A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 4855, 4856, 4876 and 4900 Sherman Street, 4824 Lincoln Street, 4877, 4901 and 4978 Grant Street, 5000, 5001 and 5021 Logan Street in Globeville. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property from E-SU-D and I-MX-3 to OS-A (urban edge to open space), located at 4855 Sherman Street, 4824 Lincoln Street, 4876 Sherman Street, 4900 Sherman Street, 4901 Grant Street, 4978 Grant Street, 5001 Logan Street, 5000 Logan Street, 5021 Logan Street, 4877 Grant Street, and 4856 Sherman Street in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 7-21-20.
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Council Member Sandoval Will you please put Council Bill 694 on the floor for passage? They moved that council bill 20 30694 to be placed upon final consideration and due process. Has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 20 dash 0694 is open. May we please have the staff report? Yes. Thank you, Madam President. Scott Robinson with community planning. And. This is a request to resolve the question of space properties from the SUV and I am sorry to Prochaska. The property is located in Council District nine in Globeville neighborhood and is just north of Argo Park. It's just under six acres and is currently vacant. Request is to resign from that which is urban search context, single zoning and I am extreme which is industrial mixed use three storey zoning to OSA, which is open space to. And the request is to rezone it, to convert it into a city park. As I said, property is currently zoned SUV and I am extreme and see how most of it is being just a small portion. I have three offices northeast corner surrounded mostly by sunny industrial up in the northeast and then OSA Argo Park to the south. Here you can see the existing way of use. The subject property is currently vacant, surrounded mostly by single unit residential with a part to the south and then some. Industrial uses. To the northeast. Here you can see an old photo of property in the bottom. Right. And then photos of some of the surrounding houses. The proposed OSA Zone District is an open space zoning intended for city owned parks and open spaces. It provides flexibility and grants to the manager of Parks and Recreation. The ability to set standards for building form and uses. We just went to a planning board on July 15th, which led to a unanimous recommendation for approval. There was one member of the public spoke with some questions. I went to Rudy on July 21st and has spoken tonight. We received no public comment. This application. In order to approve a resigning the city must find. These five criteria have been met. The first criterion is consistency with adopted plans. There are four plans for the Prime Minister property. The first is comprehensive plan 2040, as described in the staff report. Steps five Because rezoning is consistent with multiple strategies from Complaint 2048, mostly related to improving parks access. In terms of equity, Steph finds the proposed rezoning consistent with the strategy for the equitable, affordable and inclusive vision element. Again, relating to improving access to amenities such as parks and in terms of climate change. Staff finds the proposed rezoning consistent with these two strategies from the environmentally resilient vision element, again relating to increasing open space and parks in some. The second plan is Blueprint Denver. The future complex designation for this property is urban, which calls for a variety of uses and building forms in the context, including things like parks. So the proposed zoning is consistent with that. The future place designation is public park and open space, which again is consistent with the proposed OSA park and open space zoning. Most of the surrounding streets are local streets, except for Lincoln, which is a residential collector on the west side of the property there. Again, all consistent with the proposed OSA zoning. The future growth strategy for the property is for all other areas of the city intended to accommodate 10% of. New jobs and 20%. Housing, which is appropriate for this area and consistent with the proposed zoning blueprint, also includes a number of strategies and other recommendations, including this recommendation to increase the percentage of residents who are within a ten minute walk of the park. So creating a new park will help meet that strategy. Also for larger rezonings, a blueprint requires an equity analysis on the three equity concepts in the plan. So before we go through those, the first is access to opportunity. This area currently scores as less access to opportunity as defined by the three measures equity index, the proximity to transit and access to certain corridors. However, creating a public park here will should help improve that by improving access to parks, which can help improve health of the residents mental and physical, which will improve the equity index and . Access to opportunity. The second equity concept is vulnerability to involuntary displacement. This area scores as more vulnerable again based on the measures of median household income per cent of renters in the area and educational attainment of the residents. Denver Parks and Recreation is working with partners in the neighborhood