A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3145 West 31st Avenue in West Highland. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-B to U-SU-B1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 3145 West 31st Avenue in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-22-21.
Councilmember Cashman, will you please put Council Bill six, eight, nine on the floor for final passage? Yes, Council President. I move the council bill 21 689 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded the required public hearing for Council Bill 689 is open. May we please have the staff report? And I see we have. It's in here. Go ahead, please. Good evening, everyone. My name is Ed Senate Finance and I'm with CPD. Before you today, we have 30, 31, 45 West 31st Avenue, where the applicant is seeking to rezone a single unit zoned district to a single unit zone district that allows for an accessory dwelling unit. So the site itself is located in Council District on Amanda Sandoval's district in the sorry, in the West Highland neighborhood. So the site itself is just under 8000 square feet. It's a single unit, residential, and they're looking to do an accessory dwelling unit. The site is surrounded by several single unit zone districts. So to the west and to the east, its US hub, which is a single unit, stone district to the north you see a US-EU, a one which is a single unit zone district that allows for an accessory dwelling unit into the south and see us through a. And close proximity. You can see um, x three, which is a mixed use up to three stories. The land use is a single unit residential and as you can see it's predominately single unit and two unit uses in in the vicinity. And the site itself is in the upper left corner. It's a one story home. And as you can see, it's predominately 1 to 2 stories in the neighborhood. It went before the planning board in June. It was approved unanimously and it's before you today. And as a present there no comments have been received for this application. Whenever we're looking at a rezoning case, the Denver zoning code has specific review criteria that I will analyze right now. The first one is consistency with adopted plans, and we're really focusing on two plans, which is comprehensive plan 2040 and Blueprint Denver, L.A. and Transportation Plan of 2019. There are several strategies found in a staff report that this application is consistent with and I will jump into a blueprint. Denver, Brooklyn and Denver classifies this area as urban. And when we look at the future place type, it's classified as low residential, which is predominantly single and two unit uses and accessory dwelling units . 80 use are appropriate and 31st Avenue is a local street, which is primaries are primarily served by residential uses. Blueprint also has a policy in the Langston built form housing policy, which talks about having housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units in all residential areas. And this application is consistent with other review criteria found in the staff report. Therefore, CPD recommends approval based on all findings of the review criteria. Having met and I am available for questions as well as the applicant's representative is on as well. All right. Thank you, Edson. We're going to go ahead and. We have one individual signed up to speak this evening and it's on the virtual platform. And so we'll go ahead and move to our speaker. And it's Jesse. Paris. December 20, 23. I am in favor of the rezoning tonight. I support the accessory dwelling units. When I ran for city council at large in 2019 and 2021, I still continue to support them. We need alternative housing solutions and methods throughout the city. So I support assisted dying units in all this, not just District one. So I'm in favor of this sometimes. Good job, Amanda said of you. Got this. All right. Thank you. Questions for members of Council on Council Bill 689. All right. Seen no questions by members of council. And just wanted to double check. All right. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 689. Council Member Sandoval. Thank you, Mr. President. This map amendment may create another sorry. This matter amendment meets all the criteria. Patty has been very communicative with our office. She reached out a while ago, and I know that my aide, Councilwoman or Naomi, has met with the West Highland Neighborhood Association to see if they would like a legislative rezoning. So we don't have to have these one off rezonings as we're seen. With that, I would ask that everyone support this map amendment this evening. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval. And seeing that this does meet the zoning code, the rezoning criteria, I'm happy to support it as well. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 689. Hines. I. We might have to call in Councilman Hines again, council secretary. I. Sandoval. I. Sawyer. I. Torres. I black. I see tobacco. Clark I. Saw when. I. Herndon. I cashmere. I can teach. I. Ortega. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 13 Eyes. 13 Eyes. Council Bill 20 1-689 has passed. All right. Moving on to our next required public hearing. Councilmember Cashman, would you please put Council Bill 694 on the floor for final passage?