A bill for an ordinance providing an extension of approximately ten months of an existing moratorium enacted by Ordinance 20160541, Series of 2016 on the approval of site development plans and the amendment of approved site development plans for construction of certain buildings using the Garden Court building form in the Denver Zoning Code. Provides an extension of approximately ten months of an existing moratorium enacted by Ordinance 20160541, Series of 2016, on the approval of site development plans and the amendment of approved site development plans for construction of certain buildings using the Garden Court building form in the Denver Zoning Code. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 5-27-17.
To your left. To your right. Or right. And. And left speakers must stay on topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to members of council. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to us as a whole, not individual or individual or personal attacks. Council Woman Gilmore. Will you please put Council Bill 728 on the floor? Yes, President Brooks, I move that council bill 728 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. All right. It has been moved and seconded. The public hearing for Council Bill 728 is now open. Councilman? No. May we have the staff report? This is an issue that started about a year ago in August when we had a garden court building form that was being used to build some slot homes and a couple of areas. And so at it we decided to do the moratorium. So it gives people the opportunity to reevaluate the garden court building for them as well as to consider a new building for them with the slight homes. CPD has done a great job. They started last fall and and it's taken a very long time to get all the discussion on the garden court building form as well as the smart homes. And, and so CBD is requested that we ask for just a, an extension of the moratorium for nine months. We feel like it may not go that long. The discussions are going along very well and we'll probably end up with two decisions on both forms down the road. So we're looking forward to seeing the resolution of this and I'm sure it'll it'll occur in the next couple of months, hopefully. Right. All right. Thank you, Councilman. New. Very quick. We have one person speaking tonight. None other than Chairman Seiko. You have three, 3 minutes, sir. Oh, yes, but you know. Yes. My name is Chairman Steve Hukou. I'm the founder organizer for the Black Star Action Movement for Self-defense. And we will keep this real short. We do support the extension of the moratorium. Well, the stated and above reasons. And thank you for your work. I also want to take this opportunity to thank our office folks and Kelly and Makhija for doing an outstanding job and being that first line of customer service, which makes all of this doable. Without them, it would be very difficult for me to come in here smile. But because they give me the optimistic self determination to come on through the door and participate. I want to thank the staff and also want to thank President Brooks. Outstanding job in keeping this serious, but not too serious, you know, and giving us some levity so that no one leaves here with a nightmare that they can't sleep at night because they went to city council. Thank you very much. Councilman. I mean, I say count. Wow, chairman. Say COO. Thank you. This concludes our our speakers council. Oh, actually, you know what? I'm sorry. Questions by members of council. I want to make sure there weren't any questions. Okay, great. This concludes the public hearing. 728. Comments. Members of Council Councilmen, new councilman Espinosa. I think I went ahead and explained pretty well. I think I'm real pleased with the process. They're doing a great job, well designed, and we've got a lot of good input from all different parties involved with from architects to developers to community residents. And so we're looking at the neighborhood character as well as what fits well in those neighborhoods with these building forms. And look forward to the resolution of this and see what happens with the Garden Court as well as the new building form, which I see will boost light homes. Thank you. All right. Thank you, councilman, new councilman as well. First, I want to thank Councilman New for his work and sort of, you know, follow through on this and sort of persistence on on and on. This whole garden court issue and making sure that we have a timely extension to this moratorium. And then I want to thank CPD staff on at least for her leadership in the slot Home Task Force, which is having conversations about this form and you know, will will result in some sort of change. But we need this moratorium, as you know, to buy a little time for those final solutions to to to be written up and voted on by this body. But I do want to let everybody know that that slot home task force is proceeding right along. Those are public meetings. We probably will have a another public meeting, I mean, a larger public meeting to sort of update the public in the not too distant future. But they're good conversations. And we will be coming up with some good ideas at some point in the not too distant future, probably early next year, for sort homes across all zone districts, including garden courts, as as we know them. Thanks. Thank you. Councilman Espinosa, thank you, too, for your work on this and being inclusive of the entire city, allowing folks from even my neighborhood to be a part of this. And Chairman Sekou, always good to get a compliment from you. I mean, this is a good day. It's a good day in Denver when that happens. All right, senor, the comments. Madam Secretary, roll call. New Ortega by Sussman I. Black Eye. Clark. I. Espinoza i. Flynn, i. More i. Herndon, i. Cashman, I can each. Lopez Mr. President. I please close voting announce results. 12 Eyes. 12 Eyes Council Bill 728 House Pass. Congratulations, Councilwoman Gilmore, will you please put Council Bill 729 on the floor?