A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3400 Arkins Court, 3460 Arkins Court and 1930 35th Street in Five Points. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property located at 3400 Arkins Court, 3460 Arkins Court, 1900 35th Street, 1930 35th Street, and 1950 35th Street from I-MX-5/UO-2 to OS-A (industrial, mixed-use to open space) in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 3-13-18.
Ten Eyes, one nay. Ten eyes, one nay to 29 has passed. Congratulations. All right, Councilwoman Gilmore, were you put to 43 on the floor? Yes. President Brooks, I move that council. 18 Dash 0243 be placed upon final consideration and due pass. It has been moved in second in the public hearing for council bill 243 is open. May we have the staff report? Geoff Hurt. You'll be here for a while. We'll put to. Public health sort of this. So this is a search effort with community planning and development. So this is a request for rezoning for city owned property in the Reno area to rezone for the purposes of a future city park. It's in Council District nine five in the Five Points neighborhood. And the request areas are the subject properties outlined in yellow. The request area is about three acres. The city has owned these properties for since about 2003, along with the intention of a future city park. The rezoning request would go from IMAX five, which is an industrial mixed use five story and you oh two, which is a billboard overlay to OSA, which is the most common zoned district for a city park. The purpose of the request, it originated from the Parks Department and like I said, city owned land to accommodate a future city park for a rapidly growing area and right now and to implement some some adopted plan. So subject property is annex five. Surrounding properties also IMAX five. And then going up from there and number of stories to eight and 12 stories to kind of reflect how that area is really booming. Existing land use is industrial, surrounding properties are mixed, but mostly industrial. You have two breweries and a dog daycare adjacent. So all you could ever hope for in the Reno area, properties outlined in yellow and these images. So you see it's adjacent to South Platte River corridor. It's actually on the the side of the corridor that has the trails is a great opportunity for kind of a flow into the the river corridor images of the subject property. So you can see the current condition used for Denver Police Department fleet services and other maintenance facilities. And then looking at the surrounding area, you see the mix of industrial and you start to see the boom happening in Reno and some of these images. I'm closer to Brighton Boulevard. And then looking at the surrounding area. So this is looking right across Arkin's courts. You can see the proximity to to the River and the Trail Network there presenting a real opportunity. OSA, the zone district, this being requested is intended for city owned land for future use as Parker open space. And like I said, it's the most common zone district you see for parks, including some nearby parks too. This one, St Charles Place, Globeville Landing. The process of followed our normal rezoning process is starting with an informational notice, and January Planning Board did recommend approval unanimously on February 21st. All the Arnaud's in the screen were notified of the request and no public comments have been received to date. And these are the criteria staff used to evaluate the request. So there's several adopted plans or citywide plans and local plans. But I will go to this pretty quickly because they are all the exception to the citywide plans. They all essentially point to the future use of a parker open space on the site. But in terms of citywide plans, certainly a lot of current plan policies and guidance related to encouraging development of parks in areas with increasing demand , which is clearly is seeing a lot of multifamily going in in this area and not a lot of park space to correspond with that. Blueprint. Denver has most of the site as a park and in an area of change. And then looking at kind of the most focused adopt the plan guidance the 30th and Blake stationery plan from 2009 does call out all these properties as a park and feature open space. And other plans echo that that aren't quite as focused in recent on related to the subject properties but they do call out a park and open space on these properties. So I'm not going to go through each one of these. But in terms of a justifying circumstance, just to highlight that, again, a rapidly growing area with a rapidly increasing demand for four park space that transformation, staff finds, is a justifying circumstance for this particular zoning. So staff does find or does recommend approval based on those criteria, and I'm happy to answer any questions. Great. Thanks for the presentation. We have two speakers this evening, Sloan Nystrom from ADC. Come on up for 3 minutes and Chairman COO, uh, 3 minutes. Hi. I'm Sloan Nystrom. I'm here. Representing Parks. And I'm here. Just answer any questions if anybody has. Any questions about construction or the park. Thank you. Chairman Seiko. Yes, Chairman Sekou. Black Star Action. Movement for Self-defense. Oh, we enthusiastically support this. You know, it's rare, very rare on zoning changes that we've agreed on anything. Finally, we reached common ground. This park makes sense for no other sets of reasons stand on its own, meaning all the criteria and whatnot, and also the amenities that it provides for the neighborhood. And the truth is, it looks a whole lot better than the pictures. I