A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 4151 North Fillmore Street in Elyria Swansea. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from E-SU-B to U-RH-2.5 (single unit to row house), located at 4151 North Fillmore Street in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 11-30-21.
Ortega. Sandoval. Hi, Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 12 eyes. 12 eyes. Council Bill 20 1-1372 has passed. Thank you to the community members and the applicant who joined us. And Libby, I guess you're done tonight. So thank you for being here. On those previous two, Libby. Council members say to Barker, Will you please put Council Bill 20 1-1, four, three, two on the floor for final consideration. Yes, I move that council bill 21 1430 to be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Okay. Thank you. It has been moved. And we've got the second from Councilman Hines. The required public hearing for Council Bill 21, dash 1432 is open. May we please have the staff report? And we have Brandon Shaver here. And she has concerns with. This. Most definitely council president. Thank you and good evening, members of city council. I'm Brian Shaver, senior city planner presenting at Fish the application for 41, 51 or Fillmore Street. The request here is to go from SUV to new are 2.5. This request is in District nine, represented by Councilwoman CdeBaca and is in the other Swansea, a neighborhood. This request is on Fillmore Street between East 41st and East 42nd Avenues. It's just under 9000 square feet. Land area currently occupied by a single unit residential use. This rezoning is sponsored by the councilwoman and would allow for a variety of residential building forms at a maximum building have 30 to 35 feet and the property owner here would like to rezone and redevelop the property with three affordable homes for sale. Existing zoning again is suv etches urban edge neighborhood contacts single unit lot size mostly SUV in this neighborhood, as well as some light industrial and some industrial mixed use. Again, civilian residential uses are predominant in this part of the neighborhood. There is some two unit residential, some industrial and some vacant let some vacant land uses as well. These pictures give you a little bit of a snapshot of what's going on in the neighborhood with the subject property on the top right, which has been demolished in the last few weeks to accommodate new development. The information as of this application was out in early August and it was moved forward on a unanimous vote by planning board on November 17th. And today, staff has not received any letters from Arnault's or the public moving to our reasoning criteria. There are three plans that impact the subject property, beginning with Plan 2040. You can see here that this request is consistent with the number of the strategies and goals which are organized by vision element. They speak to creating a greater mix of housing options, ensuring a mix of housing types and services for diverse populations, and promoting infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place. Moving to Blueprint Denver This is mapped as part of the urban neighborhood context and a low residential neighborhood place type where we see predominantly single into unit uses with some higher intensity residential uses mixed throughout both of the streets. 42nd Avenue and Fillmore Street are local streets, and this fits into our all other areas of the city growth area strategy, where we expect 10% of new jobs and 20% of new housing by the year 2040. This request is also consistent with a couple additional strategies and Blueprint Denver that also speak to diversifying housing options and integrating missing mental housing, especially into our low and low median residential areas that score low in housing diversity. As this request is and Nest neighborhood CPD has now taken the stance of doing equity analysis for even smaller parcels that are in neighborhoods that are vulnerable to displacement. So the first equity concept here is access to opportunity. The site scores average has lower access to health care and low access to a full service grocery store. Staff feels that this rezoning could possibly increase the number of residential units and therefore the likelihood of those services and amenities that are lacking to locate in this area. This does score more vulnerable based on all of our metrics for vulnerability to displacement, as there are lower median household incomes, higher percentage of renters and lower educational attainment. Staff feels that expanding housing opportunities, especially ownership opportunities, could provide wealth building tools and an opportunity for residents to stay in place for housing opportunities. The site scores have moderate diversity. There's less missing middle housing, and housing costs are not very diverse. Again, Staff feels that for introducing a new housing type could result in smaller and lower cost housing options and decrease that equity gap. And then lastly, for jobs diversity, this area does score more towards innovation. Jobs and staff feels that this rezoning would have a limited to no impact on the job diversity metric. Moving to the neighborhood plan from 2015, a lot of these strategies and recommendations are similar to what you see in Blueprint encourages a mixture of housing types , expanding the number of residences, also allowing for moderate increases in density, and also upgrading the neighborhood context from urban edge to urban. This better reflects the use of alleys could help limit or prevent curb cuts in the future and continue detached sidewalks where possible. And then looking at the land use map for the neighborhood plan, this is map to a single family duplex. And while it's called single family duplex, the plan actually expands and speaks to this categorization of single family duplex, also including rowhouses, townhomes and small apartment buildings consistent with the rezoning request. And you can see the maximum building heights map for this area is two and a half stories. Also consistent with the are 2.5. The next two criteria are also consistent. This will result in the University of District regulations and for the public health, safety and welfare through a number of factors including adopt implementing adaptive plans and providing additional housing in a neighborhood that has lost a number of units due to I-70 reconstruction and increasing safety by having more eyes on the street as this property was quite dilapidated and has that vacant for a number of years for justifying circumstances there to change conditions that justify this rezoning, the first being change or changing conditions. And a particular area in this case, I just spoke to the I-70 reconstruction. We also there's a number of construction projects occurring at the National Western Center and then also city adopted plan. Both the neighborhood plan and Blueprint Denver were adopted since this property was last free zone in 2010 and speaks to increasing that housing diversity and preventing missing middle housing. Lastly, it's consistent with the neighborhood context of urban design, district purpose and intent statements which you can find in greater detail in the staff report. That concludes my presentation, and CPD recommends that approval based on training of the review criteria have been met. I'm happy to answer any questions. All right, great. Thank you for the presentation, Brandon. And tonight, counsel has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 20 1-1, four, three, two. We have four individuals signed up to speak this evening, and so we're going to go ahead and move to those individuals, our first speaker. And just a reminder to folks, please introduce yourself. Please introduce yourself and provide us your name and your address or city of residence if you feel comfortable doing so. And our first speaker is Jeff Martinez. Good evening, Madam President and members of city council. I'm Jeff Martinez, president of Brothers Redevelopment. And I live at 1650 Olive Street in Denver and it's my pleasure tonight with a great assist from councilwoman say the bucket to submit for your consideration this rezoning request for 4151 Fillmore Street brothers two brothers redevelopment is acquired this site on behalf of global area Swansea Affordable Housing Collaborative, which includes the global areas wants it coalition, Carter Community Land Trust and Habitat for Humanity, Metro Denver with the sole goal of developing a triplex on site to add three new affordable units that will be sold to residents of these hard working and proud neighborhoods who are at risk of displacement due to gentrification caused by the redevelopment of Central 70 and other. Nearby development is putting severe economic pressure on land in real estate in the area and has been doing so for quite a while. When sold to residents, the units will be placed into the GEOS Community Land Trust, which is owned solely by the neighbors of the area now, and that's now known as Dear Collective to be kept in perpetual affordability for a 99 year term. Our efforts to date have received substantial public and philanthropic investment both the city and county of Denver and the Department of Transportation, with granted $2 million each to this vision, which has seen us now acquire a handful of sites to place five new homes into the hands of DC residents. It has us on the cusp of developing 5 to 10 new units in the next year, which we're very excited about, including those we're discussing tonight. 4151 Fillmore. The effort has also received substantial financial support from the current Health Foundation. The initiative proves that we can preserve affordability while centering the interests of DC residents that face decades of environmental injustice and economic disparities. It also, as brand and shared, replaces units that were lost due to the seven Central Seven Reconstruction. So with that, just pleased to be able to submit this for your consideration the city. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jesse Paris. Yes. Good evening. Members of council may be heard. Yes. Yes. My name is Jesse with some Paris and I'm represented for Black Star Action, one for self defense, positive action camera for Social Change, as well as the Unity Party of Colorado, the East Denver Residents Council and Frontline Black Hills. And I'll be the next term Denver in 2023. Initially I was against this rezoning because I thought it was going to be more gentrification as usual. But upon hearing the previous speaker, I am in full support of this reasoning tonight. I support the gas community and in the Senate they're on board with this. I have no choice but to support this. And I'm seeing that this is going to be under the community land trust. That is also a plus and is going to be affordable for 99 years. I just have a question. Is this going to be for sale or for rents? How soon? As someone can answer that question, I would really appreciate it. Thank you. And have a blessed night. Thank you. Our next speaker is Nolan McDowell. The evening. Members of Council. Happy New Year. I'm here in support of the U. rh2 point five zoning. I am the co-director of the Global Irresponsible Coalition and I live in Denver at 4930 Lahore Street. We found this lot and it's a larger lot. It's about 9000 square feet. And so we were excited that we could use the same model that we've been using for duplexes, but be able to expand it one more unit. This was a vacant and derelict home. I remember when I was a council aide in about 2013. I remember getting a call about this house and all the families of raccoons that were living there. But it has been a safety hazard or to surrounding neighborhoods for at least ten years. As far as I know, this home has been purchased as part of the global response community land trust effort called Events of Substance and the Collective. It is a community directed community land trust working to prevent displacement of neighbors and globally response year. We have been building out that pipeline for neighbors to prepare to purchase these homes. These homes are for sale homes. They will be numbers 11, 12 and 13 and the community land trust if this passes and our three bedroom, three bath homes sold for $185,000 to families at around 50 to 70%. AMI most of these families are intergenerational families. Many have several children. As you saw brothers be development is currently the owner of the land and when the homeowners purchased the the home then the land goes into the community land trust, which is currently being incubated by Habitat for Humanity and the Colorado Community Land Trust. In the long term, they will be stewarded in perpetuity by the GC residents who will collectively on this land. This land not only one time contributes to the community and the community efforts, but it will contribute now and then ongoing throughout its life. We will we are looking at a modular developer for the site and we've also done a significant amount of community outreach in addition to our board being entirely community members, 19 community members of the globally responsible neighborhoods, we make a big effort to fire just directly around the unit. So we've done three different sets of wiring around that neighborhood to talk to. People have actually been able to qualify. One of the people that live across the alleyway who is she's currently living with her two kids, with her parents, and she was able to qualify to be able to move in to one of the homes potentially . Just across the alleyway so she can be close to her family. We're all overall just super thankful to customers that are back to Brandon for all your support. That's the time we have a lot of. Thank you, Noah. Next up, we have Alfonzo Spinner. It's the council. Can you hear me? Mm hmm. Go ahead. Hello. My name is Alfonso Espino. I live at 4716 Gaylord here in Denver. And Luis wants you. I'm also a community organizer with the Jazz Coalition, so of course, I'm here in support of this recent change on Fillmore Street. Not only will it add affordable housing for sale units to our community, which are desperately needed, but they're at a level that are also appropriate for the neighbors, as you just heard from Ella. And I just want to reiterate that support and these are the type of projects that city council, the city of Denver should be looking towards as examples of ways to fill in the gap for communities that look like ours. And over I'm just proud of the work that has been done by the local people and everyone involved with it. And thank you for those that spoke in support of it tonight. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers this evening. And I want to see if there's any questions from members of Council on Council. Bill 21. Dash 1432. Councilmember Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. Oh, sorry. There we go. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. When I hit my button. Oh. So my only question and I'm not sure. If it's for Lola or for Jeff. But actually it would probably be for whoever is marketing the units when after they're constructed. Who who is doing the like homeownership counseling to try to find the families and counsel them so that as they are getting into a home ownership situation there, they know what all their responsibilities are. I mean, because it's completely different than being a renter where you have a landlord that has to come and fix things when they break down. Obviously, you would want to make sure that you know the. What's the word I'm looking for, you know, when you purchase something brand new. The warranties are in place. But when the warranties expire as a homeowner, you then become responsible. So I don't know who wants to address that. All right. Well, we have both Jeff and Nolan in the queue, so it just asks for you to reintroduce yourself for the public record. Nolan, do you want to go ahead and start? Sure, I can start. No, let me go with the GSA coalition, and thanks for the question. Councilman Ortega. So, yes, we