A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 4891 Lincoln Street in Globeville. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property from E-SU-D to U-SU-C1 (urban edge, single-unit to urban, single-unit), located at 4891 Lincoln Street in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 4-23-19.
you are available for questions of council. Speakers will have 3 minutes and there is no yielding of time on the presentation monitor. On the wall you will see your time counting down. 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. Councilman Lopez, will you please put Council Bill 352 on the floor? Thank you, Mr. President. I move that council bill 344 website 352 series of 2019 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved and second in the public hearing for council bill 352 is open. May we have the staff report? Yes. Tourism, Sara with community planning and development. This is a rezoning of 4891 Lincoln Street. It is a proposal to rezone from urban single unit D to urban single unit C one. And the purpose of this is to allow an accessory dwelling unit. So the property is in Council District nine in the Globeville neighborhood. It is in an urban context intended to promote and protect residential neighborhoods. It would allow urban house accessory dwelling unit building forms at a maximum height of 30 to 35 feet, with an 80 unit maximum height of 24 feet on a lot. That is about 5500 square feet as a minimum lot size. So existing zoning to the north east and south is single unit. To the west is industrial mixed use three. There is one single family home on the property and it is surrounded on three sides by well, actually on all sides by single family homes. And these pictures give you an idea of the context. Most of the homes are single storey. So that is the scale of the neighborhood, the process. The initial information notice went out in December of last year and then an informational notice of a revised application in February of this year. And then Planning Board was duly posted for their hearing of April 3rd, where they unanimously recommended approval and then Land Use Committee in April on April 23rd. And then, of course, the hearing tonight and this hearing has been properly posted. There are no letters, comment letters received on this application. So, you know, the criteria, the plans that apply are Plan 2040, Blueprint, Denver 2019, Housing and Inclusive. Denver and the Globeville Neighborhood Plan of 2014 Plan goals are met by allowing us talking about creating a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood, ensuring neighborhoods offer a mix of housing types, encouraging quality infill development that's consistent with the surrounding neighborhood and promoting infill development where infrastructure is already in place. Blueprint Denver This is within the urban context and the that's described as one and two unit residential with some embedded multi-unit and commercial areas within a regular grid pattern. And then the future place type is residential low, which is single and two unit residential up to two and a half stories. And then Lincoln Street is a residential collector in this area, primarily residential. And then collectors collect all the local traffic and move it to our more major arterial streets. 49th Avenue is an on designated local street with high property access. So the growth area strategy for this property is all other areas of the city, which is our lowest anticipated to see about 20% of housing growth and 10% of new employment growth. Housing and inclusive. Denver does talk about expanding our regulations for affordable and mixed income housing and does specifically talk about the development of accessory dwelling units in both their recommendations. Two and one promoting programs that help households maintain existing homes. The city and its partners should target existing homeowner rehabilitation programs to residents in vulnerable neighborhoods, promoting financial literacy, education and for prospective and existing homeowners to promote the development of accessory dwelling units. The Globeville Neighborhood Plan in 2014 did talk about a strong Globeville, where it's good for residents, businesses and industry all equitably having their needs met . There were two new land use concepts developed in the plan industrial mixed use and single family with accessory dwelling unit. Those were added to the Blueprint concept list and this did also update the blueprint area of change map. So in Globeville, the plan talks about balancing the needs of residents, commerce and industry, and does talk about allowing accessory dwelling units. And improving housing with a broad range of housing types, including accessory dwelling units. The concept land use for the property in the Globeville plan is single family with Adu, and the height recommendation is two and a half stories. And then in strategies, the the neighborhood was discussed, moving the neighborhood from urban edge to an urban context. And that is a recommendation that the plan made. That's why we're going this applicant is applying for an urban context zone district rather than an urban edge and then just tailoring the minimum lot sizes to the those you find in the neighborhood, which is that 5500 square feet. So all of these like the you the 5500 square feet and the single unit with the ADU, all of them are entailed in the you assume zone district that the applicant's applying for. So staff believes that this does conform with the adopted plans that by using a standard zoned district we are