just saw them for real. Unless you're talking about wildlife situation, then you know I did that and then let it go. But that was a beautiful addition to that, an increased property values and also make this place, especially in that area , rhino that's more civilized so that it no longer looks like New York City. We ain't got no grass and we've got all these buildings going up and this ain't it. This is Denver. And it needs to keep this character because that's the attraction here. We got green grass, we got trees, we got parks, and we have safe neighborhoods that kids can come and play even when the park closes after dark. So thank you very much for your leadership and bringing this forward and. Look forward to seeing the growth. Thank. All right. Time to spare. Okay. This concludes our speakers questions by members of council. Have a quick question for for you. I was shocked to see you focus on the 2000 938 station area when we just did the 30th in Blake Station area, only because I think we did call out parks in that. So did you not find information in that plan to speak to this. In the 38th and Blake Yeah. Plant yeah there's there certainly is. And I was just referencing the map. Got it. So some more than this, more just, you know, to your presentation. Why why would you focus on 2009 when we we just worked as a community to consolidate those plans to have the 2006 to supersede those? That's a fair that's a fair question. The in looking back on the slides here, this one had at least in terms of the map, this one had the clearest sort of and included all of the boundaries as a park and the other ones carved out chunks as staying sort of industrial, light industrial. So while it's not more recent in dates, you know, it it is more accurate in the sense of the map at least maybe. It proved your point harder is more clear. Maybe I should. Say. Okay, okay. And I'm just asking is that's probably why you. Okay, it's just interesting. Okay, great. Councilman, you. Jeff know, snap. You know, I love Parks. I'm a big fan of Parks. But this is the second week in a row where we've given city land, you know, for uses. And this is a good use of parks. But was there any consideration for affordable housing? I mean, this is an enormous 3.2 acres of land. Was there any discussion at all about using this for even a higher level of affordable housing, workforce housing or anything like that? I don't know that there was. I mean, these plans, it's really based on these plans and the community conversations that happened, you know, in 2009 and 2015. And so that would have been the place for those conversations. But I'm not aware of any plans unless Sloan knows of any other. Look. I think the city purchases specifically for parks. When do they purchase? It's been said to do. Do you have the year that it was purchased? I believe it's 2003. There's three parcels and each one was acquired in different periods, I think 23. And then more recent from there, we've acquired all of them. So it's a it's a little bit of a different kind of scenario. But this this part of town obviously doesn't have any parks. And so this has been a plan long in the making for this. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you. So, having been the previous councilperson person, this district, it's been the bike shop and the repair shop for many, many years. But the plans for it being a park have been part of the discussion over the last ten years, at least as part of all the new development that was going in into the Brighton corridor , knowing that was a new growth area, we're going to see a lot more new housing development coming to the area. The question I have is where is the bike shop in the maintenance facility moving to and what's the timing of that? I do not know. Do you have that information? Can you come to tell us upfront? They're moving to the post building and they're supposed to move out this summer. It's slated for July. So when you say the post building, you talk about the Denver Post building downtown. Yes. So. We're going to have the bikes stored inside the car. I don't have. All the information on. That. I can get it. Can we get that information? That would be extremely helpful. Would be helpful to know the timing. And where specifically does the bike shop? I definitely do know the timing is July. Okay. Sure. Thank you. If you can get that, I appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Chair. All right. Seeing no questions. Public hearings now. Closed comments, members of council. You know, this this this rezoning is exactly how it is supposed to line up. You heard Councilwoman Ortega when she was a councilperson in this district before me was during my tenure. I know she was working on this before her was Councilman Ortega. This has been something in the works for a long time for this part of the city. And, you know, I think a city growing as fast as we are to have us dedicating park land in space at this moment is is actually profound. And it says a lot about the values of the city. So I'll be supporting this, but I only want to just be supportive because the park but it matches up the criteria matches up with what we are supposed to approve. So excuse me, I hope that my colleagues will support this as well. See no other comments. Madam Secretary. Roll Call. Black Clarke. Espinosa. Flynn. Gilmore Cashman. Kenny. New Ortega. I Susman. Mr. President. I police the voting announce results. 11 eyes. 11 eyes. 243 has passed. Congratulations, everyone. Okay, we are on to our last council bill of the evening. Councilwoman Gilmore, can you please put 244 on the floor?