A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 421 W. 4th Avenue in Baker. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property located at 421 W. 4th Avenue from U-RH-2.5 to U-MX-2 (urban, row-house to urban, mixed-use) in Council District 7. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 5-8-18.
Yeah. Yes, Mr. President, I move that council. Bill. 18, dash 420 to be placed upon final consideration and do pass. All right. It has been moved and seconded. Public hearing for Council Bill 422 is open. Scott Robertson, please, may we have a staff report? One, two, three. Scott Robinson. Maybe. I'm just joking. Go ahead. Sorry about that. Yes. Scott Robinson with community planning and development. Thank you, Mr. President. And Council. This is a request to rezone for 21 West Fourth Avenue from you RH 2.5 to you. Annex two property is located in Council District seven in the Baker neighborhood is at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue and a lot of street properties 15,625 square feet. It used to be a fortune cookie factory. The building is now vacant. Request is to rezone from you are h 2.5 which is urban neighborhood context row house to zoning with a two and a half storey maximum height to you annex two still urban neighborhood context mixed use zoning with a two storey maximum height. The request is to allow for an art gallery and artist studios and some residential uses on the property and add a second street addition. The property is surrounded by the you are h 2.5 zoning. But as you can see in the map, there are some you annex to properties scattered throughout the Baker neighborhood. You can see a couple on the map, but it's a pattern found throughout Baker that there are these small commercial corners with the you annexed to zoning. You can see in Baker there's a wide mix of housing types with single unit two unit and multi unit, as well as commercial and mixed use properties scattered throughout and some specific uses as well. You can see the subject property in the top left photo there and then some of the surrounding properties in the other photos. This went to the planning board on April 18th, received a unanimous recommendation of approval and there was no public comment. Went to the committee on May 8th and in your packet you have a letter of support from the bigger Historic Neighborhood Association. For her to approve a rezoning, the council must find that these five criteria have been met. First criterion is consistency with adopted plans. There are three plans that apply to this property. First is comprehensive plan 2000. As described in the staff report, staff has found that the proposed rezoning is consistent with these five strategies from campaign 2000 relating to infill development, mixed use development, providing services and neighborhoods, and being consistent with the the character of existing neighborhoods of which the proposed use next to would do. The second plan is Blueprint Denver from 2000 to the concept plan used for this property is single family duplex, which calls for primarily residential but with complementary small scale commercial uses, such as those that would be allowed under the proposed U. And Next two zoning. There is also an area of stability which calls for maintaining the character of an area while accommodating some new development. As I mentioned, Baker has this pattern of small commercial buildings on corners, and this property is a nonresidential property already. So this would be maintaining the existing character of the area. Both a lot of Street and Fourth Avenue are designated locals consistent with the proposed you elected to zoning. The third plan is the Baker Neighborhood Plan from 23. In general, the Baker plan calls for providing a mixture of uses and providing services for the residents in the area. This property is in the single family and row house sub area, which calls for re-using vacant or underutilized commercial buildings which the proposed rezoning would allow and for removing non-conforming industrial uses. As I mentioned, this used to be a fortune cookie factory and industrial use. The rezoning to use mix two would remove the possibility of that going back as an industrial use and instead allow compatible commercial and residential development. So staff finds that the proposed rezoning is consistent with the adopted plans and first criterion that the second criterion is uniformity of district regulations. Staff finds that the proposed rezoning would result in the uniform application of the mixed two zone district. The third criterion is to further the public health, safety and general welfare of the city. Staff finds that the proposed rezoning would do so by implementing the city's adopted plans and facilitating the re-use of an existing building in a currently vacant parcel. The fourth criterion is justifying circumstances. Staff finds that the proposed rezoning is justified by the changed conditions, and there's been additional development and redevelopment in the Becker neighborhood. The population has increased. The demand for these kind of neighborhood services