A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 1590 South Emerson Street in Platt Park. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-B to U-SU-B1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 1590 South Emerson Street in Council District 7. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 3-23-21.
I. Madam Secretary closed the voting and announced results. 11 811 Eyes Council Bill 20 1-0309 has passed. Council Member Clerk Will you please put Council Bill 310 on the floor for final passage? As Council President, I move the Council Bill 310 to be placed on final consideration and do per second. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 310 is open. May we have the staff report, Fran? Sure. Okay. Can you see that one? Mm hmm. Go ahead. Perfect. So, you know, it's use my specialty, so. Here. We're going to be looking at the Map Amendment overview for 1590 South Emerson Street. Subject property is located in Council District seven with Councilman John Clark. In the flood park neighborhood. The property owner is proposing to rezone to a district that allows greater use. If approved, all forms and use standards should remain the same. The property is currently in the urban single unit thesun on the street, which allows for a minimum lot size of 4500 square feet. And as you can see on the map, most of the surrounding properties are also on us and U.S. You'll be one to a south. The site is currently occupied by a single unit home and it is mostly surrounded by other single unit and two unit uses as well as a public quasi public use, including a fire station just south southeast from the site. Here. You can see the area with the side of the proposed rezoning on the bottom left and the top right and left. Some images to show the residential character of the neighborhood. Speaking of the process, informational notice of the application was sent on January 5th, 2021. Planning Board recommended approval on March 17 and have received no letters of support or opposition have been received from the public or are in place. You know, the Denver zoning code has five review criteria. The first one is consistency. We adopted plans. There's two plans applicable to his rezoning Comprehensive Plan 2040 and Blueprint Denver. The rezoning is consistent with several of this prejudicing comprehensive plan 2040. This MAP amendment will promote equity by creating a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood, and it will lead to an environmentally resilient Denver by promoting infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place. Now looking at in Denver, there's subject property is mapped as part of the urban neighborhood context. The future places map designates the subject property as low residential place type. These Plains states have predominantly single and two unit uses, and accessory dwelling units are appropriate. Emmerson Street is designated as a local strip, which is mostly characterized by residential uses. The growth area in Denver is all the areas of the city. These areas are anticipated to see 10% employment growth and 20% housing growth by 2040. Luke Bryan also includes specific policy recommendations. Housing Policy Ford focuses on diverse diversifying housing choice through expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. Stuff was fine, so they requested Sony meets the next two criteria. The rezoning will result in uniformity of district regulations, and we will further the public health, safety and welfare primarily through its implementation of adopted plans. Just defining circumstance for the rezoning is a caveat of this plan sees the approval of the existing use you based on district. The city has adopted the Comprehensive Plan 2040 and blueprint. Denver stated throughout this presentation. The proposed rezoning meets the intent of this plan's. Lastly, the proposed zoning is consistent with the urban neighborhood context residential district and the U.S. once owned district. Stuff does recommend approval based on finding or review criteria has been met. All right. Thank you, Fran. Tonight, council has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 21, Dash 031 ten. And we have one individual signed up to speak. Jesse Paris. We'll go ahead and get. Jesse, back into the queue here. Yes. Good evening. Members of council watching their crew. My name is definitely imperative. And still for black stars and symbol for self-defense of of social change as well as the unity party of Colorado and frontline black males. And I will be the next mayor of Denver in 2023. I'm in favor of this new zoning request tonight. As I have stated numerous times, I supported accessory dwelling units when I ran for city council at large in 2019, and I plan to support them in 2023 when I run for mayor. So with that being said, this meets all five of the criteria. So I'm in favor of this tonight. The job, a council man, Dylan Clark. You got this. Thank you. All right. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 310. Seen no. Questions. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 310. Councilman Clark. Thank you. Council President I think as was articulated in the staff report, this clearly meets the criteria and I will be supporting it tonight and encourage my colleagues to do so as well. Thank you. All right. Thank you. And I also agree that it does meet all of the criteria and will be supporting it as well. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 310, please. Like I. Flynn. I. And I. Cashman. Hi. Can each I. Ortega, I. Sandoval. I. Sawyer, I. I don't believe I see Tories. Black sheep. I see tobacco. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 11 days. 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?