A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3431 North Columbine Street in Clayton. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-B1 to U-SU-A1 (lowers the minimum lot size), located at 3431 North Columbine Street in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 3-23-21.
11 I's Council Bill 20 1-031 ten has passed. Councilmember Clark, would you please put Council Bill 317 on the floor for final passage? Yes, Council President. I move that council bill 317 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. All right. I think I heard that second from council member Ortega. The required public hearing on Council Bill 317 is open. May we have the staff report? And I see we have Val here. Thank you, Madam President. 1/2. All right. Can you all hear and see that screen? Full screen? Yep. You got it, Val. Wonderful. Thank you. Good evening, City Council. And, Madam President, my name is Valerie Arara, associate city planner with Community Planning and Development. I will be presenting a rezoning case for the subject property located at 3431 North Columbine Street. I'd like to acknowledge Elyse Stevie, who has been my mentor throughout the process of this case. This is my first rezoning case, that city council. The request is for urban single unit, a one for 3000 square foot lot minimum size, and it is in Council District nine under Councilman CdeBaca. The subject property is currently 6250 square feet with a zone lot width of 50 feet. The proposed rezoning is to go from USC to be one which is a minimum lot size of 4500 square feet, allowing urban houses and detached adu use. There are a selection of parcels that have some two story main streets and mixed use zoning. Sorry. It was on the wrong. A block to the south and two blocks to the west. Zoning transitions to USA A1, which is the smaller size that the applicant is requesting. The existing land use is single unit residential with a mix of two unit and multi-unit existing uses in the neighborhood as well as some commercial and public public. Quasi public. The subject property is mid-block with alley access. The existing structure is nestled toward the rear of the lot and nearby properties are shown at the top in the bottom of this three. I should note that the bottom right picture is a an existing multi unit residential building form as well. For the process. The MAP Amendment did go to Planning Board on Wednesday, March 17. Planning Board voted 9 to 0 to recommend approval. The rezoning was moved forward to a final hearing of city council by the Land Use Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and is being heard today. The Clayton R.A. is in support of this request, and the application includes three letters of support from nearby Clayton Neighbors. Sapp also received one email throughout the process that is outside of the scope of the rezoning regarding trash in the alley or dumpster pickup. But that's been forwarded to the applicant and acknowledged. As you know, the Denver zoning code has five review criteria. The first is consistency with adopted plan, starting with comprehensive plan 2040. Staff found this rezoning to be consistent with several strategies shown here from the Comprehensive Science Plan 2040. With regards to ensuring equity affordability and inclusivity from the planned 2040 vision element, Sapp found that this rezoning is consistent with the goals listed here that encourage increased development of housing units close to transit, a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood for all individuals and families, and ensuring that every neighborhood provide a complete range of housing options. In speaking to climate and environmental resiliency, this vision elements staff found this rezoning to be consistent with the goal listed here that encourages promotion of infill development where infrastructure and services are already available. For Blueprint Denver's Map for urban context. The context is mapped as the urban context is urban in this location and residential low, which consists of predominantly single and two unit uses on smaller lots. This is where we'll spend a little bit more time in terms of the lots split in the analysis. Specifically, when seeking a rezoning to a smaller minimum block size in a residential low area, it is only appropriate to allow smaller loft sizes than the existing zoned districts. If there is an established pattern in the surrounding blocks of smaller lots that similar uses that would be consistent with. The zoning district. Request, that language can be found on page 231 of the blueprint Denver Land Use and Transportation. In this area, 36% of the lots are between 3000 and 4499 square feet, which does align with the proposed U.S. one zone district. While there does not appear to be a dominant lot size in this area, this analysis does show that the size of the proposed U.S. A1 is even slightly more prevalent in the surrounding blocks, with similar uses than the existing U.S. one ones. Therefore, the rezoning is the proposed rezoning is consistent with diverse guidance for rezoning to a smaller minimum lot size for the Bruce Randolph Avenue plan. This plan was adopted in 1986 and does include this area. Staff found that the request is consistent with this plan, including recommendations such as the one shown here that speaks to diversity of in-fill housing located on page 39. Four criteria. Number two and number three, staff found that the rezoning is consistent with adopted plans. The proposed rezoning will result in uniform application of zoned district building form, use and design regulations, and it will further public health, safety and welfare through implementing adoptive parents and facilitating increased housing density. Staff also found that the proposed rezoning is justified through changed and changing conditions in this neighborhood. The adoption of Blueprint Denver includes policies that specifically support this rezoning to a smaller lot size on this site. Additionally, staff report lists recent redevelopment in the area that is similar to this lot size split request. And finally, the context zone, district purpose and intent of urban single unit A1 are all appropriate for this particular location given the surrounding area and the adopted plans guidance. Given the finding that our review criteria have been met. Staff recommends approval of this rezoning. And just to note that approval of a rezoning is not approval of a proposed specific, specific development project. And I will go ahead and share my screen and open for questions. All right. Well, thank you, Val. Great. First job presenting a council night. You're welcome. Good job. Council has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 21, Dash 0317. And we have one individual signed up to speak this evening. Jesse