Approves a rezoning of 5141 Chambers Road from PUD #561 to S-CC-3 in Council District 11.  (LAND USE TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE) Approves a rezoning of 5141 Chambers Road from PUD #561 to Suburban Commercial Corridor three stories (S-CC-3) in Council District 11.  A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD AT LEAST FOUR WEEKS AFTER PUBLICATION. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 5-6-14.
Yes, ma'am. Check one. Yeah. Yes, Madam President. I put Council Bill 371 on the floor to be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Okay. It's been moved and seconded. Public hearing for Council Bill 371 is open. Mr. Nelly with this report. All right, Stephen, Ali, once again, CPD, this is an official zone map amendment at 5141 North Chambers Road. The proposal is to rezone from 561 to SCC three. This is a legislative rezoning process. This may look familiar to you all. Back in February, you did initiate the motion and adopt a resolution to rezone this site. We you charged or directed CPD to come up with the zone district and process of rezoning as if this was applicant driven. And we have done that. Went to a planning board on April 16th where the planning board unanimously recommended approval to Ludie on the 6th of May. Your council on the 13th. First reading on the 19th. Then we're here tonight. Public outreach notification was sent to Arnaud's. Throughout the process, signs were posted on the property for planning board and for this public hearing. And because this was a legislative rezoning, we did do a direct mailing to all affected property owners. And an example or a sample of that letter is in your packet but went to one of the property owners. So this rezoning is in East Denver in Council District 11, located in the Montebello neighborhood, getting down on to the site. It's on the corner of Gateway Avenue and Chambers Road. It's over 14 acres. There are five property owners on the site. The proposal is to rezone from Denver 561 to seek three SCC three as a suburban commercial corridor, allowing up to three stories zone district. The property 561 was adopted in 2004. That PD replaced PD 370, which was originally adopted in 1993. And the reason for that change in 2004 was just to allow one use which was appropriate on the site and in order to have the site evolve over time. It doesn't seem appropriate to rezone the site every time a new user comes in. Dispute is broken up into multiple sub areas. One of those sub areas allows basically two uses and rezoning to SCC. Three would have a consistent useless across the entire site. So the existing context zoning in the surrounding area is former Chapter 59, R one and R two. Those are low density residential zoned districts. Both have a weaver's and it's surrounded also by. So the building form and scale is consistent with the general and the urban house. Suburban house zoning forms in the zoning code heights range from 1 to 2 stories. These are very large setbacks that you would find in the suburban context. Typically, there's parking between the primary structure and the street. Here's an existing land use map. As you can see, it's commercial and retail on the site, surrounded by single family homes. And then across chambers is more commercial and retail. So top left is a photo of the site. Top right is the first left photos from Gateway Avenue. The photo on the right is from Chambers Road and then the photo on the bottom left is the surrounding single family. So because this is a legislative rezoning, there are only three review criteria. First is consistency with adopted plans for plans that apply to the site complete in 2000. Again, promoting infill development and mixed use communities. Blueprint Denver The land use concept is neighborhood center, and the goal of that land use concept is to serve the many every day shopping service or entertainment needs of one or more neighborhoods. A mix of land uses includes those for convenience, shopping, personal services and restaurants. As you see for FCC three excuse me, will accommodate those uses. This is an area of stability, and a goal is to maintain the character of that of that area, but still accommodating some new development and redevelopment. And SCC three will maintain that character and allow some development, some new development to occur over time. Features Classifications. Gateway is a residential collector and Chambers is a residential arterial. The Gateway Concept Plan was adopted in 1990 and it calls this site out as that should be neighborhood retail parks, open space and a town center. De Montebello Green Valley Ranch neighborhood plan adopted in 1991, also calls this site out as a as the chambers. Place shopping center or town square. So CBD finds rezoning is consistent with adopted plans. CBD finds the development of the subject site under ac3. Zoning will result in the uniform application of zoned district building, form, use and design regulations and CBD finds it will further the public health, safety and welfare of the city through the implementation of the city's adaptive plan. So based on the criteria for review, CBD recommends approval. Thank you very much personally. There are no speakers signed up for this bill. Are there questions by counsel? And seeing now, I'm going to close the hearing and ask for comments by members of council. Councilman Herndon, did you want to make comment? I did. Thank you, Madam President. Steve did a great job of explaining this and communities such as Mom Bell, established communities. We do want to bring businesses to those communities and it would help if the zoning was less restrictive. And in this case, this is a perfect example where we can do that, maintain the integrity of the neighborhood, as well as bring possibility for more opportunities in the community. So I would certainly encourage my colleagues to support this. Thank you, Councilman Herndon. And seeing no other comments, madam secretary. Raquel Herndon. I can eat lemon lopez. Hi, Monteiro. Nevitt. I got robbed by Shepard Brooks. Hi, Brown. Hi. Hi, Madam President. I am Councilman Brooks. Councilman Brooks. He got it. Oh, he did it. Oh, good. Sorry. I'm looking at you and not my screen. So sorry. Madam Secretary, close of voting. Announced results. 13, nine, 13 eyes. The zoning is passed. Okay, we move on to the next hearing. Councilman Brooks, will you please put Council Bill 398 on the floor? Yes, Madam President, I put Council Bill 398 on the floor and be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you.