A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for approximately 99 Monaco Street Parkway. Rezones property located at approximately 99 Monaco Parkway from O-1 to G-MX-3, in Council District 5. The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 9-9-16. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 8-16-16.
12 eyes. 12 eyes. Council Bill 551 has passed. Congratulations. Okay. Councilwoman Sussman, last. Bill, will you please put council bill 597 on the floor? With pleasure, Mr. President. I move the bill 597 to be placed on file consideration and do pass. It has been moved. And second it the public hearing for Council Bill 597 is now open. May we have the staff report? Ms.. Lucero. Yes. All right. Final bill for tonight is one reason this is actually the final rezoning and Berkeley Annex, which is cause for celebration. It is approximately 99 Monica Street Parkway from oh one to G mix three general urban mixed use three story. It is in this portion. I'm on the illustrative Berkeley Annex plan. The Purple Circle is the illustrated area where we are talking about this evening. And now I'm on the Buckley Annex history slide from 1970 to 2005. This property was part home of the Air Reserve Police Personnel Center and Defense Financing and Accounting Services, which had 3000 employees. And that was the sole use on this 70 acre property. In 1993, the Lowry reuse plan was created, 2000 Comprehensive Plan was created in 2000 to Blueprint. Denver was adopted, and then in 2005, the Air Force decided to close these facilities. So a lot of our plans didn't anticipate that the Buckley Annex redevelopment plan was completed by Lowry Redevelopment Authority, and it did provide a framework for land use and transportation on the property. The property was officially vacated in 2010 and turned over in 2012 to the Lowry Redevelopment Authority. And then in 2013, the city did excuse us. This city did approve a general development plan for the property and a minor amendment later on. So we are north of Bayard Avenue. I'm on location slide now north of Baird Avenue, south of First Avenue, spanning Lowry, the extension of Lowry Boulevard and east of the Monica Street Parkway . Onto the request. The property is about eight acres. It is currently vacant. I just want to point out that we finally have a 2016 aerial. You'll see some of the building already going on in Buckley Annex on this slide and you probably won't see it on the rest of my slides, which are 2014 aerials. So the property is currently vacant. Again, the property owner is Lowry Redevelopment Authority and they propose to rezone the property and then sell it for development. The general urban context characterized by multi-unit and a variety of building forms, low scale commercial and added and intended to promote safe, active pedestrian scaled areas. This one zone district that's currently here was carried over in 2010, as it is, is an old institutional zone district and was left in place kind of as a holding to leave the property and sort of holding because we were at the time updating the library plan. So it never was changed. The maximum height is 75 feet if you're within 175 feet of a protected zone district. And the only uses allowed were residential care and shelter for the homeless civic uses or outdoor recreation or entertainment, and a few industrial uses like telecommunications, oil and gas production or wholesale trade. So moving on to existing context, zoning, the site has been surrounded this piece by piece with new zone districts. In Berkeley Annex you see the urban single unit to the North Grange. Three are General Urban Rowhouse three Story to the East. The Jim U. Five We just approved not too many months ago for affordable housing to the south south of Bayard Avenue is our to a with waivers that is a combination of seven story towers and two story townhomes in front of it. And then, of course, across the street is Chris Moore Park, which has an open space zoning next land use. Under existing context, the site is showing up as vacant multi-family residential to the South Park to the west. And this gives you an idea of these pictures under building form and scale of what's being built in the on on the on the annex. We see on the upper right some new single family homes, some townhomes under construction on the lower right. The seven story towers are south across Bayard on the bottom. The site itself, which is vacant. And then, of course, Chris Moore park above that on the left. So and summary of our review. And this is interesting. This is just the city agency review, which is summarized in your in your staff report. And all of the city agencies did recommend approval of this. So under our public notice, the notice of complete application went out in May. Planning Board public hearing was August 3rd. So with a vote of 7 to 0, planning board did recommend approval. The Land Use Committee heard this on August 16th and did pass it on to council. These are the registered neighborhood organizations that were notified today. We have seven letters of support that should have been in your packet and one letter today received today that was in opposition to this rezoning that I did forward on to your staff to be forwarded to you. So review criteria slide consistency with adopted plans, uniformity of district regulations furthering the public health, safety and welfare justifying circumstances. Consistency with neighborhood context and zone district purpose and intent. Under criteria, the plans that apply to this property are Denver. Denver Comprehensive Plan 2000, the Lowry Reuse Plan Blueprint, Denver and the Buckley Annex General Development Plan. The consistency with current plan is detailed in your staff report. I'm on the blueprint. Denver's slide land use concept was employment because at the time Blueprint Denver was adopted, the Air Force was still occupying the property and we thought they would stay. So there is it's it was designated an area of employment, but also an area of change, because we thought maybe someday there would be some change and the Air Force might not stay on to street. Classification Board Avenue is an undesignated local. Monica Street Parkway is a residential arterial where we want to emphasize mobility over access. First Avenue to the north is a collector. Monica Parkway is also an enhanced transit corridor where we want to encourage transit, supportive land uses and practices like shared parking