on a cross-sectoral strategy to address any potential impacts of this city investment in the in the neighborhood on involuntary displacement. The third equity concept is housing and jobs diversity first in terms of housing diversity. This scores as moderate diversity. Our staff finds that the proposed rezoning and park will have a limited impact on housing diversity in the area and similar for jobs diversity scores as skewing towards manufacturing. And again, will have a limited impact. So staff finds the proposed rezoning consistent with Blueprint Denver. The third plan is game plan for a healthy city. The city's Parks and Recreation masterplan, it calls out global neighborhood as a high need neighborhood for improving access to parks and says park and programmatic resources should be focused on underserved serve neighborhoods such as Globeville. So the proposed rezoning is consistent with the game plan for a healthy city. And then the fourth plan is the Globeville neighborhood plan. Again, this plan designates the property as a park or open space and calls out specifically platform open space property with a community led vision to transform this into a park for the neighborhood which this proposed rezoning would help. So step five proposed rezoning consistent with global neighborhood plan and the first criteria of MET. The second criterion is uniformity of district regulations that finds the proposed rezoning would result in the uniform application of a zone district. The third criterion is to further the public health, safety and general welfare of the city. Staff finds the proposed rezoning would do so by implementing the city's adaptive plans and facilitating the creation of new park, improving health and welfare in the neighborhoods. The fourth criterion is justifying circumstances. Staff and rezoning is justified by change and changing conditions. One is adoption of new plans in the area, including four never plans specifically calling out this property as a as a park. And that also the city's purchase of the park, the OSA Property Grocery Zone District, only applies to city owned properties . The city has acquired these properties over the last few years and so only now is it appropriate to apply the. Lessons of district to them. And the fifth criterion is consistency with neighborhood context. The purpose of intent. Stafford's proposed rezoning would result in use and development consistent with the purpose and intent of the Osage District. So that stuff, five or five criteria are met and recommends approval. Words from Parks and Recreation has a few additional information that you would like to go over, so make the hands over to her for just a few slides here. Thanks, Scott. As Scott mentioned, my name is worried about. I'm the associate parks planner with Denver Parks and Recreation. And I just wanted to talk a little bit about the history, community engagement and current status of the site. My cat is also deciding now is the time to be really loud. So I'm sorry to have you guys hear that in the background. So a little bit just about the. History of the site itself. It is it was located within the Asarco glow plant Superfund boundaries, which left the site with a number of environmental issues, including contaminated soil. However. She remediated the soils between 1993 and 2011, so that work was completed during that time period. It had become after that and during that it had become a destination for crime and illegal dumping, and at which point the citizens decided to rise up and get involved and make sure it was no longer used for that purpose. So and they. Had always felt this kind. Of connection to the site. So the history of platform open space is really a community led effort. In 2006, the Globeville residents teamed up with their council men at the time and an organization. Called Groundwork. Denver in order to develop a vision and a. Design for the site. For the next ten years. The residents advocated for the development of the site, working with. Partners. Like the city and county. Of Denver. To make this vision a reality. And excitingly, in 2019, the city and. County of Denver closed on the last property. That it needed in order to complete this vision. Just a little bit about the community engagement. The residents really worked very hard on getting the word out to their fellow neighbors, working with pro bono urban planners and environmental experts. A resident steering committee led the vision, planning and community outreach. The overall design process included three community meetings, as well as door to door engagement engagement through organizations like the Neighborhood Association, Recreation Center, churches and schools. And then at the end of this process, the finished product included a full design set that met the goals of the community, which you can see here on the slide. Active living. Connecting kids with nature and demonstrating environmental sustainability. Okay. So I. Know this slide is a little hard to see, but. If anyone. Would like it, I'm happy to provide a. Bigger enlarged image. But this is the final concept design for a pop farm open space. As you can see, the most important focus is the trails system that was implemented along. With things like native grasses. And enhanced crosswalks