A bill for an ordinance approving and accepting the Stadium District Master Plan, which plan shall become a part of the Comprehensive Plan 2040 for the City and County of Denver pursuant to the provisions of Section 12-61 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code. Adopts the Stadium District Master Plan, as part of the city’s Comprehensive Plan. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 5-21-19.
I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. Nine Eyes. Nine Eyes. Council Bill 407 has passed. Councilman knew. Will you please put Council Bill 488 on the floor? Okay I move that councilor bill 488 be placed on final consideration do pass. Has been moved and we need a second seconded. Thank you. The courtesy public hearing for Council Bill 488 is open. May we please have the staff report? If you go down. Hello. Good evening. My name is Jason Whitlock. I'm a principal city planner, Urban Design and Community Planning and Development. I am joined today with my colleague Sara Corson. We are here to present an outline of the planning process in the master plan itself for the Stadium District Master Plan and its contents tonight. We are very excited to be here with you today. We're excited to have a really thoughtful steering committee, an engaged community that helped us work on the contents and the recommendations of the stadium district master plan. The plan area for the Stadium District Master Plan lives across the river from downtown, adjacent to two light rail stations, right at the confluence of Lakewood Gulch and the South Platte River. The Metropolitan Football Stadium District property currently surrounds the Broncos football stadium and the Stadium District Master Plans recommendations primarily address the southern portions of the stadium district's property. And also, as you look at your map, includes the land at Federal Boulevard and the West Colfax Avenue interchange, the cloverleaf in the plan area. As it as it is indicated on your map, the area of the master plan is also located previously within the boundary of the Decatur Federal Station Area Plan, and this master plan continues to build on the visions, the recommendations, the strategies within that station area plan. So we had a start point, we had a sort of a place to jump off of, and this plan will continue to make those additional clarity and specificity recommendations in the master plan and where things apply to both the strategies and the recommendations. If there is anything that conflicts the guidance of this master plan, we'll take the precedent. This has been the city led process in collaboration with the stadium management company, the Metropolitan Football Stadium District Theme Investment Corporation, an active steering committee and engaged community who have been meeting and providing input into the planning process over the last year with a goal for adoption by City Council tonight, there have been 1300 participants in this planning process with about 600 points of feedback in-person and an. Additional. 10,000, 11,000 points of of points of sort of feedback online. We've received and evaluated these thousands of thousands of point of impact of input to help us craft the recommendations and align those with sort of the community goals that we've heard and help us kind of prioritize what we're having in front of us in this digital age . We varied all of some of our approaches to how we're getting information for those that are not able to willing or able to make some of our in-person meetings, it was important for us to actually go into the community and get the information out, participate there. We're at the Sun Valley Garden Festival. We're at Denver days in Sun Valley. We collaborated with Denver Parks and Rec and Sun Valley Kitchen, Sun Valley Community Coalition to actually provide transportation to public meetings that people weren't able to make the distance to get there was really important for us to have a good group of community there . We provided translation that was really important and in child care, in order to make these events well, well attended. And we actually even had a sort of a Halloween event, which was fun. We gave out some candy hats and costumes, too, which was just part of the joy we had in this process. We received seven letters of support for the plan, including Jefferson Park, United Neighbors, Sun Valley Community Coalition, West Colfax Business Improvement District, the Metropolitan Football Stadium District, Sun Valley Eco District and two adjacent landowners, including Sue Powers with Steam on the Platte and David Keefe with the original Brooklyn's. So some good letters of support there on the process. The planning process started with the what we called the Visualize phase, where we sort of investigated existing conditions, existing plans and studies and started gathering input on both what you see as sort of some of the ideas and what the challenges would be with the site and the hopes for these surface parking lots on the south side of the stadium. We move then into a strategized phase, recognizing that we kept hearing this idea that we need a seamless every day experience and then sort of took them and. Reviewing them as we also wanted, and we're getting input about what a great game day experience would be. We identified those themes, kind of compared them, looked at the game day and every day we found sort of mobility, amenity and housing opportunities. We looked at sort of recommendations for art and public spaces and including these sort of really important spaces along the Gulch and the South Platte River. As we were looking, looking at these comparisons and to see kind of what things when we were doing our kind of our outreach, what things were aligning, some of the other sort of things in that previous slide that were that were surprising to us was on those everyday preferences and the amenities, the sort of the, the lower ranking of parking in some of that and the importance of public transit on those gameday experiences, knowing that up now sort of up to 30% of the people arriving on that game day can come by transit, including light rail and Broncos. Right. Some of the things like that, recommendations for the south, portions of the plan area adjacent to the South Platte River and Lakewood Gulch focus on the ways to seamlessly connect surrounding neighborhoods to make a good mixed use district. So some more of these things in our final stage, which Colby which we call that relies moments in sort of to summarize the desire for the community and the Metropolitan Football Stadium district was to transform these existing surface parking lots used primarily on gameday special events into a neighborhood hub that feels like a, like a local main street linked to a regional destination and really use seven days a week throughout the year. And this included opportunities for jobs, opportunities for businesses and opportunities for affordable housing. Input we received on the look and the feel of this neighborhood indicated a very high level of excitement with the type of images that we included and continued to inform the recommendations that we made throughout the process. We have six vision elements from the comprehensive plan which guided our recommendations and the elements of a complete neighborhood and blueprint. Denver are used as that framework for the recommendations to create this mixed use neighborhood in the plan. In evaluating desire for a seamless neighborhood, we verified that are surveys through captured the surrounding neighborhoods voice and that recommendations balance sort of some of those those local and those neighborhood desires and a regional perspective. As part of that experience, we have really three important social equity concepts that are in and blueprint that are used to guide , change and give the surrounding neighborhoods an opportunity to thrive. The plan uses equity concepts and blueprint to prioritize recommendations that benefit all. In addition to improving the access. Improving access these neighborhoods, the access of these neighbors opportunities. Community input also focused on recommendations to expand housing diversity and the job diversity within the plan area. You can see we have mapped the plan area as a mixed use neighborhood and have shown the yellow hatch zone on the plan, indicating active corridors with additional recommendations regarding sort about enhanced people per first pedestrian experience. You'll notice the inclusion again of the West Colfax and Federal Boulevard interchange in the plan area and within our land use and built form recommendations to create this this seamless again this neighborhood with one one look and one feel, one with an opportunity of being integrated together with other opportunities we have on that side. Community input prioritized the south of the side of the stadium to have that mix of uses to support a livable neighborhood and encourages and opportunities for those nearby to have really close, walkable opportunities for jobs. While noting that the sort of the northern half, the part that we haven't talked about in the stadium, there's a recommendation, a key one that it remains sort of similar to today, flexible for game day uses on the north side. The community, including the surrounding neighborhoods, provided valuable input on the need for a neighborhood with those jobs and housing. We included recommendations to target that incentive affordable housing onsite to target the marketing of that to the residents that are living around the playing area as being sort of important steps to to keep this a local environment. Right here you can see a festival street, sort of a key north south connection to the doors of Bronco Stadium on an every day. This is a place to drive slowly, but on game day, as shown here, it can be changed and transformed into a pedestrian first environment as envisioned, at least in this plan. And what you see here actually is the kinds of building forms that we intend to see on game day or what you actually see every day. The plan, if you read it and look through it, recommends a base height of five stories, which aligns with nearby planning efforts and existing guidance in the area. You can see on your plan, the little arrow points to sort of a step back here about five stories. So we're kind of graphically showing what a five storey base height could look like in the area. And the recommendations allow up to 20 stories to promote those opportunities for walkable jobs from nearby neighborhoods and the desired housing that we've heard throughout the planning process. So the height above five stories to what we showing here is about a 20 story building will be applying both affordable housing incentives and recommend and requirements. And along with what we calling mass production, mass reduction would be those buildings sort of step backs and sort of minimal tower sizes to provide that sort of those opportunities that we were talking about talked about in the importance we also heard throughout the process was for for something that created a variety of building shapes and there was a variety of building heights as being important that the building step backs and the shaping and the massing and sort of the ground access to to light and to sky views being important and would work in conjunction with other sort of design standards and guidelines. And and here we're showing kind of an area in the distance with a height above 20 storeys to about 30 storeys to a maximum height of 30 storeys. And those from the 20 to 3 storey allows even greater step backs, greater affordability. And sort of in the area that's just south of the stadium, primarily, we've mapped the map to be allowed to actually get up to that height. The waterways are a valuable component to creating a thriving neighborhood as a gateway into the project, as a front door to an active river edge and the introduction. And then in the design guidelines section, there is a river vision and design recommendations for the buildings on and facing the river and the gulch, including pedestrian access. The idea that