Is it okay if I take this with me so I can read this? The first time I ever seen this in 12 years, it's sitting up here. Thank you very much. Next up, Jesse Pierce. It was. Yeah. Jesse Paris. Denver Homicide. Low Black Star Action. War for Self-defense. So the Council at Large Candidate 2019 August stated previously The way these metro districts are operating and the way council is working with them is very disingenuous and a disservice to the people. That you are supposed to be representing. This just seems like another way of masking the widespread gentrification that's going on in the city. Gentrification, just a nice way of saying ethnic cleansing. The city is becoming where it wants to be once again. White only exclusive, but under the inclusion of inclusion. There's nothing inclusive about any of this stuff, especially if you're not being transparent with the citizens of this city. We find this very faulty. And once again, I am against this. If you do not disclose this information to the Arnolds. If you are not disclosing this information to the public, we need to know these things. So with that being said, I'm against this. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers. Are there questions from members of council? Councilman Ortega. I just want to clarify whether or not this particular application is going to either need or be requesting tax increment financing. Can someone from the team address that? Not on this site. Okay. Just the other one. Yep. And then Andrew wanted to ask you a question about the legislation that creates metro districts is very, very clear and very prescriptive. But I don't remember seeing anything in there that would preclude local government from being able to require notification. So can you just speak to that? I know Councilman Cashman said that he would intend to bring that forward. I think that's a reasonable request on all of these. And I'm sure that the community was notified this was part of the process during the public meetings that were being held. And I know there were a number of them with the community, but can you just speak to that? Absolutely. There. You're right. There have been a number of community meetings about the development on both the Holly and the Arkansas side with a lot of involvement there. But when it comes to the actual legal requirements in the Colorado Revised Statutes, it is very prescriptive. And it does say that it's only to all the taxing entities within a three mile radius of the proposed district site. But there's nothing precluding the ability of of going the extra mile and including our in-house. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman Ortega. Councilwoman Sussman. Thank you, Mr. President. This is just a small item, but I notice that committee and tonight that in the information we have on our agenda and also in the bill that was filed, that the word south is not there in South, Holly, and the word east is not there in Arkansas. And I'm just wondering if that's going to result in you're having to refile the bill because those are not the addresses. It will not. It's been a confusing thing all along, actually. They chose the name of the metropolitan districts by their legal name, creating them as just 2000 Holly and 4201 Arkansas. But the sites have site directions in their addresses, either being on South Holly or on East Arkansas. So but that will not require any new notifications. Interesting. Thank you. Yes. Thank you, Councilwoman Sussman. Seeing no other questions. The public hearing for Council Bill 881 is closed. Comments by members of Council. Councilman Cashman. Thank you, Mr. President. Yeah, for the reasons I mentioned earlier. I will approve this. But with your indulgence, Mr. President, something I neglected to speak about regarding the Arkansas site that I just want to get on the record. Part of the problem I have with taking these things out of order, out of what would seem like a logical order. While there's no proscriptive, this must be done in this order to be approving these metro districts. I have concern that there may be some inference of an indication on feelings towards either the TIFF application or the rezoning that will follow. And it should be clear that that is not the case. The developer and the city are presently working on a development agreement that we don't know what that looks like yet. We don't know what the outcome of Dora's evaluation of the TIFF request is, so we really have nothing on which to consider either of those items. So any comments made tonight, at least from this chair and I suspect from my my colleagues, are simply about the creation of these districts. And I would also say that I'll just reinforce the need to add this to the R.A. ordinance, because I was I think I've been at all but one of the public meetings. And if metro districts were mentioned, it certainly was not emphatic enough to stick with me as far as knowledge of that from those meetings. I have been briefed on them, but that's my recollection. Apologies if I missed something in the meeting process. Thank you. Councilman Cashman. Councilwoman Black. Thank you, Mr. President. I think that's a great idea to let our RINO's know. But just to be clear, these plans really are just a funding mechanism to build infrastructure, which is then turned back over to the city. It's just a way to fund those things. It's not a development plan or anything like that. So I just wanted to be clear on what they are and aren't. Okay. Thank you, Councilman Black. Seeing no other comments, Madam Secretary. Oh, Councilman Brooks. Thank you, Mr. President. I'll be supporting this. I just wanted to chime in on this notification process. I appreciate the effort to make sure the Arnaud's do this. I would say if if it is notified to Arnaud, as I just said in Arnaud. Actually, I was at a neighborhood that did not knows a hundred people there and they did not know who their R.A. was. So we need to have a conversation about other folks outside of Arnaud who are in the neighborhood. They've been in the neighborhood, but they aren't connected to a specific Arnaud. So I'd love to have a conversation with you, Councilman, on that. Thank you. Councilman Brooks, seeing no other comments. Madam Secretary, roll call. Cashman. Cannick, I. Lopez All right. New Ortega. SUSSMAN Black Eye. Brooks Flynn, I. Gilmore, Herndon. Hi. Mr. President. Hi, Madam Secretary. Please close the voting and thus results choice. 12 hours, countable. 881 has passed. Councilwoman, can you please be accountable? 791 on the floor.