A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3133 North Raleigh Street in West Highland. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-A to U-SU-A1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 3133 North Raleigh Street in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 4-13-21.
Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Council Member Sawyer Will you please put Council Bill 405 on the floor for final passage. And move that Council Bill 21 deaths 0405 be placed upon final consideration and duties. Back. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 405 is open. May we please have the staff report? I see. It's in. You've already got it up and going. Please go ahead. Perfect. Can you hear me? Yes. Good evening, counsel. My name is Ed Senate Finance and I am an associate city planner here and representing family planning and development. Before you today, we have 3133 North Browns Street. It's currently zoning U.S.A. and the request says to three zone to us one, which is it's currently a single unit zone district and it's requesting for a single, single unit zoned district with an ADU. So right now the site itself is currently in Council District one, understandable in the West Highland neighborhood. And the site itself is just pretty close to the corner of Wylie and 32nd Avenue. It's just over 6000 square feet. And it's a single unit residential. So this so the zoning that is requesting is a single unit zone district, us ua1. But as you can see, U.S.A. one is directly to the north. That was reason for Nadir, but it's in an area of U.S., A-1 as well. As you get us, you see a SUV, which are all a single unit zone districts based on lot sizes. And the existing land use for this site is single unit residential. But as you can see, there are some two unit residential uses nearby as well. So as you can see, the subject property is on the upper left corner. And it's a one story structure. And then on the. On the picture on the on the top right is the property directly to the north, which is a single unit property with an ADU on the top of the garage, as you can see. And then across the street on the bottom left, you see just a two unit property there. So this went before the planning board in April and it was passed unanimously. It was our consent and it's before you today. And as a present we've received two comments of opposition and six letters of support have been received for this case. A lot of the concerns were regarding multiple aid use on a single block and being in close proximity to one another. The potential for parking concerns and noise issues. And the applicant has reached out to these individuals that had concerns to try to answer any questions you might have. And also the applicant is here to answer those questions as well. So whenever we're looking at a rezoning, we have specific review criteria that we analyzed based off the Denver zoning code. And I will dove into it right now. So the first one is concisely what Dr. Ponder really focused on the Conference Comprehensive Plan 2040 and Blueprint, Denver, L.A. and Transportation Plan. There are several strategies found in a comprehensive plan for 2040 that are specified in the staff report. And so I will jump into the blueprint Denver Blueprint. Denver classifies this area as urban, which is predominantly residential. And then within the feature place type, it's classified as low residential, which is predominantly single integrated uses and accessory dwelling units are appropriate here. As well. Blueprint does have specific policy that mentions accessory dwelling units such as the land use and built form housing policy for which is a diversity of housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. And this specific rezoning is consistent with the other criteria specified in the staff report. Therefore, CPD recommends approval based on all findings and all review criteria have been met. And I am open and available to any questions that you may have. And the applicant is here presenting answering questions as well. All right. Thank you for the presentation, Edson. This evening, council has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 21, Dash 0405 and we do not have any speakers signed up to speak this evening. And so questions from members of Council on Council Bill 405. All right. Scene one, the public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 405 Council member Sandoval. Madam President. And this reasoning fits all of the criteria, and I hope you all would support it. I've met my office has met with the West Highland Neighborhood Association that represents these areas where there are no and they are looking and going to start doing outreach about rezoning that entire neighborhood. Stay tuned so that we don't have to continue to do these one offs. So when we do some community outreach and go out to see if there's support, maybe the whole entire rezoning application will be coming forward. Thanking them. President. Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval. And I'm happy to support this this evening, saying that it needs all of the rezoning criteria and seeing other hands raised. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 405, please. Sandoval. Hi. Sawyer, I. Torres, I. What I. Clark. All right. Twin. Herndon. I. Hines. I. Cashman. I can. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 11 nights.