A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 4060 North Elati Street in Globeville. Rezones property at 4060 North Elati Street from I-A UO-2 to C-RX-12 (industrial to urban center, mixed-use) in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 7-11-17.
Yes, Mr. President. I move. The Council will 751 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved. I'm sorry. 1/2. Yeah. Okay. It has been moved in second in the public hearing for council. 751 is now open. Andrew up. Can we have a staff report? Thank you. Good evening, Mr. President. Members of the council Andrew Webb here from CPD to present on this proposed rezoning of a property at 46 North LRT Street from the EIA. Zoning. Bureau to overlay to CRL. This request is in Council District three. It's in the southwest quadrant of the Globeville neighborhood near the 41st and Fox, soon to open RTD station properties about just under three quarters of an acre. It's right at the intersection of LRT and 41st and currently has a small office building in a parking lot. Surrounding zoning is primarily the same as the subject site with the UO to overlay. Although as you can see on the map here, there have been quite a few rezonings in recent months and years to mixed use zones , implementing some of the adopted plans for this area, including a S.R. X Zone M's, their main street mixed use zone and SIMEX zone district, ranging from maximum heights of 8 to 20 storeys. The land uses in the area are primarily industrial, commercial and residential, with the bulk of the residential to the east in the student housing development for our area campus students and then to the to the west of the subject site is more of a mix of industrial, commercial and vacant land uses. As you get closer to the station, this area often gives you a feel for the scale of development in the area. As you can see, currently, most development is ranges from 1 to 3 stories, with the exception, of course, of the old Regency Hotel Tower there on the right hand side of the photo, you can also see the the rail line going through and the pedestrian bridge over to the Sunnyside neighborhood. These photos show the subject's sight from L.A. Street. As you can see, it is a small office and parking lot. The top photo here is the site directly to the north of the subject's site. It was resumed last year to the same zone district, S.R. 12. And the bottom photo shows a vacant lot directly across the street from the subject's site. The top photo here shows another commercial structure across the street from the subject's site. And then finally, a mostly unused parking lot to the south with the Regency, the old former Regency Hotel tower, and there in the background. So the current zoning, the air zone is a light industrial zone district does not allow new residential uses. The you oh two overlay does allow billboard uses subject to spacing and location and other limitations in the Denver zoning code. So this is a request to the S.R. X 12 Zone District that's urban center neighborhood context residential mixed use with a maximum height of 12 stories. The Zone District promotes pedestrian scale development with a shopfront building forms buildings built up at the street with pedestrian entrances and active street level uses aimed at creating a walkable district. In terms of the process so far. Informational notice went out on March 15th to register neighborhood organizations, the city councilors and other stakeholders in the area. Planning Board held a hearing on June 21st and recommended approval of this proposed rezoning of the Land Use Transportation and Infrastructure Committee met on July 11th and also recommended approval. We have not received public comment about this request. As you can see on this list, there are quite a few RINO's who who do consider this subject state to be within their boundaries and all have been notified of this proposal. As you're aware, the Council two to adopt a zone change must find that it's consistent with these five criteria from the Denver zoning code. With regard to the first consistency with adopted plans, there are four plans that impact the subject site Comprehensive Plan 2000 and Blueprint, Denver, and then also the 41st and Fox Station Area Plan and the Globeville Neighborhood Plan. So with regard to the comprehensive plan, the proposed year 12 zone, further several comprehensive planning policies including encouraging more density near transit nodes, promoting infill development in an area that has been identified for increased density and new uses. Blueprint Denver identifies the subject site for urban residential and identifies areas to the west of L.A. Street for transit oriented development. Closer to the station, Urban Residential is aimed at higher density, primarily residential uses with complementary commercial uses. The entire area here of Globeville is designated as an area of change. The 41st and Fox Station Area Plan also identified the subject site for urban residential uses with more commercial, more intensive commercial mixed uses. Further to the west, closer to the rail station, the Globeville Neighborhood Plan adopted more recently to reinforce the 41st and Fox station area playing recommendations for urban residential land uses at this location also highlighted it as an area of change. And then finally, that plan also established or made recommended building heights for the area. And this request for 12 stories is consistent with the recommendations of the 41st and FOX Plan. With regard to the other criteria, this request request will result in a uniform application of building form, use and design regulations for the