and as well as like a detention pond for storm. So the current status. Is that actually the construction has just been completed. It was opened to the public in August 2020. So really soon, really recently. And here you can see two pictures of the finished product. You can see that the grasses in the native are still coming in. But you can see that the trail system has been complete. And we're really excited that the neighbors now have access. To this after. A ten year advocate for it. So that's it for me. I'm happy to open it up to any questions. Thank you to you both. Council has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 694 and we have two individuals signed up to speak this evening. And so first up, we have Jesse Paris. And we'll probably go ahead and ask you to stop sharing your screens for right now. And we'll. Get Jessie on. All right. Go ahead, Jessie. He was a counselor. My name is Jess in Paris and I'm represented for Denver Homicide now. Baxter Examiner for Self Defense, Positive Action, MIT for Social Change, as well as the Unity Party of Colorado. My belief in the universality of people's organization in our reside in District eight at the Future. Studios. 3737 Quebec Street. Denver, Colorado. I'm saying that the community has been wanting this for. Ten years to. Maintain Globeville, a very neglected and very gentrified community, saying that the city is finally implementing what they've been wanting for the past ten years. I have no choice but to go with this. The only question I. Had was it looks like we did enough outreach to the community. It looks like this is what the community wants. When we say sites like this, though, it just hurts me because we get told. About. Places where there can be tiny villages, but this is where there could be. Encampment safe. Supervised encampments that there's no open space available for this. And then we find places like this where there is open space. Now, this community been burdened. Enough with. The tiny little village which they didn't want in the first place. So I'm not suggesting that you should put one near, but when you see open space like this, we need to keep in consideration that these could be areas that people could be occupying that do not have a home that can afford to live in the mile high income city and that you should we take a further consideration in the bay districts for areas like this to be places where our own house neighbors can reside and not be terrorized by DPD. So that's all I had. Thank you for giving me a chance to speak. Thank you. Next up, we have Silas Eula Barry. Am I. Right? Go ahead. Silence. Oh, can you see me? We can't see you, but we can hear you. Okay. Sorry. I think you should be able to see me now. Now we can go ahead. So my name is Jeremy. Silas LaBrie and I. I grew up in Globeville. I also am a public artist, and I've been a part of the global community on many levels. I created one of the murals under I-70 on Lincoln, and I also created all the public art for the new Larimer Housing Development. I owned 4901 Grant. Which I've owned for. I believe, about five years now. I grew up up the block. My mother still lives up the block on 1595 Grant. I was sent messages last minute, just about maybe 40 minutes ago saying you should tune into this because they're talking about your land. I wasn't made aware of any of the rezoning prior to right now. And I guess my first question is, how does this affect the land that I've worked so hard for and planned on building a home for my family's future? It again, it's 4901 Grant. It's I've seen the construction going on there at the bottom of the hill. Does this does this affect what I own, the property that I owned? Well, can I somehow lose the zoning where I can't build a home on this land? So we're not going to answer any of your questions right now. This is your time stylist to to share your perspective. And then one of us can ask that question of the planner. So you go ahead. This is your time. Yeah. So that I mean, that's that's it is is that you know, I know myself and and a few other people own property around there. And I didn't realize that my address my address was. Was thrown. Into the mix of that. So my, my only, you know, the only thing I have to express is that my concerns of somehow losing something that I'm banking on for the future of my family. And, you know, the reason why I did buy this property in Globeville is because I wanted to live in the community that I've worked and grown up in. So the thought of somehow being able to lose that through zoning scares me because, you know, me and a lot of my other friends, that's that was our plan is that when we were grown, we were going to buy houses there and we were going to raise our kids there and we were going to remain in Globeville. So I guess that's that's all that I had to express. Okay. Thank you. That concludes our speakers for tonight. Questions from members of council. Councilman CdeBaca. Thank you. Madam President, I would like to have the questions answered that Silas asked. I was looking at this property earlier today and realized that there are two properties with the exact same address, Scott. And wondering how this does affect the corner property and the one next to it that both seem to be owned by private owners