Approves an official map amendment mapping the Zone District Campus-National Western Center (CMP-NWC) to properties either owned by the City and County of Denver or the National Western Association within the campus area identified in the National Western Center Master Plan, rezoning the properties from I-B (Industrial, 4,500 Lot Size), UO-2 (Use Overlay Allowing Billboards); I-A (Industrial, 3,000 Lot Size), UO-2 (Use Overlay Allowing Billboards); I-MX-3 (Industrial, Mixed Use, 3 stories), UO-2 (Use Overlay Allowing Billboards); CMP-ENT (Campus, Entertainment), UO-2 (Use Overlay Allowing Billboards) to CMP-NWC, UO-2 in Council District 9 (2015I-00057). (NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLANNING) Approves an official map amendment mapping the Zone District Campus-National Western Center (CMP-NWC) to properties either owned by the City and County of Denver or the National Western Association within the campus area identified in the National Western Center Master Plan, rezoning the properties from I-B (Industrial, 4,500 Lot Size), UO-2 (Use Overlay Allowing Billboards); I-A (Industrial, 3,000 Lot Siz
Let's take all of those in districts to see MP nwc you oh to the campus national western center and continuing to allow the billboard use overlay of the map that you see the properties shaded in blue are the proposed areas to be zoned. Again. Here he is in blue. Those areas be zoned as legal descriptions of other properties owned by the city or the national or the Western Structure Association are properly defined and as the city acquires properties within the National Western Center area. Additional map amendments to resume properties to CFP and the NWC will be brought before City Council. So this is one of many MAP amendments for the National Western Center. So the public process is the same. We talk about the map and text together. But all notices public notice for planning board the for the public hearing were emailed to all Arnaud's and all city council members. Signs were posted throughout subject rezoning say and then for the public hearing tonight. Notice was emailed to all Arnaud's and all city council members and signs were posted throughout the subject rezoning site, the same condition applied. So Planning Board did recommend approval unanimously with a condition that City Council acknowledge and address the concerns expressed by the neighborhood stakeholders with regards to neighborhood involvement and governance and community equity. The existing land use surrounding the proposed rezoning is the land use consists of vacant park parking and entertainment and cultural uses, and then the surrounding area is largely industrial, with nearby residential in the area Swansea and across the South Platte River in Globeville. So the criteria for review for a map amendment consistency was adopted plans uniform to district regulations to further the public safety and welfare justifying circumstance um consistency with neighborhood context and district purpose and intent. So again, there are five plans that apply to this site. The proposed map amendment is consistent with many objectives and strategies found in comp plan 2000, as detailed in the staff report and highlighted on this slide, promoting the infill and designing mixed use communities by mapping this zone district. The signature would allow for more density at the future transit station and would celebrate the existing focal point of the National Western. In Denver. The venues concept for Blueprint Denver is entertainment, cultural exhibition, area of change and the details as to how the proposed map move is consistent with the objectives of blueprints detailed in your staff report highlighted here on the map. As you can see, it's all an area of change and it's all entertainment. Cultural Exhibition. The Globeville Neighborhood Plan also applies, as I mentioned, previously proposed map is consistent with many of the strategies as detailed in the staff report, some of the key recommendations from the global plan. Talk about implementing the build out in the National Western Center. So embracing the river, providing better access to resources, improving educational opportunities. All uses are allowed in this ENP National Research Center associated with education and community resources. And then the another key recommendation is to introduce new multimodal connections over the river to the National Western Center, which is critical to the build out of this center. Hillary's wants a neighborhood plan, so the proposed map movement is consistent with many objectives and strategies found within the plan. As detailed in your staff report, as you can see by the the map, it's encouraging the development of the key sites, including National Western Center. Also, the plan allows building heights that deal, outgoing heights, should accommodate the redevelopment of the National Western Center and that two d should be targeted adjacent to the station. So the by mapping copy and wc the uses that would be allowed and the intensity of uses meet the goals and strategies of the leaders. Once an airplane. The proposed map movement is consistent many objectives and strategies found in the National Western Center Master Plan, as detailed in the staff report, providing a variety of programs, fostering regeneration and driving new tourism. This