A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3204 & 3206 Denargo St. in Five Points. Rezones property at 3204 & 3206 Denargo Street from R-MU-30 with Waivers and Conditions and I-B UO-2 to C-MX-8, (residential, mixed-use and industrial to commercial, mixed-use) in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 6-6-17.
Okay. This is how sorry. I'm looking at my own notes. Yes, I know. That was. That's great. Well, and how how would you characterize the nature of that input? Obviously, no one's here in opposition. So I would. Say that from the feedback, I figured it was good, was helpful. One of the things we'd like to incorporate in our project, again, we did this in Austin in a similar neighborhood. You know, the East Austin area of Austin's very similar in a lot of ways to Reno, a lot of art artists and coffee shops and bars , a lot of great retail. It's gentrifying quickly. And one of the things they ask us to incorporate in our project here that we've successfully done in Austin is live work units a place for the artists to have a gallery but a way to live space, a functional living space in the back. So a storefront along the street with their with their art on display and then a bedroom, kitchen and closet bathroom in the back. So we're incorporating a 4000 square feet and possibly more. It depends on the frontage, but we're gonna incorporate hopefully around 7 to 10 of those live work units on the street frontage. And is that codified in some sort of way or or just. It's not yet. It would be, I guess, codified in the side of the same process or perhaps I guess a concept review approval. We could do that. Okay. But you didn't enter into any agreement with any of the surrounding arnault's or birds or something like that? We weren't asked to, but again, it's on the site plan they've seen. We intend to provide it. Are do you guys lease these projects when you in after you've built them or. Yes. They're all be rentals, including the live work units. Okay. Um. The reason why I ask is we know that a live work scenario is something we, we got in a development to element 47, in particular in Jefferson Park. But they were they're just they're live units. You know, they have a commercial storefront on the ground floor. Or is there some way that you guys compel this to actually be a storefront or operate as a business through the lease agreement of some sort? The leases are structured like a traditional apartment lease. That's one of things that's attractive about it because a lot of the we found in Austin, a lot of the artists or could be a a spray tan studio or a hair salon, they wouldn't qualify for traditional retail space because of the requirements from the lender for the loan for the TY work. So they're structured like traditional 12 month apartment leases, and that's what we intend to do here. Mm hmm. Yeah. So, all right, no further questions. All right. Thank you. Public hearing for council 615 is not close comes members of council. I'll start out being that this is in District nine. You know, the proposers, I think, had a chance to sit down with me some several months ago. I asked them to to reach out to Arnaud's and find out some of the issues and they did immediately. Not a lot of pushback from Arnaud's. You know, I wish that it was going simultaneous with our new 30th in Blake, but it doesn't matter because this is barely outside of. But I really do hope that you all will work with what the community has come up with, which I think is an incredible affordable housing plan and also a design standards and guidelines you guys are making a decision to pay into a fund, and that's up to you. I'm glad we passed that in September, but I really would hope that you would think about the life of this building. Hope you think about the life of this area and how to give back to it. So we will have those done in October and you'll have plenty of time to look over it. I hope that you can comply. Thank you. Seeing no other comments. Madam Secretary. Raquel Black. Hi, Clerk. Hi. Espinosa. Hi, Flynn. Hi. Gilmore. I Cashman can Kenny Lopez. I. Knew. So I'm just looking. Mr. President. I was wondering these results. Ten eyes. Ten eyes. Council Bill 615 has passed. Congratulations. Councilman Lopez, will you please put Council Bill 616 on the floor? Mr. President, move that council. 