Approves a text amendment to the Denver Zoning Code creating a new zone district, Campus-National Western Center CMP-NWC, comprised of building forms and allowed uses consistent with the vision identified in the National Western Center Master Plan in Council District 9 (2015I-00066). (NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLANNING) Approves a text amendment to the Denver Zoning Code creating a new zone district, Campus-National Western Center CMP-NWC, comprised of building forms and allowed uses consistent with the vision identified in the National Western Center Master Plan in Council District 9 (2015I-00066). IF ORDERED PUBLISHED, A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON THIS ITEM.  REFER TO THE "PENDING" SECTION OF THE FUTURE COUNCIL MEETING AGENDAS FOR THE DATE. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 5-13-15.  
Hi. Madam Secretary, please possibly announce the results tonight. Tonight's 323 has been placed on final consideration and does pass. All right. We are on to the next one, which is Council Bill 324. Councilman Neville, will you please put three total on the floor? Yes, sir. Mr. President, I move that council bill 324, as amended, be placed on Final Considered series of 2015, be placed on final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. The public hearing for Council Bill 324, as amended, is now open. May we have staff report? All right. Thank you, Mr. President. Steve Daly with committee planning development. We are now shifting gears of the north, part of north part of the city. Kelly, we just got here. He's going to say a few words here and a bit. So we are we are entering into the North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative area of the city. And this first bill is uh, um, National Western Center zoning simply text amendments. This is writing the new texts to the new zone district for the Denver zoning code. So the community partners associated with, with this effort, the National Western Center partners include CSU, the National Western Stock Show, the City of Denver, History, Colorado, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. In addition to community partners, including the dedicated members of the National Western Center Citizens Advisory Committee, this text amendment was initiated by Brad Buchannan , Executive Director of Community Planning and Development, and Kelly, lead executive director of North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative. Quite a bit of public process for writing. The text amendment started with the adoption of the Globeville Neighborhood Plan on December 1st, which recommends the build out of the National Western Center. And a lot of the recommendations from the Globeville Neighborhood Plan rely on the implementation of the National Western Center itself. So from January to March of 2015, there were preliminary discussions about zoning and the best approach to implementing the master plan. And on February 23rd of this year, the Elyria Swansea Neighborhoods Plan was adopted by City Council, another planning document that recommends the build out of the National Western Center on March 9th. The National Western Center Master Plan was adopted by you all. And so there has been a lot of planning, a lot of thinking into the future of the National Western Center. And reading the zoning is one of many steps to implement all of the planning that is taking place from March sorry, on February 28th of 2015. Over there, CPD presented a summary of the text amendment to agency zoning and planning. On March 5th through April 16th, we had an intense set of meetings and intensive, if you will, a number of meetings in a short amount of time. Actually seven. We met seven times with the CAC or the National Western Center Citizens Advisory Committee to discuss all aspects of both the text and the MAP Amendment. On March 30th, the draft was posted to the CPD website. The draft of the proposed text in the map was also emailed to all Arnaud's on the 14th of April, Public Notification for Planning Board was emailed to Arnaud's and all city council members and signs were posted for the related map amendments. On the 29th of April, we attended Planning Board. There was a unanimous vote for approval with one condition. Then I'll discuss the following slide. On the 13th of May, went to Neighborhoods and Planning Committee. 1st of June was first Reading City Council. On June 8th, City Council postponed a public hearing and proposed on the proposed amendment to July six, which is tonight. And on the 11th of June, public notification for City Council Public Hearing was emailed to all Arnaud's and all the City Council members and signs were updated that we're located throughout the neighborhood. We're here tonight for the public hearing. So on the April 29th Planning Board, it was a unanimous vote of recommending approval 1010 oh with the following condition. But the City Council acknowledges and addresses the concerns expressed by the neighborhood stakeholders with regards to neighborhood involvement and governance and community equity. So the national in our entitlement process, you know, there's a lot there are a lot of things that need to take place to implement the plans that we've written. It started with the plan, the vision. We start to drill down in precision and we're writing the crossing, the text and the map amendment. Next steps along this regulatory path will be writing a Public Realm study that discusses the parks and plazas and open spaces throughout the proposed campus for a National Western Center complex also design standards and guidelines that will scope the buildings and speak to what the building should look like and how they should be designed will then move into more precision, which would be site planning and where we get the engineers involved and we make sure that we're we're meeting our life and safety and really designing these buildings inside and out and then we're building. So we've got quite a bit to do between now and then. And this is just this is just a small taste of all the things that are going on and how we can address that. So the proposed tax amendment, the components of his own desires. We're writing a brand new zone district for the Denver zoning code. So we have to determine the context, the zone district standards, which include the building form standards, the uses and minimum parking, and then the general design standards related to landscaping and signage. So starting with the context. So in Division 9.2, you will find the campus context and this is the cover page of the campus context that the context or the campus zone districts that exist in the code today would be SAE, MPH, which is the health care campus of Denver. Health is mapped to page. You have CPI, which is the campus education institution. So the Arara campus has the CPI. And then there's the campus entertainment P.A. Gardens, and currently the Coliseum is maps to you. But none of these existing zoned districts will achieve all of the program, all the uses and the vision identified for the National Restaurant Centers. We're writing a new zone district, and the campus is a really nice fit as far as the context where you have a large contiguous piece of land, where you