if you're going to be entering or if you're going to be on balconies and other things like that, you can be on the river, facing the river. It's it's something to be at instead of something to ignore and be on your side. And there are sort of additional parts of this are talked to about some additional transition elements that we want to be seen kind of at those edges, particularly the river, but also Old West Colfax and some other places in the plan. You can see this maps here with these additional discussions and with the nearby neighborhood and community input, it was important for us to make sure we had a good map, clear map of where the 20 story recommendations would be with those additional requirements for for transitions and the hatched and the kind of area south of the stadium that will have that 30 story height available there is mapped on this and is really important for particularly Jefferson Parks, the mother and some other places to actually understand what they were able to see to and see through in the space. Lastly, on the land use some built form. Additional street sections are shown here that shows sort of the suite of strategies. We know that one thing is going to make a great neighborhood, but things need to work together. These additional strategies, design standards and guidelines create that people first that pedestrian first guidance. And so we have a section in the plan related design standards and guidelines. I will now transition to, of course, as we move on to mobility recommendations. Hello. I'm Sarah, of course, the city planner with community planning and development. So the next section in the plan is mobility. The current plan area lacks a cohesive, multimodal street network, and so the plan recommends to create this multimodal street network and to provide new vehicular pedestrian and bicyclists connections. I'd also like to point out that this diagram, as well as other diagrams within the plan, just show one scenario that can implement the plans, goals and strategies. The plan also recommends a very important A-grade intersection with West Colfax Avenue and a future North-South connection within the plan area. This is a very important intersection to further connect the plan area, but also to further the functionality of the stadium's operations. In addition to that, I want to point out that all the plan, recommendations and strategies apply to the Federal Boulevard and West Colfax Cloverleaf Interchange Area. This includes the mobility, land use and quality of life infrastructure recommendations. In addition to creating a connected multimodal street network, this plan recommends prioritizing pedestrians, creating a complete network of high ease of use, bicycle facilities, and increasing access to multi-use trails and pathways, especially prioritizing connections to the South Platte River. This plan includes a bike network diagram, and it includes recommendations that recommend a variety of bicycle facilities, including bicycle facilities that are grade separated or protected bike lanes. Throughout the planning process, we heard there should be a variety of street types, so this plan recommends several different street types. We explored these street types and included images within the plan that sort of portray how these three types might be built out or what they might accommodate. Mixed use streets could accommodate wider pedestrian and amenity zones, and they should also incorporate high ease of use bicycle facilities. Main Street should accommodate high quality pedestrian and amenity zones and festival streets which are shared. Streets should accommodate high levels of pedestrian activity and especially events. In addition to that, this plan includes a matrix that sort of outlines or identifies what these street types should accommodate and the additional components and design elements and amenities that could be incorporated within them. The plan also recommends implementing an area wide transportation demand management plan and to utilize the strategies to improve every day and game day area wide circulation. There's also a spread within the plan that further explains transfer transportation demand management strategies and outlines what these strategies are, including programmatic design, transit, parking and commute trip reduction strategies. This plan and this section also identifies some recommendations to retrofit or replace the Cloverleaf at Federal Boulevard and West Colfax Avenue, and that we should continue to collaborate to explore a transformation of the Cloverleaf Interchange that builds upon past planning efforts and studies. The most recent effort has been done by the West Colfax Business Improvement District, and they have identified an alternative that could be potentially implemented in the future. And this alternative is portrayed in the three images below. The last section within this chapter is Quality of Life Infrastructure. The plan recommends incorporating a variety of parks and public spaces across the planned area, and that these public spaces should be publicly accessible, including the parks and facilities associated with this plan area, and that they should also incorporate a variety of activities for people of all ages, abilities and incomes to enjoy year round. In addition to that, we recognize all of the projects and efforts going on right now and that we should continue to look to coordinate our efforts between other plans, projects and future development. In addition to that, we want to recommend that there should be a variety of amenities included within these public spaces, especially active and passive users , and that we should utilize best practices for stormwater management and to expand upon the tree canopy across the plant area. This plan also includes a matrix that further identifies what parks and public spaces should accommodate potential sizes, their distribution and location, and also potential amenities and elements that could be incorporated within these spaces. Last but not least, this plan recommend recommends prioritizing the South Platte River and to enhance the public space adjacent to it. It includes strategies to foster an interactive relationship with the river, to transform the public space adjacent the river, and to utilize the river as a very important connecting link between existing and future development. The last section of the plan is moving forward, which includes implementation strategies. These strategies include regulatory policy, public investment and partnership strategies. In addition to that, this plan includes a summary of community benefit priorities, including items that may be addressed in a community benefits agreement between the developer and the community. There are three criteria that have been established in the comprehensive plan 2040 that this plan must meet or be consistent with to be adopted. The first criteria is an inclusive community process. As Jason outlines before me, there has been quite an inclusive community process with a variety of community outreach and community engagement. So we have found that the Stadium District Master Plan was developed through an inclusive community process. The second criteria is plan consistency. This plan utilizes the comprehensive plan 2046 vision elements and builds upon them. In addition to that, it also utilizes the blueprint. Denver Three elements of a complete neighborhood and the Decatur Federal Station Area Plan is there and provides guidance while this plan builds upon it and provides further detailed guidance for this plan area. Given that we have found that the Stadium District Master Plan is consistent with the Denver Comprehensive Plan 2040 and other city plans, the last criteria is long term view. The Stadium District Master Plan establishes goals, recommendations and strategies that will guide change in the plan area for the next 20 plus years. It also recognizes that plan implementation takes place over the course of many years and may take shape in multiple phases, including short term and long term phases. Given that the Stadium District Master Plan encompasses a long term view, so finally, based on the findings that the applicable review criteria has been met. Staff recommends adoption of the Stadium District Master Plan as a supplement to the Comprehensive Plan 2040. Thank you. Thank you. We have 17 individuals signed up to speak this evening. I'm going to. Call the first five speakers. If you could please make your way to the bench here in the front, that will help speed up our proceedings. We have Jose Batiste, Philip Kasper, Derrick Friedman, Jean Granville and Jesse Parish. Our first five. Good evening, counsel. My name is Hosea Butera, the co-owner of Rice's brewing company, a Latinxs LGBTQ veteran, immigrant and woman owned business located at 26 West Colfax Avenue in the Sun Valley neighborhood. I'm here today to speak in support of the creation of the Stadium District Master Plan. I believe the plan has been well thought out and participated by the community. Thanks to the leadership of Jason Whitlock and his staff. My support isn't without any caveats. As a former Chamber of Commerce President, Commissioner for the City of Boulder and Community and Cultural Broker, it was my responsibility as a member of the Steering Committee to make sure that progress is with our public benefit. A key point on this plan calls for the conservation of Sun Valley's diversity. Diversity and inclusion needs to be maintained by making sure that affordable housing, affordable commercial rentals and businesses owned by underserved groups becomes a priority and don't get lost in the process. Local employment and access to training opportunities should also be a priority. Sun Valley is made up of mostly women and kids, so those considerations need emphasis as well. Furthermore, the inclusion of the businesses wedged between the Platte River and I-25 but immediately next to the district is a must. Steam on the Platte Mile High Station still works near Wolf Lift Rice is Brewing Company and many other businesses need to be taken into consideration since they represent businesses that are have been there or will already be there even before the district happens. I thank you for your time in considering the topics brought before you and the signing of a neighborhood benefits agreement drafted by the community to go along with this plan to make sure that our most vulnerable and needed do not get forgotten. This is an opportunity for our city to serve as a model and say, yes, we can be progressive while putting people first. Thank you. Next up, Phillip Kasper. I'm Phillip Kasper. I'm a 33 year. Resident of Sun. Valley. And my address is 2727 West Holden Place. I think that the stadium district plan will pass. I don't believe that it's ready yet because from History Stadium District has not acted in good faith to complete the parts that impact the surrounding community. They may do community work across the city, but they don't do what it takes in their own community to mitigate the impacts. So one of the things that needs to be excluded. Is that there will never be any aviation uses at that site on top of any of those buildings. We don't need a friends of. Mach heliport up on top of one of those buildings. It's happened before. We don't need it again. When we had then first. This stadium built under the plan that. Built it into in. 98 the we ended up with a traffic problem that was studied by fears. And peers and their conclusion was you would be hard pressed in North America to find a residential use street that has the volume, speed and character of the traffic that we have on Decatur. They recommended closing the street. To eliminate the traffic. Now we're going to increase the traffic. When in this plan. Is the traffic through a community that has the highest percentage of children known in the nation. Nobody has ever matched it or found one. It runs from 54% to 66% over the last 20 years, and they're. Mostly. Under 14. I mean, they're mostly kids. We cannot absorb the traffic. The original plan had mitigate. It was supposed to plan to make the changes on