A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 2039 South Williams Street in University. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-C to U-SU-C1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 2039 South Williams Street in Council District 6. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 3-1-22.
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All speakers should begin their remarks by telling the council their names and cities of residents and if they feel comfortable doing so, their home addresses. If you signed up to answer questions, only state your name and note that you are available for questions of council. Speakers will have 3 minutes. There is no yielding of time. 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 participants. Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the 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 Flynn, will you please put Council Bill 22, Dash 246 on the floor for final passage? Yes, I will. Thank you. I move that council bill 22 dash to 46, be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded the required public hearing for Council Bill 20 2-2 46 is open. May we please have the staff report? Good afternoon, members of City Council. My name is Frank Benefield, Senior City Planning. Senior city planner with planning services. And today I'm going to present an overview of the MAP Amendment for 2039 South William Street. Subject property is in Council District six in the university neighborhood. The request is to resume to a district that will allow for any review of the rear of the property or other forms, and new standard standards will remain the same. The property is currently in the urban single unit season district, which is in dislocate in this location, would only allow for the Urban House building for a minimum size of 5500 square feet. And as you can see on the map, the property surrounded by other properties. Also shown us, you see there is a little bit of our age, 2.5, half a block to the east. And you can see some in is three half a block to a cell. The current land use it aside a single unit residential and it is mostly surrounded by other single unit uses. There is some two unit uses to the north and you can see the land use map that the University of Denver campus is only a block and a half a block, east and east Berry Elementary School is three blocks to the west. This light here shows that the subject property is on the bottom right and gives you an idea of the residential character of the neighborhood. Now speaking to the process. Information on notice of the application was sent on December 27th, 2021. Planning Board recommended approval anonymously on February 16, 2022, and to date, staff has received only one letter of opposition from the University Neighbors Neighborhood Association, expressing concerns with the potential increase of number of residents, vehicles and pets. This proposal could bring. The letter refers to this request for a variance and mentions the Board of Adjustments. An email was sent to the R.A. to try and clarify that this is a rezoning process and not a variance. Now moving onto Denver zoning code review criteria, it must be found that the request map amendment is consistent with the five criteria. The first criterion is consistency with the plans. There are two plans applicable to the rezoning Comprehensive Plan 2040 and Blueprint Denver. The subject property is mapped as part of the urban neighborhood context in Denver. And the future places map the signal US designates as a slow residential place. Displaced types have predominantly single and two unit uses, and accessory dwelling units are appropriate. William Street is designated as a local street, which are mostly characterized by residential use. Lupine includes also includes specific policy recommendations. Housing policy for focuses on diversifying housing choice through expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. Stuff also finds that the request, the rezoning meets the next criteria. The rezoning will result in uniformity of district regulations, and it will further the public health, safety and welfare, primarily through the implementation of adopted plans. The justified circumstance for this rezoning of the plan is the approval of the existing U.S. you see some district the city has adopted the comprehensive plan and blueprint Denver, a stated throughout this presentation. The proposed rezoning meets the intent of those plans. Overall, the proposed rezoning is consistent with the urban context residential districts and the U.S. U.S. one school district. Stuff does recommend approval based on finding or review criteria has been met. Thank you. We have one individual signed up to speak on this hearing tonight. Jesse Perez. Many, many members of council may be hurt. Yes, go ahead, please. Yes. My name is just Sam Harris, and I represent the Black Star Action Movement for Self-defense. Positive message. The message doesn't change as well as the Unity Party of Colorado. The East Residents East Denver Residents Council for a long black knows and I will be the next mayor of Denver in 2023. I'm in favor of free zone it's my just want to remind all those that are watching now when I was the city council were large 2019. I supported any males in the system growing units. So every time there is an idea or a system going in a rezoning, I'm in favor of it. And that is the case tonight. So I'm in favor of this in March as all five of the criteria of consistency with adopted plans, uniformity with adopted plans for this public health, safety and wellness justify circumstances and consistency with neighborhood context. So just the purpose and it's so that being said on my favorite business tonight. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 246. Councilmember Flynn. Thank you, Madam President. Fran, are the owners here? Yes, they are. Could I ask. Them to come up? One of them. We'll ask that. You go ahead and introduce yourself. Elise Pascoe. Hi. At least in your written narrative in the application, you stated that you should find it here. Is a perfect candidate. We like to have the property reasons for the existing ADU. There is an existing ADU on the property. Correct. Property in. July which. The former owner had decided to sell rather than try to rezone it. I don't know how long it's been there. Looks like it is not is not in habit. Thank you. It looks like it's been there a while. So you're attempting the new owner and attempting to bring it into a zoning compliance. But. But you live elsewhere. You live in the observatory park. You do? Yes. Neighborhood. Is it your intent to move into this house? Well. We know that we would have to follow all the official aid requirements in order to have that property. Okay. I just want to make sure when you said that it could be used for friends or family or a potential rental, that my understanding that if there's an idea on the property that one of the units, either the primary unit or the ADU, must be resided in by the property owner. Okay. You are aware of that? Yes. Thank you. That's all I have. Madam President. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Flynn. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 246 Council Member Cashman Yeah. Thank you, Madam President. I do think this application meets all the required criteria and I look forward to supporting it. Hope my colleagues will do so. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Cashman. And I do agree that all of the criteria have been met, and I will be supporting that this evening as well. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 22, Dash 246, please. Who Cashman. I can reach I Ortega Sandoval I Sawyer I. Torres I. Black I. CdeBaca I. Clerk I. Flynn. I. Herndon, I. Hi. Hi. Madam President, I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 13 Eyes.