S.R. X 12 Zone District. It will further the public welfare by enabling redevelopment over time of this industrial area into a walkable, mixed use district, thereby implementing adopted land use plans and policies and staff agrees with the the applicant's proposed justifying circumstance. There have been quite a few changes in this area already as the opening date for the G line station approaches and the adopted plans in this area made multiple recommendations for infrastructure improvements, many of which have been accomplished, including several pedestrian and bike infrastructure improvements in the area. Finally, staff finds that this proposal is consistent with the surrounding urban center neighborhood context, and with that, CPD recommends approval based on a finding that the review criteria had been met. And I'm happy to answer any questions you have. All right. Thank you, Andrew, that we have three speakers tonight for this bill, and I'm going to call them all up to the. You say so. Oh, okay. Sorry. I'm going to call the three speakers up to the front here. Patricia. Patricia Guillet. Gillette. Sekou and an Elizabeth. Patricia, your. First. Good evening. Thank you for having me this evening. My name is Patricia Gillette. I am the vice president of the Colorado Motor Carriers Association, located at 46 North L.A. Street. My home address for the record is 6600 Zing Street in Arvada. I am the applicant. We are the applicant. We are a membership organization. Governed by a board of directors. And we are asking for the zoning change as a pro-active move to meet changes in our neighborhood. We have no immediate plans or or short term plans to redevelop this area, but we're looking to match the rezoning that has happened directly to the north of us and across both LRT and Fox Street from our location. Thank you, Mr.. I appreciate it. Sekou. Yes, it. Uh. My name is Chairman Sekou, and I'm an organizer and founder of the Black Star Action Movement for Self-defense. Who are servicing poor, working, poor, homeless and senior citizens. Resident of Denver for 67 years. Born and raised in the five points. And and thoroughly immersed in the culture, population and future development of generations here and coming. We support this rezoning. For a couple of reasons. One. Now the general floor. You already got the votes to pass it. There's nothing I can say that would deter you from doing what you're doing. So this is pretty much a done deal. And I doubt very seriously if I'm going to tell you anything new that you ain't already heard, especially for the folks who's been there for a while. And that is this. After the zoning change goes down. Everybody's hands off. There's no monitoring of the project after that because as long as it comes within the guidelines of the 22 plan and Gupta will develop. It goes down and nobody takes a second glance at it because you got so much stuff to deal with. You don't do no oversight whatsoever unless there's a complaint from the citizens. And because you know that they're not that well organized. And of course, you just say, hey, it's not on me. Some assistance to do. But there is a moral authority that we have because as they go about doing this mixed use thing and developing housing and they have this little category called affordable housing, it's housing that poor people can afford. Was gay passed away because he nobody's looking at that piece because according to the guidelines, as long as there's affordable and there's been no adjustment or data being brought forth in terms of who your client areas base, you end up with a city looking like boulder and over pencil and paper you gentrify the neighborhood and it becomes white only like apartments. 72% white now used to be 95% black. Yeah. Yeah. Mm hmm. So these what you call the fun unattended consequences or in fact, intended consequences because of what you do. See. So our question is, how do you sleep at night knowing that what you do is a rippling effect, not only happens in global, but that ripple effect is starting to happen in the five points. Then it goes Montebello, then it go to Park Hill, then go to Green Valley Ranch, and then all of a sudden you have a white supremacist society with white privilege and white boys making money on taxpayers money cycle. So your time is up. I'm close with this. Your time is up. Thank you very. Much. Thank you. All right. And Elizabeth. I appreciate the opportunity to just comment in favor of this zoning. I'm in Elizabeth at East 50th in Washington, in Globeville. And a little bit related to what Chairman Shaker was just saying. Is a. Vigilance that I think is favorable for the neighborhood. If you look at the justifications of how it aligns with the plans, there's into a is the sentence. The new zoning we seek will allow for quick, intelligent and reasonable growth in the area to help spur other elements of the neighborhood to also grow. So I just want to support this and put a spotlight on the organism of economy in Globeville and that the transit oriented development is an opportunity for very creative, very responsible, very egalitarian enrichment and revitalization in the neighborhoods where actually helping the accessible opportunities and entry into the diverse, diversified economy that mixed use can bring can be part of the solution for people being able to sustain multi-generational abilities to stay in place in their neighborhoods. So I support this partly because the people that are involved have been very sensitive to the neighborhoods. I know the area because of it being a project cure, drop up, drop off site, a volunteer site for dropping off for many years. And