A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 1634, 1642, 1650, and 1680 North Sheridan Boulevard in West Colfax. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-C2 and U-RH-3A to U-RX-3 (residential mixed-use), located at 1634, 1642, 1650, and 1680 North Sheridan Boulevard in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-15-21.
Ten eyes. Counsel build 20 1-523 has passed. All right. We're moving on to our second hearing. Councilmember Black, will you please put Council Bill six, five, nine on the floor for final passage? I move that council bill 20 10659 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. All right. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for council Bill 659 is open. May we have the staff report? And I see we have James here with us. Good evening. James Van Houser with CPD. Right. Are you seeing my presentation? No. Okay. So today we have a requested rezoning at 1634 through 1680 North Sheridan Boulevard. Up. James, we're going to ask you to speak a little bit louder into your mic there. Can do. You. Today we have a proposed rezoning at 1634 through 1680 North Sheridan Boulevard. The request is to go from USC to and you are h382. You are x three. Properties located in Council District one Councilwoman Sandoval's district in the West Colfax neighborhood. The site is approximately 1.11 acres and concurrently contains several one and two storey single and two unit residential buildings. The proposed rezoning to Yurek three allows for residential mixed use development and the applicant intends to propose multi-unit residential development on the site. Existing land use on the subject properties a single unit and two unit residential. Surrounding area includes mix of park single and two unit residential as well as some multi unit residential land uses. This was before the planning board in early June. Planning Board unanimously recommended approval of the rezoning. We've gotten one R.A. comment letter from the Sloan's Lake Citizens Group and five public comment letters from members of the public. Four letters in support and one letter of opposition. Wanted to note briefly the previous action that had taken place on these parcels. There was a previous rezoning effort in 2019 to rezone the properties to UMC and UMC. Three Planning Board at that time voted five zero to recommend approval of that application and City Council voted to deny it 10 to 2 at a public hearing held on nine 1619. I will note that this is a completely new application with a completely new set of applicants and a completely new zoned district being requested. However, I thought that the previous action might be useful context. Existing zoning is U.S. C-2, which is a single unit zoned district that also allows detached ADAS as well as tandem houses and duplexes on certain corner lots as well as the U, r, h3a, which is a real house district. Just adjacent zoning. We have some OSA to the north and Flynn's like park you are H-3 also to the south U.S. two and you are H-3 to the east and across here at End Boulevard in Edgewater and Lakewood. There some are two or three and RMF something. Here's an aerial of the site for existing context of the building forming scale. Review criteria. Start with consistency of adopted plans. The proposed rezoning is consistent with a number of COP Plan 2040 goals as elaborated on in the staff report. Blueprint. Denver The future neighborhood context is urban, which is categorized by small multi-unit, residential and mixed use areas embedded in one and two unit residential areas and low scale multi-unit buildings are generally appropriate in this context. Looking at our future place type is a residential low medium, which sees a mix of low to mid scale multi-unit residential interspersed in single and two unit residential areas and building heights are three stories or less generally. Sheridan Boulevard is a mixed use arterial. 17th is a residential collector and any place to the south is a local or un designated street. Future growth strategy is all other areas of the city. Looking at the West Colfax plan. The land use concept for these parcels is the main street a scale of 2 to 5 storeys as appropriate. Creating a comfortable pedestrian environment is a stated goal of the plan, and a linear orientation to the street is also a stated goal of this type of land use concept. The Framework plan land use recommendations from the West Coal Flex Plan include supporting infill development as well as promoting a range of housing types and end costs at higher densities in strategic locations, including Main Streets, which as on the previous slide, this falls into. The District plan as part of the West Conflicts plan. This is again a main street, specifically the pig and whistle district. With recommendations to rezone to Main Street two and three. Those are old code districts that would translate to EMS five and eight in the current Denver zoning code. Staff finds the application consistent with criteria two and three. Justifying circumstance. The applicant cites change or changing conditions in the neighborhood and cites a few, few specific examples. And staff concurs that the change in changing conditions is an appropriate justifying circumstance. The application is also consistent with the neighborhood context zone, district purpose and intent. And CPD recommends that Council approve application 20 00168 based on finding or review criteria have been met. Staff is available for questions and we also have the applicant here in person. All right. Thank you, James, for the presentation this evening. We have one individual signed up to speak this evening and it's Jesse Perez. And so we're going to go ahead and try to bring Jesse into the queue to speak again. And if for some reason, Jesse, we're not able to hear you, we're going to ask you to log off and log back in, but we're going to go ahead and try it before we ask you. Okay. Good deal. I think we've got you in. Jesse, go ahead and please begin. Yes. Good evening. Members of council, those watching at home when I was just in Paris and I'm representing four black star Exxon Mobil for self-defense positive action for my face also signs as well as the unity party of Colorado and for a long black nose. And I'll be the next mayor in 2023. I'm in favor of this rezoning tonight. I just had a few questions. I wanted to know if there had been a study done, a neighborhood study done. Uh, also, what would the army level be for the housing at this location? From mixed use to residential well with the house in before this. Am I level B for this? And also, if there was a traffic study done this summer to answer those three questions, either the occupant or members of council, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Jesse. That concludes our speakers this evening. Questions from members of Council on Council Bill 659. All right. Seen no questions by members of council this evening. