A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 2070 North Colorado Boulevard in South Park Hill. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-E to U-SU-E1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 2070 North Colorado Boulevard in Council District 8. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 3-2-21.
A move that council bill 20 1-0211 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and we have the second by council member or take up the required public hearing for council bill 211 is open. May we please have the staff report? And I see we've got Libby Adams here with us. And so. Go ahead, Libby. Okay. Okay. Can you see that? Mm hmm. Okay, great. So thank you. Council president. I'm Libby Adams, and I'll be presenting the Map Amendment application for 2017 North Colorado Boulevard. This application is located in District eight in the South Park Hill neighborhood. So it's located on Colorado Boulevard, just across the street from City Park, and the applicant is requesting to rezone from urban single unit E to Urban Single Unit E1 to allow for an accessory dwelling unit. The current zoning of urban single unit E allows for the Urban House primary building form, and it's a minimum zone lot size of 7000 square feet. This is the former home of Dr. Margaret Long and was locally and locally designated in 2013. If this rezoning is approved, when the applicant applies for the EU permit, it will go through the landmark design review process, which includes a final determination from the Landmark Preservation Commission. Existing land use is single unit residential. As you can see, most of the park to the South Park Hill neighborhood is single unit residential. And then there's park and open space where City Park is across Colorado Boulevard. This slide shows the existing building form and scale with the subject property on the upper right hand side. And then you can see other single unit homes in the area and then the park across the street. The application was complete at the gate at the end of December and an informational notice was mailed to property owners within 200 feet on December 29. To date, staff has received two letters of support for this application, as well as the applicant has submitted nine letters of support with their application. The Denver zoning code has five review criteria that must be met in order for a rezoning to be approved. The first is consistency with adopted plans, and there are three that are applicable to this site. This rezoning meets several of the strategies within the comprehensive plan, but most notably, it will create a greater mix of housing options in this neighborhood and will promote infill development for infrastructure and services are already in place. In Blueprint Denver. It's designated as urban neighborhood context for the future neighborhood context. These areas are mostly single and two unit residential uses with some multi-unit and mixed use embedded throughout the block. Patterns are regular, and there's a high degree of walkability. Blueprint identifies the future place type as low residential. These are mostly single and two unit uses, and accessory dwelling units are appropriate. And then the future street type for Carrara Boulevard is a residential arterial, which is mostly characterized by residential uses. The Growth Area Strategy and blueprint. Denver is all other areas of the city. This is where we anticipate 10% of new jobs and 20% of new housing by 2040. Blueprint also identifies specific policies. So in the land use and built form housing policy for strategy. It states that until there's a holistic approach on the individual rezonings to enable, it should be small in nature. And then this site is also within the East Area plan, which provides more specific guidance for certain areas. The blueprint does so for the future place type in the East Area plan. This area is designated as single, low residential single unit, and that does say that these are appropriate. And then the maximum height is up to two and a half storeys. There are also specific recommendations within the East Area plan for the South Park neighborhood, and it talks about integrating abuse and missing middle housing, inappropriate locations such as this area. So staff does think does find that this rezoning to USC you is consistent with the adaptive plan guidance. Seth also finds that it's consistent with the next two criteria and that it will result in uniform regulations and it will further the public health, safety and welfare by implementing our adaptive plans and providing a new type of housing unit in this largely single unit area. And there's also a justifying circumstance that warrants a change in zoning to U.S.C. E1 in the guidance for use in Blueprint Denver, as well as the East Area plan for this area. And lastly, staff finds that the rezoning is consistent with the urban neighborhood context. The residential districts, general purpose and the specific intent of the USC E-1 zone district. So finding are review criteria. Have the MET staff recommends approval? And that concludes my presentation. All right. Well, thank you, Libby, for the presentation. And this evening, counsel has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 21, Dash 0211. And this evening we have five individuals signed up to speak. And our first speaker this evening will be Tess Dougherty. I'm going to go ahead and get tests. Moved over. Up. Let me see. We had a little bit of a lag in our system and so had to wait for the the list to load. So thanks for your patience. It will be Kristen such. Go ahead, Kristen. And correct me on your last name. In your muted. Oh, sorry. Thank you. Issue and no worries. And really, I wasn't quite sure how to respond. I am one of the homeowners at the residence for application and so I really wanted to be able to be. Here and answer any. Questions. But also I am supportive, I think for all of the reasons that Libby has already presented in terms of preserving the character of our neighborhoods, in providing other options for