have similar wayfinding and a number of uses allowed, and building heights that are where you can get to your highest height in the middle of the site and transition at the edges. So campus is the context in where the zone district will have the building form standards similar to those found in other campus zone districts. The max height is 150 feet, with a transition down to the surrounding neighborhoods of transitioning that height down to Brayton Boulevard. There are protected district transitions should they be needed, which are built into all of our zoning districts. There's a small setback required which introduces the need for some landscaping. If there is a zero foot setback, that there wouldn't be the requirement for landscaping around the structures. And then this specific building design will be controlled by design standards and guidelines, and that is not part of the zoning. So we are just kind of creating the box to work with in. The exciting part of the allowed uses include agricultural activities, cultural research and educational uses. Entertainment, civic, public and institutional uses, recreation, residential, commercial, and uses associated with meeting the energy goals of net zero waste energy and water. So the general design standards related to landscaping is required as part of the Basin District. Additional landscaping standards will be created in subsequent public realm and design centers and guidelines. The zoning is mostly written for the actual structures and the uses, and those plazas and open spaces that are envisioned will be controlled by those public realm and design centers of guidelines. Signage. The sign centers are consistent with other campus zoned districts, specifically S.P.A.. The National Assessment Center Master Plan does contemplate a revenue stream from signage and being innovative with designs, and so there will likely need to be some amendment to the zone district or some other standards written for signage. As this builds out and we locate the buildings and we know exactly where the signs should go and the type of flashing or flashing. And then screening is also found in general design standards. There's a high level of screening required, and it's similar to what was found in other mixed use zone districts. So criteria criteria for review for a text amendment consistency was adopted plans and furthers the public health safety in general welfare and results in regulations that are uniform within each zone district. There are five plans that apply to the site, starting with comp plan 2000. The proposed text amendment is consistent with many objectives and strategies found in competent 2000, as detailed in the staff report, but also highlighted below. It's promoting in-fill development, designing mixed use communities, reducing sprawl so that residents can live, work and play within their own neighborhoods, and creating more density at transit nodes, enhancing existing focal points in neighborhoods , and encouraging the development of such focal points to the text amendment in the standards on the text movement are consistent with these goals. From Comp Plan shifting to Blueprint Denver The proposed text amendment is consistent with many objectives and strategies, and I went to greater detail on my staff report. The land use concept is entertainment culture exhibition and is an area of change. We would like to funnel and channel the growth envisioned by the master plan, the global neighborhood plan. The proposed amendment is consistent with many objectives and strategies found within that plan, as detailed in the staff report. A number of strategies rely on the build out of the national western, such as embracing the South Platte River and providing better access to community resources, which is a number of community resource uses would be allowed by the base or by the text amendment improving educational opportunities. So the CFP in NWC allows education for all ages, and then also in introducing new multimodal connections over the river to the National Western Center. So is critical and a critical implementation element for the Globeville Neighborhood Plan and the proposed phasing in the build out of National Western Center would start to implement those plans and the Text and Map Amendment is one of many fronts for implementing the National Western Center. Shifting to early response to the neighborhood plan, the proposed text amendment is consistent with many objectives and strategies found in earlier in Swansea Neighborhood Plan, as detailed in the staff report but also highlighted here, the allowed building heights should accommodate redevelopment of the National Western Center, the text amendment and proposed copy NWC allows of 250 feet, which would accommodate the large structures necessary for this future campus and complex. The plan also recommends encouraging development of key sites, including the National Western Center. The Text Amendment and mapping the zoning will allow for the build out of the National Western Center and then targeting TOD opportunities adjacent to the station. The list of uses allowed by the zone district are similar to those found in zone districts that are mapped near transit stations. And then the National Western Center Master Plan Prose Text Amendment is consist of many objectives and strategies found in that plan as it recommends providing a variety of programs. This is a long list of uses allowed by the Zone District to foster regeneration, and these are the goals related to energy waste water. And the Zone District allows many of those uses and to drive new tourism and the building forms allow for larger structures or large events could be held where we can drive that new tourism that's envisioned by the plan. The Texas move furthers the public health, safety and general welfare of Denver residents as they provide for implementation and revitalization of the National Western Center as identified in the city's adopted plans. And this tax amendment will result in uniform regulations applicable to all new buildings within land mapped copy in WC. So with that, CPD recommends approval based on finding that criteria have been met. Related to the text amendment. So I'd like to turn it over to Kelly, if you don't mind, just to just to kick us off. Sure. Thanks, Steve. Kelly, LEED, executive director of the North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative in the National Western, is one of our six portfolio projects that are going to help reconnect and reenergize these neighborhoods. And I just had a couple of quick comments and I'll be very brief. One is Steve mentioned this really is this is a milestone for this project. Think about where we were four years ago when you were talking about the national western leaving our city. We've come a long ways from that time and all of you have been really important partners in the conversations to get to where we are today . You have all we've sat and how many community meetings and one on one meetings and group meetings talking about how we transform the site, make sure the stock shows here for the next ten years. And most importantly, think about how these neighborhoods, Globeville to the west, Larry Swans here to the east. Yeah. Are transformed and