Approves the rezoning of 12 South Garfield Street from PUD #583 to G-RH-3 in Council District 10.   (LAND USE TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE) Approves the rezoning of 12 South Garfield Street from PUD #583 with waivers to G-RH-3 in Council District 10.   The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 3-25-14.
Thank you, Madam President. I know the Council Bill 199 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you very much. It has been moved and seconded. The public hearing for Council Bill 199 is open and will open with the staff report. Madam President, Councilor David Jaspers with Community Planning and Development with a MAP amendment to change the zoning at 12 South Garfield Street. This is in Council District Number ten in the Cherry Creek neighborhood in specific Cherry Creek East. If we zoom into the lot here, it's a vacant lot on the southeast corner of Ellsworth Avenue and Garfield Street. First Avenue, just a block to the north called Rado Boulevard is just a few blocks to the east of this location. Here's a quick snapshot looking towards the southeast on the lot. It is just over 12,000 square feet in size. No structures on it, of course. The property owner, Mag Builders, Representatives Mike and Kim Molnar are here tonight and we're looking to rezone this lot from the existing pretty number 583 to grh3 as the general urban neighborhood context row house with three stories as the maximum height. The existing PD 583 was approved back in 2005. Very specific PWD either allowed a four unit rowhouse, essentially one structure, four units. The G RH three would allow two duplexes. Still four units. Just two structures. It's surrounded by pods. There is g, rh three in the neighborhood as well as being adjacent to the southeast. It is generally rowhouses and townhouses all around this property. The nearest single family is on the block on the Jacksons street facing. There's a on the row house and surrounding it. I have a few visuals here to give you an idea of the scale and context generally 2 to 3 stories in the heights, looking to the northwest and south. And this is just across the alley to the east on the Jackson Street side of the block. Planning board unanimously approved this in March. Went from bloody off in March. And we're here tonight for the public hearing typical public outreach process. The Cherry Creek East Association did provide a letter of support, as well as an adjacent property owner, sending an email letter of support for approving this rezoning. We looked at the review criteria and focused on the consistency of adopted plans. There's multiple strategies in the plan that show this is consistent with a composite plan. 2000 Blueprint Denver. The land use concept is urban residential. It is an area of stability, but it is a vacant lot. The streets are designated as local streets, which are appropriate for residential uses. More recently, the Cherry Creek Area Plan gives us a little more detail in the Cherry Creek East section of that plan. There's a three story building height maximum. It has a specific recommendation to rezone old pods when possible and to respect the existing scale. The neighborhood, the G RH three would do all three of those recommendations. So we do find consistency with adopted plans. As I mentioned, there is a grade three in the neighborhood with similar building forms, so there is uniformity of district regulations . Filling in the vacant lot helps further public health, safety and welfare. Improving the walkability neighborhood. The changing, changing conditions. There's a adopted plan that does recommend redevelopment of the area, and it is consistent with neighborhood context. The zone district purpose intent of the zoning code. With that, CPD does recommend approval based on meeting all the review criteria. Thank you, Mr. Jaspers. Appreciate that. I'm going to call up Michael Moylan. Do we do that on purpose? Good evening, Madam President and Council. I am the representative mag of the property and mag builders. I'm here to answer any questions you may have. Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Moyle. Sorry it gave you such a shock. SACU. Yeah. Germans say Ku Klux Klan movement. Advocate for working poor and homeless people. We support the zoning change for a couple of reasons. Although not required by law. When these units are made available and because they're under that ceiling of 29 where they have to include affordable housing, we decided that that is not acceptable and that at every turn we, the poor or the homeless, must come together and enroll folks into this process. But even if it's three units. How about consider us have one? Because one more or less makes us one more greater of a city. And so we don't want you to be limited by the law, but to speak about a more moral authority of how we have to reach out and help those that got caught up and need to help. Help. And so as we go through this process, we would like to encourage you to consider the opportunities that may be available for you to assist in this process so that we can lighten up the load, take a lot of politics out of this deal, and just go on and do the right thing for the right reason, because this really ain't all this and we can make this happen. But we've got to start working from the bottom up because I'm not a leader, I'm just a shipbuilder. And we got holes in this boat and this boat is sinking and we're all on it together. And only when we come together can we rebuild a boat. A ship where we can put a leader in front of this thing and hopefully we can sail on home with it. And then the true idea of what home is can maybe come to fruition, because maybe that's a place where just a lot of love overflowing. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Sekou. Questions from counsel. Do I have any questions? And seeing none. I know there's one councilman. Never. Thank you. I just had a question that may be on everybody's mind is how did you manage to find a vacant lot in Cherry Creek? I mean, are there more than one, really? Okay. Did you did you want that answer to that? A rhetorical councilwoman Robb is nodding. There is more. Answer in comment. All right. Go right ahead. Oh, well, I was going to wait to my comments, but yes, there are vacant lots, some some of them old pads that haven't been developed. I'm sure there's probably an opportunity there for you, Councilman Nevett. And amazingly, the district with the boom that we've seen in higher buildings, in the commercial buildings, there are a number of new row and single family houses going up. If you drive around over there, sort of surprises me. Wow. Okay. With that, close the public hearing and ask for comments. Councilwoman Robb. Well, you are quick. I didn't even click in yet. I knew I. Was. Well, I will be supporting this tonight as the letters in the packet indicate. This has been vetted with the neighborhood. There were concerns about drainage and landscaping in meg builders worked with the neighborhood on this. And then my my side note is as many of my colleagues know, they're in Cherry Creek East, which is just east of the mall rather than north of the ball. There are a number of puddles because a previous plan had a long list of design guidelines. In fact, a separate document was created, but they were never really passed by planning board. So the neighborhood advocated for Pwds to make sure that design guidelines were met. Those design guidelines are still really important to the neighborhood, but as you can see, you have a project here going from four units to four units and you can see the awkwardness of a pad that is so specific it tells how the units are to be attached. So in this case, it's good news. They were able to move into 2014 zoning based on our 2010 new zoning code and I'm will be supporting it. Thank you, Councilman Robb and I don't see any other comment. So, Madam Secretary, roll call. Rob. Hi. Brooks Hi. Brown Hi. But I can eat lemon. Lopez All right. Monteiro Nevett, I. Madam President, hi. And Secretary close voting, not the results tonight. Ten Eyes. The zoning is passed. On Monday, May 12th, Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 365, naming the city on building. Located at 2855 Tremont Place, the Elba M Wedgeworth Municipal Building on June 2nd, 2014. Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 304, changing the zoning classification of 2000 East 28th Avenue and a required public hearing on Council Bill 305. Changing the Zoning Classification for 3600 East Alameda Avenue 319 South Garfield Street, 301 South Garfield Street and 314 South Monroe Street. Any protests against Council Bill three or four are Council Bill 305 must be filed with the Council offices no later than noon on Tuesday, May 27th, 2014. Seeing no other business for this body. This meeting is adjourned to tomorrow. Denver 82 New York City. Your source Denver eight on TV and online to stay connected to your community. Your city. Your source.