A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3033 East 1st Avenue in Cherry Creek. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property located at 3033 East 1st Avenue from PUD #55 to C-CCN-8, planned unit development to Cherry Creek North zoning, in Council District 10. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 3-7-17.
Speakers will have 3 minutes and there will be no yielding of times. The important distinction there on the presentation monitor of the wall, you will see your time counting down speakers. We'll stay on the topic of hearing and must director comments to council members please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and refrain for individual or personal attacks. Kelso. I knew. Would you please put Councilor Bell to 63 on the floor? Thank you, Mr. President. I move that council bill 263 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. All right. It's been moved the second it the public hearing for council bill 263 is open. May we have the staff report? Teresa Lucero, how are you? I'm good. How are you? Great. Teresa with Sarah with community planning and development. So this is a proposed map Amendment 433, East First Avenue. The proposal is to rezone from PWD 55 to Urban Center Cherry Creek North eighth story. Oops, I didn't hit the right button. So the location is in the Council District ten in the Cherry Creek neighborhood between First Avenue and Second Avenue, between Saint Paul and Milwaukee in Cherry Creek, north, directly across from the Cherry Creek Shopping Center. Property is about two acres. It is an existing office building with mixed use parking structure. The request is to prepare the property for future redevelopment, so to rezone to that urban center. Cherry Creek North eight story. This is of a former Chapter 59 PD that was approved in 1981. It limits the amount of square feet in the on the property and limits the uses to office retail and parking and has a height limit of 126 feet. The Cherry Creek Zone districts were adopted in 2014 as part of the Urban Urban Center context, specifically intended for use in Cherry Creek North and were designed to be specifically in character with that area of the city. Again, PD, 55, is a former Chapter 59 zone district. There is a height limit on the property, a view plane, Cranmer Park view plane that limits the height on the property to 164 feet. Existing land uses office and retail. Eight story buildings existing on the property. Surrounding zoning. Cherry Creek North eight to the north to the south. B three Chapter 59 Zone District for the shopping center itself to the East Cherry Creek North five and 12, and then to the west. Another Chapter 59 PD. So when you look at the land use in the area, it is retail and office and commercial. So surrounding totally surrounding this block. These pictures give you an idea of the scale of the development in the area. The building itself is the center on top, and then on each side of the building, you see we have pretty tall buildings, up to eight storeys and. Specifically to the east and west. So the process informational notice on this went out in November of 2016. Planning Board held their hearing on in February of 2017 and unanimously recommended approval of this. And then we were at committee on March 7th. And of course, we're here tonight. There are seven different RINO's that were notified of this hearing. We did hear from the Cherry Creek Area Business Alliance a letter of support for this application. You know the criteria. Well, consistency with adopted plans, the plans that are applicable here are the current plan blueprint Denver and the Cherry Creek Area Plan, which was adopted in 2012. Current plan tells us to conserve land by promoting infill development. Encourage quality infill development. Identify areas where increased density can be accommodated. And specifically to Cherry Creek and the shopping center to. It should be our premier shopping area as it is and should be the destination for the entire Rocky Mountain area. Blueprint Denver The land use concept is regional center balancing retail employment. Residential uses attractive to patrons from the region and of course that major shopping center being the core of the area and it is an area of change. Street classifications for first Avenue mixed use arterial and an enhanced transit corridor Second Avenue, Main Street Collector and Milwaukee and Saint Paul are both on designated local streets. And there are details in your staff report about the implications of those. Cherry Creek Area plan, like I said, adopted in 2012, acknowledging that Cherry Creek needs to change and stay prosperous and must grow to change and stay prosperous that they did. Update the Blueprint Denver map, which I'll show you in just a second. And they recommended modifying our zoning regulations, which we did in 2014 with these new Cherry Creek North Zone districts. This is a picture of the area of change map that and how it changed from Blueprint Denver to the adoption of the Cherry Creek Area Plan. The block that we're talking about did remain in an area of change. Cherry Creek also has some areas when in the plan. So this is a regional center in the Cherry Creek Area plan, which is basically talks about supporting mixed use and enhanced public realm. The scale of the buildings should be between four and 12 stories and we should enact the zoning regulations that we did in 2014 to encourage the continuing redevelopment of Cherry Creek of the Cherry Creek area. So the property we're talking about is in the Cherry Creek Shopping District, same area. And it is designated a regional center in the sum in the plan. And the plan does say this this park in particular, should be stories. So with that, staff believes that this proposed MAP amendment does conform with our adopted plans, that we're furthering the public health, safety and welfare by allowing Cherry Creek to redevelop and reinvest in itself and by implementing our plans justifying circumstances. It's changed conditions that the land or surrounding environs has changed or is changing to a degree that it's in the public interest to encourage redevelopment. I think it's easy to see where Cherry Creek has continued to reinvest in