brought along and really benefit from this project. So this is the next step. You know, this takes the master plan and the zoning puts in motion our ability to fulfill the vision, you know, especially with our partners, the issue and do some of the amazing things that CSU is going to be able to do on this campus. So that's one, too, is this this is important because it really solidifies the importance of our collaboration with our neighborhood partners. And we have many members from our community advisory committee here tonight that you're going to hear from, and they have been instrumental in helping us also get here tonight with the zoning and countless hours spent by by folks that have day jobs and have other things to do. Betty cram selling Avon and being a partner and Dru having a full time job as an architect and John's RPN and many, many folks are here tonight to speak on behalf of this. But, you know, this project's success is driven by the success of the adjoining neighborhoods as well. So the zoning that you're going to vote on tonight is as much about the neighborhoods and making sure they benefit as well from what we're about to do as we move into more specific. So that's all I wanted to say and I just thank you all for your commitment to this effort, to these neighborhoods and to the journey we're on to make the National Western Center one of the foremost kind of places where we're going to solve some of the biggest rural, biggest food issues on the planet. Thanks. Thank you both. All right. We have two people signed up, first person and Elizabeth and the second person, David Slutsky. Thank you, members of the Council for this opportunity to speak. I wanted to reinforce this is a good segway from what Kelly was saying, the wonderful process of creating a text amendment through this collaboration with members of the neighborhood, and that this is something that will strengthen by example the type of conversations that are so critical to all of Denver, and that this is part of where, as we're hearing people talk more and more, we find the heart and soul of what's going on in the city is first there is the word in a sense. And in this room there are at least five people from the neighborhood, including Elyria, Swanton, Globeville, that participated as in the breakout sessions with the National Western Center Advisory Committee. There are a couple developers that worked in the process one from Globeville, one from Elyria. There's an executive from the National Western Stock Show. There's the city council members that have been loyal to the process. And for all the differences that I have with Councilwoman Monteiro, which are respectful, I really want it to be publicly acknowledged that this National Western Center Citizens Advisory Committee is a mechanism that she championed and created as an effort to bridge the different stakeholders so that we would have these conversations and to build on an understanding of zoning in conversation in the neighborhoods. Is, is, is a great legacy. So I appreciate that. Councilwoman Ortega was very helpful in bringing staff to the breakout sessions and with city council staff posing questions in the course of the discussions, it's helpful. So as we go forward with our new city council too, I hope that they will see that as part of their legacy is the broad conversations, because we have many conversations to have within the national western centered campus in development. But I just wanted to say a very positive put a very positive spotlight on the process that brought us to this in parallel to what the actual arrival of the text amendment, the text, the new the new zoning change that that we have. It is an extraordinary step. And I think it bodes well for working on the vision of the city to see the neighborhood plans, which are the are the foundation of this coming together with the National Western Center plan. And I hope that the conversation can continue building by building, block by block, site by site, in a very creative and friendly conversation as we implement this zoning and make it truly visionary in the process. So of great shout out to where to the whole effort that got us here and looking forward to continuing that is a participatory urban planning element. So 100% for it. Thank you, Mr. Lasky. And you have 6 minutes or. Thank you, city council, for all the work you've done. Judy, thank you for the years of work and dedication you've you've given us. You know this. My name is David Lansky. I live a 4930 Logan in Globeville. This ain't about global overnight. You know, this is about the national western that started here back in the early 1900s. And as today, I got to look at this like, oh, you know what they've given us? You know, back when they started, there was nothing in Denver and there was nothing in Globeville. We had a couple of smelters. But as time went on, by the late forties, all through the seventies, you know, the national western got so big with the stockyards and everything, they started up, they opened up a lot of slaughterhouses. We became the beef capital of the United States, and it originated out of the national western. There was a lot of byproducts off off of that. Also, number one was fertilizer, you know, I mean, we were shipped it all over the country. You know, every steak that was eaten in New York, Chicago back then, it came out of Colorado. And another thing that came out of the natural western and out of all these industries was hides. You know, they processed hides, but they had a trade back after World War Two. They couldn't process in the United States anymore. So they had a ship em out of the country and that shipped the finished product back here and it would make whatever. So for a lot of years, you know, they came out of Denver, out of Globeville, that originated out of the national western and created a lot of jobs , you know, a lot of work. And. You know, and I remember. As a little boy sitting up. We couldn't wait to get over the stockyards in the summertime. And you sit and listen to the auctioneer and they would auction off the cattle and the sheep and the hawks. And where we connected, we didn't feel like we were a neighbor to the national west and we felt like we were a partner because all of that product, all them animals, came over what was called a cattle bridge down into Globeville, and they separated off into different packing houses. And, you know, that was really interesting in in the in the national western the sixties to me, that was before the convention center. And we got to see every venue that came through car shows, you name it. It was it was in Globeville. We had the Denver Spurs, a hockey team, and at the same time, we had ice skating at the at the National Western. We us kids had a hockey teams, you know. So I mean, it was it was the National Western has given us so much. I mean, and it can go on and on and on. And, you know, we need this zoning and then we come to the zoning. In as hard as Kelly and Steve and Paul and everybody's worked and they're putting it in place, but they put in place no marijuana. And that's great because when we start looking at the zoning and something got brought to my attention last week, you know, this marijuana industry. They're supposed