616 me please to one final, final consideration do pass. It has been moved in second at public hearing for council bill 616 is now open. May we have the staff report? Scott, you're back. Yes. Thank you again, Mr. President. And Council. Scott Robinson with community planning involvement. Again, as I mentioned earlier, this application is immediately adjacent to the previous one, but it is a separate application. So this one is 3204 and 3206 Tanaka Street. The request is to go from review 30 with waivers and conditions to and if you go to to see Annex eight again in District nine, in the Five Points neighborhood in the Largo market area. And this one is part of the Largo market general development plan. The property is about two and a half acres currently vacant and again requesting rezoning to redevelop the site. Currently, the majority of the site is Army 30 with waivers and conditions. So again, that's old code. Former Chapter 59 residential mixed use with just a very small portion at the east end of the site, I.B. Hirota, which is an industrial zone district. The request is to go to see an x eight. So urban center neighborhood context mixed use with an eight storey maximum height. As I mentioned, part of the Eden Argo Market General Development Plan from 27, which calls for between 2020 500 residential units, 125,000 200,000 square feet of commercial space, residential retail office uses and a 75 foot maximum height. And there are urban design standards and guidelines that apply to this property. As I mentioned, the site is in the city with waivers and conditions and a small portion year or two surrounded by the same zone districts. The waves and conditions. Same ones we talked about with the 75 foot maximum height, 12%, minimum open space within the GDP area and that same affordable housing requirement. That the plan was in place before the first development occurred in the GDP area. Property, as I mentioned, is vacant with the industrial use just to the east, the railroad tracks to the south, new residential to the north, and other industrial uses to the west. There you can see the surrounding buildings. This application went to the planning board on May 17th, where it was recommended for approval by nine. A vote went to the Land Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on June 6th. I received no public comment at the planning board meeting or since. And again, there are five criteria that must be met for the rezoning to be approved. The first is consistency with the adopted plans. Three plans here, the first being conference of Plan 2000 as described in the staff report. Staff has found that the proposed rezoning complies with these four strategies, mostly dealing with mixed use redevelopment. Blueprint Denver from 2000 to designates a future concept land use in this area mixed use calling for employment and residential uses at higher intensity than other areas. Also an area of change. This one is again fronted by waterway, which as we discussed, was not in place in 2002, but we infer that it would be in a designated local, and then it also has frontage along DeNardo Street, where it turns into the Lake Del Gainey Street, which is a residential collector. The Reverend Ross plan from 2003 designates this area residential mixed use and also includes specific recommendations for the general market area, including creating a compact, mixed use, pedestrian friendly development and recommends residential mixed use or commercial commercial mixed use zoning. And again, no specific height recommendations in the River North plan. So that staff finds that the proposed rezoning is consistent with the adopted plans and the first criterion is met. The second criterion is uniformity of district regulations. Staff finds that the proposed rezoning would result in the uniform application of the Sea and eight zone district. The third criterion is to further the public health, safety and welfare state finds that the proposed rezoning would do so by implementing the city's adopted plans and facilitating the redevelopment of a vacant parcel. The fourth criterion is justifying circumstances. Staff finds that there changed in changing conditions in the generic market area in the larger Breton Boulevard corridor to justify the rezoning. And the fifth criterion is consistency with neighborhood context, zoning, district purpose and intent and staff finds that the proposed rezoning would result in development consistent with the purposes, purpose and intent of the Urban Center, Neighborhood Context and the Max eight zone district as described in the zoning code, so that staff finds that all five criteria are met. And I'll be happy to answer any questions. All right. Thank you. We have. Three speakers again. You know, we just got through this. Okay. James with Dudley Simmons, Chase Hill, James West. You have 3 minutes. I'm James West of the applicant. My address is 2420 17th Street. Number 3600. In. Thank you. Dudley Simmons. Dudley Simmons, 2420 17th Street. Here to answer questions. Thank you. And Chase Hill. JAY So again, same address as in January 24, 2017, three, three, zero and six. Just for the record. Thank you. All right. Questions by members of council. Question. Councilman Espinosa. So different question. It looks like the app came in at the exact same time. When did you start the present process? Because this probably wasn't really straight forward or was it? Started the prep process late last year, I believe in. December of 2016. Oh, so it only took two, two and a half months of wrangling with the zoning. Okay, that was it. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Espinoza, Councilman Flynn.