their footprint to attached to the full facts. What in the 98 plan has informed this plan? I think it's not ready to be passed. I think these questions need to be addressed and amendments need to be made before. This plan moves forward. Thank you very much. Thank you, Derek Friedman. Hi. My name's Tarik Friedman. I am a Denver entrepreneur. I own two retail concepts sports fan and soccer, and I employ dozens of people in the city and one of my stores is immediately adjacent to this project. I was a steering team member and was really amazed by the content and rigor of the process. There are so many opportunities for the public to get involved and I was just really impressed by all of the thoughts that were shared. Immediately after buying a sports fan, I traveled around the country to look for other places to expand, and I was looking particularly close to other stadiums, and I was surprised to find the contrast between places like Detroit and Cleveland and Minneapolis. Um, I choose to live near Denver. In Denver. And I was surprised at the sharp contrast between the environments around those stadiums and the one that we have. And so what I love about this plan and why I'm so enthusiastic about it is because it transforms the stadium from an island that's separated from its surrounding communities to something that's integrated fully and brings all those neighborhoods together. It transforms empty lots into a vibrant, mixed use community with designation for affordable housing. I hope that this plan has your support and I'm really excited for the transformation to start. Next up, we have Jeanne Granville. Good evening. My name is Jean Granville, 2715 West told in place. I am speaking here tonight as president of the Sun Valley Community Coalition. I was also a member of the steering committee representing the coalition and I am also a member of the West Side Stadium Community Coalition that has an interest in really ensuring that community benefits are addressed within the plan as and on an ongoing basis. So I really want to thank you for everyone's support and inclusion of all of us in the process. We're really excited about the vision for a mixed use everyday neighborhood that will really transform the northern part of our Sun Valley neighborhood giving, providing housing, jobs and amenities along with an exciting gameday, cultural and entertainment experiences. I want to thank you for expanding the plan to include some of the work and efforts that are already underway, both east of the river, as you've just heard, as well as in regards to the Cloverleaf and what that future may be. We did have some concerns, I think, as you've heard about traffic management plan and particularly impact of construction and ongoing and density that will be developed, its impact on the southern part in particular where there are so many children and residents. I want to thank Councilman Lopez and his office for really taking the initiative to go ahead and start that conversation with public works to see if we can't do some things to mitigate some of the immediate concerns of already unsafe conditions as well as going forward. So thank you for that. I also want to thank and really recognize the Stadium District and the Broncos for really their openness in inviting the community to envision a neighborhood in the northern part of our neighborhood far beyond what we could have ever imagined in the Decatur Federal Station area plan. We look forward to being a part of the Neighborhood Advisory Committee and to continue as a member of the West Side Stadium District Community Coalition to work with everyone on community benefits. It is really our interest in really trying to do whatever we can to really contribute to ensuring that we create a seamless, inclusive and dynamic neighborhood . Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have Jesse Parrish. While he's coming up, we'll go ahead and call up Chris Roller Sun to join us in the front bench right here. Leslie. Tariq Olasky. Njoroge Abu Samir. I'm sorry if I mispronounce that. Hamida Bashar. Always Bashar. And we'll go ahead and go with you, Mr. Parrish. Jesse Paris resigned in District nine 2842 Josephine Street, Denver, Colorado. And I'm representing for Denver Homicide Low Black Star Action Movement for Self-defense and Positive Action Commitment for Social Change. And I was on top of the ballot for at large this past May election. I got over 15,000 votes with no money. We are against this. I keep hearing all this talk about inclusivity, but from the photos that I've just seen displayed in front of me, I have seen nothing inclusive about any of it. I see nothing but white people. I honestly know people of color and historically people of color. A neighborhood, an area that has the most children of color in one area. And we are refugees. And there's all kinds of people of color in this neighborhood to say nothing of that represented in these pictures. So I had several questions. I want to know what was the AMA level for this affordable housing I keep hearing about? What were the wages for these commercial developments? Because you say that you're going to put the people in a community to work. How much are you going to pay them an hour? Is it going to be a livable wage? And just so you know, a livable wage is 25 plus an hour to afford a one or two bedroom in downtown or decent Denver proper. I agree with Phillip with the traffic study. I have partnered with West Denver United during this whole campaign season. I worked with them and I've seen exactly how neglected this Sun Valley is. And my good friend David Roybal, who ran for office, too, is a native. And he's told me on numerous occasions that he was not in approval of this, and I am not in approval of it as well. I was not in approval of the comprehensive plan either because I didn't believe it was given enough ample giving people ample enough time to read and review it and to actually come up with their own conclusions with it. So I want to know what is the AMA level for this sustainable housing? What are the wages for the employment? And is there going to be a traffic study done for this area? Thank you. Next up, we have Chris Roller son. Good evening, Chris Roller said. And I'm representing the Sun Valley Youth Center and all the kids of Sun Valley. So we are in our 20th year. It's our birthday this year and so we are in support of this with the concern around safety and kids. So a lot of the times the trails and the streets are designed for people who know how to ride bicycles, but not necessarily the youth. And Sun Valley had 335 units previous. There will be upwards of 4000 and more with the new development. And I'm assuming there would also be more children coming into some of those newer high rise properties. So assuming those kids want to come and access services at the youth center, how do we have safe transport from the new areas and the new spaces to us? The plat trail is not safe for kids. It's great for commuting and it's great for folks who are grown. But a lot of our kids don't have parents going back and forth with them. So I just want to continue the conversation together and say, how can we work together to make sure that we have safe transportation back and forth from the stadium? The stadium district has been amazing getting the kids in there. We rode our bikes to one of the stadium district meetings. We took 65 kids by bike up to one of the meetings just to go and experience it. We ate up all the pizza, had a blast, but I just want to make sure that that can continue to be a partnership and not just because there's a plan at hand that we just want to continue to move forward and develop things together with them. So we have good, safe places for the kids to be from our community and not just the new kids coming in. Thank you. Up next, Leslie, talk about skin. Hi. Thank you. My name is Leslie to our galaxy. I stand before you today as the executive director of the Federal Boulevard. Business Improvement District. I was one of the members of the stakeholder committee. And my comments. Tonight are speaking on behalf of my board of the Federal Boulevard bid. First, we want to thank Jason and Sarah and CPD for including the removal of the Cloverleaf in this plan and including the Cloverleaf at all. As you all know and could see from the visuals, this is an integral part of the entire neighborhood. And so thinking of all this, instead of as separate plans, the Todd Plan, the Stadium District Master Plan, the Cloverleaf Plan in the West Area plan. This will help us tie them all together. So I wanted to say thank you for that. We look forward to a variety of housing options on this site, including affordable housing. We look forward to the addition of much needed green space in this neighborhood. And we're very hopeful that that green space will be designated so that it will always be open to the public. We look forward to commercial space that encourages small, local business owners to set up shop. We look forward to signing the Community Benefits Agreement and we eagerly anticipate helping ensure that this soon to be built neighborhood will seamlessly integrate. With the current. Communities that surround it, including Sun Valley, Sloan's Lake and Jefferson Park. We hope that you support this plan, and we want to thank Councilman Paul Lopez and Robin Canete for helping us with the Community Benefits Agreement, CPD and the Broncos for what is a very exciting plan. Thank you. We hope you support it. Next up, we have Nazar Abu. Soraya, I'll let you go ahead and pronounce it correctly. First of all, I. Want to thank everybody who have hand on. This development. Developing. For Sun. Valley. And I live here on Sun Valley for five years old. I like to cook. So my dream is to have my own restaurant or my own shop. And I hear there will be opening. Like small projects and small. Like small restaurant. Restaurant. And I think because we are living here for a long. Time, we must have the first opportunity for. Be a part on that. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, Hamida Bashar. And if you wouldn't mind, at least give us your city of residence. And if you feel comfortable, your address, please. Hello, everybody. I know my brother Hamidullah. Yes, my name is Hamida. And I can walk across the room. But I cannot. I cannot read it and write it. And I can. America Manuel Barroso in. Latin cooperation, bravado, no nonsense. Since I came to this country, I like to learn, but I clean my mouth. He couldn't pick up. A La Liga Maradona going in the tankers in Ghana. But I appreciate a lot to welcome in to this country, to the United States. A lot. And my father didn't return a wallet buying. So we need help wherever we need. We might need from our help. To remain a mother in a mother forever. In an analogy or in. This song as my dream is to open my own restaurant. In LA, madam, in a family car, in a land, in our will, and on one with Mercosur. So we need more help from our family to to everywhere. And my revenue in all of community. ALMOBARK On his own and on the dollar and all that. We would like to have our own community which will build our own community. However, the government knows about it with our communities. And I still had dinner, my tank on. Car in a gallon and had the old gun to watch you. I appreciate a lot from Glen. Glen who invited me from here today. Some value went to which I guess we all had on our way. And then he he's the one who helping us out to somebody for on on this moment for now. Allow can that that you can picture Google and my homework all ordered all the special work of Korea. We cook we are the people who cook the special. A lot and had them for that and I no I will not turn on more than all. Well I don't know what. We will like to have the help from how we can open up our business, our restaurant, and we can help our family and our kids. So I think it was in Ali and Hoyt. Thank you so much. That's the only one I have. All right. Thank you. And next up, we had always. You're up next. It's always bizarre. Good afternoon to everybody. And appreciate it a lot. I'm from Sun Valley. I've been in Sun Valley for eight years. But we would like to have the opportunity to share them with us when it comes at the Sun Valley. Oh, we like to have an opportunity as a business to open as a restaurant. But we would like, hope and how we can get that help. That's why we are here today. And we appreciate it a lot for Glenn to help us to invite us here today. Wonderful. Thank you. Could you please pronounce your name for the record? For the record, my name is always Hussein. Great. Thank you. All right. Next up, our next five are Devin Buckles, Jeff Shoemaker, Rudy Gonzalez, Mac Freeman. And then our last hour, we'll go ahead and then Jim Mantle. Mentally, those are our next five. So Devin Buckles. Good evening, members of Denver City Council. I'm Devin Buckles. 