and things like that. So the Lowry reuse plan adopted in 93 and then re adopted with current plan in 2000, again, we didn't anticipate that the Air Force would leave. And so there is very little guidance in those plans to the current circumstances. So the Buckley Annex General Development Plan, this is in the neighborhood center west sub area. And this is a sub area that is intended to to respect the Monaco Parkway with a 35 foot setback, preserves some of the existing stormwater basins along Monica. A nonresidential would be located on Lowry Boulevard, facing Lowry Boulevard and not facing the parkway. And there would be no secondary signage on park. Monica. The land uses were determined to be mixed use residential retail office or civic. Maximum height of five stories, although three stories were recommended along Monica Parkway and then building signs. Setbacks on Monica Parkway from the Crest Moore neighborhood were also included in the GDP and build to lines again would be from Lowry Boulevard, not for Monica. So the neighborhood context. So with that, Steph believes that the criteria for adoption for the adopted consistency with adopted plans is met. I am now on to review criteria for with this, which is consistency with neighborhood context and zone district purpose and intent. Again, the neighborhood context is general urban characterized by multi-unit residential in a variety of building forms. Low scale commercial embedded in residential areas. Residential uses primarily located on local or arterial streets. Commercial located along mixed use and arterial or main streets generally in a grid pattern with detached sidewalks. Buildings typically oriented to shallow, shallow setbacks on the primary street. And balancing pedestrian, bicycle and vehicle use. So staff believes this zone district complies with that. And the zone we already did. So the specific intent of the DMX three zone district. It's a mixed use zone district with a maximum height of three stories. Acting as an active, pedestrian, skilled area embedded within neighborhoods now believes that criteria is met. So again, do believe that the this proposal conforms with the adopted plans, that it furthers the uniformity of district regulations, and that by implementing our plans furthers the public health , safety and welfare. Justifying circumstances is changed conditions. The land or its surrounding environs has changed or is changing to a degree that it's in the public interest to to further redevelop or recognize the changed character of the area. With the redevelopment of the Hall Berkeley Annex, this is a changed condition with the closure of the Air Force facilities. So staff believes this the changed conditions is the appropriate justifying circumstance and we didn't really talk about the context. So with all of that, staff recommends approval that believes all of the criteria have been met. Thank you, Mr. Lucero. We have two speakers this evening. The first one has already jumped up. Mr. Marcus Faulkner. And you have 6 minutes. Good evening. Good evening. Council President. Council members. My name is Marcus Partner 7290 East First Avenue, Denver. I'm a consultant to the Library Redevelopment Authority. I'm actually only our only speaker tonight. Dave Andrews from LRA and John Putnam of our legal team are here for questions. Tricia did such a thorough job on this. I just want to highlight a few things, particularly maybe a little snapshot on this Monaco parcel. I want to get at why we arrived or how we arrived at GMAC's three. Interesting to note in all of our presentations and actually in the GDP, this has been shown as a C-Max five zone district, a more intense five story development. So this is effectively a down zoning from a planning component of a five story to a three story. The reason we ended up here is actually part of a community collaborative process, particularly with Chris, more neighbors across the street. We work with the Cress Moore Park second filing, looked in the park, stood in the park, actually hung balloons to show the height of a five storey building and how it might impact the park and their views across Monaca and really worked with them to understand the impact on that. We also made a commitment to the community, all of the neighborhoods surrounding this site, that we would not exceed 800 residential units on Boulevard one. We agreed to do an RFP to the development community first and actually come back with this final rezoning that actually is tailored to the market and the planning principles. To our great surprise and great benefit, we went to the market and we found what we believe will be hopefully a for sale condo development. Three story on this site. We think it is a terrific compromise for the community, a great project and a great culmination to the Boulevard one. So we. Believe, for all the reasons Teresa covered today, that we certainly have consistency with adopted plans and that this three story gimmick is the right solution for this site. And I could share many more about the 60 plus community meetings that we've had. But certainly, as you can see, the lack of fanfare means that this has been a community collaborative process. The last thing I'd like to just mentioned in passing, Teresa noted that this is the last rezoning of Boulevard One. It is actually the last rezoning of the Lowry Redevelopment Authority. This is our 61st and final rezoning application to effectuate the building of 1800 acres. We did our first rezoning in 1995 with Councilwoman Flowback, and I think now we have 10,000 residents, 5000 residential units, and 35,000 people work, live or play on a daily basis in Lowry . It is certainly pretty remarkable. And we want to thank all of you for your leadership and support on this, probably to note, because of what we've been focusing on, maybe our lasting legacy is there are 1082 permanent affordable housing units at Lowry. So with all of that, we'd certainly appreciate your support on this zoning tonight. Thank you very much. Great. Thank you. Mr. Faulkner and John Putnam. Good evening, Mr. President and council members. My name is John Putnam. I am an attorney. For the Library Redevelopment Authority. I'm here. For questions. And my address is 1675 Broadway. Thank you. Thank you. All right. That ends our speakers questions for members of council. All right. Councilman Ortega. I just noticed that you brought a schematic and wanted to know if you would share that with us. I will be happy to. Councilman Ortega, this is the site Boulevard one. Obviously, we are talking about this parcel today, the Monaco parcel, both sides of Lowry Boulevard. This is the rest of the 70 acres of Boulevard one. This second schematic, which was really just an interesting note, these are the 61 rezonings, the different zoning clarify classifications on the entire site, including now the eight different zone districts in Boulevard one. Thank you. You bet. And we held them behind the camera. I think we I think we may have got you on that camera there. Okay, Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Mr. President. Theresa, I just have a. Couple of clarification questions. My OCD brain kind of rebelled at the address on this. 99 Monaco. 