A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 4150 N. Elati St. Rezones property located at 4150 North Elati Street from I-A, UO-1 to C-RX-12 (rezones light industrial/residential to urban mixed-use residential with a twelve story height limit), in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 8-30-16.
11 eyes. We keep looking at councilman lopez. 11 Eyes Council Bill 624 has passed. Congratulations. Good work, guys. All right, Councilwoman Black, the last bill. Can you please put it on council? Bill 752 on the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that council bill 752 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved in, seconded the public hearing for council bill 752 is open. Sarah White. Can we please have the staff report? Good evening. I'm Sarah Waite with Community Planning and Development. Here to present staff report four 4150 Melody Street. On slide two, you can see that we are located in District nine. Slide three, you can see we are in the Globeville statistical neighborhood. Slide four details. The request that we have here, the property is just under 70,000 square feet and they are requesting a rezoning to potentially in the future redevelop the site for multi-family housing units and to better align it with the adopted plans in place. The request is to rezone from IAU oh two to C-Max 12 or x 12. I'm sorry, that's incorrect. On the slide, slide five, the requested zone district is c x 12. In the urban center neighborhood context. It is a residential mixed use district with commercial uses limited to the ground storey with a maximum height of 12 storeys . The surrounding zoning in the area immediately to the northwest and south of the site is all IAU oh two. We do have some CRM ex 20 directly to the east and then a little further west towards the station. We have some pieces that have already been re zoned into TMX and CMC zone districts. The surrounding land use is primarily industrial, currently with a mix of multifamily and single family scattered around. Slide eight shows just some of the examples of the context in the area. It's really mixed. We have some three storey newer multifamily. We do have some low scale single family in the area, as well as some one and two story residential or industrial. I'm sorry. There were several are and I was notified during this process and the planning board moved on their consent agenda to recommend approval, as well as the committee decided to move this forward on the August 30th agenda. And we have had no public comments. The five zoning criteria are applicable here. We have several plans in place, including Comprehensive Plan 2000, Blueprint, Denver 41st and Fox Stationary Plan and the Globeville Neighborhood Plan. On Slide 13, we have several of the principles from comp plan 2000 that are applicable to this rezoning request. Those are detailed further in your staff report, but they're mostly related to infill development. Slide 14, we can see the Blueprint Denver recommendations for this area. This site is recommended for urban residential and it is an area of change. Slide 15, we can see the land use recommendations from the 41st and Fox station area plan. Again, we have a recommendation of urban residential and a recommended building height of 2 to 12 stories. Then Slide 16, we have the recommendations from the Globeville Neighborhood Plan, which reinforce the recommendations from the 41st and Fox station area plan. Again, we have urban residential area of change. And on Slide 17, you can see the height recommendations from the Globeville neighborhood plan with a maximum recommended building height of 12 storeys. So the rezoning request is consistent with all three of these plans. In relation to the uniformity of district regulations. This would consist of a uniform application of the Sierra Zone District and for the public health, safety and welfare through the implementation of adapted land use plans. The justifying circumstances for this request is that the land or its surrounding environs has changed. We have several areas of change here. We've got the 41st and Fox commuter rail station scheduled to open later this year. The proposed redevelopment in the area signals the change in the surrounding environment to the 2D context, and the current zoning of IOTA does not reflect the city's adopted vision reinforced in all of the small area plans. And then the consistency with neighborhood context and urban center neighborhood context is consistent in this area, and the Sierra Zone District does promote a safe and active, pedestrian, skilled, diverse area that we'd like to see in the TODDI and the Sierra. X12 applies to residentially dominated areas where 2 to 12 storeys is desired. So given that all five criteria have been met, CPD recommends approval. Wow. That was really good. Okay, so presentation is over. We have one speaker. Keith Hurley. You have 3 minutes. Thanks for being here. Good evening, counsel. I'm glad I'm the last one. I'm here to answer questions, but I do have a few. Comments, if I could. If they would. Please go ahead. I would just like to. Know that. I've been trying to I would love to stay there. But to get a permit to. Expand my building to accommodate our growth would be near impossible. Given the permitting circumstances in the in the city. I've been trying for ten months to get a permit to just. Build a. Break room and a bathroom for my employees. And I still don't have a permit. And the pot shop across the. Street thrives while we struggle to accommodate a growth. So I think it's best that we move out of our current location. And I just would like to. Get my frustration on. Just trying to expand, add people to my small manufacturer, and I think it's best that we move from that location. Okay. Thank you. All right. This concludes our speakers. Are there any questions for members of council? And I have one just to. Keith, can you can you come up? You are the tenant or the you own? I own the building. And my my I. Also my company operates a building. We are a small manufacturer of signs and lighting. Okay, great. And so you are you plan to move, but you want to you want to sell this property eventually, or will you be the developer? No, I'd like to sell the plant the property to an apartment developer. It's a it's a great location. We're one block from the light rail station with views of downtown. It's it's better suited