require all of our homeowners to take the toughest 35% of homeowners course. So that's offered by lots of different organizations throughout the city. We've done the ones against Spanish in the neighborhood with Del Norte, for instance, Brothers offers them in English and in Spanish and on Saturdays, which works out for a lot of people. So we kind of just whatever works for the homeowner, you know, their timing and now they're all in line, of course. So. So that's good to know. I didn't realize that that was a requirement, but that is extremely beneficial for anybody buying housing in the city of Denver to go through that process, because it it just helps you understand all of the nuances of becoming a homeowner. So thank you for answering that question. I think that's all I have. So thank you. You covered all the questions in your presentation about what sort of appreciate it. All right. Wonderful. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. And to the community members who testified during the public hearing as well. The public hearing is closed. Comments from members of Council on Council Bill 21, Dash 1432. Councilwoman CdeBaca. Thank you. As mentioned by some of the speakers tonight, this is a truly grass led community effort and the real culmination of a series of events that have harmed our community and now is our opportunity to undo some of. That harm created. And so I'm proud to have played. A role in this, and I invite all of you all to support this tonight. There are no other projects that we've ever had in front of us that guarantee the depth of affordability for the length of time guaranteed by the Gasland trust. And they are never, ever community stewards stewarded like this one is. And so this is a really unique opportunity for us to see what it looks like when a community is calling the shots. So please, I invite you all to support tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman CdeBaca. Councilwoman Sandoval. Oh, I think we might still I think we might have trouble with your audio. Again? Oh, no. Do you want to go ahead and. Well, if you want to bounce back off, we've got Councilman Flynn in front of you here. I don't know what else to help advise you with it. Councilman Flynn, go ahead with your comments, please. Thank you, Madam President. I raised my hand because I saw that Councilwoman Sandoval's having audio problems, so I thought I'd vamp for about 3 minutes on this just to give her a chance to come back in. But as I was listening to Councilman CdeBaca, I just wanted to thank her for hosting me on a tour of her district a couple of months ago. And this was one of the sites that we went by. And I believe this is just a culmination, councilwoman, of that effort that you described to me. Yes, this is thank you. Thank you. And so I'm very happy to support this and obviously meets all the criteria. And thank you, Councilwoman, for giving me that street level. Look at the issues in your district. Thank you for coming. And the tour is available to anyone else who wants it. All right. Thank you. Up next, we've got Councilmember Sandoval. We've got you back in the queue. Can you hear me now? Understand that. Thank you. So I would just like to ask my colleagues support for this as well. I had the privilege and the opportunity to work on the plan with Nolan Miguel as council aids in District nine and to be able to sit here tonight and ask for your support for this is the work that has been being built in that community for a very long time. And thank you for your being so steadfast in your dedication and your vision and being a visionary in this area and figuring out how to get this done. So I would ask all of you to please support this. It's important to support a plan that was adopted in 2015 and all of the other adopted plans that are called out in this application. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Sandoval. Councilmember Ortega. Okay. Thank you, Madam President. I just wanted to add my support for the application as well. I know that BRE and Habitat have played a really important role in working with the residents of the community and with Chiara collectively in identifying properties and looking at how to utilize the money that both the city and C that have made available. A lot of that was focused on trying to ensure there were resources to help replace some of the housing stock that was lost in these neighborhoods as a result of I-70. And this is doing exactly what it was supposed to do. And so I'm in full support of this application. Thank you. Wonderful. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. And happy to support this rezoning tonight as well. Appreciate the community and other council members comments and invite my colleagues to support it as well. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 21, DASH one, four, three, two. See the market. I click. I. Flynn. I. Herndon i. Hunt I. Cashmere i. Ortega. All right. Sandoval, I. Player. Hi. Friends. I. What I. Madam President, I. Madam Secretary, closed the voting and announced results for Vice 12 Eyes Council Bill 20 1-1432 has passed. Our pre adjournment announcement on Monday, February 7th, 2022. Council will hold the required public hearing on Council Bill 20 1-1437 Changing the zoning classification for 901 North Kearny Street in Montclair, a required public hearing on Council Bill