A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 1468 Tennyson Street in West Colfax. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-C2 to U-SU-C1 (Allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 1468 Tennyson Street in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 1-18-22.
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If translation is needed, you will be given an additional 3 minutes for your comments to be interpreted. We will alternate between. In-Person and virtual for efficiency. By calling in-person participants and then alternating to virtual speakers. Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole, and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Councilmember Hines, will you please put Council Bill 20 2-0028 on the floor for final passage. And move the Council Bill 20 200 to be placed upon final consideration and to pass. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 20 20028 is open. May we have the staff report? Thank you very much, Councilwoman Thrace. Good evening, counsel. My name is Valerie Arara, senior city planner with community planning and Development. I will be presenting an 80 year rezoning case for the subject property located at 1468 North Tennyson Street. The applicant's names are Matt and Lindsay Waste, and they'll be joining us virtually this property in Council District one with Councilwoman Son Duvall. And is located within the West Fox statistical neighborhood. The subject property is currently our standard 6250 square foot zone lot with a width of 50 feet. The request is to go to urban single unit C one to allow for a detached accessory dwelling unit in the rear of the lot. In terms of zoning, the site and the surrounding properties to the northeast and west. Are you, as you see, to allowing urban houses with a minimum zone, lot of 5500 square feet to the west and east? The zoning is your 2.5, which is a multi-unit district that allows up to two and a half storey rowhouse building farms. To the north is West Colfax Avenue, which is classified as a main street arterial. For existing land use. The site is single unit residential and surrounded by single two and multi-unit existing residential land uses in the neighborhood to the north along with cold facts. Existing uses include a mix of commercial, retail, public, quasi public and mixed use. For existing building form and scale. The subject property is on the north side of the block with Alley Access and is located just south of West Colfax Avenue. There's an existing primary single unit structure and a detached garage accessory structure currently on the lot. Nearby properties just south of the site are shown on the screen. The property in Orange is classified multi-unit residential and the bottom left photo is looking down. Tennyson. In terms of process. This MAP amendment went to planning board on Wednesday, January 5th, where the item was recommended approval on consent agenda. The rezoning was moved forward to final hearing of city council by the Land Use Transportation Infrastructure Committee on consent on January 18th and is being heard today. To date, staff has not received any written input from any of the registered organizations that were sent notice. And there's also been no public comment. The Denver zoning code has five review criteria. The first is consistency with adopted plan, starting with Plan 2040. I found this rezoning to be consistent with several strategies shown from the Comprehensive Plan 2040 for equity and environmental resiliency. Equitable, equitable, affordable and inclusive goal staff found the rezoning to be consistent with Goal two strategy a creator creating a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood for all individuals and families that can be found on page 28. And in speaking to the climate and environmental resilient vision elements, staff found this rezoning to be consistent with the goal listed. Environmentally Resilient Goal eight Strategy A promote infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place that can be found on page 54. Blueprint. Denver maps this area as the urban neighborhood context. Future places is residential low, which consist of predominantly single and two unit uses on smaller lots and allows for accessory dwelling units to be thoughtfully inappropriate, appropriately integrated. Where compatible. Additionally Blueprint Denver guidance provides support through policy for diversify housing choice through the expansion of the aid to use throughout all residential areas and then strategy a city wide approach to enable aid uses preferred until the holistic approach is in place individual rezonings to enable to use in all residential areas, especially where proximate to transit are appropriate unless there is an a neighborhood plan supporting adus rezoning should be small an area in order to minimize impact to the surrounding residential area. Looking at the West Colfax Neighborhood Plan of 2006, we have support provided through the Urban Neighborhood District Goal two focused on density and promoting discrete increases in residential densities within established residential districts. We also have recommendation one of the urban neighborhoods Stability support the efforts of the Zoning Code Task Force to update residential zone districts and ensure the provision of appropriate design and development standards for additions, infill and redevelopment in established urban neighborhood areas. Recommendation three on building types is established vocabulary of urban neighborhood building types promote the construction of these buildings within appropriate locations. In urban neighborhood districts include a range of building types that permit discrete increases in residential densities, such as carriage houses, multiplexes, small apartments, townhouses or road houses. Looking at criteria two and three staff