A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 680 Sheridan Blvd. in Villa Park. Approves an official map amendment to rezoning property at 680 Sheridan Boulevard from PUD 1 to E-MX-3 (planned unit development to urban edge-neighborhood) in Council District 3. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 2-6-18.
Council is reconvene the two public hearings this evening. Speakers. We have two public hearings this evening. Speaker should begin the remarks by telling members of council their names and cities of residents if they feel comfortable doing so. Their home addresses. If you are here to answer questions only when your name is called, come to the podium, state your name and note that you're available for questions of council. Speakers will have 3 minutes unless another speaker has yielded his or her time. Then the speaker will have a total of 6 minutes on the presentation monitors on your right and left. You'll see the time counting down speakers must stay on topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to members of Council as a whole. Please refrain from obscene or. Refrain from obscene speech. Sorry about that. An individual and personal attacks. All right. Councilman Flynn, will you please put 130 on the floor? Yes, Mr. President. I move that council bill 18 dash 130 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. All right. It has been moved and seconded. A public hearing for Council Bill 130 is now open. May we have staff report? Scott Robinson, welcome. Thank you, Mr. President. And Council Scott Robinson with Community Planning and Development. This is a request to rezone 680 Sheridan Boulevard from PD number one to E Annex three properties located in Council District three in the Villa Park neighborhood. It's at the northeast corner of Sheridan Boulevard and Sixth Avenue. It's at the west edge of the city. Lakewood is across Sheridan Boulevard to the west. Property is about six acres in size. It's currently a self-storage facility with mostly one story buildings a few two story buildings. The applicant is requesting the rezoning to allow it to redevelop as a new modern mini storage facility. As I mentioned, it's currently zoned PD number one and PD was approved in 1977, limits the uses to mini storage and limits the development on there basically to what exists right now. The proposed zoned district is E Annex three. That's urban edge neighborhood context. Mixed use three storey maximum height. Around the property. The zoning to the north is C Annex five, which is a mixed use. Five storey maximum height to the east and northeast is old code. Residential and multi-unit zoning are two to the south and southeast. Across sixth avenue is single unit zoning and south on Sheraton Boulevard is old code commercial zoning. Across Sheridan Boulevard in Lakewood is a mix of light, industrial and mixed use zoning. They're used to surrounding the property to the north and south, along in our commercial uses to the east. Our residential multi-unit north of Sixth Avenue and single unit south of Sixth Avenue, across shared in Lakewood, is a mix of office and light industrial uses. You can see the storage facility, the main office building there in the center. The Sixth Avenue bridge up above the site there in the bottom right picture. And then some of the surrounding development in the other photos. This went to the planning board on January 17th, got a unanimous recommendation of approval from the board. There was no public comment. We've not received any other public comment on this application. As you know, in order to prove a rezoning, the city must find that these five criteria have been met. The first criterion is consistency with adopted plans. There are three plans that apply to this property, the first being Comprehensive Plan 2000. As described in the staff report, staff has found that the proposed rezoning is consistent with these four strategies from comp plan 2000, mostly relating to infill development and mixed use development. The second plan is Blueprint Denver from 2000 to the concept of land use for this property is single family duplex, which calls for moderately dense areas, primarily residential, but with some small scale commercial uses. So the proposal is to go to Mxr three, which is mixed use zoning at seven acres. This is a fairly large site, larger than we typically see with these small scale commercial uses. But when looking at the local park neighborhood as a whole, it doesn't have a lot of the sort of embedded commercial uses we see in a lot of other neighborhoods in Denver. It's really concentrated on the edges. So staff feels that site of this size going to a mixed use is appropriate in the single family duplex in the Villa Park neighborhood. It's also an area of stability blueprint. Denver calls for rezoning in area of stability to allow redevelopment of a consistent character. Steph believes that the rezoning would do so, and then a certain boulevard is a mixed use arterial and which calls for mixed use at a greater intensity, which is consistent with the Annex three proposed zoning. And then the Sixth Avenue Surface Road is designated local, intended to provide that local access to the site. The third plan is the Villa Park neighborhood plan from 1991. It calls for improving the neighborhood arterials, discouraging higher density development, but allowing development that is consistent and compatible with the neighborhood, supporting more commercial activities and increasing retail activity in the neighborhood. The Annex three would allow development consistent with the character of the surrounding area and with the existing use on the property