itself. It's a regional center. It's an area of change. We've designated that in the most recent plan. There is ongoing redevelopment all over the Cherry Creek neighborhood, so staff believes this is the appropriate justifying circumstance for a map amendment. And so the last thing is consistency with the neighborhood context and zone district, purpose and intent. The urban center and neighborhood context sort of speaks Cherry Creek's it's multi-unit residential mixed use commercial located located on Main Streets and mixed use arterials building heights moderate to high and the CN8 zoned district itself was written for Cherry Creek North to promote that mixed use shopping area pedestrian oriented development. So staff believes that this criteria is also met by the rezoning and staff recommends approval. All right. Thank you, Teresa. We have two speakers this evening. I'm going to call them both up. Bob Martucci. And Blake Murray. Sorry for mispronouncing your last name. My name? My name is Bob Bertucci, and I'm the executive vice president of Realty Management Group. And I manage the this block and the block to the west of US Filmore place. And the reason we're here tonight is to rezone this property. But I wanted to say that it's really a reinvestment in our property driven by reducing our energy footprint of our building. So in regards to your proclamation today, we're actually making investments to do exactly that, which is to reduce the amount of energy we use in our buildings and to improve the overall performance and how we're doing that. The catalyst for this building was to replace all of the glass in the building. Yes. Excuse me. Excuse me. Can you have a seat, please? No, we are going to. Fine. Excuse me. Excuse me. You're interrupting. You're interrupting. You are. We are. Okay. So we have public comment. Once a month, you can come here and have and have a conversation. Why? Okay. So wait a minute. So here you are, a politician with 20,196. You can. You can leave them right there. Which you took. And they immediately said. Okay. There's that one. A petition with 25,695 signatures on it. Got it. Thank you. 602 from Denver. If you don't want to. Go with her, we can do that. Thank you. Felix. Have a great night. Goodbye and shame. So, Ms.. Mr. Martucci, I apologize. I apologize for interrupting. You. There. Go ahead. Okay. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Thank you, sir. It is interesting. You have it's great. You have 2 minutes. Of your time. Support the staff so you can call the president of your state to cover themselves. You have been busy. Scuse me. We have. We. We have. We have your petitions. If you could please leave. That'd be great. I now this. Okay. Please. Thank you. Keep on fighting their way more than you have any of these issues. That's a very conservative trend to address. Thank you. Anyway, our catalyst was that these buildings were built in 1982 for a period of time where energy was cheap and there weren't considerations about pollution and contamination of our glass. Probably let's more heat in in the summer than it lets out in the wintertime. It's very inefficient. So we're replacing all the glass in the building, all the seals we've replaced, the boilers, we've put all LED lighting in the building in the first phase and we're re cladding the entire building. The second phase is to redo our parking garage to remove our old boilers chillers. All of those things put in heat pumps and to improve our energy efficiency along with our are architectural renovations of the building. So we believe that we want to reinvest in our properties. We want to keep them modern, efficient and well received by the community. So we appreciate you taking the time to look at our our approval process to rezone our building. And we would hope that you would do that. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Martucci. Blake Maurer said better. That's not bad. I'm Blake Mauer. Mauer. I'm the architect here to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mauer. All right. Questions for members of council. All right, CNN. We're going to the comment section. Councilman, no. All right. Well, we're really proud of all that velvet's going on. And you're a great guy. We just got to live through it for the next two years. But this is going to be just spectacular, which is complete. And Marvin Tucci is a great business leader. His boss, Nordstrom, great business leader, Cherry Creek, and are doing a great job helping revitalize and and upgrade. Cherry Creek is going to be a gorgeous site when it's finished. So we're looking forward to seeing Bob's Hibachi will be the first building that really all will be complete on that east side of Cherry Creek and will be a sort of a good model for all the buildings that are coming. So is I think I said to my councilman, we had about 12 projects completed since 2013 and we've got actually 12 projects underway in Cherry Creek right now. So it's quite a change for Cherry Creek and is going to be something in the next two years. When we did the zoning process. Bob was one of our community leaders that helped with the zoning process and the planning process, and we predicted two and a half million square feet of new construction coming to Cherry Creek in the next ten years. So it's on the way right now, there's no question about that. So I'm really proud of the work that Bob does and what's this building is going to do. This is an opioid and it converting to the the standard zoning for Cherry Creek which is Cherry Creek each year agreed north A So I recommend approval for our colleagues and I think you'll be pleased when you see what's happening at your creek when we finish. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman knew I failed to mention that council bill 263 is closed. So sorry about that. Any other comments by members of council seeing? None. Madam Secretary. Rocco. New Ortega. Guy Sussman. Black. Clark. Espinosa Gilmore. Herndon. Cashman. Kinney. Lopez. Hi. Mr. President. I please close voting, announce the results. Sorry. It's not taking all the votes. Here we go. 12 eyes. Yep. 12 eyes can smell. 263 has passed. Congratulations. Thank you. Councilman, who will you please put council bill 324 on the floor?