Paris. Go ahead. Yes, good evening. Members of Council of Watching at home. My name is just in the shop Harris and I'm representing for Black Star, similar for self defense positive African-American social change as well as the Unity Party of Colorado in front line black nose. And I will be there next November and 2023. I'm in favor of this rezoning tonight, especially in an area of town which I'm very familiar with, pretty much a native of East Denver, northeast Denver, in a rapidly gentrified area of town. So I welcome any opportunities that the city puts forward to deal with our affordability and our housing crisis that we've had for decades now, as previously stated. So I'm in favor of this rezoning. Um, I would love to know what the demographics of that are and who is going to be residing at this property. Because as I stated already, this area has been rapidly gentrified. Um, so, so I would take the time out to answer those questions. I will greatly appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Jesse. That concludes our speakers this evening. Questions from members of Council on Council Bill 317. Councilmember CdeBaca. Thank you. Is the applicant here to speak to what. The proposed plan is. For the lots. And if there's a. Plan to do something yet? Yes. Councilwoman Whitney Parcell should be available if someone can bring your two panelists. Perfect. All right. Yep. All right, Whitney, you want to go ahead, make council member repose your question, because we were moving Whitney into the panelists. Hi, Whitney. I am just wondering, what's the plan with the with the parcel? Are you guys. Do you have something in mind already? We do. We would like to do two new homes on the property. One may be a rental one. Perhaps we move into. Perhaps will be for sale. We're not entirely sure yet, but the plan is that it will be two new homes built on the property instead of the one small house that currently is on the property now. Is there going to be a target affordability rate for the rent or do you are you guys thinking that far ahead yet? It's of course, it's you know, something we're considering? We would like to be able to. Do that for sure. That neighborhood definitely deserves some areas of affordable rent. Are you guys currently in the unit or. No. It is a 475 square foot unit. This is my husband, Darren, and we have our son as well. So we just do not fit in that home. It is currently a rental. Got it. Thank you. That's for my questions. All right. Thank you. Up next, we have council member Hines. Thank you. Council President Mazara, this is your first presentation to city council. Yes, Councilman, please take it easy. I was just going to ask, should I ask you the hard questions? Go ahead. Why not? I was just telling. Thank you for your great presentation. Thank you for all you do. Thank you. Council president. Thank you. All right. Next up, we have council member Hines or excuse me, council member Flint. Thank you, Madam President. Valerie. And as long as Whitney is here, too, maybe she could offer an answer as well. I'm a little confused about how this lot could be split for two single units. Can you explain how that what that would look like? And then each of them would also have an ADU available. Correct. Under this rezoning. Yes. Council. Yes, Councilman. The current law does already have the right of an aide to you. Right. That is something that's existing. So this is the lot split to downsize the lot from the one 4500 minimum zone, lot size to one, which is 3000 square feet of a minimum zone, lot size. And that would bring the width down from 50 to 25 for those that lot split. So would they be side by side or would they be front and rear? What would that look like? Whitney, would you like to add to that? Yes, of course they would be side by side. Okay. So 25 foot front width. Correct? Yes. Yes. And you potential in the in the rear of each. Are you planning to do a to use as well or just are you going to demo the rental that's on there and build two new structures. Yeah. So we would demo the current home, build two new structures. The we, we want to, you know, go by zoning laws. We may or may not be able to do an 80 you that's I'm sure uncertain at this time but it's a possibility. Okay. Valerie would be if the lot were split and were these two very narrow parcels. Would it meet the requirements to add an edu on each of the on each of the split lots as far as setbacks and depth and everything else. That's a great question, Councilman. We actually, during the rezoning process, connects the applicant with our development services side of things so that they can go through perhaps this pre concept review and sort of get more into the nuances of the building form and standards. So not to not answered the question, but we are going through that process right now of trying to get that free concept going and getting what you do, the development services side of things. Okay. Thank you. Madam President, I think for Whitney, I would just add that you said your intention was perhaps to live in one and rent the other one out or sell the other one and live in one. And I think just a reminder and Valerie, you might be able to verify this, that if you had an edu on there, that the owner would have to. My recollection is the owner of the parcel would have to live in the in one of the residences, either the primary or the Adobe before one of them could be rented out. And that would be true on both lots of them, correct? That's correct, Councilman Flynn. Yes. And something that was also brought up and talked through that land use Transportation Infrastructure Committee. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. As as someone who grew up in a small little house of three bedrooms with seven people, all five, five sons, one bathroom. And my mother always said, thank God I never had a daughter because we only had one bathroom and a 25 foot frontage. I can relate to this. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Flynn. All right. Seeing no other hands raised for questions. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 317. Council members, State Abarca. I do not have any comments on this. All right. Sounds good. And not seen any other hands raised. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 317, please. See the burka. I. Clark. I. When I. Hines, I. Cashman. I can. I. Ortega by Sandoval. I swear. I. Black eye. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, closed the voting and announced the results. 11 Eyes. 11 Eyes Council Bill 20 1-0317 has passed our pre adjournment announcement on Monday, May 10th Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 21, Dash 035 to approving a proposed Loreto Heights rezoning and App Development Agreement between the City and County of Denver and ACM Loretto Six LLC.