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 659. Council Member Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. Um, this application before you today, this property was heard a while ago in front of us and voted down and the new owners have done extensive outreach into the community. And I just want to note that the height increase is pretty much it's not that big. The adjacent property to the south, that's where we got the height increase for this property. And one other note to talk about is that along Sheridan I do not have sidewalks on 17th and Sheridan it is a pedestrian path and this redevelopment will allow for sidewalks on Sheridan Boulevard. They are dedicating 16 feet of right away the entire length of the property, the block for a tree line and dedicated sidewalks. I ask my colleagues to support this. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval. And we are. Working on. I know that we had Councilmember Ortega. She had her hand raised. And so we're I'm getting some direction from our legal counsel. I'm going to go ahead and gavel back in and open the public hearing back up. And so we're going to do that so that we can include questions by Councilmember Ortega. All right. We have reopened the public hearing for Council Bill 659. Councilmember Ortega, please go ahead with your questions. Thank you, Madam President. I had lost audio there for a minute. I couldn't hear what was being said, but my questions for specific to the consolidation of the land or the assemblage of I. Am. Just trying to get an idea of how many units can now be built on that site, because that then raises some questions about whether the ingress and egress will be offered Sheridan or whether it's going to be off a 17th Street or maybe even 16th, because both Sheridan and 17th are busy streets. And it depends on whether you can take a left in from 17 to the site or, you know, just how that's going to work. I think it's going to be really important. It may be that the applicant is just looking to rezone for right now and doesn't have any immediate plans to move forward with the construction. But I think just understanding some of that will be really important to ensuring that we don't have accidents along that corridor. That is one of the streets that previous council members from this district have tried to ensure that we've got sidewalks along Sheridan Boulevard because there aren't any and we have a bus stop. And oftentimes you see people with strollers trying to walk their kids on a slanted dirt area that is very unsafe. This is the next block over. But all all of those factors just kind of come into play, particularly with this block as well. So I wanted to just ask those questions. I think maybe some of that can be addressed by our city staff from CPD, but maybe the applicant as well. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Ortega. We're going to go ahead and start out with James and then I believe we have the applicant here. So we'll just ask you to introduce yourself as well. But go ahead, James. Thank you for the questions. Councilman Ortega. Generally, we wouldn't get into site development plans at the rezoning stage. All of the, you know, requirements for egress and ingress have, you know, have to meet our standards and be built to our code provisions. However, I do believe the applicants have submitted in step already in anticipation of this rezoning. So I will defer to the applicant if he'd like to answer some of your specific questions, because I think there are specific answers in this case. Thank you. Hi. Thank you. Consul Mac Yardeni with us. Architecture 4164 Irving Street. Thank you for taking the time tonight to review this. We have, as Amanda stated. Reached out to the neighborhood pretty extensively to understand concerns, desires and mitigate as many of the impacts of the development as we go forward. As stated, we have already submitted our concept step. We wanted to understand further with Dottie and transportation as well. As access points. Throughout the site. We are going to have those meetings here later on Wednesday and we'll have better understandings. We have not performed any traffic studies at this time. However, we have had conversations with both CDOT and transportation about the upcoming improvements that are going to occur along both Sheridan and 17th, trying to make sure that we work with. The affected ingress and egress for the site to the question of total number. Of units under the new zoning, we have currently planned for 60 units and looking at parking that at a 0.75.8 ratio to mitigate any off site parking. The price point that we have tried. To. Identify going back to the previous question has really been to build a smaller product to fill in that missing metal by not building that concrete podium and keeping it a surface parking, we're able to build these. At a. Lower cost and therefore offer them to the community at a lower cost. Those numbers are still to be determined as we go through the construction process. And then, as Amanda stated, reconstruction of the entire length of Sheridan Boulevard with a future eight foot tree line and an eight foot sidewalk that is multi-modal, serving that connection between the Colfax corridor and the park, really trying to create that gateway for Denver. Any other questions? All right. Thank you. We're going to go ahead, Councilwoman. Take care of your fist. A follow up, clarifying question on whether or not that was intended to be a for sale product or a rental project. It's currently in the for sale or sorry for rent. Or rent a rental car. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you, Madam Chair. All right. Great. Thank you. And thank you, Councilmember Ortega. And seeing that, we wrapped up the questions by members of council. The public hearing is closed and we've had comments by Councilmember Sandoval. I want to give it a moment if there's any additional comments by members of council. CNN. I'll go ahead and chime in that I do believe this meets the rezoning criteria and will be supporting it this evening as well. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 659. Sandoval. I swear, I. Torres I. Black I. Flynn. I. Hynes. Hi Cashman. I can each. I. Take it. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. Ten Eyes. Ten Eyes Cancer build 20 1-659 has passed our third public hearing tonight. We're on to it. Councilmember Black, will you please put Council Bill 7 to 0 on the floor for final passage?