MAP amendment will result in uniform regulations applicable to all new buildings and uses within the land mapped. See MP NWC. This MAP movement furthers the public health, safety and general welfare of Denver residents as they provide for implementation and revitalization of the National Western Center as identified in the city's adopted plans. The justifying circumstance for the proposed map is the land or its surrounding environs. It's changed or is changing to such a degree that is in the public interest to encourage the redevelopment of the area or to recognize the change character of the area. A lot of the discussion we've had, a lot of the impetus and momentum behind build out of the National Western Center is a justifying circumstance in itself. There's more detail confined in your staff report than inconsistency with the neighborhood context zone district person. In turn, the proposed map movement would lead to development that is consistent with the campus context description, which was specifically written for the National Western Center. And so the purpose and intent is met by and is consistent by mapping it at the National Western Center site as proposed. So with that, CBT recommends approval based on finding that all criteria have been met. Thank you. Thank you. We have eight speakers for this and I will call the first five and. Hayes Paul Andrews, Johns, EPA and Betty Cram, Drew Dutcher so those five can make their way up to the front pew. And the remaining three I will call up as we move through that. And, Ms.. Hays, you may go ahead and begin your remarks. Thank you, Mr. President. Members of council my name is Ann Hayes. I'm a resident of Denver. I'm also a member of the National Western Citizens Advisory Committee. I also am with a company who owns 14 acres on Brighton Boulevard that we intend to redevelop. I also have been very involved in the working group for Brighton Boulevard and on the board of the newly formed General Improvement District for Reno. I am here to just tell you that I totally support Bill 325 and the rezoning of these properties. I think that the rezoning, as Kelly and Steve have mentioned, is an important next step in bringing this project forward and bringing the benefits to the adjacent neighborhoods that will come from that and and into the entire city with the redevelopment of this property. But I also think it's important to note from my perspective that this forward momentum and rezone also gives encouragement to developers and business investment nearby, such as ourselves, that can count on the fact that this is going to happen likely in the future. And so therefore we are willing to spend our money in improving those properties and the people who we bring on to the property in our development who will be creating new businesses. So that will also bring opportunity and prosperity to the adjacent neighborhoods as well. Thank. Thank you. Paul Anders. Thank you, Mr. President. Members of Council. My name's Paul Andrews. My address is 4655 Humboldt Street. I'm here tonight as the CEO of the Nation of Western Stock Show. We are the landowner for portions of the property in question this evening, and we fully support the rezoning of our property to the National Western Center Zone District. Think you also have supportive letters from partners of the project that have been handed out to you? CSU, The Museum of Nature and Science and History, Colorado. Just like to make note of that, the proposed rezoning will assist in the implementation of the National Western Center Master Plan that you adopted in March of this year. The Nation of Western Center Master Plan, as you know, envisions a complex that focuses on the research and animal husbandry, agriculture, retail and entertainment for 365 days a year. It will also continue the dominance of the National Western Stock Show as the world's leading livestock show that celebrates our Western heritage. Not all of these uses are possible with our existing industrial zoning. Category three Zoning this evening is one more step towards the implementation of the National Western Center vision, and we encourage your support. Thank you. Thank you, John Sabian. Good evening. This is the second time that I'm here on behalf of the national western. And a neighbor of ours. Dave, asked us. Asked me, Brother, how can you support an effort that's pissed in your backyard for the last eight years? And I said, Well, if you have gone through the process, as we have in the last two years or so. It's been enlightening and. The term Western heritage has different meanings to different people, positive and negative. I think we're at the point in that level of Western history where we can start separating the facts from generalities. I feel what we have at hand with the national Western efforts, the city and county of Denver's efforts and the neighborhood effort that's gone into. This whole process is. An awakening as to the possibilities that await not just the national western, the city and county of Denver, but all the neighborhoods around, not just Globeville, Elyria and Swansea , but also Cole. Whittier. Curtis Park. Mm hmm. And even some of the Rhino Place, the new ballpark neighborhoods. It's going to benefit a lot of people. Hopefully it will benefit Globeville and Swansea the most, because that's our self-interest. With