1855 South Pearl Street. I'm the director of the Water Connection, which is the Policy and Water Resources arm of the Greenway Foundation. I'm here this evening to speak on behalf of our foundation in support. Of. Plant adoption. The foundation has collaborated with the Denver Planning Office and the Steering Committee throughout the planning process to incorporate a number of provisions to guide the relationship between the development and our waterways. This plan identifies the South Platte River and Lakewood Gulch as front doors to this exciting new neighborhood hub. These edges will be treated as priorities through plan guidance and subsequent implementing regulations and guidelines. We support the plan's recommendations for innovative stormwater management integration of green infrastructure throughout the site. Thoughtful design and function of Mile High Stadium circle on the river edge so that it adequately serves the gameday traffic while serving as a pedestrian prioritized street for the remainder of the year for safe and easy river access. The plan also contains a call for design standards and guidelines to ensure the intensity, orientation, scale, height, massing and design of buildings along the edges of these two important waterways create a positive experience for users on all sides. Of the waterway. And finally, we support the plan's emphasis on this tremendous opportunity to. Activate and. Engage this section of the River and Lakewood Gulch. So thank you for this opportunity to. Speak before you this evening. Next up, Jeff Shoemaker. Good evening, Madam President. A member of Council Jeff Shoemaker, 1855 South Pearl Street, Denver, 802 ten. It's an honor to stand before you. I'd like to immediately acknowledge Jason and Sarah for your. Seriously solid work on this and your willingness to sit down with Devin and me and take a strong plan. And hopefully with Devin's help and despite my engagement, the plan is stronger. So thank you very, very much. This is yet the latest opportunity to make the South Platte River the best place to work, live and play in the city and county of Denver. A vision of my father many, many years ago. And just a little bit of trivia. 54 years ago yesterday was the flooding of the South Platte River. And 45 years ago, yesterday was the founding of the Greenway Foundation. And look where we've come. Look where we've come. This plan respects our river. I am going to be so bold as to say that the reason that the stadium district has put this plan before you is because they get that they understand that being near the South Platte, they understand that being near Lakewood Gulch is a good thing. And who could have imagined that when? Let us remember that the reason the original Mile High Stadium was built along the river is because it was purchased as a former landfill dump site for a buck way back when when, yes, I was alive. So this is another opportunity to take our city's greatest natural resource and evolve it and improve it and enhance it and make it and engage equal opportunity for every single person within the city. And I'll finish with this. Councilman new. Councilwoman Sussman. Councilman Lopez. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your service. My foundation will miss you. And so while I thank you, Madam Chairman. Next up, we have Rudy Gonzalez. Good evening, city council members. And thank you. My name is Rudy Gonzalez. I'm the executive director services at La Raza also was a member for. The past year, 18 months with the steering committee. And I'm here to speak in support of the Stadium District Master Plan tonight. And the fact that it was probably one of the most inclusive processes that I've been part of in my life. It brought many stakeholders together. Community people, civic shows. We're at 3130 on West 14th Avenue. So we're right there in the heart. Of Sun. Valley in West Denver. Serving scores, if not thousands of families. Throughout West Denver, including over 147 families from Sun Valley in a multitude. Of services. So to be part of this process, you know, we've had and service was has hosted us senators. Governors, mayors, you know, legislators and even many of you esteemed council persons at our places. But we've at our place but we've never hosted a developer who came in and met with all of our staff, the entire agency, for 2 hours to speak about what? Opportunities. What kinds of things did they want to see. In this neighborhood, in. This part of Denver, with their pulse. On so many of the. Issues that happen around social services and the social safety net? And it was a very robust discussion. We have a lot of great subject experts as as staff. Over there that know their business and know their work. And with that, I also want to. Acknowledge Mack. Freeman. RDC Well, and the leadership of Paul Lopez in bringing. A lot of. Diverse community. Stakeholders together. In this process. I've also sat for the last year and a half on. The West Colfax, the Cloverleaf. Redesign, and so how it integrates, it's pretty seamless. And we're talking about housing, not just affordable housing, but housing that allows. Dishwashers. To CEOs to live where they work. And I think that's important. But again. I think also important was the community. Benefits agreement that I think. Will hold all of us accountable to. Ensuring that there is justice and equity in this work going forward. Thank you. Mack Freeman. Good evening, council members. Mack Freeman, the chief commercial officer for the Denver Broncos. And I think first off, I'd like to thank every one of you and those that are not here tonight for taking the time to sit down with us and understand what a unique project this is. Because I don't know that you've had something like this in front of you. I can know this. I know this has been hard for some to get their arms around and that we don't have a developer at the table yet. And I. I appreciate all of you trusting that that's going to be a good, good path, because I think we've made a lot of progress and we're excited about where it's going. But again, this is a unique project. This development is on behalf of the taxpayers with all of the ground lease revenue going to the Metropolitan Football Stadium District to fund the capital needs of the taxpayer owned stadium. The long term outcome of this effort and creative funding strategy is to save the taxpayers the forward burden and cost of maintaining the stadium while at the same time creating a dynamic urban neighborhood with the jobs, investments and community benefits that come with that. I'm here to support the Stadium District Master Plan before you participated on the steering committee and have been thrilled with the community engagement and inclusion of all stakeholders in the public process. The plan envisions a dynamic, urban neighborhood that is authentic to the city and one that is designed to celebrate the largest gatherings of this community. This plan supports the efforts and goals of the Sun Valley Eco District and can go a long way to ensuring its success. The plan focuses on connections to all the adjacent neighborhoods. The plan prioritizes the six vision elements of the recently adopted comprehensive plan 2040, those being equitable, affordable, inclusive, strong and authentic. Neighborhoods connected, safe and accessible places economically diverse and vibrant, environmentally resilient and healthy and active. We've had extensive discussions on community benefits and recognize the importance of addressing affordable housing, job opportunities, workforce development parks and open space connections and mobility, public art, the river. And continuing to engage with with many of the folks you've seen up here tonight, this has been a phenomenal process. And and I think everyone's come to it with good faith. After 20 years, the stadium is getting more expensive to maintain it, as all facilities do. This plan can be the engine that allows us to extend the useful life of the stadium for many years ahead. Like others, I'd like to thank Jason Sarah of Karen Steve for who attracted the best public participation I've ever seen. And I'd like to thank Councilman Lopez in particular. He has he has held the process accountable on community benefits. We have committed to sit down when we start. Sorry. That's your time, sir. Stadium investment. Thank you. All right. Next up, we have Jim mentally. That's correct. Thank you. My name is Jim and Tele 5660 Logan Street, Denver. Representing Colorado State Conference of Electrical Workers. Oh, excuse me. I am a 45 year representative of the electrical construction industry in the state, serving at many different levels. We have seen the potential for job creation and opportunities for a project like this. We have seen them come to fruition numerous times in this city. We have seen the we have benefited from the from the development that has led to opportunities of numerous types here. Also tonight, representing the MEP Alliance, the alliance is a consortium of four highly skilled construction trades the pipefitters, plumbers, electricians and sheet metal workers. The four industries represented by the MEP Alliance all have registered apprenticeship programs that provide more than just jobs. They provide incredible career opportunities, education and everything that goes along with providing pathways to the middle class. The wage, the starting wages for apprenticeships are incredible. They do come with benefits, not only health, but pension annuity type benefits. And the spectrum is wide. We work in. Close conjunction through our MEP Alliance with Services de la Raza as a community outreach agent. They have worked with us in numerous outreach, community outreach and apprenticeship programs. And it's important that we realize and you realize that a project of this nature with these own hiring requirements and with services De La Raza being domiciled right in the area, we can provide job opportunities. We are eager to do it. And in a day and age, when the problem is recognized nationally of the shortages in these skilled trades, we ask that you support a project of this nature in its client. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have our last two speakers, Matt Sugar and Dan Schorr. Please. Thank you, counsel. My name is Matt Sugar. I'm the director of stadium affairs for the Metropolitan Football Stadium, District 17 on Ryan Street. I want to thank you for the opportunity to come before you this evening. First, I'd like to once again thank the city's planning staff, Jason and Sarah and Karen and the many others who have been invaluable along this effort throughout the year. Over a year, the city staff has exceeded expectations in bringing together a truly diverse group of stakeholders and have succeeded in creating a document years in the making that reflects the values of Sun Valley, adjoining neighborhoods and businesses. Broncos Stadium at Mile High Visitors and the city and county of Denver Broncos Stadium at Mile High is almost 2020 years old. You might not notice that it's age because the Denver Broncos in the district have invested heavily over those years into the publicly owned asset. Maintaining and upgrading is necessary. The Metropolitan Football Stadium District site consists of over 80 acres. The building is approximately 1.8 million square foot. As you can imagine, taking care of 1.8 million square foot requires some upkeep. The District and the Broncos have shared an interest in maintaining and enhancing the publicly owned asset now and well into the future, that this plan can play a key role in helping develop the revenue source, allowing investment into the stadium while avoiding seeking revenue from taxpayers for capital repairs to the stadium. The District, the Broncos, the Denver Housing Authority, Sun Valley Economic Development, local businesses, the city and county and numerous other individuals and organizations have participated in bringing forth a plan that can preserve and build on the longstanding traditions of the area and improve the experience for locals and visitors alike. While we have a long ways to go to make this vision a reality, this plan is the first major step in that direction. On behalf of the Metropolitan Football Stadium District. I urge your support of the Stadium District Master Plan. Thank you. Next up, Dan Schorr. Okay, last, Dan Schorr, West Colfax Business Improvement District 3275, West 14th Avenue. And we are I'm here speaking on behalf of the bid, also in support of the plan. And I just want to say that in terms of a. Process and participation, I really think that that's actually reflected tonight by the sort of sentiments that are expressed, the ideas are put forward. And it's really been, I think, a plan that has evolved a little bit and I, you know, somewhat so, you know, in my own world of the Cloverleaf in a way that I think has improved the plan, especially from the point of view of mobility and creating a sort of a vibrant area of West Denver that can work and together that's vibrant commercially and provides opportunities for the people who are currently residing in the neighborhood, who will come both as visitors, future residents. And I feel like the so that I feel like that that the relationships that have resulted in that you know, sort of developed evolved outcome is are sort of in place and you know, sort of a fruitful opportunity to further, you know, for for further development as the process evolve, develops and the project develops. And so I think it's really a just a good testament to a good planning process and a, you know, it is it tells a story of good collaboration. So that's it. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of council. Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. Pro tem. So a couple of questions I have. First of all, can someone help me understand what the maximum build our square footage might look like? So based on what is allowed, the height densities, what what could be the the maximum amount of square footage that could be built on on this property where . That we're doing this master plan for. The the area of the stadium district, the Metropolitan Football Stadium District owned portion is about 50 acres. We also know that there's about 19 acres at the clover leaf and then there's some other assorted parcels in there. So the plan is giving guidance to to the area to be a mixed use environment. We've also are making recommendations about affordable housing and mass production as part of it and as the plan is setting up what our next steps are along the way. A lot of that building shaping is going to be a key part of knowing kind of what that allowable amount is. So I don't know if we have a total. I don't know if there is a number that we have are targeting related to it. But it is a it is a, you know, an urban neighborhood. And we do have both sort of formal recommendations. We do have kind of the highest areas in the middle and they step down to the side. So we should see more of those details when the rezoning application. That would be, yeah. I mean, there's going to be a suite of things that will happen. Rezoning will let you know more about that. We'll have a design centers and guidelines which will continue to shape some of those things, but a lot of that mass production component will be part of that rezoning discussion. But then there's also just people either building out their full entitlement or, as we often see, not building out that full entitlement to. So probably the end result will be. Obviously, as you know, a range of form. One of the speakers raised question about aviation uses. Is that excluded? Will that be addressed in the zoning? What kind of discussions were there about that type of use being proposed as part of the The Master Plan? We didn't discuss aviation uses as part of the master planning process. Phil mentioned that before in another discussion that would be actually used would be a part of a I think a zoning discussion as part of that. But aviation, neither benefit nor detriment, really came up as part of the master planning process. So as. For what exactly the context of their. Discussions with the neighborhood on the zoning, the proposed zoning, some of those topics should be part of that discussion. Yeah. Okay. And then help me understand about the impacts to Decatur Street. I'm very familiar with this neighborhood and the the real concerns being expressed about the potential new volume of traffic that might be on Decatur because of the proximity to the school, to Denver Human Services, to lots of small kids in the neighborhood. So. How much was that part of the plan discussion or how much of it will be part of the zoning discussion when that comes forward? To highlight a couple of things and certainly can stand up if there is additional to. But one of the the value of of that as a good location for what we want to see is the sort of the direct access to the two light rail stops to the recommendation for an at grade connection to the to West Colfax. That was an important part of the process. Important part of the discussion is the understanding that there is a a traffic management and parking plan in place now in the future. Sort of relook at that to understand what the impacts are on game day and every day to the surrounding neighborhoods becomes important. So there are a variety of things happening. We also know that as part of our our project management team and teams moving forward through the process, public works will be there and be part of the table games here today. But other things, including 13th Avenue realignment, things on federal are all part of the the network and will contribute to that. And I think understanding how they work together is going to be important for the safety of a really important street in one that we know that there are a lot of kids on. And the one that we want to be a walkable, bikeable connection, primarily up to the district is going to be important. I want to ask Matt Sugar, if you wouldn't mind coming forward. Neither you or Mac can answer this question. I wanted to inquire about how much discussion there was about looking at leveraging other resources so that when we start talking about infrastructure issues that need to be addressed or infrastructure impacts, whether it's to our water system and whether the current infrastructure can handle the volume of all the new development that might be proposed on the site to maybe cost sharing some of the improvements on 13 Avenue, perhaps Federal Boulevard, any of those kinds of things. How much was any of that part of the discussion? Obviously, there see you've got Dr. COG urban drainage in flood control district where there could be some leveraging of other resources to address some of the. Overlapping impact issues. Yes, I think that I, I don't know that I can address address those specifically. And those certainly are things that we would look at moving forward. I think that Jason and the team had looked at some of those issues as we looked at what the site might look like and reconfiguring the infrastructure and those types of things . I don't know if I'm the best person to answer that specifically, but I think it's something we need to explore. Mercury behind you. So he may have. To say the answer and match, right? Is the specifics? Not yet. Currently, our design team has begun meeting with the city to really get in to the infrastructure master plan. I think we have discussed the topics we're raising and realizing that we need to figure out how to coordinate those. Obviously, the biggest change was the relatively late inclusion of the Cloverleaf because that actually introduced a number of new infrastructure issues that possibly affect where we were on the original 52 acres. So we're not there yet, but that process is underway with the city and I think again, we added some work to it. So we're probably we moved further from the goal line than we were a few weeks ago. But it's I think we all realize the value of if we can create solutions for the Cloverleaf as a part of this, it's a big win for the city. Madam President, I have one last question, and this is for CPD. So with so many changes that have happened at the department and the fact that we don't currently have a planning director who is point on looking at sort of the big picture of a lot of the development that's happening along this I-25 corridor and looking at how these projects are going to interface with one another, where we're going to be looking at the opportunities for some cost sharing with the infrastructure improvements or, you know, the effect of that and obviously the effect that all of this development will have on the neighborhoods adjacent or in terms of gentrification and displacement. So is there like a point person or how how is that being looked at and addressed by CPD from that bigger picture perspective so that we're not looking at every single project piecemeal? I said, of course so. Throughout this planning process, we've definitely been in discussion with kind of other members of our department, and we always continue that conversation and recognize plans that have already been done, plans that are in process right now in upcoming neighborhood plans. So I'd like to recognize that this plan really puts forth the community's desires and everything that they would like to see in conjunction with the stadium needs and their operation. So that's kind of how we looked at this plan. In addition to that, moving forward, it's really in the next steps where we have more of an idea of what will actually be implemented and how that really, truly impacts the adjacent areas, adjacent, surrounding neighborhoods, and also what the other plans and projects are doing. So we don't really have an answer for that right now because that really is down the road and that this is more of kind of a high level policy document of what we'd like to hope and see there in terms of equity and potential displacement. We recognize that there really is no residents living there right now. It's a very singular use parking lots and the community is very excited to see that transform into something that they can use. And we looked at that from the perspective of this planning process is how can we provide something in this planning area that really gives back to the community and include their voice through this? And so that's kind of our goal is we recognize that future development will impact them. But what are the tradeoffs of what we can also get through this process with future development? So we know there's going to be changes in Sun Valley. There's a whole master plan for Sun Valley. I'm talking about the effects that this will have on Villa Park, on Barnum and Westwood, on many of the other neighborhoods along the western edge of I-25 with all of the new development that's coming. So, you know, we've got the stuff that will happen on the other side of the river and the religious site. You know, further south, you've got the whole design center and the bright green marketplace. So when you start looking at all of this, we're talking about over 500 acres of new development all on the west side of town. And, you know, we've got see that doing their their palace study. So just wanting to make sure we've got somebody bird dogging the cumulative effects of all of this that's going to be happening, maybe not all at the same time, but looking at where we can leverage and interface and address all of those impact issues. I see. Dr. Arena, you are in the in the audience and I know that she's been brought on to help look at the gentrification and displacement issues. And I'm wanting to make sure that we have the right tools in place to address those and to be thinking about them and looking at them on the front end, rather than waiting until the impact is happening and it's too late to do anything about them. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Madam President. Four times, sir, can I ask you on the mobility section? And after looking through the plan, I see I want to make note, first of all, that the Colfax Viaduct will soon be about 40 years old, and that's the new viaduct. And so looking ahead to the time when that might be at the end of its useful life and we're looking at a replacement, I'm wondering if the steering committee or the community or the stadium district or anyone involved in this effort considered the possibility of bringing Colfax down to grade at some point. Maybe the geometry doesn't quite work with having to cross the river, but when I look at your mobility section, I see the recommendation for a at grade intersection at West Colfax with a North-South road. Is that in the line of the lady where LRT would be or where is that? But I note that that's on a big embankment where the viaduct then takes off across the property and really it's not even part of the the parking lot, if you will. It's or the ground level just takes traffic from from federal over to the foot of, I think, seventh Street and Osage on the other side of downtown , on the other side of the river. Was there any discussion as to what to do with the Colfax Viaduct when when it's at the end of its life? No. So what I was going to try to answer the first part of your question. So the accurate intersection was something that we looked at and the feasibility of that happening. And so that is an intersection that can happen and be at grade. Granted, there is quite a significant amount of grade change between West Colfax Avenue diving down and then coming back up to Federal Boulevard. But that was one of the more important intersections that we could get, knowing that there is still the viaduct. So the viaduct right now that I think could be a sort of a next step study. There was, you know, thoughts of what comes up. Must, you know, what goes up must come down at some point knowing the infrastructure will age. But this wasn't really a part of our planning process, kind of deciding what to do with the viaduct and then also the feasibility of the viaduct. If it does come out great, how does it cross the planet and, you know, connect to I-25 and other mobility networks? So this I'll just say that's kind of out of my purview of expertize and kind of we sort of kept to more of the kind of community's desires and what they wanted to see in this process. And that I think some of the feasibility will come later of figuring out how do we really implement everything and get what we want. Keeping in mind of kind of long term or the longevity of the Mobility Network as well. So that at Great Intersection would involve lowering the grade of Colfax or raising the grade of of the North-South Connector. Or resistor right now. It would connect it would be without moving West Colfax Avenue, and it would be kind of altering certain grades to meet up to Colfax. Okay. And then I saw elsewhere in the plan that you recommend looking at uses for the real estate that exists under the viaduct for some in some form or fashion. And to those uses take into account the possibility that somewhere in the near term, whatever it is conducted under the viaduct might have to be disrupted in order to construct a replacement viaduct or bring it back down to grade. Yes. So the plan currently keeps it open ended. What uses could be there, but it would be more temporary and looking at public space. But we also recognize that there is concern in terms of public health and air quality. And so we're working with other departments to figure out what uses could actually happen there. Knowing that we heard from the community that they'd like to see a variety of things from art to kind of little pop up recreational area. Mass market. Farmers markets, things like that. But we want to make sure that that definitely is something that can happen. And I think just with how that would build out it, it would probably have to be more of a temporary kind of structure if there's anything built. All right. Just one last thing. On page 86 of the plan, I noticed there was a typographical error refer to the viaduct as Old West Colfax Viaduct. And that's actually Old West Colfax is the at grade street. So that's on page 86. Okay. Thank you. And that's all, ma'am. All right. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. Councilman Lopez. There's somebody in the Flynn household who sweats every day making a typo. Oh, I have a few questions. So one of them first one is for for Mac Freeman, if you can. So Mac or in Mac, there's been a lot of conversation about community benefits. And I want to make sure. So what we have and what the folks have in front of them here on the dais is not a community benefits agreement. It's a letter in which the Broncos, a signatory, along with some other folks in the coalition, will be signed at the end of the at the end of the hearing about the community benefits, some of that. One is because there is no development entity in terms of who to enter into community benefits with yet. But and so I want to make that sure it's clear on the record to some of the community benefits that are in the letter. Responsible contracting policy practices. Utilization of registered apprentices. Minimum Wage. Living Wage. Prevailing wage. Minority women on business schools. Affordable Housing Initiatives, local hire program site. Specific housing plan, small business support parks and open space and then ongoing implementation and communication. Can you going to talk about where, you know, the group has been, where you where you're at and. Yeah, well, that's that's obviously I mean, we haven't we haven't been able to really contemplate how much we're building, how high we're building. I mean, they get the zoning questions. It goes back to the question of, you know, what the mass square footage is. I think until we know what zoning will allow and what kind of uses we're going to build once we know that, I think we'll be able to get very specific. But I think, you know what, we've tried to come to the process, as has the stadium district is just come to the table in a good faith effort . We don't have developers at the table. And I think, you know, all of the community benefits that that you've proposed, I know they're in there in the master plan. We we we subscribe to them all. I think, you know, I'm not a developer. I'm a football guy. The best hour of education on affordable housing I got were the 230 minute sessions with Councilman Can each. So I'm learning along in this in this whole process too. And I think, you know, we're we're trying to understand what that balance is. Right. And I guess, you know, we're we stand behind our commitment to keep the keep communicating with the neighborhood and make that a formal engagement and then sit down and really talk about all of them. I think it's it seems to me, you know, there is a really a window to avoid any of this. It's coming up with what mix works for year development. And again, until we really know what we're building and how much of it, it's tough to get to specific with that. And I know that's been somewhat frustrating for for you. Hall In some cases, but we're going to get there and we're committed to doing what's right for this project. And again, that's part of why we're trying to address some of this prior to being sort of commercially conflicted. Thank you, Mac. Mr. Sugar Stadium, the Metropolitan Football Stadium District. So the talk about the community benefits agreement, how far along are you after this plan? If this plan were to be adopted by council tonight, how far are you on selecting a developer? And is that a would it could it be a condition of the Metropolitan Football Stadium District, as you know, said in his letter to. To advocate for those same commitments. A couple of things. We as I think we've been described here, we have several steps to go. This is a step. We have zoning steps. We have reverse clause steps. We have several different steps to go. Now, as you know, the district is represented by the seven county region. So they they have all been patient playing, paying close attention to what we're doing here. Now, of course, it resides in the city and county of Denver, the building and the district property. We have worked with the neighborhoods. We have worked with the Broncos in the past, and we will continue to do that. We are committed to do that. Now, when you started getting into the specifics, I think that what Mac just described, that's something that we need to work out. Exactly. Again, we don't have a developer. We would like to move forward rapidly. We think the time is right to do this. And with all your help, we can continue to move this process forward. So, again, I don't want to prejudge conditions that we don't know what they are at this point. So there's been some mention about the condition of the stadium itself. Is a stadium I mean, a lot of people a lot of us I remember when in you know, was a great timing when we built the stadium, voted to build the stadium because we just had one Super Bowl. It seems like that's just yesterday. What I mean, shouldn't the stadium be in tip top shape? And if not, what kind of repairs are needed and why do we. I'm sure. Sure. How much what would the price tag be? I mean, some of us have toured the stadium, but there's a lot of folks that still look in the stadium is, oh, that thing's brand new. We looking backwards. It looks like we built the stadium for about $400 million. The price tags are going north of of 2 billion. Now it's in our interest, the district's interest, the Broncos interest and all the folks involved that we preserve and protect that stadium to last us another 20 to 30 years. That's what this effort is all about, is we're trying to generate an income stream that allows us to keep that stadium viable. So when people ask me that question, there's a lot of things you can say about that. And Mac can probably talk to this specifically. You know, an escalator, an elevator might have a life span of 10 to 15, maybe 20 years at the tops. It's close to $1,000,000 price tag to replace one of those. Multiply that by 20 a seat, the seat replacement, another 15 year product. We've already been through a process where we replace the boards, the video boards several years back. Now, I guess 2013, we spent about $32 million upgrading those types of things, not to mention some of the technology that goes along with this way. Back in 2001, when I was there and we opened the stadium, things like wi fi and those things weren't necessarily thought of as an important piece. Now they're like a utility. They are expected. Those are the investments that the Broncos have made into the facility, as well as the district. And I'm sure Mac had come up with a hundred other things that we've done. Not to mention the ongoing things like expansion joints in the building, again, 1.8 million square foot. That upkeep, I mean, it's literally separate buildings that are all built together because of expansion and contraction of the steel. Those are ongoing efforts. 