99 Monaco would be on the west side of this. I know. But how did it get that address? Because in the assessor record, it's an entirely different address. I just wanna make sure we're not making a mistake. Raise this at committee. It was given to the applicant. Write it in with that. I have to confess that stuff. I was paying more attention to the legal description to make sure that was correct. That's what Matt and. I was to the address. It should have been something like 98. Yes, approximately, given the side of the street that it's on. So that was a staff. I may have to vote no because of that. I'm struggling. The other the other issue was you mentioned that that you received one letter of in opposition and but I couldn't find it in my email today. Can you tell us who that was from Margaret? You know. It was a Weissmann. I don't remember her first name. It was from Michelle Weissman, I believe actually a resident of Boulevard One. Her question was to be sure that there were proper setbacks in this rezoning to actually protect the mountain views looking to the West. Of course, we are complying with the underlying setbacks, but it was a request of the LRA to have more ample setback. An additional setback than what we're providing. Here. Well, she suggested 10 to 15 feet. I apologize. I don't know the setback in this zone district. Thank you. At that time, Theresa, unless you have more that that would be all I had. I was just going to say that the setback along Monaco, per the GDP, is 35 feet, but there is an additional 45 feet. From. Okay. 45 feet along Monaco, in addition. Actually, Dave is reminding me that it is when you combine everything. It's one. 100. I read that in the staff report. 100 watts is set back on the east side then that that the opponent was was talking about. If you'll give me a moment to get my zoning code. Okay. I'm going to let Councilwoman Susman chime in here. She wanted. Well, I was just going to talk to Kevin. And Councilwoman Black had also raised this in committee about the 99 Monaco Parkway. And in fact, it's probably going to have an address on Lowry Boulevard, which isn't there yet. So it was probably a, you know, conundrum, conundrum for the applicant about what the address is. So I should just grin and bear it. Yes. Sure. I would actually like to add some give you a little level of comfort. It actually says approximately 99, Monaco, which is this this is approximately 99. And it's a marketing move. Right. You think you're moving into the park? Thank you. Was that your come. Specific set back? Yes. Okay. So for dynamics three, I'm assuming that well, for the primary street, which will be Lowry Boulevard, there is no set back. Right. Actually, for the site interior on either side. There is no set back. Unless they're adjacent to a protected district, which would be ten feet. Right. It's okay. And the letter of opposition requested. How much of a setback? 15. 15 from. Okay. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Councilman Espinosa, did you say your coming or. You know, yes, the answer was sort of there. But I you wanted my question was simply was what? I assume Monaco has a parkway set back. What is that actual number? I believe it's 20 feet. 20 feet. So and then they're obligated to go the full 100. Well, they've obligated themselves to. Okay, great. 100. No, thank you. Okay. All right. Any other questions for members of council? The public hearing for Council Bill 597 is now closed. Comments by members of Council. Councilwoman Sussman Thank you very much, Mr. President. It's a it's quite an evening when Marcus said that this would be the last zoning. One would hope, but never can tell. There might be some more zoning, but it is though it is the last zoning of the new areas. Certainly there might be some rezonings and it gives me a little bit of reflection because I started working on Lowry in 1992 as a one of those pesky neighborhood advocates worried about what it meant because the Air Force base was closing. And as I have spent many, many years with the Lori Authority working on this and am so proud of what the city has accomplished, what Laurie Authority has accomplished, what the neighborhood's neighbors have accomplished, because Lori is, if not the most successful, one of the most successful infill developments of a closing military base in the United States , and is an example of how you redo a military base only when you have lots of participation, but regional participation and not only neighborhood participation, which has happened a great deal here. So it's a it's a sweet moment to think that it's the last zoning and it is the last zoning of the new areas and very happy with what the Planning Office has done. And the olive trees has been there on this since 1992 as well, though we're both only about 35, so that the math doesn't work all that much, but all the work that everybody has done on this and and it's it's an interesting we need to go out and celebrate. Thank you. And I urge my fellow council persons to approve. Yeah, thank you, Councilwoman Sussman, because as soon as I have you in here. Is this from Prior? Yeah, I do think that's okay. Great. Any other comments from members of Council? Madam Secretary, actually, I'd just like to say congratulations. I think in the five years that I've been a part of this, we have had several of these rezonings go through and we've heard a lot of the story. And so thanks for your diligent work. Congratulations. I'll be voting in support of this Council. Madam Secretary. I. Black. Hi, Mark. All right. Espinosa, I. Flynn, I. Gillmor, I. Herndon. I can. I can eat. Lopez. Hi. Ortega. Mr. President. I please close voting. Announce the results.