I used to be a courier for a couple of years picking up the hospital supplies, etc. And so I know the area very well and I think that the connectivity conversations around this are very good. I think there has been sensitivity to the plans in some of these conversations, but I would say let's stay vigilant as we do rezoning changes. I do feel like this is a gap in the continuity of getting from the from the ideal to the actual and that we need to all work together from within the neighborhoods in the council to really when we get to the nuts and bolts and the designs and what it feels like to bring in the more stories and that kind of a thing, to really make sure that we're doing the advocacy from as policymakers and his constituents and neighbors to really make these be organically neighborhood. Friendly. Developments. So there's a lot of work to do, and I think this is a really great step in revitalization. And I'm glad there's some legacy industry protections going on with these, too, because I think in the neighborhoods, a lot of people really do like some of the legacy industries that have been there for many generations. So hopefully this will be a shoo in. Thank you, Miss Elizabeth. Now questions for members of council. Mr. Let I'm ask you to come up. I have a question for you. You just had an Elizabeth who was in the neighborhood speaking on behalf of this. Can you talk a little bit about the outreach you do to the stakeholders and the community. According to under recommendations from the zoning meeting that we had early on? I've sent out emails and letters to every neighborhood organization that was listed. We met with our immediate neighborhood. I have not to date heard any. Who did you meet with? Who did I meet with? You said immediate neighborhood. Yeah. Our property to the north. Okay. And our properties to the west. I did not meet with the new ones to the north west. It's a medicinal. Okay. Recreational pot shop. In. And just about your. Your plans for this. You all are responding to the movement of zoning changes that is happening in the in the in the context of this neighborhood. But there is no plans for your organization to to sell, to grow, to. I mean, I'm just trying to understand a little bit. Right. We are responding to the changes within the neighborhood. Our board of directors, which are made up about 52 members. Trucking companies and allied companies have instructed us to look at a five, ten and 20 year plan for our organization. And as part of that, the zoning came up. We have no intention. We have no current plans for redeveloping. We have no capacity to to redevelop. To be very honest with you, there may be sales down the road. That's part of the reason that we're rezoning to match the neighborhood so that if somebody wanted to come in and match parcels to the immediate north, that would make our property a little more attractive for sales down the road. But we have no immediate plans for any of that. Okay. Councilman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. I wanted to first ask Andrew if you would come to the microphone. Notwithstanding the answers to the questions that we just heard. But as we are seeing more and more properties in this neighborhood being resold to very, very high densities, and we will see an incredible increase in traffic in and out of this area. What specific conversations has CPD been involved in related to that intersection of 38th Avenue, Fox I, 25 and Park Avenue. Well, thank you, Mr. President. Councilmember Ortega, I appreciate the opportunity to answer that. I can't speak to specific conversations about that exact intersection, but I can tell you that the KPD in general is very aware of the volume of zone changes that have been coming in here in recent years, especially since the the Globeville plan kind of reaffirmed the station area plan in 2014. There have been, as you know, some some improvements made, some bike and pedestrian improvements that have recommended by those plans that have already been made. The CPD and Public Works and other partner agencies are actually in the sort of the beginning stages right now of a next step study that would look at as the as these zone changes occur, what would be, you know, and especially as actual development requests come in, what would be an appropriate sort of large scale response to to making sure that the infrastructure in this area can handle that. I should say that that the zone changes are not individual development approvals. So any development that comes in would have to go through review. And it's possible that traffic engineers and and other reviewers of those plans at Site Plan Review would require some off site mitigation of traffic issues and that sort of thing as well. So it's something that's being looked at from from multiple angles. So just to be clear, is, is that something that's being looked at, being done in a comprehensive manner that is taking into consideration the volume of density and traffic? That is. That has the potential to be in this area that is still way over tax. That interchange, that intersection. Yes, I think I can say that that when when CPD and partner agencies look at this, they will be looking at that whole kind of sort of semi-circular area across, you know, east of the tracks and and south of the of the highway interchange. And and looking at all of the land use entitlements that have been made and and calculating the the potential traffic and pedestrian and other needs for the area and looking at a holistic solution to. So are there. Conversations being had with the property owners who have come in and rezone the properties, letting