to let all the dispensaries. I think the grow houses, too, are supposed to let all the neighborhood organizations know. And they've never, ever contacted our organization. Now. I owned I owned a bar at one time and I had to jump through a lot of hoops to get my license. And we need to start enforcing that here. There's no enforcement in Globeville, and we need that if we want to shine with the national Western, if we want to prosper, if this National Western Events Center is going to prosper, we have to do a lot of enforcement and accountability, and we have to clean up our neighborhood. And we need to see what the city needs for us to do. And they need to help us enforce rules and regulations. Because you don't. I don't I can't understand how $1,000,000,000 event center could be right next to, you know, a ghetto where they still pollute the river. And, you know, your children and your grandchildren, your nephews and nieces will come to this event center and walk off a block away and wind up in a dangerous neighborhood. You know, there's just no future in it, you know? And, you know, we need we need we need to work together. And we are working with the National Western. And I've asked them a couple of times what would they like us to do? And our response. But, you know, we're asking the city, what do you want us to do in Globeville? How can we better serve the national Western? How can we make this the best it can be? Because this this national western, this event center is going to. Benefit all of us for years to come, and we want to be part of it. You know what? The other thing we need to do? We need to limit the size of these grow houses. You know, if we don't stop it, we're not going to be able to bring in new development. You know, and and I can't understand why there wasn't regulation like the liquor industry. You know. And nobody partitioned our neighborhood ever. Anyway, that's all I got. And I want to thank you, folks. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Lansky. All right. That concludes our speakers. Do we have any questions on 324 as amended? Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. I just have a couple of questions. And let me ask Steve Nelly first, if you would come forward, Kelly, you might want to sit in the front as well. Steve, you walk through some of the additional documents or press procedures that still need to take place. You talked about the public realm, study design standards and guidelines, site planning, and then construction would be kind of the final. So I know when you and I met last week, you talked about a development agreement. Where does that fall into the process? Or the big picture of all of this that we're dealing with? Yeah, I think the conversation that we were having was about, you know, things that aren't necessarily in the zone or are necessarily appropriate for the zoning and what other tools may be available. There are a lot of tools available, one of which could be a development agreement with between the city and between the future governing structure. That was my you know, it was one suggestion of a tool that could be used for things that aren't necessarily in the zoning. Okay. One of the questions I have about the height issue and we talked about this when we met last week is that. The height is just sort of overall for the site, the height limitations and. This is a 15 year buildout or so of the site. And so I'm just trying to understand why the 15 feet sort of applies across the board. I know that the thinking was so that when the arena is built to have a, you know, a. Free spam roof, if you will, that would allow the height that's needed for that. But I'm a little concerned that if somewhere down the road the city and national western, because the city will own most of the the land right after it's all purchased. And they could potentially just start marketing the 170 acres once it's all acquired and allow buildings to just be built up to that max limit. So I'm looking for what the protections are, if you will, for the neighbors that could turn this into a new, I don't know, a new mega center, if you will. And I mean, to some degree, it's sort of envisioned that way. But I mean, we could have lots of office buildings there or potentially housing on the site, maybe some dorm housing. But I guess I'm wondering where we put some of those limitations that don't allow the whole site to look like 150 acres. All right. So there is a transition built in to the zone district and it transitions down to Brayton Boulevard, down to five stories or 70 feet along Brighton Boulevard. And then on the east side of Brighton Boulevard, there's different zoning. It allows up to three stories. And on the just east of that alley is the residential area. So the intent of that transition is to provide those protections and transition the height down to the residential area of Elyria. So it's not 150 feet across the entire site. There are transitions built in. Now, as far as a new program and marketing the site, I might turn that over to Kelly to to talk about what that means in the future. I'm sure. Councilwoman. So the you know, the question really is how do we kind of protect the integrity of the plant itself? And and really, you refer to the master plan, right? The master plan, which we worked closely with the neighbors on and the national Western and sea issue. All our partners, you know, shows the the adjacencies of the buildings that are required to fulfill the program of all the partners, the relationships of those buildings to one another, the relationships of those buildings to the adjoining neighborhoods, whether it be Brighton Boulevard or the River or to the Coliseum to the south. And, you know, although you know what for build out this this center is anticipated to be 270 acres, which seems large, you know, for a site that's close to downtown. When you think about the scale of these buildings and the operational components that these buildings have to accommodate, both from the national, western and other big events, it's not that much land in terms of what we see. There's not like going to be a lot of extra land beyond the core program on the site itself for large, massive high rises and what have you. I think, you know, we are going through a process with the Community Advisory Committee and with all our partners to think about how do you truly activate the site for year round uses? But all those uses are going to have to be complementary to the core vision of CSU and the National Western in the city as partners in creating this year round destination. So we have a set of guiding principles that will measure all our uses against. We have the needs of our of our tenants, our anchor tenants like CSU in the National Western that have to be met. So I'm confident as we work through this together and that will require coming back to council many, many times as we go through this, that we'll, you know, we're going to stay true to the master plan as envisioned. So which of those additional things that need to be done will come back to city council? Is it I mean, because the master plan is not binding like zoning is. So what what additional approvals will be brought back to city council. So you know, obviously we will have to