the establishment of the educational effort by CSU and the history, people involved will be able to teach our young kids the true aspects of Western history. Both negative and positive. But more importantly, I see this as a golden opportunity, the best opportunity I've seen. In the last 80 years for little kids growing up. Especially close to that area to have opportunities to get into things that we never dreamed of could happen. The whole idea of food science, water plant and animal husbandry, food and the next generation is going to be a big item. Mr. Lopez hit the nail on the head, and we can teach our kids through this process those great possibilities. And I urge you to support this effort. We're going to be here again. JUERGENS You're going to see more of me. I promise you that. And I think that we can go forward in a real positive effort, working with all the people that we have been. It's been very enlightening to me, and I've enjoyed it very much, and I look forward to taking on the next bull by the horns. Thank you. Thank you, Betty Graham. Thank you so much. And thank you, Mr. President. And City Council. My name is Betty Cram and I have lived in the neighborhood for a long time and I'm a proud supporter and always will be of the National Western. And I've been to many, many shows and I worked on the Yards and I also worked at the Livestock Exchange Building and at the commission companies. And it was a great, great time when when the stock show got ready to come to town, it was like magic. Many of the people were from the community and from the community. In fact, I think sometimes it was the only job they had all year was when they went to work at the stock show. And a lot of the ladies would always make sure they'd always give up their bedrooms and they all ran out their rooms to people as the stock shocking suction man came in. They would always there was a lot of people rented out a lot of rooms to the stock show people. And so in town, when the stock show came to town, it was like magic. Then we had a little scare because we thought we might lose the structure. It was very, very frightening. And we worked hard. We got a lot of signatures. And the and I hope it helped prove that we really thought a lot to have them stay. Then we got CSU coming on board with us, and I think that's going to be one of the greatest things there is. I was a little disappointed one day when I saw that they said there's parts of Denver they don't think we ought to be called Top Cow Town. They there was a lot of people don't even know our area of town. It's an old, old area. It's not a rich area, but it's got some of the most wonderful people you could ever know that live in that area. And they have that's what brought the name in the first place. When I was working down there on the plains in the fall, the cattle would come into town from the farm, from the farms and from the ranches. We'd sometimes have 40,000 cattle coming in one day on the on the trains and in and then the in on in the end, shipped in. So it was really it was a proper name. And I will always say it is the cow town. And I'm so glad we still call it a cow down. Thank you. Thank you. Next is Drew Decker. And as Drew comes up, I'll call the last three speakers Micki Zeppelin, Kim, Q, Sarah and and Elizabeth. So those three can make their way up to the front pew and that's it. You can go ahead. Hi. Hi. Thank you, Mr. President. My name is Drew Dutcher. I live in the Elyria neighborhood. I've been very involved in the National Western Planning, as well as the neighborhood plans for Larry, Swansea and also in Globeville. I do want to say that the resident participation among the also the National Western Citizens Advisory Committee, I think the residential participation for the stock show of the National Western Center has been really great and they've really reached out and there's been a lot of enthusiasm. I think there's really an effort to involve the community. But so so I think that that that that has been that has been great. But there's a new vision here, I think a very unique vision that's never been tried anywhere else. It's not just another stock show. It's the presence of the CSU and the History Colorado and the Museum of Nature and Science is something totally different. Nobody really knows what this will be like, and that's very exciting. This will be unique in the nation and probably unique in the in the world. I think that we have a chance to change the history where we may have we no longer isolate institutions from people with this new vision. There's enormous potential here. And I enthusiastically support the campaign for the the National Western Center. Thanks very much. Thank you. Maggie Zeppelin. Good evening. I'm Mickey Zeppelin. And I want to thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight and also want to express my thanks to all of this council for the support that we received from the council in terms of Rhino, in terms of any number of projects, and particularly to Judy Monteiro, who's really led the effort to make the northern section of the city really what it is. We keep hearing about it, the hearings before us, for really also a recognition of Judy's efforts, as is Union Station and other areas of the city. So thank you, Judy, so much. I strongly believe in the catalytic effect of the