A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 5061 Perry Street in Regis. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-C to U-SU-C1 (allows an accessory dwelling unit), located at 5061 Perry Street in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-9-20.
Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Councilmember Herndon, will you please put Council Bill 520 on the floor for passage? Yes, Madam President, I move that council build 200520b placed upon final consideration and due pass. Thank you. It has been moved. Can I get a second? Again. Thank you, Councilwoman Sawyer. The required public hearing for council bill 20 dash 0520 is open. May we have the staff report? Let me see here. Tonight Council has received one written comment on Council Bill 520. There is one submitted comment in favor of the application and no submitted comments in opposition of the application. All members of Council that are present have certified that they have read each of the submitted written comments. Do members need more time in order to read all of the written testimony that was submitted? Doing a. Quick. Quick scan of folks. It looks like we don't see none. Council secretary let the record reflect that all written testimony both in favor and in opposition of Council Bill 520 have been read by each member of council and all written testimony will be submitted to the official record of the hearing. We have no speaker signed up on 520 and so we'll go ahead and proceed with the staff report, please. Good afternoon. Can you hear me? And you can see my presentation. Yes. Thank you. Good afternoon. Members of the city council. My name is Frank Benefield and I'm an associate city planner with community planning and Development. I am here today to present an overview of my amendment 5061 very strict. Subject property is located in Council District one. There are just neighborhoods. The property is located north of I-70, along Perry Street, south of First Avenue. It's approximately 9370 square feet. And it it is currently occupied by a single unit residence. The property is currently in the urban single unit, Keystone District, and the applicant is proposing to rezone to urban single unit C1 to allow for an accessory dwelling unit. The USOC, one allows for the Urban House and the detached accessory dwelling unit building sports. The maximum height for a house is 30 to 35 feet and 24 feet for the detached 82. The existing zoning is urban single unit C, which allows for a minimum standard size of 5500 square feet. Most of the surrounding properties are also shown you, as you see. So it's occupied by a single unit, resident residence, as mentioned, and it's surrounded by mostly other single unit residences. This slide shows the existing area with the site of the proposed rezoning on the top. Right, and just some images to show the residential character of the neighborhood on the bottom right, on left. Speaking of the process and informational notice of the application was sent in mid-January 2020. Notice a planning board was sent on May 4th. A notice of public hearing was sent on June 29 and the property was properly noticed. Planning board recommended approval on May 20th and as a result, no comments have been received by the public or registered neighborhood organizations. The Denver zoning code has five review criteria, which I will go over. The first criteria is consistency with adopted plans. There are three plans applicable to lease rezoning. The first one is comprehensive plan 2040. The second one is Blueprint Denver, and the third one is housing and inclusive Denver. The rezoning is consistent with several of the strategies in Comprehensive Plan 2040, but I will just go over a couple of them. This MAP amendment will promote equity by creating a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood, and it will lead to an environmentally resilient Denver by promoting infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place. Now, do you think? The subject property is mapped as part of the urban neighborhood context. The context is described as containing small, multi-unit, residential and mixed use areas that are typically embedded in one unit and two unit residential areas. BLOCK buttons are generally regular with a mix of early access, and they have been described as having a high degree of walkability , likability and good access to transit with less reliance on cars. The future places map designates the subject property as low residential place. This place type has predominantly single and two unit uses, and accessory dwelling units are appropriate. Berry Street is designated as a local street, which is mostly characterized by residential uses. The growth area in bloom in Denver is all other areas of the city. These areas are anticipated to see a 10% employment growth and 20% health growth by 2040. Lupron also includes specific policy recommendations. Housing policy number four talks about diversifying housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. Housing an inclusive Denver encourages expanding the development of accessory dwelling units, doing something device affordable and mixed use housing and as a wealth building tool for low and moderate income homeowners. Therefore, the proposed rezoning is consistent with the recommendations of the Comprehensive Plan Blueprint Denver and Housing and Inclusive Denver because it will expand housing options and allow the development of an accessory dwelling unit. Stuff also finds that their request signing meets the next two criteria. The rezoning will result in uniformity of district regulations, and it will further the public health, safety and welfare, primarily through its implementation of adopted plans. Stuff does find that there is a justified circumstance for this MAP amendment, with the newly adopted vision for accessory dwelling units in all residential areas of Denver. Lastly, the proposed zoning is consistent with urban neighborhood context, residential district and the intent of the USOC one district. Stuff does work. I'm in approval. Based on finding all review criteria has been met and that concludes that presentation. All right. Very good, Fran. Thank you for that. Questions from members of council. See here. All right. Councilman Flynn. Madam President. Fran, good to see you again. Does the does this zone district define where the ADU goes on the lot? You said this would be a detached ADU. Does this designation also allow an attached ADU? So this particular one would be a deep touch to you because the owner wants to build it on top of the garage. So this would be a detached one, but it could be attached. It could be like if you wanted to. Like the rezoning doesn't specify if it needs to be detached to attach, so it could be potentially detached. Oh, okay. So the zoned as the zoned district itself doesn't differentiate between attached and detached. It either could be done here under this. Yes, in this case. Okay. Thank you. That's all I have. Madam President, thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. Seen no other questions? The public hearing for Council Bill 20 dash 0520 is closed. Comments by members of Council Councilmember Sandoval. Thank you. Madam President, as my colleagues know, we're getting a lot of bees in northwest Denver. And my office has a standard policy where we talk to the applicant. We have them reach out to the registered neighborhood organization and build their case. Do so. My colleagues know a lot of my registered neighborhood organizations are not taking the positions on accessory dwelling units. So this neighborhood is represented by Berkeley, Regis, United Neighbors, which is the predominant R.A. in that neighborhood. And they have decided not to take any positions on an avenue. And so I will mention that as these come forward in each neighborhood, that does not take a position, because I think that's important, because I really do do my best to get letters of support or opposition from an R.A. and from neighbors. I don't live far from here. It's a great little area. This is near Regis University. I think an accessory dwelling unit would be welcome in this area to help some of the housing, as are the students who attend Regis without having to change the density of that, a single family established neighborhood. So with that, I would ask that all my colleagues support this application. Thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman Sandoval. Seen no one else in the queue? Madam Secretary, roll call. In. I. Sawyer. I. Taurus. I. Black. Hi. CdeBaca. I. All right. When I. Heard it. I. I. Ashlan. I. Can I? Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 12 eyes. 12 eyes. Council Bill 520 has passed. Councilman Herndon, would you please put Council Bill 524.