and not the city of Denver. So if you can explain those two things to me, that would be helpful. Yeah, certainly. So the address and can be a little confusing because when a property does not have an official address signed yet, it is given a temporary address, which is the first address of the block on the other side of the street. This service being on the outside of the street and doesn't have a permanent address assigned is given 4901 Grant Street. And so Mr.. Your base property is at the north end of the that block is not included in this rezoning is not being resolved to address that as part of this rezoning. This rezoning only affects the city owned properties. So it's that simple. But so it stops at the property right to the south of Mr. You Liveris property. Right? Yeah. Those two privately owned properties are not. Included in this rezoning. So 4901 North Grant will not register entirely as this zoning or how do we make sure? Because we're telling him right now it's a technicality, but I don't want him to be in a position a year down the road if he's trying to reason to build and he's told that it was completely reasoned. Yeah. So the, the way the zone district the is used to define. Sort or the legal description, the philosophy and the occupation. And in particular. Though that has a legal description that defines what is actually about legal description does not include this property. It only includes the city on property. Got it. And so those pictures that you showed us are not accurate, right? The pictures include. The pictures include both his property and his neighbor's property. They shouldn't. But if they do, then, yes. They're not accurate. Got it. I just wanted to make sure that we get that all on record. Thank you. And is it is it possible? Well, we can actually set up a meeting to talk with Mr. Barry after because there are some zoning questions. Can you clarify what his property remains zoned as? Yes. His property is the SUV and more for me. Awesome. Okay. Thank you. What? All right, Councilman Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. I have a couple of questions for the Parks Department. I want to ask the question about dedicating this park land as is. Is that something that will come later after we complete this rezoning? And is there a reason why we just do it all at the same time? Thanks for that question, Councilman. Yes, the plan is definitely to designate this park. After it is zoned. It's not a great answer, but usually it's just typically how it's done. You get a reason and then designate it. However we are, this property actually has made us consider. Doing it together and. Maybe looking at that in the future. But for now, it's separated and it is plan on getting. Idea on the timing of when you guys will bring that piece of it forward. That's a great question. I actually my. Supervisor, Kathleen, is here tonight and she. May have a better answer. Okay. Let me go to my next question. Or maybe she might have some response by the time I get done with this next question. And I'm not sure. Maybe it should be the one that I asked this question, because I know you were involved in this project. Does this have any metro wastewater, which is formerly urban drainage and wastewater funds in it? Yeah. The Southern half. Madam President, may I? Yeah. So? So the southern portion of this site does have urban drainage funding in it. And I actually. I'm sorry. I know we've had a lot of staff changes, Laurie, and you're a little newer to the project. I actually don't believe that the entire site can be dedicated as a park because there is a significant Excel easement for the powerlines that I believe complicates the dedication. So we may need to double check the answer to Councilwoman Ortega's first question as well. I don't know if the Metro wastewater impacts the ability to dedicate as well, but both have easements involved, particularly the Metro wastewater is on the southern portion of the site below the street. And so I just want to maybe ask the staff to, if they're not 100% sure, perhaps caveat that answer before we proceed. Okay. And and then my last question worry. I don't know if you got an answer to that first part, but. My last question is about losing my place here. So was the drainage dedication. So it's a total of six acres. So we need to just clarify if the easements will prevent any portion of that from from being dedicated. But I just lost my place. So anyway, if I if I remember it all chimed back in. Okay. Thank you. I think it sounds good. And then I know we have Kathleen on the line as well. If Laura, you'd like us to bring her up. I think Kathleen's unmuted, so maybe we can get some clarification around the the park designation. That would be great. Thanks. Thank you. This is Kathleen Leveque and the assistant director of Parks Planning for Denver Parks and Recreation. And as Lori mentioned, a platform open space is a good candidate for a park designation. However, we do typically wait until construction is complete, and any surrounding issues like road improvements or utilities are also complete. We have a a citizen committee that actually looks at potential park designations and works with our staff and in works out issues like are there any remaining title issues, encroachments, easements, other