A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 1925 Olive Street in South Park Hill. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property from E-SU-Dx to E-SU-D1x, (allows for an ADU) located at 1925 Olive Street in Council District 8. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-16-20.
Absolutely. Madam President, I move that counts. Votes 6 to 0 be placed on final consideration and do pass second. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded the required public hearing for Council Bill 20 dash 0620 is open. May we please have the staff report? All right. Good evening. This is Libby Kaiser, senior planner with CPD. This is. Another 80 year rezoning. Request for 1925 Olive Street. This is in Council District eight in South Park Hill, and it is the first rezoning request. For an 82 in the neighborhood. The property. Is located. In between and then went on the street to approximately 600 square feet and as occupied by a single unit dwelling, the property is currently in the urban edge, single unit de zone district and the applicant is proposing to rezone to urban edge single unit d1x to allow for an accessory dwelling unit. The sub one x requires a minimum size of 6000 square feet and allows for the urban house, suburban house and detached 82 building forms. The maximum height for a house is 30 to 35 feet and 24 feet for the detached adu. As mentioned, the subject property is owned. ESU, D, X and surrounding zone districts include single unit, campus and mixed use. The site is occupied by a single unit dwelling and is surrounded by other single unit uses as well as public quasi public uses, including Johnson and Wills University immediately to the East Denver School of the Arts to the Northeast and the Odyssey School of Denver to the Northwest. The subject property is a two story house as shown center right in the photo, flanked by single storey homes. All have generous setbacks, front loaded garages and attached sidewalks. To the east are two and three storey buildings at Johnston in Wales and to the west is a single family structure. This application has followed all the typical rezoning process. The planning board hearing was held on June 17th and the application was unanimously recommended for approval as a present. We've actually had two individuals express opposition, including one that came in last Friday. Both individuals are concerned that the rezoning. Will negatively impact the neighborhood character. And infringe on the privacy of their backyards. To approve a rezoning, it must be found that the requested amendment is consistent with five criteria found in the Denver zoning code. The first criteria is that the rezoning request must be consistent with adopted plans at which there are four that apply to this property, including the Comprehensive Plan 2040 Blueprint. Denver Park Hill Neighborhood Plan and Housing and Inclusive Denver. The rezoning request is consistent with the comprehensive plan. The proposed rezoning would allow for an additional housing option within walking distance of four bus routes in an established neighborhood consistent with three strategies and the equitable, affordable and inclusive vision elements. In addition, the rezoning would allow infill development that broadens the range of housing types available in an area where infrastructure and services already exist, consistent with the strong and authentic neighborhoods vision elements as well as the environmentally resilient vision elements. The rezoning request is also consistent with Blueprint Denver. The subject property is mapped as part of the Urban Edge Neighborhood context, which is predominantly comprised of residential uses with single and two unit low scale homes on short walkable blocks. In blueprints under the future. Places MAP designates the subject property as nouveau residential place type, which has single and two unit uses and 80 use are appropriate. Olive Street is categorized as a local or on designated street, which is generally. Characterized by. Residential use as. As far as blueprint Denver's growth strategy, the properties in the all other areas of the city category where 10% of future jobs and 20% of future housing are desired. This is the least intensive growth category. Blueprint also includes specific policy recommendations. Housing Policy four focuses on diversifying housing choice through the expansion of its use throughout all residential areas, while housing Policy five recommends removing barriers to constructing a two use as this rezoning would accomplish. The Park Hill Neighborhood Plan also applies to the subject property and the rezoning would help implement two of the plan's goals and recommendations, including maintaining the existing character of the neighborhood while allowing for a mix of housing types. Housing an inclusive Denver encourages expanding the development of its use to incentivize affordable and mixed use housing and to help build wealth for low and moderate income homeowners. And the proposed rezoning is consistent with this plan. Staff concludes the requested zoning meets criteria. Number one, consistency with adopted plans. Staff also finds that the requested zoning meets the next two criteria. The rezoning will result in uniformity of district regulations and will further the public health, safety and welfare primarily through its implementation of adopted plans. The justifying circumstance for this rezoning is a city adopted plan. Since the approval of the existing ESU de zone district, the city has adopted the plan. 2040 Blueprint Denver and Housing and Inclusive Denver. As stated throughout this presentation, the proposed rezoning meets the intent of these plans. Overall, the rezoning is consistent with the urban edge neighborhood context that exists in the surrounding area and the purpose and intent of the ESU, D1 UX District thus meeting the fifth criteria. In conclusion, CPD recommends approval based on finding all review criteria have been met. I'm available for questions and assuming the applicant has hung in here for this long, they should be available as well. Thank you, Libby. We have tonight counsel has not received any written comments on counsel Bill 620. And we have one individual signed up to speak this evening. Jesse Paris. That evening. Members of council, my name is just there. I reside in District eight, right up the street from where this rezoning is going to be. I'm represented for Denver homicide law, black strikes and self-defense of the Mexican-American commitment to social change, as well as the Unity Party of Colorado and Mile High. No, and I will be your next mayor in 2023. And this meets all the criteria. I would assume it's going to pass. I just had a question. I wanted to know what this is going to be used for. Is it going to be for a family member or somebody that is low income looking for a home? Thank you. And you will conclude our speakers right now and we'll go to questions by members of council. And I'm looking here and I don't see any members of council, and so I'll go ahead and pose that last question. Libby. The use of the you. Sure in the near term the applicant plans to use it for their aging parents. All right. Thank you. See no other questions. The public hearing for Council Bill 20 0620 is closed. Comments by members of Council. CNN. Madam Secretary, roll call. Herndon. I. Hynes Cashman. I can h. I. Ortega, i. Sawyer. I. Torres, I. Black I. Clark. Right. Flint. I. Madam President. Hi, Madam Secretary. Please close the voting and announce the results. 11 Eyes. 11 Eyes Council Bill 620 has passed. On Monday, September 14th, Council will hold the required public hearing on Council Bill 711, changing the zoning classification for 2535 through 2545 East Ashbury Avenue in University Park and a required public hearing on Council Bill 716 Changing the zoning classification of 755 Lafayette Street and Country Club.