14 or so parking lots try to repave a parking lot. I'm sure you've all dealt with looking at the city's issues with repaving, parking lots, that those kinds of things are expensive. So I'm rambling on here, but there's a lot of need. We've looked at conditions of the facility and what we need over the next 20, 22 to 30 years. And we're looking at a significant amount of money. What's the opportunity after this passes to get a Pro Bowl quarterback is not different fun. Different fun. Okay, I oh, okay. Okay, okay. Okay. But I'll get Councilman Lopez or. Yeah, yeah. Okay. I don't know if we're going to get an answer to that one tonight. All right. Next up, we have Councilwoman Canete. Thank you very much. And before I ask, I just want to first share my condolences for the loss of Pat Bowlen. I'm sure our entire community, including especially the Broncos community. And it just feels like we should mention that in as we're discussing this, I wanted to first ask, I think Sara probably or Jason a question. So Councilman Lopez has been asking some questions about the community benefits piece. This plan document describes a couple different groups in it. And so I just want to get clarity on the record. So there's talk about an. Neighborhood Advisory Group. And then there's talk about community benefits. And so I share some concerns with you about developers self-selecting community benefits group in terms of who they're negotiating with. Generally, those are more organic. So can you just talk about whether you believe the plan provides flexibility for those to be two separate groups? One group that kind of gets updates on the project and can include everybody in their uncle and. And just give me your your answer that we we we talked about. So the plan does remain flexible in terms of what that organizational structure would look like for a community benefit agreement. And in the plan, we recognize that typically they are between the community and the developer and that there could be potential for the city to remain as an advisory role and to be a part of it. So I think there definitely is flexibility and that there's definitely flexibility to negotiate what that looks like in the future. Right. So I. You think I want to ask this question, too? Maybe I'll ask Melissa Tidey to come forward for a second. One of the things that the community has discussed and the plan does a really excellent job of identifying is a desire for on site housing. And the way that that is typically done is through an alternative plan to paying a linkage fee. So this site would be standard expectations be required to do a linkage fee. Maybe there will be a bit density bonus. But the regardless of how the path of on site housing happens, it would usually go through the Office of Economic Development or our new departments gait. And so but we have a community very interested it being in the table and talking about their vision and their goals. So can you share some thoughts on how it is that we can accommodate both our legal requirements as well as now our blessing that's in this plan for the community to be involved in that conversation? Sure. Melissa Tardy, housing policy officer with Denver Economic Development, an opportunity so has been has been discussed a little bit earlier. This is just a visionary document. So is this plan guidance? No development has been committed at this time. There are strong recommendations about what would look like potentially a height, incentive overlay or some way of incentivizing affordable housing through or density. So through that process, it would require rezoning. This also would probably fall under the the large development review process that's going through city council process right now. And all of that requires community outreach and engagement to talk about what makes sense for the specific area area, median income levels, bedroom sizes, all of those things that the community's really been asking for. Okay, great. I think that's it for now. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Can each. The public hearing for Council Bill 488 has closed comments by members of council. Councilman Lopez. Thank you, Madam President. Well, first thing and I'm glad and I'm glad a councilman you to mention this, because we know whether to do it in announcements or now. But just in that spirit, we wanted to acknowledge the passing of Pat Boland, Broncos owner who had a good vision. I mean, Bears Stadium had been there for a long time, Mile High Stadium, but it wasn't always a sure thing. And from what I understand, Mr. Bolen had had a vision of not just having the stadium, but but a vision of everything around it as well, too. Right. And if you think about what Coors Field has done for the city of Denver and Coors Field was built right smack in the middle of that area. And if folks don't remember what it was like in that area, it's nothing like it is now. Now, think about going back in time. Think about that kind of opportunity down in in Sun Valley. But think about the community benefits that's tied to it. An economic engine that can help generate jobs, opportunity, housing, community benefits that go along with it. Yes, we will be able to maintain our stadium, a stadium that has such history in Denver. It's a diamond in West Denver. But also to think about not just the stadium and maintaining the stadium and make sure we you pay for it, but the surrounding community. And so this planning process has been one that's been seamless. And talking about a seamless neighborhood, we looked at different iterations of stadiums in neighborhoods around the country. Some are good and some were bad. Some of them were just poor planning, some of them almost like its own isolated little Disneyland. And it's a ghost town unto itself when there's no activity, no games. This is not that. There's this is a neighborhood. It's Sun Valley. And it's making sure that we are connecting and not just a planning sense, but transportation, economics, culture. Right. And making sure that it connects Federal Boulevard being part of that connectivity. West Colfax and Old West Colfax. And looking at what can be done there, you've got an up and coming brewery. You have businesses like sports that have been there for such a long time on federal. How do we make sure that it's those folks who have an opportunity as well to as as this as this fleshes out? And so, you know, I got to say, over the last year, it's been a heck of a process. It's been very inclusive. A lot of folks have been part of this process. But now the steering been part of the steering committee had meetings at the stadium, which drew hundreds of people to all chime in, everything from planning to parks to things like community benefits, the layout. And then, you know, this is a one step in in a lot of in a series of steps in terms of what this looks like. Now, I think about this and I think about this opportunity to be able to have this hearing tonight, this plan happening today, just weeks before we change guards on the council. And I can think of. The opportunity I had as a young man. I was I was I lived at 2704 West Second Avenue, just over there on clay. And second, it was a bike ride away from the stadium in the shadow of the stadiums where I grew up. One of the places where I grew up, we moved around a lot. I rode my bike to go sweep the concourses at Mile High Stadium and clean the bathrooms and take tickets. My my friend sold soda. That was our opportunity. But it's much more than that. And if you think about not just the jobs of the stadium, but everything that this economic engine would create around it, it's those local businesses. It's the mom and pop shops. It's those jobs. You think of office space. You think of retail. You think of just these opportunities for food access, right? For parks space, an open space, even in a place like this one. When Paco Sanchez is just down the street and Rudy Park is just down the street and the Platte River, you think of that kind of connectivity. And this plan addresses all that. So whether it's the built forum, the platform or even the economics and social, it's there. Now, Councilman Flynn have always been talking about Denver's Brooklyn Bridge. That is another conversation. That's a conversation you all will be have. But, yes, looking at that viaduct and how that viaduct transforms into a viaduct that moves people from the west side to central to the rest of Denver, not just by cars and vehicles, but by streetcars, by bikes, by walking across Colfax. Right. Without having to watch your back. So it's these are the generators, the cloverleaf. Right. And how it addresses the cloverleaf not turning its back on Federal Boulevard. And that's why you see a lot of that support here. The Broncos didn't always win a super Super Bowl, as a matter of fact, for the most part of my life. We've always lost them painfully. We've had some seasons where we I'm sorry to say this, but we barely made an average 500 season, but we still filled those seats. And the people who filled those seats, guess where they came from? He came from the surrounding neighborhoods. Paid those tickets. Watch those games. Cheered on. Sometimes we were disappointed and sometimes we were, you know, cheering them on all the way to the point where we go and watch us get blasted out of the Super Bowl 55 to 10. But we still came back. And that's that kind of ownership that the stadium had, and that's the kind of ownership this division will have. And I think as we remember those folks who live in that surrounding area, you will remember that they helped carry the team. But also we make sure that we create those opportunities. Right, those economic opportunities to advance forward. You know, I want to acknowledge, like folks like like yourself at that time, like Derek Friedman, Rudy Gonzalez on services. There are some the partnerships that have existed, the champions in the community program with the Broncos. Right. You look at the construction and building trades, the Electrical Workers Union, apprenticeships, it makes me feel good that there's a commitment to those community benefits. Now, this letter that's sitting on my desk is going to be signed after this by all these different folks, the Sun Valley Neighborhood Coalition, the Broncos. But it is a it is a a and a memorialization of those commitments. We're not a community benefits agreement yet, but that'll be this next council. I mean, you are and I want to make why this letter just kind of memorializes that, because we can't do it in a plan, because this is the planning documents a little different. Up until that time. This is what we got to refer to and you memorialize that commitment. So thank you all so much. And especially the Denver Broncos, especially all of you all for for committing to do this. Our planning staff. Thank you. This is a great process to have Steve Atwater and the real Vince Lombardi trophies. I had to go up there and actually look at them because I thought they were fakes. No, they're real. And they brought them there. I don't know what the price tag on those, but the closest I've ever gotten to anything like that. But at the end of the day, I just wanted to say thank you and thank you to her sous or A.I. at my office, who has been our point person to our office, our interface for this whole whole thing, and making sure that at least on our end, the strings are tied together in the community and that communication is there. So with that, you know, I do support this moving forward and look forward to seeing this as a well. As another as. As a resident of the neighborhood in the surrounding area. But not from this diocese. So. Thank you, ma'am, but I do support them. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. Councilwoman Canete. Thank you, Madam President. It's it's not lost on me that we've just now last week had the first major area plan under our new planning documents in the far northeast. And then this week we have the first small area plan in this stadium district. And you know that the headline writers, you know, through our last municipal election, the only headline that we could really see was growth. And you know what get gets lost in the the 30,000 foot level headline is the kind of alignment that is frequently happening in this chambers when communities are deeply engaged in long term conversations over the course of months and in some cases years about the places where growth both best belongs and the values that should be reflected in that growth. And so the subtitle of both last week and this week is that you can use a planning process to identify that alignment and you can get it with folks of very diverse backgrounds, including residents of public housing and those who represent an area of town, Colfax and Federal Boulevard, that have serious safety issues. And frankly, even though they represent districts representing vulnerable districts, vulnerable areas. And so I think that that's just a really important thing for us to pause and notice for a second that the details matter. And so to highlight, I think, a few of the details in the plan that I think are significant, where that alignment came together is one, you know, the physical alignment, right, about the connections, about the safety of streets, about the cloverleaf and the idea that we can do better than 19 acres of death trap. Right? Which is what that is for anyone who's not in a car going 40 miles an hour. And so I feel that, you know, there was incredible work done by all parties. And I thank all everyone who's here tonight and who testified because I think you all highlighted that alignment. And then secondly, on the principles of equity, you know, I know that one thing that sometimes we think about is that this term development is all about some owner making a lot of profit. And it's interesting because I actually think there's a lot of similarities between this conversation about the Stadium District and Union Station, a project that I was very close with, which is that in both cases, the development profit, if you will, is going to fund a public amenity. So we used all the development around Union Station to help pay for the transit, to help pay for the bus station, to help pay for the train station through a different structure. You're using this development to pay for the stadium. So that is a good thing. The question then becomes, well, if it's not just some land owner who's getting rich, are community benefits needed or appropriate? Aren't you getting the community benefit by virtue of funding the stadium or in that case, funding Union Station? And here's how I answer that. And I hear, I think how the plan answered says, which is to say, yeah, you still have to talk about the equity impacts and about the mitigation and the benefits because it is still an extraordinarily large amount of public investment involved. Right. So those street alignments that are going to make these things possible and you know, all of the public taxpayer money that went into this stadium, it's appropriate that the benefits flow equitably. That's the first reason why you still have to talk about community benefits, even though the stadium is an important beneficiary of the profit or the the margin. The second reason is because the displacement risks don't change based on who owns it. So if you put a lot of new fancy things in an area, no matter who they're benefiting or who the profit is going to, we know the ripple effects lead to the potential for displacement. We know that they make it harder for local businesses to have access sometimes or for residents to afford the housing. So the benefits are agnostic. They don't care who got the profit, they just affect the residents the same way. And we know that because a lot of the things that have resulted in displacement have been really important. Public infrastructure, like fixing the river or fixing streets or adding parks. They're great, they raise values and they result in some displacement. So so community benefits are appropriate, whether it's a corporate landowner, whether it's a public beneficiary, even if it's the city itself, building something. I think the question about how they get decided is, is where things get interesting and maybe the trade offs. Right. Into the conversation. But I want to commend the city for making its commitment for the first time, frankly, as clear as it has, that it's appropriate for the community to be in this conversation, not just us negotiating privately. That's a breakthrough, and it's just really worth highlighting as we go forward. I think that each milestone will bring us a better level of definition in detail. Right now, the plan lays out topics without laying out how they get decided. I do encourage and I appreciate that it seems like the stadium district is close to agreeing that these are the topics that your future developers need to discuss, and then we'll get more to how those topics get resolved in the future. But I really just wanted to kind of highlight all of that because I think that it gets skipped over a lot of times in the conversation about these projects. Once we leave the chamber and once we end up in the community, we're all just like, Oh, you're putting a lot of growth in. The other thing I want to say is to communities concerned about change in existing, existing neighborhoods. The more growth we can put on this site, the more it relieves pressure in other neighborhoods. So I want to be clear. The development here is happening on parking lots. It's happening on parking lots. Every story that is built here reduces some of the pressure elsewhere. And if we do it right, if we do it the way the plan says on site, with the mix of incomes on site, with open space, on site, with local business opportunities, it will reduce pressure for that same growth elsewhere. And I think that is really important also to put in the subtitle, this is the right place. And so it's it's a lot, but I don't think we're going to be worried about the views from the stadium. Right. So that's the right place to put it, right. And versus maybe next to a single storey home, right in in a different established neighborhood. So thank you for your forbearance with the long comments. But these are, I think, turning points for the city, and they need to be underlined so that we're on the same page going forward. I'm excited to support this plan. I appreciate the time everyone spent. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Canete. Next up, we have Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you. So, first of all, I want to say great job in all the collaborative work that you have done, because I can remember when the first football stadium project came before city council that was looking at closing down McNichols Sports Arena and then moving that and opening up the Pepsi Center and working to, over time tear down the old football stadium and build the new one. And they were both at the same site at the same time because we needed one for the games to take place and lots of community input in that process as well. And so fast forward to today, you're in a very active part of North Denver where communities are very engaged in what's happening in their neighborhood. And to be here tonight and to not having people here say, no, we don't want this project, we don't like it. I mean, everybody I think is in unison in wanting to see the changes happen, understanding that the stadium district needs to find some revenue to maintain the ongoing upkeep of the facility and at the same time creating some real benefit and opportunities for the community. And, you know, we'll see more details as you come forward with the rezoning plans and the actual community benefit agreement with the community. But to be here tonight and know that, you know, everybody's pretty much singing the same tune. Yes. They're different issues still need to be worked out. But in general, this is this is a big deal and some great opportunities, I think, yet to come for the broader community. My comments about impacted neighborhoods deals with the cumulative impact of 500 acres of development, not just one project at a time, but over time, the cumulative effect that may have on the adjacent neighborhoods. And so I think as a city, we need to be looking at and working on the bigger picture of how all of that happens in the next area or the gas area. That in DCC, the North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative, was created to look at how all those projects interface with one another, as so many of them are happening at the same time, and making sure that, you know, communities can get in and out of their neighborhood and things. Like that. But I think in general, you all have have done a great job. I would just strongly encourage that. I'm assuming the issue of the neighborhood parking program was part of the discussion. But I would anticipate the neighborhoods will want to continue to see that strongly in place and enforced not only on game days, but when there are big events like concerts and whatnot. So that as we remove the use of parking lots that currently get fully utilized on game days and people now have to find alternative ways to get to the game, that we're not looking at putting any of that impact into the adjacent communities. So I know those are all detailed things that you all are already looking at and talking about. But, you know, good job and I know there's a lot more work yet to be done. So I will be supporting this tonight. Thank you. All. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Councilman Cashman. Yeah, thank you, Madam President. Pro tem I hesitate to take Councilman Flynn's mantle is our council historian, but there's something I want to bring up. And in reference to Mr. Bolen, that and all the stories that have been in the paper about him recently, I haven't heard mentioned, you know, South Broadway, South of Sixth Avenue, has become very hip in recent years and it's booming. And there's people on the streets at all kinds of hours and nights of the week. And there's Punchbowl Social Club and the Hornets been there for years and years, and there's some new and great restaurants and ice cream shops, and it's just as vibrant as can be. But over the years, as a resident and as a journalist, I've watched literally hundreds of businesses come and go on that strip. Every decade or so, new businesses would come in. They'd form a new merchants association and declare, we're going to revitalize South Broadway. And it didn't happen until recently. But through the decades, what's been that the drawing card, bringing those businesses to try has been the main theater at first and Broadway, and in the mid eighties, the main theater was literally within hours of the wrecking ball. And I believe the story goes was Federico Pena that made former energy secretary and our former mayor, Federico Payan You made a contact with Mr. Boland, who got together with his partner at the time and purchased Union Bank and Trust, which owned the block that the man was on and preserved the man theater. And the man, as we all know, has been revitalized and still stands as as that primary landmark that people know when they come to South Broadway. And so what I would just urge, as you know, we had a couple of people here tonight talk about, you know, not talk about who we hope some big chain comes in . But I'd like to have my own restaurant in this district. I'd like to be part of it where Mr. Baldwin bought Union Bank and Trust. I hope he made some dough on it, but that was not a I want to get rich type of decision. That was a community benefit right there. So recognizing that Mr. B is passed on to his next journey, I hope you'll stay in contact with him as this gets planned and be sure that those community benefits, those local businesses are part of it. So I think it would be a great way to honor his legacy off the football field and really deliver something to that neighborhood that the residents can can take part in. So thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman Cashman. And I'll just add in that I, you know, love that folks have been proactive and really looking at the community benefits piece and echoing Councilman Cashman around the small businesses that that we heard from here tonight, and that we want to make sure that we're bringing them into the fold and that with this amazing, great new development, that we don't lose that inclusive feel of the entire area. And so with that being said, I'm happy to support this tonight. And Madam Secretary, roll call, please. Black. Flynn I. Cashman I. Can. Lopez. All right. New Ortega. Hi. Assessment, Mr. President. I'm sorry, Madam President, I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. Nine Eyes. Nine Eyes Council Bill 488 has passed. Councilman new, will you please put council bill 538 on the floor for us?