for multifamily. Is is the sale of the property contingent on this rezoning. Yes, sir. All right, Councilwoman Ortega. I want to ask a question, and I'm sorry I didn't get your name first. Sarah. Go ahead, Sarah. Sarah, we've done a number of very high density rezonings in this area. And I want to know what kind of look is CPD taking when we look at the aggregate of the density that will be in this area, knowing that there is primarily one road into this site where we're going to see some serious traffic problems once all that development occurs, assuming it builds out to what has been proposed in all the rezone applications that have been brought to council. Sure. And I can't speak to any specifics on this site other than, you know, we do have a few small area plans in place that speak to recommendations generally of connections. Any time that we have development at a site development plan level, it's referred to all of the applicable agencies. So I really can't speak to it much more than that. You know, this is what the plans that were adopted by the neighborhoods call for here, this density. So so I guess I just want to draw this to the attention of my colleagues, because in this particular location, once we start seeing all of these proposed developments that we've already approved rezonings for, begin to move in. We're going to be expected to play some role in, I don't know, either white ministry, and I'm not sure how much the zones are taking into account that need that will exist into the near future. But again, with Box Street being the primary access point into this area, I don't see people going all the way around and coming in through the Globeville neighborhood unless they happen to be coming from the east side of town to get there. But really, from council on the downtown, that's the primary area. So I'm just raising that as a red flag that we need to be thinking about not only in this area, but where we're significantly increasing the density and we're wanting to ensure that the infrastructure is adequately employees to accommodate what we keep allowing to occur as higher density coming into these areas. Yeah. And if I may, I know that there have been some discussions related to the Fox home development about some additional access points to the neighborhood. It's a little further off and I don't know a lot of specifics about it, but there is that discussion happening as well. Thank you. Great. Any other questions for members of council? Actually, I have a question for Councilman Espinosa. Real quick, Councilman Espinosa. So I'm on the neighborhoods tonight. And one of the neighborhoods that this CPD made the developer reach out to is North Highlands. Do you believe that North Highlands, since you represent them, are concerned about this rezoning? Essentially, yes. To the point that Councilwoman Ortega was making in that the 38th Avenue underpass is our only connection from the north part of North Highlands and all of the sunny side to downtown. And it is now a odd intersection with Fox Street, which is the lone point of access to the South from this whole area. And so if we want to encourage my own constituents to access 41st and Fox, we don't have adequate we don't have any surface parking or anything on on on my side west of anchor. But we do have all that surface parking and whatnot that RTD put in there. So it's a very we're doing this thing in a very discombobulated way. And so I do think that if we're thinking in a sort of micro regional level, then yeah, both Sunnyside and Highlands would be concerned about that future. They didn't I didn't see them comment on that. No. I will be honest. I think they like being informed, but you won't see them comment because it's outside of their statistical neighborhood boundaries. Thank you for saying that right there. I will talk about that in my comments. Okay. This this concludes the comments for members of council. Public hearing of council bill 752 is now closed. I'll call on myself this be in my district. Representative. First of all, sir, apologize that you are experiencing those long waits for your permits. We are working. I can tell you, this whole council cares about efficiencies in our permitting department and we are subcontracting out. We are hiring new folks to deal with the demand that's going on. And so just apologize that your business isn't able to do. We hope sincerely that you stay in Denver. Denver is a great city and we would love to work with you in the future. I'll just say I'm going to be supporting this because it's consistent with the neighborhood plan that freshly has just been done 18 months ago . I do raise the same concern as my colleague Councilwoman Woman Ortega. I don't think we have adequately thought about access points out of the neighborhood. It's one way and one way out, but we really have to put a lot of thought in that. And I think it's Crissy thing and allow Brad Buchanan and all the folks need to get together and we need to have a real conversation about that. To my third point, I do not know why we're notifying neighborhoods to neighborhoods away, especially active neighborhoods that I know if they had an issue, they would be commenting immediately. And so point taken on the 38th underpass because that is a contention point. But I would love someone on this council to take on the registered neighborhood conversation and just make sure that we have good, vibrant neighborhoods and that the reach out point isn't all the way across the city or 15 blocks away of folks who don't care about the particular development. I think it I think it's inefficient. So I will be supporting this. I'm just commenting. Okay. Any other members of council want to make a comment? My goodness. It is 8:00. Three public hearings. Well done, everyone. It has been moved the second it. Madam Secretary Brokaw. Black eye, Clark. All right, Espinosa. Hi, Flynn. Hi. Gilmore. I, Catherine. All right. Can each new Ortega assessment? Mr. President. I please close the voting and announce results. Mr. President. Yes. They're not going back there. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Yeah. Please call the voting results. 11 eyes. 11 eyes down to Bill 752 has passed. Congratulations, sir. There is no pre adjournment announcement except that I'm disappointed in my Colorado buff alumni up here. This man still doesn't have a hat. See no other business for this body.