furthering the uniformity of district regulations by implementing our plans and allowing some redevelopment. We are furthering the public health, safety and welfare. The justifying circumstance in this case is that property maintained its chapter well is a changed condition in that. The. Well, we're implementing the neighborhood plan. I'm sorry. I've lost my train of thought. So we were adopt and we're implementing a city adopted plan since the zoning code was adopted in 2010. Lost my train of thought. I'm sorry. And with that, staff believes all of the criteria are met. This is consistent with the urban context characterized characterized by single in two unit small scale multi-unit and commercial areas embedded in the neighborhoods and with the intent of the single unit zone district to protect our neighborhoods, existing neighborhoods with the urban house form and that 5500 minimum lot size that the plan calls for. So with that staff recommends approval. Thank you very much. We have three individuals signed up to speak this evening. So when I call you up, please come up to the podium. First up, Brad Tomczak. And. But I'm just here to answer questions on the architect, on the project and support the client. You want to give your name officially for the record. Brad Thomas, 62. Jasmine Street is my personal residence. 3220 2000 is my business. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next up, Jesse Pearce. But they're kind of like. We're on just two pairs represented for Denver Homicide now, black socks, a moment for self-defense and positive action camera for social change. And I was on top of the ballot for our large this past May 2019 election. I was originally against this because I thought it was just going to be more gentrification, more ethnic cleansing, more displacement as usual. But I'm in favor of a use just like other forms of attainable housing. And I was just over in this neighborhood earlier campaigning for Candi for District nine. So on. The further consideration. I am actually in favor of this. I think it would be a good addition to the neighborhood and it would actually get some people housed. I wanted to ask the owner who exactly was going to be staying here, how many people were going to be staying here, and what the and my level of things are going to be written or who was going to actually sell it to potential buyers. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, Steffan Evans. Oh, you mean. As my name is. Well, my name is back. The Jovicic. And. Represent the Black Star Action Movement for self-defense. This process that we're doing with these zoning changes. Continues to be happenstance. And the time has come for us to have a process where we can really sit down city council and look at how we can get this thing done citywide. Have a plan city wide for how we do this thing as opposed to piecemeal in this thing as we go and business days as usual and things slip under. The radar screen. And in that rezoning process, what we really need to look at in terms of these comprehensive plans is the comprehensive outcome of the plan. What are we seeking to look at and how do we want these neighborhoods to look? Now we are. In a housing crisis. Yes, we are. And we cannot afford to respond to the fear of the crisis because of the expediency. Of what we're seeking to achieve, what we need. Is rezoning reprioritise in terms of how we're going to impact the crisis, especially among poor people who cannot afford to be engaged in the process. The outcome, which we would suggest we see, is to make a dent in the poverty by creating housing that poor people can own so that they have something to pass on to the next generation of homeless folks. And we're actually beginning to look at solving the problems as opposed to. Looking good, as if we're trying to solve the problem. And the truth is we're making it worse because we're never going to get to the fundamental issue that's involved, which is poverty . Poverty. That's what we have run a rapid that's what's leading to the homelessness and the 1 to 3 ABC. And we have the housing that can that's available that can be dealt with. We've got the cut to the real estate deal on the 20,000 luxury apartments that are being held for price gouging to see how far we can go with this type. And so we got to cut a deal, a win win deal. The developers get what they get. We need what we get. And now we have housing to transfer people out from outside. And we do not. I'm sorry, but your time is up. No squatter camps. Thank you very. Much. Allowable. That concludes our speakers. Are there any questions from members of council? Kathmandu tourism as of course, I was involved with a area rezoning at one time and where properties where the rezoning was being kept and the property owners were given the opportunity to opt into to the new zoning from their own specialized zoning. You know, and I keep thinking, looking at this area, too, and I think this is maybe the second property, individual property we've done with 80 years, which everybody's in favor of. I didn't know whether CBD or are you considering any kind of opportunity in an area that may be advantageous for 80 years to for property owners to opt into their zoning, whether they want to do it a view or not, but it allows them the opportunity to do that. There would be voluntary, not mandatory. Well, you know, Blueprint does talk about this on a citywide basis. But as of now, there is no initiative in CBD to do this on a wider basis. Okay. Thank you. I think it's a great opportunity for you to use. Thank you very much. Thank