national western in terms of what it does for the city and particularly for the neighborhoods. I guess I wouldn't be wearing this silly shirt if I didn't believe that that was the case. But I catalytic in the part as a catalytic in the catalytic goods. Obviously, some sort of zoning is necessary and just to basically set the ground rules for what's happening. My concern is that although this is a good start, it not be the end. This is an evolving process. We're talking about a ten or 15 year development cycle. And I think it's important that we not use this zoning to use a Western term as a corral, as basically closing it in, but looking look at it as a free range. There's a lot of opportunities that will be coming up, a lot of opportunities in the neighborhood. The neighborhoods really have been kind of the wasteland in a sense for the last 50 years or so. And I think it's time that we really the Council and the National Western really work together. The funds from the seed tax, etc., are confined to this zoned area. So I think we need to be open to basically look at some possible expansion in terms of the area. Their needs for that really conserve both the national western and the neighborhood. And we need to seize those opportunities. We need to make it a real campus. We need to get rid of fences and we need to break down those barriers that now are part of national western and open it up to not only the neighborhoods in the city, but the whole country. Thank you. And I support the zoning as a first step. Thank you. Kim Kucera. Hello. My name is Kim. Sarah. My address is 1660 Lincoln. And I'm here reading a letter on behalf of a member of community who could not be here this evening. It says, As I am out of town, I appreciate my comments being read into the record. My name is Vernon L. Hill. Managing partner of GE Properties 810 to 870 East 50th Avenue, Denver 80216. The business property consisting of 150,000. Square feet, is one of the success stories of Globeville. Having been a. Significant part of the meatpacking, his meatpacking history from the 1920s to 1950s. It has since been repurposed into three successful and thriving meat, seafood and produce small businesses employing over 60 people. I have worked in Globeville since 1984, owning a commercial and industrial construction company and have seen the changes in Globeville over the years. Because of my dedication and commitment to this community. I have given extensive time and effort as a member of the Globeville Steering Committee, National Western Center, Citizen Advisory Committee and Globeville Civic Association. When I spoke at the Planning Board meeting regarding the National Western Center rezoning, I presented concerns in the form of a draft memorandum of Understanding for the North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative. While expressing my support for the zoning changes, I was gratified with the Planning Board's conditional approval. To. Condition attached to their approval that the City Council acknowledge and address the concerns expressed by the neighborhood stakeholders with regards to neighborhood involvement in governance and community equity. Thus my comments 2016 North North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative Budget. In meeting with Kelley Lead, it was encouraging to hear of the projects for Globeville that he is considering to include in the 2016 budget. He also has the list of budget items requested by the Globeville Civic Association and will be interesting to see how the overall budget. Will be structured. We look forward to receiving the 2016 budget summary as we move forward in the aggressive implementation of the Globeville plan. Memorandum of Understanding. It was my hope to have this completed prior to today's meeting, Kelley Lead received a copy of the Globeville Civic Association, proposed. MRU, and likewise Kelley presented. In memo you draft from the DCC. I requested that Keller review and align both drafts to meet the needs of the Globeville Civic Association and North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative. I am in favor of the suggested change to the statement of commitment signed by Mayor Hancock, which would be a strong moral commitment to the community. The development of the National Western Center has the potential to bring historic, unprecedented transformation beyond the National Western Center boundaries and hopefully into the surrounding neighborhoods of Globeville, Elyria and Swansea. I request the continued support and input of City Council and I am in favor of moving forward on the National Western Center zoning request. Thank you. Thank you. And Lizbeth. Hi. And Elizabeth National, Globeville. And I'm on the National Chester Senior Citizens Advisory Committee. I want to speak in favor of the MAP Amendment and to the synergistic, the perpetual synergistic relationship between the text amendment, the text and the map relationship as we go forward as the dynamic. And that I think that the two memorialize the history of these changes, I think would be a great idea. Kelly Lead once made the comment that we ought to write a book on what they discovered in trying to find the boundaries of these properties and that kind of thing. And I think that there is something important there, and I hope that that is understood to be part