A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 2880 West Holden Place, 1155 North Decatur Street, 1201 North Decatur Street and 1101 North Decatur Street in Sun Valley. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property located at 2880 West Holden Place, 1155 North Decatur Street, 1201 North Decatur Street and 1101 North Decatur Street from PUD 487 to C-MX-5, (planned development to commercial-mixed use) in Council District 3. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 4-4-17.
11 eyes, CONSTABLE 366 of pass. Congratulations. All right. Our last public hearing of the evening. Councilman Espinosa, will you please put Council Bill three, six, eight on the floor? I move that council bill 368 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved and seconded by a public hearing. Oh, we had a councilman clerk. I see on here the public hearing for council bill 368 is open. May we have the staff report and we saw this. Good evening. Members of Council on please spoke with CPD here to present the rezoning case at 2800 West hold in place 1155 North Decatur Street and 1201 North Decatur Street as well as 1101 North Decatur Street. The rezoning application before you tonight is to rezone from PWD for 87 to CM five. As such, the property is located in Council District three, more specifically, the Sun Valley neighborhood, as you can see here close to the equator federal station area. The subject property is located off of the intersection of West Holden Place and North Decatur Street and as outlined in the dotted key there. The subject property is about 3.6 acres and currently houses a four story multi-unit building as well as some surface parking to the eastern portion of the site. As such, the request is to rezone from Puti 47, specifically the sub area two portion to C-Max five, with the specific intent to allow for medical and dental uses within the existing building. In terms of cm x5 this is an urban center neighborhood context x designating mixed use purposes five storeys with a maximum building height. In a review of the existing context, I'll run through the following. The zoning on the site is currently paid for 87 to the West. It is also Puti for 87, but a separate sub area to the north. We cm five to the east, cemex five and then to the south we have S.R. X eight. In terms of the existing land use context, the built out property is a multi-unit residential building in which mercy housing currently occupies. There's a portion that's trans communication utilities, which is Denver water utility, and then to the southern kind of finger portion that is a surface parking lot surrounding uses our office where we have the Human Services campus, multi-user unit residential as well, some industrial uses in the area. Also to the north we have the rec recreation center. So a photo on the top right is of the existing building which has since had a facelift and looks beautiful. And then to the southern portion is that surface parking lot. Surrounding areas. We do have a mix of uses of some industrial and mixed use to the south. That's a photo of some DHS property or some multi-unit townhome products in terms of the process that has brought us here today. We had planning board on March 15th with the unanimous recommendation of approval land use luti approved for this to come forward on April 4th and now we are here for City Council. In terms of public outreach, all the following renos have been notified in accordance with standard noticing requirements. As such, we have received a letter of support that has been included in the staff report packet from the Sun Valley R.A.. In terms of review criteria, I'll stop through the following. We have three applicable plans here. The first of which is comprehensive plan, which I will skim over as the further details are found in your staff report. Primarily focusing, though, on land use strategies of enhancing services where infrastructure is in place. In terms of blueprint Denver, the land use concept for the subject property is transit oriented. Development theory and development is intended to have a balanced mix of uses, whether that's residential, retail, office, commercial, etc. in a format that is compact to mid density and has strong emphasis towards a pedestrian friendly component and activates a street edge. Also finding that this is an area of change. It's an area where we want to direct growth, where we can improve that access to housing and services and reduces automobile trips. In terms of the futures reclassifications provided by Blueprint DENVER North Dakota is a mixed use collector, which is intended to provide a greater balance between mobility and transportation options, providing those connections of residential as well as commercial and industrial areas. And then we have those mixed use streets. We're also locating those higher intensity commercial retail, residential areas where we can have that significant pedestrian connections being built out to the rail station. In terms of the the stationary plan we have here, the Decatur Federal Stationary Plan, which the subject property is outlined and read as you can note there and in review of the key, this is a total station area where we're intending to encourage both the vertical as well as well as horizontal mix of land uses for this area, encouraging housing that meets the needs of families, young professionals, students, housing, the elderly, etc.. This is all in alignment with what Mercy Housing already does and wants to continue operating on the site as well. In addition to the land use recommendations, we also have urban design recommendations of which are including the maximum building height for the subject property. As indicated in this map, the subject property is recommended as a five storey maximum building height and as such the recommended or the proposed zone district of the Max five is consistent with this recommendation. So in moving along through the review criteria, CPD has found that this application is consistent with the adopted plans. We also find that this furthers the regulation uniformity of district regulations. There's no customization occurring here. We're also finding that it is furthering the public health, safety and welfare. This is primarily done through the plan implementation as intended, but also we're enabling for some additional community serving needs to operate within the tot station area that are of need and also were able to improve the pedestrian environment by introducing a cmcs zone district that has different building standards such as transparency, pedestrian entries, all of these great features that enhance the pedestrian environment that the current beauty does not speak to. With regard to the justifying circumstances, we find that not only the planning and construction and that a greater federal station area plan has justified this rezoning. We are also seeing many of the properties in the surrounding area pursuing rezonings and redevelopment in alignment with the station area plan. And as such we find that the mixed use zone district is consistent with the neighborhood context zone district purpose Intent Office. Finally, CPD recommends approval on this rezoning, finding that all criteria have been met. Thank you. All right. Thank you. We have two speakers this evening from a column to the front here, Caroline Pirtle and Joe Levi. It's Pearl. You have 3 minutes. Good evening, everybody. Thanks for having us. We're just here to answer any questions that you might have. Thank you. Great. Thank you. I'm Joe. I'm going to I'm