things that come into play as it relates to a park designation? And once it gets vetted through that group, it then goes to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and then to Ludy and then to City Council. So this property is very much on our radar, but we do need to go through and confirm if there are any outstanding issues before we can proceed with designation. Thank you. Madam President, I could take my spot if I could just ask that last question. Go ahead. So I just wanted to ask the city attorney. I lusa goes on to just clarify the point that if we have two addresses that have the same exact address, one being in changing the zoning and the other one being in this private property that we have, is there something more we need to do as part of this zoning tonight to ensure that we're not entangle bring this private property into this, you know, this a risk category? The Council members council. Yeah, thanks for the question. So as Scott mentioned, the substantive portion of this ordinance is is the text of the ordinance itself and not so much the bill title. So the address. Right. So so legal description is what is legally enforceable? Does that help? Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think making this all part of the record tonight becomes an important part of the clarification as well for this property owner. That's the two property owners whose address is fall within the the listed addresses on tonight's bill just to help them, you know, be assured that they're we're not changing their zoning. You know, I think Scott explain why that address, those two addresses are being used. And I think that was helpful clarification. But I just wanted to have some voice from the city attorney to just kind of assure property owners that they are protected. Yeah, absolutely. And when the guys department of CP draws the zoning map boundaries, it'll clearly define the area that's being re zoned should this rezoning pass this evening. And it will exclude the properties in question. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilman Hines, you're up. Thank you, Madam President. And and thank you, colleagues who have come before me. I certainly also have the same question. And I, as a person who's not familiar with the city, I would be pretty flustered if my address showed up on the title of the bill. And so thank you for thank you, colleagues. And thank you for city staff for clarifying that the. Are there. Regarding this area, are there people who are currently not 5 minutes from a park who will join the club of people who are 5 minutes from a park? Isn't the reason why I think 5 minutes is. I think that's one of the priorities, one of the goals of the city, if I'm right. Yes. So our typical radius is actually a. Ten minute walk or roll with a five minute for. A downtown core. But you're absolutely right, it's important regardless. We did do that. Analysis and I would honestly double check because there is a park really. Close by. But I do believe that this new trail system does encompass at least a few new homes. But I would need to double check on the exact percentage of people that are getting the ten minute walk access from this park specifically. May I add something, Madam President? Go ahead. Distance isn't always the only determinant of who can access a park. And one of the things that this park will provide is more direct access for the residents of Linden with developmental disabilities and the users of Laird in who? There is a park immediately south of this location, but there's a railroad track between this park and Argo Park. So that railroad track might as well that park. Argo Park might as well be another two miles away for those residents, particularly with their transportation barriers. So ground work worked really hard to, you know, make this site inclusive to Laird and residents in particular. But there are also habitat homes on that north side, as well as the long term residents that our public speaker talked about. I know his property is not yet residential. It sounds like it's land, but there are other houses that about this area. And, you know, some able bodied folks might be able to cross railroad tracks, but we don't recommend it and we certainly don't, you know, know that everyone can't. So I do think it expands access, particularly for those residents that are on that side. But that's important context. And I want to also thank Parks for identifying rock and roll because that includes me. So I do have one other question. Maybe this is for Mr. Robinson that the presentation said that we completed construction on the park and now we are rezoning this to a park. So are we beginning with the end in mind or how does how does this rezoning process work? Because it seems to me like if we say no, we've got this thing, it's all made out to be a park. That is I'm not saying that I'm going to say no. I just I'm just trying to understand the process of do we make it into a park and then rezone it to a park? Is that the typical process? From a zoning standpoint. Yeah, it can go either way. Park users are allowed users in the zone district, the existing zoning. So that's why they're able to build the park on the existing zoning. But for various reasons, we want to zone our parks to park zoning. So we want to build the park. So when you get attorney and law enforcement, why we go for now. But yeah, that's why we even though the park. Is. Now being construction. It's still important to. Rezone it at this point. But I like the idea of calling a spade a spade. So I recognize why you'd want to call the park apart. So thank you. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Madam President. Scott ordinate and possibly Lori. Also a couple of questions. Following up on what Councilwoman Canete was just talking about. It does concern me that the Burlington Northern New Jersey cut off track cuts through there, and there doesn't appear to be. I've been up there a couple of years ago when I was working on the project, and there doesn't seem to be any barriers or protections to keep people from accessing the railroad tracks. What I was wondering was maybe Lori is the best person to answer this. Are there plans to connect this to Argo Park somehow directly, either under or over the tracks of the tracks run on a berm through there to make this accessible. Accessible, because it's very tempting for people to want to go from one to the other. And we certainly don't want them crossing the Jersey cutoff, even though my recollection is that BNSF doesn't use it all that often. Are there plans to connect the two? Yeah, that's a great question. I actually if it's okay, I would like to kick it over. To. Carol. Sure. She is the project manager for the park and the construction itself. So she may be a little more. Knowledgeable about future plans. Great. Thank you, Kathleen. Yeah. It could be Cathy or Kara. Okay, we've got Kathleen on. Hi, Kathleen Leveque. At this time, we do not have plans to go either over or under the railroad tracks there. People can use the on Street Network to cross the tracks. But at this time, there are not plans to connect them directly from park to park. There's absolutely no separation of fencing or anything between that link, and I think it's the one on that on the West Side and all the way over to the other end of our park. So it's kind of concerning. I also want to congratulate Groundwork Denver for all of its work on this over over that long period of time. Great project. But does the and maybe Scott, I can answer this with the with the power lines that are still there. We purchased the public service. Well, I'm dating myself Xcel property just last year, last June. All those parcels and their power lines remain on their. Do they remain now? So now they are on our property rather than on their own property. Do they retain an easement? And that might be what is standing in the way, as Lori pointed out of designating it as a park. Or perhaps we could designate everything but the easement strip as a part because power lines will remain correct. Yes. That's my understanding is there is an easement for the power lines. On the property and those cars will remain. Mm hmm. Okay. And finally, Laurie, maybe you can answer this. I was looking at the staff report on this, and and all the building forms and design standards for OSHA, of course, say not applicable because it's open space. And OSHA is city park. There are folks in Denver who are very concerned that that the manager of Parks in the 2010 citywide rezoning had acquired some ability to to, in effect, rezone and develop part of dedicated city parks. This rezoning doesn't set up any building forms, but I'm wondering, does KPD Scott have a position on what the manager of parks can do in a city park that is designated OSA? Can anything be developed or built on there? So there can be going on there or say a lot of our rec centers are also zoned. So let's say things like rec, some of our public park uses for public recreation. This is can be constructed on hillsides. I probably would be restricted to a park purpose like a rec center or. Okay. Right. So there's a purpose and intent of U.S.. District, which is for. Okay, I just want. Thank you. I just wanted to get that on the record. Thank you. That's all. Madam President. Madam President, I had an answer to Councilman Flynn's question after. No, that's okay. This project has outlived three generations of staff, so. Yes, no, go ahead. Councilman Flynn. There are serious practical issues that would make that very unlikely on this site. So I just don't want anyone listening. The northern portion of the site is capped and that cap would prevent construction activity, freeze and digging without major environmental clearances from the Colorado Department of Health and Environment, who governs this site under a voluntary cleanup agreement and the southern portion of the site because of the drainage issues, it is now a part of the flood control system that connects to the outfall. And so so in both cases, I don't believe that that's likely to be feasible and very much, if any, of this site. There is some further improvements to the site that might occur in a second phase when more funding is secured. But those are like play features and, you know, some some work on the trails and things like that. They are not structures, but I, I can't, you know, we need to get an opinion from the design professionals to be official, but I think it's virtually impossible to disturb either the northern or the southern portion of this