come back to work for tonight's exercise were only zoning those parcels that are owned by either the city or the national western. So we will come back to council for when additional land is acquired for the campus. So every time we come back, we'll have to be coming to council for for those actions. The second would be, I think we've shown that we're going to be collaborative and deliberative with council because we're so tied to making sure that the neighborhoods are a part of this conversation, whether it's contracts we issue to actually build the site or it's workforce development opportunities or it's housing at the station, near the station, at the National Western, whatever it may be, there's going to be a lot of interactions with council. And and I want to go back to Steve's, you know, example of a development agreement. We've toyed with the idea do we create some sort of a development agreement that memorializes in contract? That's the obligations that we need to do over the course of the phase development of the site. So I think that's a conversation we want to entertain with with council as well. I mean, we're we're going to look at all the different tools we have at our disposal. But ultimately, we've got to put in motion documents that hold us accountable for actually delivering the project. So I you know, we'll be coming back to council a lot in the course of at least the next four years. So if I may continue, Mr. President, I have one more question. So I know there have been some discussions about a community benefit agreement and some of the things that should be part of that are should include, you know, provisions for job training and hiring, goals of people in the neighborhood, land leases, tenant leases that might include , you know, opportunities where people in the community own some of the land that can be rented, things like including opportunities for people who are small business owners in the neighborhood to benefit from some of the relationships and contracting opportunities with National Western. So where does a community benefit agreement fit into the big picture? Do you see it as part of the development agreement? Where where does that fall? And kind of where where is that in the process in terms of conversations with the neighborhood? So we you know, we actually presented at a neighbor at a community advisory committee meeting based on ongoing conversations. With many members of the committee of the National Western Center Committee about how do we link in in as deliberate a way possible the the benefits of the two neighborhood plans and that of the national Western that those things work together are in tandem. And so I actually threw out the idea based on just kind of my own kind of national view of what's going on around the country, an idea of a of an MRU. You know, I've had a series of meetings with, you know, and conversations with members of the Community Advisory Committee, and that has evolved. I think the conversation has evolved. We actually had a really good meeting, what, a couple of weeks ago with the members of the National Western Center Advisory Committee about, you know, what's in the mow you now. And we actually talked about these ideas of implementation committees for the two neighborhoods and the feedback we we've gotten from a variety of groups is maybe that's not the way to go. So we're, we're right now we're, we're listening and we're looking at meeting with all the different groups in those two in those neighborhoods, having constant ways for them to provide feedback on budgeting, on, on prioritization of projects within their given neighborhood plans. So I've tried to signal or we've tried to signal that we're open. We're not going to lock ourselves into any one method of of doing business. We're going to find different ways to meet them where they are. And that if that means going to the churches are going to the schools or what have you, that's what we're going to do to get feedback, compile all that feedback, and then work with council representatives, work with the mayor's office to then build a work plan . And at the end of the day, this is all about execution. It's all about implementing what people have spent their time doing. So we're trying to build systems that hold us accountable, hold the neighborhoods collectively accountable with us through shared intent, through shared purpose to deliver. And that at every point, at any given time during the year, we can look at the list and say, we've got these ten things down, we got three more to do. Here's what we're going to do so everybody can follow along. So the memo you just to close this out is is evolving. It's going to actually, based on our last conversation, turn into a letter because the chant, one of the challenges we were having with the image use who signs the Matthew who rep who can represent the neighborhoods. So we're going to do a letter and I'm going to be I've been sharing drafts of the memo. You were going to convert it into a letter over the next week or two, and I'm going to send that back out to the group and get feedback. So who who does that email you? Who who is it between? Is it between the city or between the city and national western and the neighborhoods? So good question. So the this isn't just about the national western. There are six projects that are all where we're aligning the planning and implementation of those six project. This is about how do we link the neighborhood plans which are which are part of our six to the other projects that we're managing for shared benefit, right. So that the intent of what was in my view and now is probably going to become a letter shows that shared intent of how all these six projects are aligned, how they're linked and then our commitment to the neighborhoods that these things are going to happen together. So I just got your list, Councilwoman, of things you'd like to see. And so we'll talk about how we build. Some of those things are already kind of built in, but we'll make them more specific and keep sharing that with the community and get to a place where folks are comfortable with the letter. And then we're going to use that as a way to hold it up and say, here's what this is our shared understanding of what we're trying to do together. And then that gets immortalized ultimately in contracts, in workforce development centers and in the things that will be coming back to this body for over the course of time , that become more legal in nature and more binding in nature. Thank you, Karen. Yep. Can someone can each. Thank you, Madam President. And, Mr. President, I'm sorry. That was another one of those bad habits formed in council monitor as era. Two areas of question probably for Steve, but you can defer to Kelly one about use and two about parking. And I'm very much in the code weeds just for folks. No, because I mean, I think that the this is one of those things where the PowerPoint doesn't have a lot of anything in it. So you have to really look at the code language in terms of uses. I see the information about husbandry, plant and animal husbandry. I actually don't see anything about manufacturing or production, and I'm concerned about that because in theory, potentially, you may want to be doing