going to have to state your name and you know where you're from. Yeah. Just for the record. Sir Carolyn Pirtle. And I'm a senior asset. Manager at Mercy Housing. So I'm representing the ownership of Decatur Place Apartments where we're talking about right now. Thank you. Sir. Levi. Thank you. I'm Joe Levi with Azar Architecture. Where we office on Larimer Street. And I just think we've heard all the the nice and how it's compatible in the planning sense. But really we're. Providing a compatible use for the neighborhood. And there was no neighborhood opposition whatsoever. In fact, people welcomed that. So I just wanted you to know that. And I'm here to answer any questions. Thank you. And you said. You said us architecture is okay. It's in the fine district nine. Okay, great. Thank you. All right, let me see. Are there any questions for members of council? Right. Just wanted to say that Oz was in District six for a good long time. Okay, great. Councilman Cashman, you weren't called on in. This was all right. As you know, we've been going around tonight. The council, about three, six, eight public hearing is now closed. Comments by members of council. Councilman Lopez. Thank you, Mr. President. I do appreciate your time. I wanted to thank folks who are coming tonight and in presenting you know, we've seen this in we had the opportunity to ask questions, learn about the use that we're wanting to see at the at the mercy housing site out here. Problem is, when they wanted to open up, move in, provide the service. They ran into this old stegosaurus that is a poodle. And we run into this so often. It's something out of the Jurassic period is this is just like we run into these little pods all over the place. And, you know, the most embarrassing thing is this as opposed to the city as opposed as well, too. And so when we look at, you know, eliminating these pods and putting them right in the most appropriate zone district, this is one of them. But this is also what this about. Yes. Tonight we're moving this, from what I'm understanding, moving this rezoning, adopting this rezoning would actually allow those services to be rendered. And, you know, the one thing standing in the way between health care for those residents in Sun Valley and us or in. Well. Is us basically tonight. This rezoning, this allows it to happen. The next eight weeks will see imx five and I said see a max eight. This IMX five allows this to happen, but it matches what's in the neighborhood as well too. If you if you recall, not too long ago we had the Sun Valley neighborhood plan move through. We were able to implement a big part of it down here. And it does call for these heights. It does call for this particular use. And in an area that is going to see a lot of change and but in an area that's also going to be able to keep these services here. Right. And so without further ado, I mean, I do support this rezoning. I do appreciate all of your work. And Elise, who is now an expert in the West Side zoning affairs, totally gets it. So thank you. I do support this rezoning moving forward. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. Councilman Espinosa, just because I can contrast this to my other concerns about Globeville. This rezoning is occurring in a location where we already have the infrastructure or where it got definite plans to change it. Everything. All the reinvestment that's going in is Sun Valley. But we already have Rudy Rec Center, which is a fine regional rec center right across the street next to that Lakewood Gulch, which is a wonderful water quality slash flood protection class, 100 year dump into the Platte River sort of scenario. And we have a transit station right across the new court facility, a rail station and access to busses on a high frequency corridor on federal. And we're going five stories. And so I just wanted to complain people think that I'm against density and development or whatever. This is a place that should be going to rezone. I mean, getting higher density than what we're doing. I am I know what we're doing in this case. And, you know, we're just capturing the correcting issue with the underlying PD and and correcting this. But I just it illustrates sort of the disconnect between where we're having going from industrial to 20 storey without infrastructure and and not all the amenities that we have in this location and how we've prescribed a different sort of model this close to downtown, this close to our trail network, this close to our everything. And it's just who's in charge of that sort of thinking of this city is is an organism in a water balloon and figuring out where we squeeze here and where we allow things here, there. I mean, you could argue that it's the market, but we're not our zoning is is just all over the place. I mean, we're granting development rights where no one's building and we're we're making tweaks like this in areas where that should be that are getting they're already being targeted for earmarks. I mean, investment, the $30 million from HUD right across the street, the investment we've already done in that Platte Valley River Valley area. And it's just it's just frustrating. But I'm happy to support this because it is the right zoning for this situation. But I do wish we were thinking bigger in the Sun Valley area because it's such a opportunity once we do that waterfront and everything else that we plan on the realignment of 12th and 13th and what have you. So just because of good things. Councilor LOPEZ Well. I think that's an important point. Here's the thing. Part of the reason that this stuff can take place is because of those neighborhood plans. And I think that's what's critical. That's it's not just some plan that goes on a shelf and collects stars and say, oh, look how pretty this plan was. We paid like $100,000 for this plan. No, actually, these plans are what allows this this design to take place. Right. That and that's exactly what we were pushing in that area. I mean, the good thing about Sun Valley, it's a valley. So, you know, when you're looking down into the valley, those buildings don't look like they're five stories. They don't look it doesn't look like a Cinemax A.T.M. experience in this area. And you're going to be able to actually take a look at this and be like, oh, that's perfect. Perfect height, doesn't block any views, doesn't impede sun. It's just it is. What is the the best thing about this site is that it already has been there. And you can chalk that one up to saw Carpio. You could chalk it up to Debbie Ortega, you could chalk it up to Julie Monteiro, all the folks that had been there representing that in Sun Valley, even Ramona martinez at one point, you know, that's what that neighborhood has been designed for and it's been decades in the making. So it is no walk in the park. It's just it is easier now because it was harder than the envision. And so that's that's why I started also thinking, I don't want to prolong anything. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. And I want to thank you all for mercy. You've done amazing stuff all over the city, so I appreciate you. And with that, Madam Secretary, roll call. LOPEZ All. Right. New yes. ORTEGA Hi. Clark. Hi. Espinosa. FLYNN Hi. Gilmore, I. Herndon, I. Cashman can eat. Mr. President. I please close voting in US results. Lebanese Lebanese Council Bill 368 has passed. Congratulations. All right. On Monday, June 12th, 2017, the Council will hold a required public hearing for Council Bill 435 Changes on classification. 442 zero 140 203 4211 and 4221 Brighton in Elyria.