site given those two issues. So I just don't want anyone leaving thinking buildings might pop up here for a park's purpose or any other purpose. All right. Thank you. And I. I was asking that question simply to to get it the had the common observation that has been made. And we, of course, have that long standing memo from our former legislative counsel, David Broadwell, as far as what the director of parks, the manager of parks could do. But I just wanted to get it on the record about that. I anticipate the parks would build something vertical, even for a park's purpose. But thank you for that. That's all, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman. Councilwoman Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. So I have a question for Scott. Hey, Scott. When the 200 foot notifications go out for any rezonings, do you send them to the house, or do you cut the list where they would get sent to the address? The assessor's record. Yes. It's to the property owner. Based on your assessment records. Based on the assessor assessor's records. Okay. Thank you. Okay. All right. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman CdeBaca. Just a quick question for Scott. Do you know why the city sold the other parcel, the other 49. No. One parcel? Because it looks I'm looking at the chain of title and it looks like the city owned it at some point and sold it. But if we've been going through this process for ten years, do you know why that happened? No. I do not know the history. Of. Your friend Mr. Castle. I do not. Know. Property for. Got it. Thank you. All right, Councilwoman Canete for you. Back up for a question. Okay. Well, I can't I was I was I can't speak to the specific parcel without a map, but I will say that there were several properties that groundwork Denver had flagged and asked the city to be more assertive in acquiring that were adjacent to the site. And we had some real difficulties with staff changes, reluctance from the city attorney's office at first to engage with a site that was part of a voluntary cleanup. And I know that there were at least one, if not two parcels that we missed the window on. So I can't speak to whether that's the particular parcel that you are speaking to. But in a in a in a situation as long lasting and complex as this one, we had a difficult time sometimes moving in the real estate realm in the way that we might have needed to. The good news is that the major integrity of the site was held together, and I don't think any of those things undermined the huge success that this is for the community. But again, I would have to look at a map to confirm if that parcel is one of them. And when it when it changed hands and, you know, some of the folks who may have that memory on the city site are gone. But it may be that groundwork. Denver might have the history. My former staffer, Tangiers Barnes, is really good at that stuff. So if it's important, we can try to help you dig it up. Thank you. I was just curious about it because the sale happened in 2005. The city sold it to a private owner. And so it just seemed strange that they would have if we went through all the trouble we went through to acquire the other parcels , why we would sell off one that we owned within the same bracket of time that we were trying to do something like this with that. Well, that parcel predates the city's position until 2013 was that this site was not appropriate for an open space. So it wasn't until 2013 that we began to partner to go in this direction. So that explains it predated it. They they did not think that this site was appropriate for that use. Awesome. Thank you. All right. The public hearing for Council Bill 20 dash 0694 is closed. Comments by members of Council. Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. I just wanted to first thank Groundwork Denver and Councilwoman Kimmich for all their efforts in putting this together. I've had a chance to drive down and see all the improvements that have gone in. Clearly, this neighborhood is an area that floods, and having this storm drainage component that helps address some of the flooding for this neighborhood is really, really important. And this is only part of a whole bunch of other things that need to happen to really get this neighborhood out of the flood zone. And there's this whole process with the Army Corps that's been underway, and a lot of things are in motion to try to keep it out from being designated as a flood zone. But it it this project clearly has beautified the neighborhood by adding more green space. I was going to ask a question, but, you know, eventually this will have connectivity to the park on the other side of Washington Street, which is the Carpio Simonetti Park, which abuts the South Platte River. So having started this little trail and the connection to that park is going to be a really important element and and provide some true benefit to the residents of Globeville and Elyria, because they'll have access through the national western site to be able to get to the river and to the parks and over the hill, through the woods. But, you know, I just happy to support this tonight. I know a lot of work has gone into just finding the funding. And, you know, because it takes time to really stack the funding to be able to make