A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 1880 South Monroe Street in University Park. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from E-SU-D to E-SU-D1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 1880 South Monroe Street in Council District 6. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 4-27-21.
I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce results. And I can I counsel bill 20 1-0461 has passed. Councilmember Herndon, will you please put council bill 464 on the floor for final passage. And move the Council Bill 20 10464 and be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. They required public hearing for council bill 464 is open. May we please have the staff report and we have Libby here with us. Go ahead, please. All right. Okay. My name is Libby Adams of Community Planning and Development, and I'll be presenting the MAP Amendment for 1880 South Monroe Street. This application is located in Council District six in the University Park neighborhood. The property is located between Bucktown Boulevard and I 25. The applicant is requesting to reason from urban edge single unit D two Urban Edge single unit RD one to allow for an accessory dwelling unit. The property was red zone from ESU D X to ESU D in 2019 as part of a legislative rezoning in University Park to eliminate the suburban house building form within the neighborhood. The site is currently occupied by a single unit home. You can see its mostly single unit in this area, but then multi-unit directly east and south of the site. This slide shows the residential nature of the area with the subject property on the upper right hand side and then some of the single unit residences and then multi-unit residence just to the south. A postcard notifying neighboring property. Owners was sent out. Within 200 feet of the site on February 25th. To date, staff has received a statement from the registered neighborhood organization and three comments from neighboring residents, all in support of the proposed rezoning. Although one comment did note that while they are in support of the rezoning and abuse, they encourage staff to look at the design and then short term rental regulations around abuse. The Denver zoning code has five review criteria which must be met in order for a rezoning to be approved. The first criterion is. Consistency with. Adopted plans, and there are three plans that are applicable to the site. This application is consistent with the strategies. In the. Comprehensive plan, as it will create a greater mix of housing options in the University Park neighborhood and promote infill development where there are already services and infrastructure in place. The future neighborhood context in Blueprint Denver is urban edge. These areas contain elements of both the urban and suburban contexts and are mostly single in two unit residential areas with some multi-unit and mixed use embedded throughout. Blueprint identifies the future place type as low residential. These place types are mostly single unit residential uses, and there are areas where accessory dwelling units are appropriate. And then the future street type for Monroe Street is is local. And these are mostly characterized by residential uses consistent with what the applicant is proposing. The growth area strategy is all other areas of the city. This is where we anticipate to see 10% of new employment and 20% of new housing by 2040. And then blueprint also includes specific policy recommendations. So the land use and built for housing policy. For strategy. E states that individual rezonings to allow aids are appropriate and should be small, an area which is consistent with this single site adu rezoning. And then the University Park Neighborhood Plan is also applicable to this site and designates this area as single family residential, stating that new development should be integrated into the existing character of the neighborhood . And this is consistent with the proposed rezoning, says ESU. D1 is a single unit district. Staff also finds the requested zoning meets the next two criteria. The rezoning will result in uniformity of district regulations, and it will further have a public health, safety and welfare. By providing a new housing unit that is integrated into the existing character of the area and implementing Blueprint Denver. Staff finds there's. A justifying circumstance for. This MAP amendment with the newly adopted plan guidance in Blueprint. Denver to allow aid to use throughout all. Residential neighborhoods. And then lastly, the proposed rezoning is consistent with the urban edge neighborhood context, the residential zoned districts purpose and the specific intent of the ESU de one zoned district. So based on the review criteria, staff recommends approval of the proposed rezoning. And that concludes the stock presentation. And I am available for questions. All right. Thank you, Libby. Tonight, council has received one written comment on Council Bill 464. There is one suspended comment in favor of the application and no submitted comments in opposition of the application application. All members of Council that are present have certified that they have read each of the submitted written comments. Do any members need more time in order to read all of the written testimony that was submitted? CNN council secretary let the record reflect that all written testimony, both in favor and in opposition of Council Bill 464 has been read by each member of council and all written testimony will be submitted to the official record of the hearing. We have this evening, one individual signed up to speak and our first speaker and only speaker is Tyler Higgins. Sorry for mispronounce you anyway. So that's perfect. Thank you. Hi, I'm Tyler Keegan's. I live at the property address. Just wanted to follow up real quickly that similar to the last applicant we're looking to, has a mother in law to live with us in the back of the property. It's pretty much straightforward like that, but I just want to join, say hi and and see if there are any questions as well. All right. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 464. See no questions. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 464 Council Member Cashman. Thank you, Madam President. I do believe this application meets the requirements with with some comments in that our plans talk about ideas being appropriate to maintain the residential quality character of the neighborhood. They say its priorities are appropriate to add to our housing stock. What I'm asking is that our community planning and development folks get to work on a and a a an option where this an idea can be approved but without allowance for short term rentals. I would really like our CPD staff to do a merge with the list of accessory dwelling units with our short term rental licensing list . So we get some information to find out how these units are being used. I'm getting increasingly cranky at not having that option. Am a strong believer in accessory dwelling units as important to solving our housing issues. But if I if I start seeing data that tells me it's being used as alley hotels, I will find that not compatible with our plans. And we'll start voting no on ADU applications until we have that available option. Tonight, I'm pleased to support this and will ask my colleagues to join me. Thank you, Councilmember Cashman, and agree on all of those points and seeing that this one before us does meet all of the rezoning criteria, happy to support it as well. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 464. Cashman High. Sandoval. I. Sawyer, I. For it, I. Black. I. The tobacco. Claire. I. When? I. Brendan. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, closed the voting and announced results. Nine three. Nine I's Council Bill 20 10464 has passed. Moving on. Councilmember Herndon, will you please put Council Bill 592 on the floor for final passage?