found that this 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 the public health, safety and welfare through implementing adopted plans and facilitating increased housing density. Four criteria for justifying circumstances. Staff found the proposed rezoning is justified through a city adopted plan. And finally, for criteria five, the context zone districts purpose and intent of USC. One are all appropriate for this particular location, giving the surrounding area the adopted plan guidance and the location of the site. A small nuance is that us you see two allows for tandem house duplex and detached adu building forums specifically on corner lots that are on either collector or arterial streets. This property is not on one of those corners, so they can't do any of those building forms. They could right now only do attached ads by going to us, you see, one, they will be allowed to construct that detached adu that they are requesting. Given the findings that our review criteria have been met. CPD Recommends City Council Approve Application 2020 1i00160 based on finding our review criteria have been met. Approval of a rezoning is not approval of a proposed specific development project. Thank you very much. I'll take questions. If there's questions. Thank you, Val. We have one individual signed up to speak this evening. Jesse Paris is joining us online. Greedy members of council may be heard. Go ahead. My name is Jessica. Some parents and I'm representing for Black Starts a movement for self-defense, defense, positive action for social change, as well as the Unity Party of Colorado. It is Denver Residents Council in Fort Long Black Nose and I'll be the next November 2023. I'm in favor of rezoning tonight. As the stated on general public comment, we have a housing crisis. Any time now we have an opportunity to increase our housing stock. That is great. I don't know exactly what the occupant is using this associate building for. If they're using it for Asian parents or if it's going to be a short term rental, I could answer that question or those questions. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Jesse. Questions for members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 0028. Councilman Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you for the presentation. So in our zoning code, are there any other areas other than this area in West Colfax that have this particular zone district? You know, Councilwoman Sandoval, that is a great question. Off the top of my head, I'm not sure this is the first time I see a case with this scenario. I'm not sure of CPD leadership or if there's someone else that might want to respond to that from our department. Oh. You. You in here and. And but I'm we're happy to follow up with you if this is my first case to see this scenario like this with the C2. Can you go over the uses again on one of your slides the U.S. use to. Absolutely. So right here on the first bullet, you, as you see to allows tandem house duplex and detached accessory dwelling unit building forms, specifically on corner lots that are on collector or arterial streets. So this property is not on one of those corners nor one of those street classifications. And so in order to do a detached ADU, they will need to go to this one. So do you have a map with all of the parcel sizes? Not with me in this presentation, no. The closest is just looking at the zoning map and the existing land use in built form. Okay. So this particular if you can if you go to this map, all of the houses on the corner, even though it would probably be they look I can look it up on the Internet, but they look like about the same zone lot. It doesn't matter. They so that corner units could build an excess detached accessory dwelling unit, tandem house or duplex, but all the interior homes could not. Correct? That is correct. Because of the corner lot limitation. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. I know other council members in queue for questions. The public hearing is closed. Any comments by members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 0028. Councilwoman Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. Pro Tem. My office attempted to do a overhaul on the zoning over here. We didn't get as much participation as we like, so therefore I didn't move forward with a legislative rezoning for this area. But I feel like this is an area toward zoning code. There's only 300 and some odd houses in the whole entire city that have this zoned district. And it does not seem fair to the everyone else who are in the interior homes to not have the ability to have a detached accessory dwelling unit. When I did a deep dove on 1468 Tennyson Street with our planning department and asked them why they usuc2 zoned district was created, I did not get any clear answers. Nobody quite understood why these areas and I think it's only like 300 some odd parcels are zoned this way. So I would ask my colleagues to please approve this rezoning. The owners, Matt and Lindsay did as much outreach as possible so that we could do a legislative rezoning so they didn't have to be have to bring this forward on a one off. And unfortunately, at that time, we didn't get the traction that we needed. So I would respectfully ask my colleagues to support this. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no other members of council in queue. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 22, Dash 00280 CdeBaca. Sandoval. I. Sawyer. I. Torres. I. Work. I. Clarke. I. Flynn, I kill more. Herndon. I. Cashman. Ortega. I apologize, Madam Pro Tem. I should have closed with you. I think. You have ten eyes. All right. Madam Secretary, close the voting. Announce a result. Tonight. Tonight, Council Bill 22 zero 0 to 8 has passed. Councilmember Hines, will you please put Council Bill 22, dash zero zero for four on the floor for final passage?