A bill for an ordinance correcting the legal description of a specifically described area, generally located at 1400 and 1436 South Irving Street in Mar Lee. Corrects the legal description for the property described in Ordinance No. 20170729, Series of 2017, located at 1400 and 1436 South Irving Street in Council District 3. The Committee approved filing this bill by consent on 2-6-18.
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May we have a staff report? Absolutely. Thank you. Good evening. Andrew Webb from Community Planning and Development. This is a request to change the legal description adopted with a previous rezoning ordinance for 1440 1436 South Irving Street. It's in Council District three in the Marly neighborhood. This is about a just under three acre property at the intersection of Florida. And federal contains apartments, several apartment buildings and one single unit home. And the property owner request here is to correct the legal description associated with ordinance number 2017 0729. You may recall this council adopted zone change in August of 2017 from a PD 182 SMU three for this property. During a subsequent application to community planning and development, the applicant and their surveyor noticed some errors in the legal description that had been provided with the original documentation for the zone change and requested that that be changed in the ordinance. We worked with the City Attorney's Office to determine the appropriate process here and ultimately was referred to the LUDIE Committee per the section of the zoning code that allows for a truncated review and public hearing process for correction of an error. It was approved as part of the Ludie consent agenda on February six. We did post signage and complete all the required all the requirements of the 21 day public notification. And we have not received public comments about this request. As I mentioned, this proposal just corrects an error and a legal description. It does not change the zoning of this property. So the consistency with review criteria for a rezoning can be presumed by the council's findings in the original rezoning case. With that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Okay. Wow. That was quick questions for members of council. Actually, we had Mr. Speaker, we do have one speaker. I'm sorry, Chairman Sekou. We have one speaker tonight. Chairman Sekou, you have 3 minutes. Please come to the podium. Good evening and it's good to see you guys. My name is Chairman Sekou. I represent the Black Star Action Movement for Self-defense. I will see for poor, working, poor, homeless senior citizens also. This. Process that we're having a conversation around seems to be something that is is minor, inconsequential. And folks caught this thing. Oh. So they wouldn't have. Later on down the road consequences. And I remember. I don't know. Maybe. Eight, ten years ago. Well, we came to the same thing. Only problem was, Kelly had caught something about the story of a description of a thing, and it was missing a comma instead of a period and that kind of thing. But it had it and it had an impact on the interpretation of what was being said. And so we thanked her for finding that out because it could have substantial implications in the future. And so these things don't seem like they're much, but what it represents is the effort of the city being able to document, cross the I's, do the T's, and then make sure that this thing is found out. There's an error, that it may seem small, but it needs to be fixed. And it needs to be fixed immediately when it's brought to attention. So we want to thank you for for doing that. And we also want to thank counsel and other folks are bringing that to the attention. Now, what this establishes this no excuses for allowing things, no matter how small they are, to become unattended, which means that once we create the habit. Of paying attention to the details, then less will fall through the cracks. And then everybody don't have to run when the light comes off like scattered cockroaches looking for blame when it ain't date. It's just something that was a human error. And we make that all the time because we're human beings. But also we have the responsibility as human beings when we see a mistake to correct the mistake. Otherwise, as my grandfather was there, you have made a big mistake. So thank you very much for the work that you guys do, doing what you do. Thank council for the work that they do to make sure these things don't happen. And if we apply the same habits to the little things and we apply it to the larger scope of things that impact people on a bigger level, then maybe perhaps we can. Have the team work to make the dream work. With the least amount of headaches. I got eight more seconds. Harris. All right. Thank you. Nice shot. Okay. Thank you, Chairman Sekou. This concludes our speakers. Are there any questions by members of council? Whole bunch of questions here. Okay. Councilman Flynn. Thing. Mr. Briggs, I don't know about a bunch of questions, but I am curious if you could explain a couple of things. Who made the error and was this error contained in the legal description? Back all the way back at the beginning, I think in 1994 or whenever this was first developed. Has that ever been in there? And does that create any problem? Councilmember Flynn, the the new zoning or legal description was created for the 2017 rezoning. And it was, as you are probably aware, when application for rezoning is received, we send it to our Public Works survey staff to ensure that is correct. They look to make sure that the legal description doesn't contain any right of way, that sort of thing. And in the back and forth between our staff and the applicant's agent. There were a couple of grammatical errors that did not get noticed at that time and were called to our attention. Okay. All right. Thank you. That's all right. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. Councilman Espinosa. I just wanted to confirm that in the documents, what we're looking at is just a portion of the legal description. Correct? Not the total legal description and the slides. I do have a slide that actually shows the red lined legal description here so you can see what the changes actually are. Yeah. So okay, that that tells me. Yes, we were only looking at a portion here and it's. Oh no actually. Yeah. So we're only talking about the little bump out, not the not the balance of the site. The this what you're adopting tonight would actually just reestablish the entire legal description for the original adoption ordinance for the rezoning. It's formatted a little bit differently. But it should it should be this entire text you see here. All right. You might want to double check that, because that is a much smaller portion than the area that was part of that rezoning. Okay. So that's why I was just trying to confirm that we're just looking at a portion of the total legal description that would have defined that zoning. But okay. Yeah, that is a fraction of of that entire area. So. Okay. We did we'll definitely take a look at that. But we did confirm this repeatedly, this time with public works and with a surveyor that that the applicant had actually hired to do a new and updated legal description. Okay, great. Thank you. All right. See? No other questions. The public hearing is now closed. Councilman Lopez, this is your district. Would you love to? Comment. Yeah. It just seems like, uh, the obvious. Correcting the, uh, the actual title and description. A lot of times you don't pay attention to the actual description. A lot of people think that's just the address, but it's actual. Mm. Property lines. And that's a big deal when you're trying to either borrow against a and to improve, improve a property or anything else. When you have that kind of problem, you have a problem with the bank. You have a problem with being able to do upgrades, anything like that when it comes to financing, things like that. These these are apartments that I've known for a very long time. My actual my aunt, my uncle, my cousins lived in these apartments for a long time. So I know exactly which ones they are and if. If this, then I'm just assuming. But if it just stands to make a corrections to do upgrades in bad need. So this is affordable housing, folks. This is these are apartments that before was a popular they are actually affordable and that's disappearing quickly. So I'm glad we're able to make this correction. All right. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. Seeing no other comments, Madam Secretary. Raquel Lopez. I knew Ortega says when. I black. Eye. Clark. I Espinosa. Flynn, I. Cashman. Can each Mr. President. I please close of voting announce the results. So just seeing one Lebanese. Yeah. 11 Eyes 117 series of 2008 passes translations. Okay. All right. Monday, April 23rd, 2018. Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill. 229 2018 Changes on classification of 580 South Forest St in Washington, Virginia veil a required public hearing of Council Bill 243 Series of 2018 changes only classification for 3400 Arkansas Court. 34 six The Arkansas Court and 1930 35th Street in five points and a required public hearing on Council Bill 2000 Series 2018 to 44 changes on classification for 25th Street and Glenarm Place and five points any protests against the Council Bill 4 to 29 series of 2018 to 2 44 to 43 2018 and to 44 2019 must be filed with the Council offices no later than Monday, August 16, 2018. I move. We are going to move into executive session here and I move that council, enter into executive executive session for the purposes to receive legal advice that is attorney client privilege.