for residences in this neighborhood. And also for us, it largely has it gives us the. Ability to have intergenerational. Housing, which is significant for our family. So I'm here to answer the questions otherwise. Very good. Thank you for being here this evening. Our next speaker is Sha De. All right. Looks like we don't have share with us. And so we'll go ahead and see if she gets into the queue. Sure. If you join the meeting back, please raise your hand. And our next speaker is Matthew Fitzpatrick. Go ahead, please. Matthew. Yeah, hi. My name is Matthew Fitzpatrick and I am a resident of the city of Denver, as well as the owner's application representative. I just wanted to take a moment to thank the Council for hearing the application before you to rezone 2070 Colorado Boulevard. I also want to express my gratitude to the Council and to the community planning and development for their efforts to simplify the rezoning application itself, and especially for working to make the city's housing more equitable and affordable through consideration and approval of accessory dwelling units within the city. I fully support this housing typology and strongly feel it's necessary for the cultural and economic survival of this growing city. And as an immediate neighbor to 2017 Colorado Boulevard and as a resident of Park, I fully support this application for rezoning the subject property to allow for the accessory dwelling. All right. Thank you, Matthew. Our next speaker this evening is Jesse Paris. Yes, good evening. Members of council, those watching at home. My name is just on the show on Paris. And I'm representative. Excuse me. I live in District eight in north east Parkdale and I'm representing for Blackstar, actually, movement for self-defense, positive action, criminal for social change, as well as the Unity Party of Colorado, Universal African People Organization and Frontline Black Knows and I will be the next mayor of Denver in 2023. I am in favor of this rezoning of this 80 you I supported 80 years when I ran for office in 2019. I will continue to support them in 2021. We have a housing crisis. So anything that is being done by this council to alleviate that housing crisis, I'm here for favor of. So I'm here for favor of this. Rezoning. Tonight's for the 80 you. Thank you. Thank you, Jesse. Our last speaker this evening is Tess Dougherty. My name is Tess Sturdy, and I'm a resident in District nine. And I think I also support the this zoning. And and I would just call, you know, in the presentation, it was noted that the building formed standards, design standards and uses work together to promote desirable residential areas. And that part of the goal of the rezoning for to use is to expand diversity of housing types and affordability to support households of different sizes, ages and incomes in all neighborhoods. I just wanted to kind of point that out for the gentleman who gave public comment tonight regarding the zoning that he's having trouble with, for his mother with a disability. I talked to people with disabilities and it's not you know, it's about universal design and about about equity and responding to the individual needs of someone with a disability. And so I you know, it's it's just interesting to see the stark contrast between that, you know, this process, which seems to be also for intergenerational housing for the applicants and to see that a gentleman earlier is having so much trouble in being told that he should hire a lawyer, I find that just egregiously discriminatory. And I hope that whoever you know, that that was the response from the mayor is is unacceptable. So I hope that in the any department and whoever they're making, whoever is making these decisions, that we are thinking about it with an equity lens and that that we're really considering that these plans are in place. It should provide guidelines, but that, you know, people with disabilities are going to need different things than than other people sometimes. And so taking that into consideration, it seems it just seems like that was a clear case of discrimination. And I don't I just I don't know much more about it, but I don't understand why he's just being told to hire a lawyer. That seems ridiculous. So thank you. Thank you for your comments this evening, Tess. And that concludes our speakers this evening. Questions from members of Council on Council Bill 211. Right. See? No questions. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 211. Council Member Herndon. Thank you, Madam President. This is in Council District eight. I. I believe the criteria has clearly been met and I would urge my colleagues to support this. What is interesting, this is. Not the first you but I do believe this is the first aid you've done on a on a building and a house has been. Landmarked. So I'll be curious just to see. Watching this process through landmark designation to see how that goes. And I'm now the place of the. More elder. Council members who back in 2013 remember designating this along with my At-Large colleagues, council members Ken Needs and Ortega, when I looked at this property was like. I remember when we did. This back in 2013, so I am supporting this and I urge my colleagues to do so as well. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Councilmember Herndon and I concur, looking at the zoning criteria that this application does meet all of the criteria and seeing no other hands raised for comments. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 211, please. And then. I. Hinds I. Cashman. I. Can each I. Ortega All right. Sandoval. I. Sawyer I. Or as. I. Like. I. CdeBaca. I. Clark. I. Flynn. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 13 Eyes. 13 Eyes Council Bill 20 1-0211 has passed our pre adjournment announcement on Monday, May 17 Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 21, Dash 0356 Changing the zoning classification for 8120 West House Avenue in Marston are required public hearing on Council Bill 21, Dash 0370 Changing the zoning classification for 3030 North Newton Street in