something. I mean, maybe not animal slaughter, but maybe other kinds of food production package. I just am curious whether or not we've thought far enough ahead to include the kinds of ancillary things we may want to be doing related to the CSU type activities. Because I just and maybe I'm just not seeing them. You're just not seeing it. Yeah. Okay. So manufacturing at a custom level is is allowed. Manufacturing at general level is allowed manufacturing at a heavy level. And this is like the noxious stuff that's typically that use is only allowed in our industrial zone districts. That is not allowed. So custom instruction can because I can't find it. So if you can point me to the. Situation, if you are seeing the agricultural uses, then you need to turn back a few pages. It'd be under the manufacturing use category. I've got it here if you want to look. Okay. Just if you give me a section number you don't have. Okay? All right. Like 11 point. Three point. Okay. I see the charts, but I don't see the actual language section. You know, there's the. So are you, are you looking for the use definition. Yeah. Well you have, I mean there's quite a few yet definitions that may be the right. So we did not amend the use. So you have the red lines as well? I think so. I'm looking at what's in our computer systems. Right. So you're only seeing what was amended. We did not amend the use definition of manufacture. That's why I can't see it, because you're referencing it, but you're not changing any language. So there's nothing red lines. All right. That's very helpful. So. And then which and is it is it IMX or switch which definition in particular you were saying it's the general and the custom. Right. So general and custom manufacturing fabrication and assembly are allowed. However, manufacturing fabrication assembly heavy is not allowed. Got it. Thank you very much for that clarification. So the other question I had was about parking. So in the chart that, you know, the way that this reads for members of the public is that there's an existing chart that talks about the different uses and then it talks about what parking is required. And then it has all of the different campuses. And we've added a new column for this campus, but there's a lot of red line related to parking requirements. So what I'm trying to understand is, is every time you have a red line related to a parking requirement, does it then apply to all of the campus zone districts ? Because that's kind of the way it looks. It looks like it applies to it looks like we're changing it for all the campuses. Right. And so if you can explain that to me. Right. So where do you see red line for parking standards that use was not is not permitted in the other campus zone districts. I see. So you had to invent a standard. So we had to introduce the parking requirement because we're now allowing it in Campus National Research Center. So in all of our use tables throughout the code, if the use is not allowed, we don't put a parking requirement there. But to save space, it's not necessary. Okay. Got it. And then the last question and this is a bigger picture question is just I'm curious about doing parking in this way per use. And so we don't know all the uses that are going to be on this site. And I don't think you're going to have each individual building parking itself. Right. So I'm a little curious about the entire approach to parking and why we're using what I think is an approach much more designed for. Okay. Each building on this block is going to be developed and it will have its own parking requirement. In this case, we may be collective izing, and I'm just concerned about whether we're going to actually find ourselves within a margin of these parking requirements, but perhaps not exact. We're going to build a garage, for example, and then we're going to have a use. So I guess I'm just curious why this approach at all. Right. So most all of our uses have minimum parking requirements. Oftentimes, developers build more than that minimum. These minimum parking requirements are consistent with our urban centers and districts with their fairly low minimum parking requirements and will likely be the parking will likely be exceeded. Campus zone districts are treated as one zoned lot, one site, so a use here can put it's parking way over here. And so collectively, if you add up all of the square footage of the uses, then you get your minimum parking requirement. And that needs to be built on that campus somewhere. And likely it will be actually because the minimums are are low. Okay. So just I mean, it's kind of like the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning. Has someone added up all the square footage for the various types that we think we may have in the master plan that we adopted and compared it to the parking to see how they compare? Yeah. I mean, we had a whole, you know, bit of brain damage about the parking asks in a, you know, a generation ago, you know, we couldn't do the National Western Center because the parking requirements were so great that they needed, you know, hundreds more acres. We brought that back down to, you know, reality. But I just I guess I'm just curious if someone's compared the two. Yeah. So I've looked into comparing the two. It's an exact science because again, this is this is a minimum requirement. And what you're talking about is more market demand. And so we like to right size the minimum requirement. So it is below the market demand, not way above the market demands. We're not requiring way more parking to be built than what is demanded. And so Kelley can probably speak to a lot of parking studies that are upcoming at the National Western related to the market side, not the requirement side that. Yeah. So, Kelley, do you know in advance that these requirements are compact? Tebow with a parking study that we haven't done yet. Well, this is you know, we talk. It's a great question. I mean, it's it's you know, we talk about it in the master plan and it continues to be an ongoing conversation. And it also represents an opportunity because the parking studies that we're about to enter into are about getting to the right number and the right mix , using the right resources. And it's not just about looking at the campus in in isolation. It's about what's going on past the boundaries of the campus itself, the impact of having four commuter rail stations with literally within a mile, mile and a half of this center. And what might a circulator, as an example, look like, not just for picking folks up from those four stations, but what if you were to introduce an opportunity for, as an example, people to park downtown at the U.S. and and enjoy downtown as they came to the national restaurant? So the study is really starting to hone in on the specific mix of parking resources will need for the campus, but also overlaying the opportunity to leverage either existing assets that exist outside the campus or new assets that are just being built like RTD. So the study that will go through over the next year will really start to hone in on the right combination of parking needs for this center. Great. And thank you, Mr. President. Performance. Let me just close it out then by saying so you feel okay committing to parking now before this is all that I do. Okay, thanks. Thank you. Councilwoman Kathryn Lopez. Oh. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry for going around. Stay away from me. I've got to get the. So this site and the zoning, I'm thinking of, you know, some of the issues and some of the things that have come up in the past and possible uses for the site, things that folks have wanted in the past. Right away I start thinking about grocery store now. Yes, this is campus. Yes, it's structural, but it's also food. Right. And so I'm wondering if there is if one that's allowed by that, that's an allowed use or permitted use. What kind of grocery store is allowed? What isn't? And also, have there been any discussions? And if you want to just elaborate on that, because I know that's a big need in the community, a need that's been going on for about 40, 50 years. I think the standard is every meeting we talk about grocery stores and it's been a healthy conversation and look specific to the national western. You know, the National Western's not going to solve that grocery needs for these neighborhoods. Right. But it can be part of the solution. So one of the components obviously was sea issues, involvement. There's a whole range of things that can happen. But specifically, we're looking at converting the 19 or nine stadium arena, restoring that building to its its luster and converting that into our version of the Pike Street market. If you've been to Seattle, you know, but for us, it would be all Colorado based products. And I think there's a huge opportunity for the local residents of Coalville response here to work with them and ready to start. If they want to start a business and they want to be in the food business, incubate them in the growth event of a business within the 19 or nine building. So that's one opportunity. But we are actually it's a much broader conversation because the the the food desert extends beyond Globeville various wants here to the east. Right. And so I think working with OPD and working with CPD and the residents really getting to the range of options. And then at the again, just as I said previously, it's about implementing and not waiting for all the packages to be done in terms of grocery. But what can we do incrementally to start to get services, basic services in these neighborhoods now? And I think we've got to get to build some consensus around that. So we're going to do that in the National Western Center will be part of that conversation. Can I follow up with that? Thank you, Mr. President. And and I really appreciate you expanding on that. I think that's a wonderful idea for the exchange building. And I do I am aware that the food desert is huge. It extends into Commerce City, actually. However, I think that's this is the biggest discussion in the most significant discussion of land use that we've had in this area in a very long time, notwithstanding the the neighborhood plans that just passed successfully. But I think that's an opportunity. When you look at the specialty market, you say absolutely. You know, absolutely. It provides jobs, provides business opportunity, meets a need. But unless the exchange accepts snap food stamps, it's you know, you were also looking at a different model. Right. And a more traditional model. It doesn't have to be huge. But I'm wondering, you know, if we could actually achieve that. Yes. It won't address the needs for the whole area, but at least it'll address one black out here. And hopefully those discussions are taking place on that site because unless we do something with that site, I don't see very much land out there that we can just convert into, you know, something that would have a grocery store. I mean, anyway, I just wanted to ask that question. Just throw it out there. But I do appreciate the answer in the thinking forward on that, the forward thinking on it. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. Councilman Ortega. Just one last comment. Actually, it's kind of a question slash comment. Kelly, I'm assuming that in the. The Community Benefit agreement. The issue of truck traffic and especially construction traffic from the site and air quality issues. Those will all be covered. Can you speak to that? Yeah. You're assuming that some of this construction will be going on the same time. We're going to see some of the I-70 construction and trying to keep truck traffic out of the neighborhood is going to be a really big deal to make sure that, you know, we're all working together to address that. So yeah, I mean, obviously any one of our challenges will be and this isn't just for the national western, but conceivably could have multiple large construction projects happening in this region of the city at the same time. So as an example, it's one of the reasons why we're pushing so hard to get Brighton Boulevard improved in advance of both the National Western and I-70 projects beginning so that we do have a route coming out from the South as as an option. You know, we're accelerating in our conversations about Washington Street. We're going to have a technical session this summer on Washington and start to look for ways we can advance Washington Street improvements for the Denver portion, collaborating with our neighbors to the north. So, look, those are all going to be part of our commitment, right, to the neighborhoods that we're going to work with them on each of these issues. And and I think it's one of the benefits, again, back to the National Western about a phase development. So as we start to focus on the phases, right, we'll be able to be very deliberate about how we get construction traffic into the site, how it leaves versus the whole site being under construction at one time. So you know that that's just a common practice that will work with the neighborhoods on so that they know and that their neighbors know how we're going to tackle that project. And my my expectation will be as well, we'll work with CDOT, we'll work with RTD on any project that's going on. And will will bring forward ideas to the neighborhoods of of how we move in and out of these neighborhoods and what the sequencing looks like. And that will hopefully arrive at a at a reasonable approach for each of these projects. But I mean, that's just good project management practice. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Any other questions? Three other questions. 324 as amended. Seen none. Public hearing is now closed. Time for comments, Councilwoman Monteiro. Thank you, Mr. President. Just a little bit confused because this was council bill. This is for Council Bill 324 that if voted on, creates a new zone district called the Campus National Western Center. Is that correct? Okay. So then the next bill that we will look at, 325 will get into see will do an under another explanation about the actual official map amendments. Is that correct? Okay. So I want to say that I completely support this going forward, knowing that we're going to talk about the next Bill 325 to get into more specifics about the the amendments to as a reflection of our actual master plan. And so I would encourage my colleagues to support this as well so we can go on to the next bill and have another conversation about those pieces. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman Monteiro. Councilman Ortega. I'm just going to make brief comments that will apply to both bills, because I think many of the comments from the public will probably be similar as well. I think what's important about this is we we all we're very vocal about national western talking about moving away. And Denver stepped up and has worked very closely with National Western to do everything possible to keep National Western here to look at the site in a way that we've never really looked at it. And the work that Kelly has done with the support of the administration to pull all of these six projects together and interweave them all so that they all interfaced with one another, has been a critical part of looking at this quadrant of the city, having a binding agreement that will outlive all of us because National Western will be here for another 100 years and the relationship to the community becomes really important and ensuring very similar to when the area campus came in and, you know, impacted residents that lived there. And there were some very solid agreements that were worked out with the West Side community. So I think that's very important as part of the the build out of this site of national Western. I mean, clearly, it's something that will benefit the city. They already do. But I think with some of the other partners that are now coming into play with this site will be. Unlike what we've seen. And I think the opportunities are are unlimited, but how we manage them becomes important. And that's where an agreement with the community becomes an important part. I mean, the fact that we have submitted our RTA application and we're waiting to hear on that we're going to the ballot with a request to allow the car rental tax and the lodgers tax to be extended to help pay for the new roads and to build a couple of new buildings and to acquire some additional land clearly creates incredible opportunities for this city, and I'm excited about that. But I also want to continue to make sure we're doing the right thing for these neighborhoods, which will be severely impacted with construction. And when you start adding I-70 in and what's going to happen, you know, with the truck traffic from you know, from that project, it the the impacts to these neighborhoods are going to be unprecedented. And so I just want to thank Councilwoman Monteiro for her efforts in working with the neighborhoods and in being part of the whole national Western process. I know Councilman Brooks will continue to be engaged in these efforts as well as will my office. And I just want to thank you all for your hard work in the neighborhood, folks, for their input in their ongoing efforts in working through these issues. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Lopez. Thank you, Mr. President. My comments will apply to both as well, too, I think. Well, let's just say this. I'm excited to see this zone district format very, very excited because this is a real deal and this is the real thing. And this is almost a well, this is an epitome of your work. There's a lot of things that are in play here. And I think it's a tremendous opportunity when you think of jobs, when you think of business, when you think of culture, when you think of who we are. And it's a tremendous, tremendous opportunity, as I said in my previous comments, to address one of those needs. Right. Oh, my God. With the history, with with the opportunity that's there, with the need in the neighborhood, I think it really, really it could be a game changer. So I'm excited to support this excited to see this go. I can't wait to be able to see a concert there or to go see the new the new structural facilities. The area. I mean, one of the things that was really helpful was when Mr. Andrews took us around and showed us showed us those areas. So, you know, I could almost visualize what those home districts look like in the areas that we were taking a look at on the tour. So I'm happy to support this. And in the follow up to. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Lopez, Councilman Brown. Thank you, Mr. President. And thanks. For all of you in the room who have been involved. In this. It's been a long road, really. A lot of opinions from diverse groups. No doubt this is a massive, bold and ambitious plan. And what I like about it, it's why it is a plan is not rigid. It's not rigid. It's going to change. It's going to evolve over the next decade and the decade after that. But at its foundation is a love affair. That most of us I hope all of us, but most of us have with our Western roots, our Western heritage and the pioneer spirit. And David, you were right when you said that. It is hard that this plan really shows an. Appreciation and respect for local history, local history that you have observed up close and personal. This plan, really? Looks back. But at the same time, it looks forward. With an exciting and vibrant. And world class vision. And I only hope that in November that our residents. Would will cowboy and cowgirl up. And support this on the ballot. And thank you for bringing here tonight. And thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman Brown. Any other comments? 324 as amended. Seen none. Madam Secretary. Raquel Montero. I Nevitt. I Ortega. Hi, Rob Brooks. Hi, Brown. I can eat Lemon Lopez. Mr. President, I. Madam Secretary, please close the vote. You announced the results tonight. Tonight's 324, as amended, has passed. All right. Next, we're moving on to Council Bill 325. Council member, will you please put 325 on the floor? Yes, sir. Mr. President. Be my pleasure. I move the companion bill to the bill. 324 Council Bill 325 series of 2015 be placed on final consideration and do pass. It has been moved and second in a public hearing for council bill 325 is now open. May we have staff report? Thank you, Mr. President. Steve Valley with community planning and development. This is the companion bill. Companion bill. Thanks for mentioning that number. This is the map portion of the text that we just discussed. So we're mapping it. We're landing the text at the National Western Center. So again, the national others are partners CSU, the West National, Western SOC, so City of Denver, History, Colorado and Denver Museum of Nature and Science. In addition to the National Western Center Citizens Advisory Committee of all contributed to this effort. This MAP amendment was initiated by Brad McKinnon, executive director of Community Planning and Development, and Kelly, lead executive director of the North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative. So here's the map. We are in Council District nine in the Elyria, Swansea statistical neighborhood. Zooming down to the proposed area. It's just over 50 acres in the the proposal to rezone from multiple zone districts, including the general industrial iby the industrial mixed use with the max of three stories, IMAX three and the campus entertainment ICMP and all with a use overlay along billboards. Let's take all of those in districts to see MP nwc you oh to the campus national western center and continuing to allow the billboard use overlay of the map that you see the properties shaded in blue are the proposed areas to be zoned.