that it's already a commercial use and allow redevelopment to improve and enhance that commercial activity. Staff finds that the proposed rezoning is consistent with the adopted plans and the first criterion is met. The second criterion is uniformity of district regulations. Staff finds that the proposed rezoning would result in a uniform application of the Annex three zone district. The third criterion is to further the public health, safety and general welfare of the city. Staff finds that the proposed rezoning would do so by implementing the city's adopted plans and facilitating the reinvestment in an existing business. The fourth criterion is justifying circumstances. Staff finds that there are changed conditions in the neighborhood since the previous zoning was put in place, which was 1977. So quite a while ago. There's been significant changes in in the city and in the area and in the site and that with the restrictive PD that the changes justify a rezoning to facilitate facilitate redevelopment of the site. The fifth criterion is consistency with neighborhood context, zone, district purpose and intent. Staff finds that the proposed rezoning would allow development consistent with the urban edge, neighborhood context and the purpose and intent of the annexed three zone district. So with that, staff finds that all five criteria are met and recommends approval. I'll be happy to answer any questions. All right. Thank you. Okay. We have three speakers this evening and I'm going to ask them to come up to the front and sit on this bench area. When I call them up. Tory Green, then to Le. Until. Okay, I was close. Zel Cantrell, Tori Green. You are our first 3 minutes. Thank you. Council President. Thank you, council members. My name is Tori Green. I'm with Galloway. We're located at 616. Excuse me, gentlemen. You can have a seat. Stay a while. Go ahead. Six one, six two. South Willow Drive and Greenwood Village, Colorado. I'm joined this evening by Zell Cantrell. Also with Galloway and Dan Matua, vice president of real estate development at Public Storage. Thank you, Scott, for your presentation and for helping us navigate this process of the rezone. And thank you all for your time. Would you like me to go, or would you like them to introduce themselves? Oh yeah. I'll, I'll call them up each one by. Okay if you're done. But we don't have a formal presentation this evening. We are here to answer any questions that you all might have. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Green. All right, we'll call up Adam. Until then. Good evening, council members. My name is Dan Matula. I'm vice president of development with Public Storage, and I'm. At 1730 South Abilene. Street in Aurora, Colorado. And I'm here to answer any questions you may have. Okay, great. Thank you, Miss Mr. Tula. They'll control. Zel Cantrell with Galloway 6162 South Willow Drive in Greenwood Village. I'm here to assist with. Questions as well. And I just wanted to extend another thank you to Scott and his assistance in working through the process. All right. Thank you, Mr. Cantrell. This concludes our speakers are any questions for members of council? All right. Seeing none. Public hearing on 30 is now closed. Guzman-Lopez. Thank you, Mr. President. PD one night. The first PD ever. And I just hope that. It falls victim to earmarks. Three. I you know, I. When before the zoning code update took place in 2010, there was a lot of I mean, it was our nemesis to see so many pwds get re-approved and or created because we wanted to have zoned districts that actually were form based zoning and that actually matched what was on the ground, but also had a vision for the future. Right. And so. I remember this site because all my stuff was in one of these storage lockers. I mean, my parents moved back and forth all over Denver, all over the West Side anyway, and. Almost had a permanent one as a mammal, lived out of one of these things, you know, as the speed's sunsetting riding off into the sunset. Right. So is that kind of like that old storage use, right, where you drive up in a truck and it's right there. It's just there's a big chunk of land. And why go horizontal when you can build up? When it's secure. Right. And when it's. When it's some I mean, it is a use it is a real use in our community and a growing need in our community. And the market's big for something like this. And it has. Especially in the west side with a lot of folks moving around. This is one of those uses that, you know, is is is fitting for the site. We talked about orientation. We talked about access, things like this. And, you know, and we sat down. We need to find this little puny one and frame it somewhere. It's one of those things that belongs in a museum. So. I'm glad to see this resolved. I'm glad to see this move forward as in the next three. And I know the neighborhood is very supportive of something like this as well, too. So there was that input from the neighborhood as well to the. You know, convince me this is a good thing. Um, with that. I don't see why this would not be approved ever. So. Straightforward. All right. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. See no other comments about members of council. Madam Secretary. Raquel Lopez. I knew Ortega Sussman. Black eye. Clark. All right. Espinosa. Flynn, I. Herndon, I. Can each. Mr. President. I think we owe a great. Oh, we have a name. Espinosa. Okay, great. I got confused there for just a second. Please close the voting. And as a result. 11 eyes, one ni. 11 eyes, one ni. Congratulations. One of three has passed. All right, we have another bill. Councilman Flynn, would you put 215 on the floor?