has increased. And so it's appropriate to rezone to allow for neighborhood serving commercial uses and residential on the property. And the fifth criterion is consistency with neighborhood context, zoned district purpose and intent. As mentioned, the existing context is urban neighborhood. The proposed context is also urban neighborhood. This is a good example of an urban neighborhood context in daycare. So it's consistent with that. And the Annex two would allow development consistent with the purpose of the intent of that zone district so that staff finds all five criteria and recommends approval. I'll be happy to answer any questions. All right. Thank you, Mr. Robinson. We have two speakers this evening. Bruce O'Donnell, you have 3 minutes. And Chairman Sekou, you have six. Thank you. Mr. President, members of council, I am Bruce O'Donnell, 386 Emmerson Street, Denver. I'm the owner's representative for this rezoning application, and we're in complete agreement with the staff report. I'm here to formally ask your approval and I'm available. Answer any questions you do have any. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Chairman Seiko. Chairman Sekou Coup Star Movement of self-defense. Hmm. We? Want to say. We appreciate the work that. City planning and. Folks do as they go about putting this kind of stuff together. Because you go to certain rules, regulations to do this. And this clearly comes in line with all that. Like all the others before us. And the truth is at this point as we speak. From the public's point of view. It becomes one of those. What I was going. Because you're ain't going to. Nothing. And we ain't gonna get nothing out of this. Nothing. We're not going to get the housing needs that we need, that we can afford, that you consider affordable. Thanks. I have. It's going to be passed on and looked over. And we have other conversations and you know, y'all gonna put stuff in the board and you're gonna give them stuff to work with and then, hey. Nothing's going to happen. So if I can just stop posturing. We can start coming up with hope plans. And then we can start voting for things that you morally don't agree with. Just let it roll through. Just let it roll. Because when it's all said and done at the end of the day. Very few really. One solution for all this for you. And that's revolution. That's it. And it just came down to that because we run into a wall and we keep getting different variations of themes in this saying stuff. But when it comes to actually having the people that are committed to make it happen and give up the vote and take a risk to where they're going to be reelected, did not and somebody is going to like them were not intended to do. And the mayor and the king look. How much longer do you think we going to put up with this? And why should we even put up with it? Chairman Sekou for 22. So you know what? Just so you can go home and rest, so you can silence the voice of the public. We're going to say, hey, we're going to go along with this. We're not going to postpone. I mean, everybody can go home quicker. And good luck, whatever you do, because we're going to do what we're going to do. That's it. All right. Thank you. Questions by members of council. Scott, let me ask you a quick question. This looks like a downed Sony. In terms of height. Yes, it goes from two and a half storeys to two. In terms of allowed uses, it increases the allowed use as the you are h 2.5 is strictly residential. This allows both residential and commercial. Yeah. Is this is this supported by other neighborhood groups? Yes. There's a lot of support from the big historic neighborhood association. There are only two are nos in the area of Baker. And I can. See this and I didn't hear you on the planning board. A passive unanimous support from. Correct? All right. All right. Any other questions by members of council? All right. This concludes Constable for 22 comments by members of Council. Jasmine Clarke Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you to Scott and staff for putting together that report. I think it's been clearly demonstrated that this meets the five legal criteria for rezoning and I will be supporting it. I also just wanted to give a shout out to Bruce and the team for working so closely with this. Within the the baker has talked neighborhood association are no boundaries and that's always sensitive is one of Denver's biggest historic neighborhoods and I appreciate all the time and effort working with their zoning committee, working with their board to make sure that this was also a good fit for the neighborhood. And so I want to say thank you for that. And I will be supporting tonight. Thanks. All right. Thank you, Councilman Clark. Seeing all the comments. I'm Secretary Raquel. Clark. All right, Espinosa. Hi, Flynn. Hi, Gilmore. I Herndon. Cashman can eat Lopez. I knew Ortega. Black guy. Mr. President. I was voting as a result. To advise. 12 up. Yes, 12 eyes for 22 passes translations. Ladies and gentlemen, we are on to the last council bill of the night. This is number four. Councilman Flynn, would you please put 474 on the floor?