A bill for an ordinance vacating a portion of right-of-way near 1750 15th Street, with reservations. Vacates a portion of the public right-of-way on the southeasterly corner of Wewatta Street at 15th Street, with reservations, at 1750 15th Street in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this bill by consent on 12-13-16.
Okay. Do a quick recap on the resolutions. I have no bill called out on bills for introduction. I have. Councilman Espinosa has called out Council Bill 1274 just for comment. And under bills for final consideration, Councilwoman, each has called out Bill 919 for a technical amendment. Is that correct? Correct. Okay, great. Madam Secretary, can you please pull up council bill 1274? Great, Councilman. Go ahead and make your comment. I'm sorry. I just. When I was looking at this. One of the things that concerns me is this is effectively a rezoning without consideration by planning board nor public notification and comment. So, well, I'm not going to interfere with the process because it is what it is. I have asked to meet with the developer to ascertain how they intend to address the zoning requirements with proposed future development and the public realm prior to next week's final consideration. Thanks. Okay. Angela Cassius, can you can you come up here? I just I just want to ask a quick question. This. This counts. Oh, this is so great. I'm telling you, I love it every time it comes up. So this is actually a sidewalk vacation, correct? It's a right of way vacation. So there is an easement to keep the sidewalk in tact. Okay. So so will there be any disruption to the sidewalk at all? No. Okay. And tell me about the public process, because this they go out to all neighborhood organizations. Correct. So there is a public process associated with all vacations. And so we notify the public in a couple of different ways. There's actual sign posted in the location with a contact information for the city so that if people have have questions or concerns, they can email the city. We also contact all of the, I guess, touching neighborhood organizations as part of the process in addition to all of the utility companies. Okay, great. And I'm just making sure and I know this is right in this area, there is a design review committee in this LaDonna area. So these folks will have to go before a design review board as well, right? I believe so, yes. All right. Thank you. Okay? Yeah. My best to speak. Oh, you're in there. Councilman Espinosa is in the. In the queue here. Yeah. So just so it's clear why based on the comments there. I that's what I meant by sort of it's sort of run of the mill in this sort of kind of request that is being made. If the reason why, I just want the public to sort of know the reason why I say it's sort of an effective reasoning is if you're familiar with the building adjacent to this property that houses the Q Hills restaurant, that building is subject to a setback or a step back requirement. So if that building is five storey, well, probably seven storeys or eight storeys along the street. And then at that point, it's supposed to step back 25 feet. And then the just the roof, the remaining storeys go up. And that's the requirement of zoning when you effectively claim through vacation the sidewalk area and move your property line from the to the alignment with the Ku Hill's building out to the curb line, that then effectively moves the bulk closer to the all the historic property line. And so that wouldn't be this sort of building in that area would not be allowed in the parcel as in the zone lot as defined today. But when you move in, you make the property bigger, you're you're set back requirement is based on the property line . Therefore you're now able to step back. I mean, you're able to capture your step back requirement over that sidewalk that you're not using. And so it will result in bottom line is it will result in a different massing that could be built right on that corner after the zone, meaning after the vacation of the of the sidewalk and the subsequent easement, then you could do today as a use by right. And so the good thing is, is yeah, it is subject to design review. So you get a little more scrutiny on what the finished product is than you would in a lot of other parts of the city. The majority of the city. But it is it is it is one of those things that it wouldn't be clear when you're talking about simply a ride away vacation, you don't know how that's going to actually subsequently influence the mass of a building that goes next to it.