them know that there's going to be. Some expectation for them to be part of. That solution, since they're going to be helping create part of the. The headache that we're going to be. Dealing with, because I don't want to wait until it is so oversaturated. That the expectation is the taxpayers. Have to fix the problem, not the people who are building and developing. In the area creating this challenge. And I can't speak to two previous rezoning applications, and I think a lot of the rezoning applications have been similar to this one in that they are sort of are being made by owners at an early stage who do not expect to actually be the developers themselves as these areas redevelop. So those discussions would likely be had more with some kind of end stage property owners or developers who are ready to actually come in for site plan approval. But but certainly at the point at which people are coming in for individual development approvals, I would expect any any reviewer who is looking at those plans to make them aware that there may be maybe needs for mitigation of traffic issues. Yeah, I think it's important that at the earliest stages of them having any connection to CPD, those conversations need to begin rather than waiting until somebody has rezoning their property and gets ready to submit their, you know, their detailed plans for for redevelopment that they learn about it at that point. I think it's important to start having that conversation upfront as as the department, you know, defines what that looks like. And it would be helpful for, you know, this body to understand what those solutions are going to look like so that, you know, maybe it's a presentation to our land use committee, but to keep doing these rezonings without knowing clearly that that's being addressed is a little concerning because, you know, I know somebody has put pencil to paper and they're not only looking at this intersection, they're also looking at 44th Avenue, which I advised we should not be doing, because what that means is you're going to put traffic through Globeville that that should not be traveling through Globeville to councilwoman. You're you're in commerce, and I know where you're going on that. And I just want you to reserve the effort for comments and go in and then I'm going the same place. Okay. Thank you, Councilman Espinosa. Well, actually, this these are questions, but they're related. What does the Globeville plan that that over that speaks to this long district I mean this rezoning say specifically about and I apologize for not knowing this about the Fox Street interchange in the 44th ingress and egress to this site doesn't speak to how this level of growth should be accommodated. I'm sure it talks about the TOD, but you know, it should be talking about these other ingress and egress points as well. It does indeed look at the limited ingress and egress points in the area and it makes some recommendations for hypothetical approaches to solving that. Councilmember Ortega mentioned 44, and I think that does come up as a as a possibility in the plan as something that should be potentially studied. But the plan does not, to the best of my knowledge, make specific recommendations. It did recommend some bike ped improvements that were pretty obvious. And those were made relatively recently. You know, and, and the bike pad improvements on Inka are wonderful. Do you know what the grades are right now for both of the mean for the the 38th and Fox intersection. I'm sorry. Their grades? Yeah. The intersection in terms of level of service. Yeah, I do not. Before. Before we get another rezoning in Globeville, can you make sure to. To sort of be prepared with that for ludi? And if you get it, I'm sure it's available, you know, can you email that even between now and then? I'd be more than happy to do that. And then. This seems to be an industrial system in an industrial association, so that would be an office use sort of thing. If there were a change of use but no actual new storefront building, I mean, certain changes of uses would be allowed, correct? That is correct. Although the current zoning would not allow residential uses. So. But it would allow continued office and commercial and industrial uses. Okay. Do you think it's ironic, though, a majority of the industrial uses are not permitted in the X12. Some are in a limited capacity. And I think I answered your question incorrectly. So the new zoning, the proposed new zoning this year, X12, would allow limited office and commercial uses, but it is more focused on on residential uses. But the existing office use could of course could of course continue. Is that. But that's because it is a conforming use for that zone. That is correct, yes. Yeah. But industrial, certainly a majority of industrial uses for that would not conform to our X12. That is correct, yes. No further questions. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Espinosa, Councilor Flower. Thank, Mr. President. Andrew, in the staff report, it was mentioned that I think there were ten registered neighborhood organizations that are covered by this area, and no comment was received from any of them at the time the report was written. Has there been any? It's hard for me to believe that as active as the neighborhood is, that there wasn't a comment received from out. We you know, they have received several notices of upcoming meetings. You know, the originally the original application planning board meeting, Landers, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and tonight's hearing. And we have not received comment from any of the neighbors. Okay. Thank you. That's almost asking. Yeah. Thank you, Councilman. Flaying. Councilman Cashman. Okay. Great. All right. This concludes my experience and all the questions are council bill hearing for Council 751 is now closed. Comments by members of council. You know, I'll sort of because this is my district. This is again on the on the technical piece of this. This. You know, is consistent and congruent with everything that we need to improve for city council. Obviously, you hear a lot of issues here on city council because we're seeing what's starting to be the reality on the ground here and what I call Fox Island. It is an island that is disconnected from for many reasons, but there are not neighborhoods that exactly go up to Fox on that. Why? That's why you're not going to have a lot of people commenting on this. You have a one way in, one way out transportation system of cars. You do have a light rail coming in, which is good. But you got to look at the number of. Rezonings that we have have had in the neighborhood. And what that's going to do for traffic and it's just going to the whole system is going to fail if we're not thinking about infrastructure along with redevelopment. And so for the the person the the group of folks who are asking for a rezoning, I'll tell you right now that this entire area is going to have a transportation network and it's going to have a transportation network that those who own property will be paying into and getting assessed for that transportation network. Because we as the city and the taxpayers can no longer afford to pay for that solution. And the the growth is is so much at this point that, I mean, we're going to see an epic failure for this for this area. So for me, that's just I'm just serving notice on everyone who's coming before us and getting a rezoning. By law, you can come before us and get this rezoning because it matches up with what our criteria is. But you have to know going forward where we're headed to the to the community conversation that we've for you. You actually had an Elizabeth who's very active in the community support this because she was a part of the planning process to approve zoning, to set the zoning standard. And the frustration that we hear from the community is why are you approving these zoning? And what folks don't understand is we have a process. We have a community process that was just approved in 2014, the Globeville area, Swansea, a plan which neighbors spoke into how they wanted to see their neighborhood address. And this. It's congruent and consistent with what that plan is. And so we as city council officials need to support that. But we also need to support a larger plan like this transportation network, affordable housing plans that you're going to see coming forth on 30th and Blake, things like that to make sure that we can rightsize it for our community. So transit plan is coming. Be prepared. I'm going to support this because it's consistent with what the community members spoke and what they want to see in their neighborhood. I typically do not like to see a rezoning without a plan, you know, and this seems as if you all are evaluating your land for future use of the sale. And I don't like to see that. But you have the legal right to do that before this body. And so but I just wanted to serve notice, let folks know we're doing a transportation plan. Councilman Espinosa. There was not. Maybe you can clarify it. Feel free to chime in to clarify. But it seemed that you spoke of maybe a possible. Sort of mechanism whereby the future of redevelopment in this area might actually contribute into the infrastructure needs of that area. I know that we've had a preliminary discussion about some potential metropolitan district, but it was very for a very finite portion of this area, not as all inclusive as this area needs. Are we is there. I wonder I mean, I'm just curious if. There's I don't think I don't think that there's a proposal that's ready for primetime right now. But all of the individuals who are parcels that are significantly impacting the area and causing a transportation need will be paying into, you know, this fee. We don't know how it's going to look just yet. Okay. But but I think it's something that Ortega was talking about and she's had ideas about the the administration and CPD is working on some things. And I definitely have some ideas on what to do. And I think we need to come together and figure out what that it is. That's that's good. That's good to know. I'd like to know more about it as this is adjacent to my district. But and because there's also been a concern of mine on several of these rezonings going back two years about the sort of what's what's happening. I do want to thank Sekou for for bringing up some of some very salient points, though, because because I am trying to grapple with the displacement issue in Northwest Denver and to you'd be naive to think that it would be any different in this part of Globeville. You know, right now it'll be in a series of spaces until a developer starts to move and be on a transformative project. Certainly the land use and the zoning is in place for something transformative. The planning is in place for something transformative. The infrastructure is lagging behind. But I'm pretty sure that once there's reinvestment in the area, you will see that subsequent reinvestment in infrastructure. And one thing that happens is if we took the demographic makeup of the area today and you saw somebody strikes that match and development starts to go commensurate with what is planned, the demographics will radically change. And if we if we if we. So there's two things here that I just want to comment