you. Councilman new councilman Flynn. Thank you. Hi, Theresa. Could you talk a little bit more about the justifying circumstances and citywide changes? Generally citywide? What do we look for? This is an application to allow an accessory dwelling unit on a small lot in Globeville. Right. And what is the citywide change that says, you know what that means, we should have an 80. You hear. That? It's not citywide change that this one is based on. It's based on the adoption of the. Plan. Local plan. Okay. I was just going off the presentation. That's yes. And we are recognizing. Six citywide plans, but the code does allow for adoption of a newer plan since the to 2020 ten zoning code. Okay. And this was 2014 was. 2014. Plan. Okay. The presentation also said it was met by recognizing citywide changes and I just wondered what those were. So I guess I was. Primarily. Experiencing so many citywide changes. Are real. It's a global kind of change that's occurring in the city. I just don't want to get to the point where the fact that, hey, things are changing in a city can be used to justify anything. No. All right. Thank you. That's all. Thank you. Councilman Flynn, Councilman Espinosa. Asked a similar question on a similar rezoning. Under the new adopted plans. So this parcel, this one zoned lot, will now have that ability for 80 years. It is in and it is in the growth strategy. It's in the 10% a residential capture. How is CPD looking at the they looking at citywide that 10%? So if we were to say somehow map this entire neighborhood to capture Adus and all properties were to get 80 use. That's way more than 10% for this local area. But is that if if Kevin Flynn's district also has the same yellow coloring and it's part of the 10% does that is that what balances it out or what is the general vicinity that we're working with so that we know going forward? I'm I think we've quantified the 10% that I've read in the blueprint, but I'm still reading from print, to tell you the truth. It is fairly new, but I would say that it's sort of it's a replacement for our areas of change, in our areas of stability, where we expect to see the most growth or the least growth. And the the light yellow is where we expect to see the least growth. Yeah. Because it's a relative thing. Relative term contemplated is the amount of use contemplated in the Globeville. Elyria. No, and. No. They just decided that they wanted to use in the residential portions of the neighborhood, which, if we go back to that map, is colored yellow on their map. And they decided they wanted a new concept land use, which was single family with an accessory dwelling unit for their area. So 100% saturation would be consistent with their plan. Yes. Okay. But not consistent with the. Not necessarily with blueprint. Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Espinosa. Seeing no other questions. The public hearing for comfortable 352 is closed. Other comments by any members of Council Councilman Brooks? Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President. I'll be supporting this rezoning. I think it matches right up with the plan, the global plan that we put together in 1990. Wow. In 2000. 1855 when I first came on city council in 2015 when we approved this, and this aligns with the context and with our criteria that we meet to make these decisions. But I will say this I have reason properties to make sure that they are enough to use in in guidance for affordable housing. And to answer your question, councilman, new I think blanket rezonings for a to use especially in these neighborhoods will be pretty dangerous if we're not careful to make sure that it's not an outright rezoning so folks can take advantage of, you know, just the development opportunity. But we need to figure out an incentive for affordable housing at some point. And so we've had many conversations with folks in CPD. What we're doing in the Swansea neighborhood was encouraging and incentivizing all of those units that we did with an 80. You will be use for those who have displaced because of because of I-70 and working with the global Elyria, Swansea Coalition and brother's redevelopment for those. And so it would be great if we can come together as a council CPD to come up with an incentive for affordable housing to use. Then I think I would be supportive of a blanket rezoning, I should say an overlay of global area Swansea to allow folks to go in and build out a to use. We're seeing these same things happen in the whole neighborhood and you know the rise in land value it it makes it an opportune time for an investor to come together, build a build a home and just put an edu on there without any kind of incentive to to keep it affordable. So that's just my thought on that. Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman Brooks. Councilman Neal. Yeah, I agree. I'll support this as well and I love to use it, but I agree with you. I'll talk about a voluntary. I would try to do a mandatory area rezoning. It has to be property owners opting in to from the experience I had. So I think it's an opportunity in the future and may be really studied. So thank you, Mr.. Thank you, Councilman. You seeing no other comments? Madam Secretary, roll call. Brooks I. Black Eye. Espinosa. I Flynn. Hi. Gilmore. I Herndon Cashman. I can reach Lopez. I knew, Mr. President. All right, Madam Secretary, please close the voting and note the results. 11 Nice Lebanese Council Bill 352 has passed. Guzman-Lopez Would you please put Council Bill 380 on the floor? Thank you, Mr. President. I move that council vote three zero.