these projects happen. And I just want to thank Councilwoman Kim for her tenacity in just keeping that ball rolling to get the project completed. So thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Canete. Thank you, Madam President. If you want to sum up why I ran for a third term, this project, I really wanted to see it through. And, you know, Councilwoman Montero did get us started and was supportive all the way. The following two council people have both also been supportive, and I greatly appreciate all their support. And, you know, we said great work, Denver. You know, Councilman Ortega, thank you for acknowledging them. I just want to be very clear that they contributed a significant amount of funding to this project via dollars that they were due through some environmental justice settlements. And so it's not just that they were advocates. It's not just that they led the design. They they actually did the contract for the original portion of the design and the planning and all of those things. They actually brought significant dollars to the table. And so one quick comment just about that. I mentioned that there was the second phase that we were not able to fund. This was all before we had a parks tax. And I believe that it would be really important for this site to be considered for the phase two improvements to be funded by that source of funding now that it is available, because, you know, we have what is an important asset, but also fairly barebones in this phase. So I do want to acknowledge the criteria that the department has presented, which I believe that this particular site meets those criteria for a rezoning. And I do you know, it is about the different generations of staff, but I want to thank all of them. The folks that are here tonight picked up a mantle from the folks who came before them. And, you know, every successive generation has helped to make this possible. And so so I do think all of the city staff that were involved as well, you know, I think it's rare to see something kind of, you know, this small I mean, as much as it has, you know, I don't I was looking for the list of residents. David Jet Ski is one of the neighboring residents who's been at the table from the beginning. One of the other, major, Margaret Escamilla, I believe, who has moved out of the neighborhood since the beginning. But was there Councilwoman Sandoval may remember some other resident names from her time in that council office. But, you know, these residents really, you know, inspired us and they frankly were so collaborative. Right. They they they held the city's feet to the fire, but as partners in a way that always allowed us to move forward. And so I just want to thank those residents for making this rezoning possible, and I intend to support it. And I urge my colleagues to do the same. Thanks. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Sandoval. And thank you, Madam President. So to sum up what Councilman Ortega and Councilman Canete, thank you so much. I remember joining the city in 2012 and sitting down in Councilman Montero's office and explaining that we were not going to stop pushing to get this land and to get it to the neighborhood. And I remember sitting in meetings with you, Councilwoman Canete, and just how complicated it is because of the Superfund site and how complicated is because of where it's located and yet how much it was needed. I have never heard a community take such ownership of land and really, really want it. So it's been a privilege to be a part of that process and starting as a council late in 2012 and now here I am in 2020 voting on it. And I just sent Councilwoman Monteiro a text saying something you started in 2006 I am voting on tonight. And so talk about legacy and talk about history in that neighborhood. So, Councilman, can you just thank you for pushing. I sat in meetings alongside with you and I remember being told no. And you and Judy were just like, no, we're not taking no for an answer. So thank you for doing that for this community. And with that, too, Councilman, can you just point. It absolutely meet the criteria on here and for people who have questions around that area, if you have any questions on the zoning or what you can be built, feel free to reach out to our office. We're always going to help. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Sandoval. And I'm happy to wrap up the comments on this. I can't believe that it was in 2012 that you all started this process and knowing that this all meets the criteria for this rezoning. But we were starting on that same journey with my former nonprofit Environmental Learning for Kids at the same time. And we're going before the attorney general's office to talk about those natural resource damage funds, which were some of the funding stack for this project. And so happy to support this and happy to see that it get to this place. And, Madam Secretary, roll call, please. See tobacco. I Clark. All right. Flynn, I. Herndon. I can't. Okay. Can each I. Ortega. I seen them all. I swear. I. Torres. I. Black I. Madam President, I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 12 Eyes. 12 Eyes Council Bill 694 has passed. Next up, Councilmember Sandoval, would you please put council Bill 695 on the floor for passage, please?