on that are related to this rezoning and all previous rezonings and subsequent rezonings that are all involved with this, this Globeville plan and the tio de station area plan for 41st and Fox, which is if we don't get on top of the infrastructure, we will squander this tod opportunity of this area will remain in stasis when it actually is. You've got way too much potential. There's too much vision there that shouldn't be ignored. But if we don't actually figure out a better way than anything we've done to date and anything we are talking about right now on how to address displacement and gentrification, we will fail Denver as a city in both of both Globeville and Sunnyside. My side of the railroad tracks here offer tremendous opportunity for both to address, mean to catalyze new development, make maximum impact from a tod, and do so in a way that not only addresses displacement in the area, but actually can capture families that are being displaced from other parts of northwest Denver, north and west Denver, I should say. And so I'm just saying that because I've said similar comments in past Globeville rezonings. The comments tonight sort of spurred my own sort of. I mean feelings. With that said, it's you know, it'll be it's purely consistent with the plan. But I think the city needs has a big role to play on the future of Globeville as a as a as a sort of beacon for what could be redevelopment rather than redevelopment as as usual. Thanks. Thank you. Councilman Espinosa. Councilman Castro. Thank you, Mr. President. I'm going to add my voice to the the infrastructure piece as well. You know, we since we've been passing rezoning after rezoning in this area and every time at least Councilman Ortega will bring up what are we doing about the transportation system? And we get this vague. Well, we're will look at it. And as things come online, we'll look at it. And, you know, and I think I've reached my limit of of approving these. I'm inclined that to not pick on this particular development. But I think past that, I've reached my limit to the point where it may be part of the neighborhood plan, but I'm looking at our reviewer review criteria and I can't, with a straight face, believe that without some assurance that there is. I'm going to need to see on paper CPD's plans, contingency plans for how to address transportation in this area. Or I can't, in all honesty, say that this is furthering public health, safety and welfare. Because I'm looking at the maps of what land is left. And I'd be interested to see where you folks think you're going to go to build this transportation system that, you know, we've got parcels that are come look to me. I expect to see some three to twenties and so on. Yet in this plan, and that may be just what this area needs if there's an infrastructure plan that makes sense. I'm just not seeing it there. So thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman Castor and Councilman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. I first want to say to Mr. Gillette, your your application is cut up in the middle of a bigger picture discussion that we started having about this area. You know, I think your particular site meets the criteria, as I think Councilman Brooks said earlier. But it is part of a conversation that we have not been privy to in terms of how we're working to solve what is going to be a huge infrastructure nightmare if we don't get out in front of it in terms of not only the traffic, but the drainage issue is equally as vital to ensure that we address because we already have flooding problems in this area, that 38th Avenue underpass, it it has trapped cars in there on many occasions when it when it rains. And so and part of that water from from the west side of I-25 flows through the pipes down into Globeville and is in part some of the reason that Globeville floods besides water that comes out of the, you know, the riverbank just south of 38th Avenue. So while we have the opportunity to be addressing infrastructure, we need to make sure that we're talking about drainage as well as transportation. And I would just caution that we not be talking about 44th Avenue being part of the ingress egress for this Fox Street area, because there's no way with everything else that will be happening with I-70, with National West, or with the reconstruction of Washington Street, with everything else that's happening in the Reno area to put even more traffic into that Globeville neighborhood. So we need to look at other solutions besides how we fix that intersection and look at other connectivity answers to how we solve this problem. So I look forward to either being part of ongoing conversations or seeing whatever is in the discussion stages with CPD to look at how we address this before we have any more applications from this area come forward. So I have no problem supporting this one tonight, but I am anxious to see that we're making some headway in addressing this problem. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. And I can promise you there are more on the way, and they will hear this same speech and I hope with a little bit more concrete of a plan of moving forward. It's been moved in. Seconded. Madam Secretary Rocha. Black. Clerk Espinosa. I. Flynn. All right. Gilmore. Herndon. Cashman. Can each. Lopez. I knew Ortega. Sussman. I think you missed a couple of that. Madam Secretary. Mr. President. I. You know, you guys know our SEC. Madam Secretary is very fast on that. We get everyone. We just listen to people. Yes. All right. 11 eyes. Council Bill 71 is passed. Okay. Next up, councilman, clerk, will you please put Councilperson 52 on the floor?