Rezones 3268 West 32nd Avenue from U-SU-A to U-MS-2x in Council District 1. (NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLANNING) Rezones 3268 West 32nd Avenue from U-SU-A (Urban, Single Unit, 3,000 sq. ft. minimum lot size) to U-MS-2x (Urban, Main Street, 2 stories less intense use) in Council District 1. IF ORDERED PUBLISHED, A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON THIS ITEM.  REFER TO THE "PENDING" SECTION OF THE FUTURE COUNCIL MEETING AGENDAS FOR THE DATE. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 9-16-15.
Thank you. It has. Madam Secretary, please announce the results. 1212 by 625 has been taken out of order. All right, so 625 is up. Councilman Cashman, will you please put Council Bill 625 on the floor? Thank you, Mr. President. I move the council bill 625 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. All right. We're going to wait for the technology to. It has been moved and seconded. I have an amendment. The purpose of this amendment is to acknowledge that the applicant requested the City Council to modify the original zoning request to reduce the size of the proposed you must to X rezoning area. The request was made after the mediation process did not reach a resolution. A modification request after hearing has been scheduled is allowed under section 12 .3.3. ten of the Denver zoning code and requires a vote by council to take effect. So I move that Councilor Bill 625 be amended in the following particulars on page one, strike lines 25 through 27 and insert quotations on page one. Strike the language stated in lines 25, 26 and 27, and replace with the following language. Lot seven and eight. Lot six, except the E 16 feet thereof, said exceptions conveyed to the city and county of Denver for alley purposes. BLOCK 30. Highland Park. City and County of Denver. State of Colorado. It has been moved in second hand, starting with comments. I will just say I'm first Councilwoman Sussman, the committee chair of the Neighborhood and Planning Committee was unable to be here and asked that I make this motion for her just so that we can get the conversation first about the modification. If there was someone from community planning, Bauman can just give a brief overview of what this modification does so that for those that didn't understand all the language that I just said, could a just briefly overview and then we'll go into other comments. Thank you. Certainly. Good evening, Tim Watkins, community planning Development Case Manager for this rezoning application 2014 833 This is if we could get this visual up on the monitors for council members as well as the public, please. Okay. So this. Is a visual. Of the current application and you can see light six, seven. Eight and nine. And the proposal. The requested modification is to reduce that area, which shows that 31,000 164 square feet. Two lots, six, seven and eight. To the adjusted area of 2026. 70 square feet. Perfect. Thank you. That's all the questions I have. Comments. Questions. Members of Council Councilman Espinosa Earp. I don't know if this is a question for Tim or we should get the actual applicant, but I would like to know, does this actually change? So there's been a lot of discussion about an actual proposed building for an urgent care facility. Does this actually change anything at all about the struct, the size of the structure that that they're proposing to put there? I would defer to the applicant if you'd like to call me. Yeah, sure. Thank you. Council President Herndon and members of council. My name is Cindy Kraft. I do the communications and community engagement for the mayor's team. I'm joined tonight by Dave Hagan, our developer partner, and Keith Bushtucker, who is a longtime time church member, as well as the volunteer property board manager for the church and the All New North who was acting as the volunteer church president at the time. We submitted our application. Ask the question, does it change the size of the structure proposed? Well, what I'm going to say to that, Councilman Espinosa, is that we, based on feedback that we heard, including from you. Yes. Or decided decided to shrink the lot size. We invested initially in this in this process. We really went above and beyond in trying to provide a lot of information about what we were hoping to build . Things that aren't part of the rezoning process, like the size of the building is actually not part of the criteria for rezoning. But we an effort to try to provide as much information as possible put a lot of thought into what we hoped to do and provided a lot of information about things like the size of the building. We were thinking of building, the hours of operation, what the building would look like, etc., etc. And all of that information was helpful to many members of the community who supported the project and who have sent you letters. But of course, for a core group of opponents, providing that information was not helpful. So now that we've made the decision to shrink the lot significantly, we've decided that we're just going to kind of keep things simple, which is to keep things focused on the criteria for rezoning, which is the size of the lot, and the UMC two X designation that we're going for, which is the most restrictive commercial designation in the code. The building size is something that's determined in a process following rezoning, and we're committed to working with a site engineer as well as development services to design a building that is appropriate for this new, smaller lot and want to go through it with all of the same approvals and permitting and all those things that have to do. But since the size of the building is not a criteria for rezoning, we're just going to keep it simple and talk about the lot. Tim So the proposal at some point, it's been varied from 23 to 28000 square feet. Could you build a 23,000 square foot structure on the on the remaining parcel on the remaining zone lot in the you too you 2xumx2x that would be subject to site plan review. And administrative. Review and whatever the proposed uses are in the building, the parking requirements and whether or not the on site parking parking required. So is there a configuration that you can build actually in excess of 23,000 square feet? I don't know. Wow. Okay. All right. Site plan to be determined what the size of the building would be based on the proposed uses. So we just are developing for three and a half block parcels with no proposed use. One zone lot comprised of three surveyor. Lots six, seven and eight. And there could be an variety of uses as allowed under UMC to X part of nine or not. It looks like 16 feet of there was a part of lot six would be reduced by 16 feet to dedicate to the alley. All right. Thank you. All right. Colleagues, my screen went out, so I had to log in. Was there anyone else that had chimed in for a question or comment? I apologize for that. No. No. Right. Any other comments or questions on Councilwoman Ortega? So I guess I'm trying to understand the reason for. The. The proposed amendment. And the reasoning for proposing to shrink the size of the application. I mean, typically this stuff is not done on the floor. Typically it's done where, you know, it gets worked out before it comes to city council or it's sent back to be worked out. Correct. So I don't I don't understand the the rationale for why this has been brought forward as an amendment. So, Councilman Herndon, you're doing this on behalf of Councilwoman Sussman. I know this is not her district, but I just didn't understand that. Well, who the applicant is the one that requested. So we can certainly allow them the opportunity. Thank you so much for your question, Councilman Ortega. So as Councilman Herndon had mentioned, we were in mediation and of course, we can't discuss anything that happened in mediation. However, the mediation officially terminated Friday at noon on October 23rd. And at that point, the mayor's team kind of regrouped. And we we did feel that we had a good application. I mean, it was supported by CPD. It was passed through planning board. But following the close of mediation, we got together and said, you know, is there anything more we can do?