of the legacy and that there are stories there. And I hope somewhere a mechanism can be created to provide a little grant for the History Colorado and the NDDC to memorialize this. And to Steve Nally in the Planning Department to talk about the foundational breakthroughs in presenting zoning, through learning about presenting critical paths versus details and the magnificent process discoveries. And so I want to support the MAP agreement, the MAP amendments, the map, the creation of the map zoning, and also recognize that there is work to be done , partly because our city workers have discovered these mysteries and these incredible historical uncertainties. And that part of this, the excitement of what can become a legacy project like the National Western that can revitalize an area has to do with this history that even precedes when the boundaries were born to the original indigenous people that are somewhat neglected in the conversations. And there's a lot to be discovered there. So I would just want to say that this is a moment where I feel we're putting a touchstone in place as we move forward. Next becomes building and the concepts and the design and preserving the flexibility relative to the things that can be accomplished over the generations with with this sort of thing. So just just to to memorialize it and to make sure that we understand these are stepping stones and all of the people that are involved in this, whether it's the city council, the city staff, the residents, the folks that have preceded us for generations that have have contributed to this being the special area that it is, or there would be no reason for this to have such a specialness as we go forward and as we all go off into the ether. What we've done here, I really think is profound, and there's more to be discovered about what it is. And I hope it can be memorialized by supporting the folks that are on the front line with discovering what it is that has to be put into nuts and bolts and brought out as part of the documented history to make sure we also are accountable to that. So with that, I support this and wish for the depth of of really memorializing it as a way of appreciating everybody that's been involved with this for the last ten, 15, 20, 30, 40, 100 years. Thank you. That concludes our speakers. So now any questions from members of Council 325. All right. Seen none. Public hearing 325 is now closed. Time for comment. Councilwoman Monteiro. Thank you, Mr. President. I want to thank everybody that has come out tonight and Hayes, Paul Andrews, Betty Kram, Drew Deutscher, Mikki Zeppelin, Kim Kiss, Sarah, 81 to thank Mr. Hancock and his Cabinet members who have worked on this effort. And also to all of my colleagues tonight for being here this evening, knowing that you could have had the evening off. But you're here with us. So I very much appreciate it. The National Western Stock Show has had a long history of 109 years in the Globeville area, Swansea and neighborhood. And it's been my focus for the 12 years that I've served on council. It wasn't long ago, as was mentioned by the speakers, that we were working just to keep National Western here in Denver in our National Western Committee, taking the National Western Complex to the next level is moving forward. And we've had so many accomplishments, including a major feasibility study, a commitment to stay in Denver, a memorandum of understanding with CSU, the Denver Museum, Nature of Nature and Science History, Colorado. The formation of the National Western Center Advisory Committee, the global Elyria, Swansea and Neighborhood Plans and the National Western Master Plan. Also an application to the Regional Tourism Act in support of the CSU facilities at the state level. Just as significant to me as the movement going forward of National Western are the hopes of the surrounding neighborhoods of Globeville, Elyria and swans here to move forward as well with their neighborhood plans and improvements. Now that we are in the next stages of realizing the master plan and building the infrastructure for a national Western, we must also be integrating the human spirit in the neighborhoods where the national western exists. Globeville, Elyria and Swansea. If National Western is indeed going to be catalytic in nature, incorporating the values of the people in the area into the picture is just as critical as a physical connectivity. Moving the National Western Center text amendments and mapping forward is a step in the right direction for the master plan, but must also include long term sustainable structures for decision making. That includes the people of global Elyria sponsored Swans here and supports their dreams and aspirations. I would be extremely disappointed if the neighborhood was marginalized as their time is important and their contributions critical to the health, future and vitality of the neighborhood. It is also important to me moving forward that the neighborhood is always at the heart of the decision making over the full rollout in the future of the projects. I would like to see these amendments as charting a new course for how large scale projects move forward within historic, yet vulnerable neighborhoods. A new path would include a sustainable structure for inclusive government governance to the neighborhoods and the transformation of the national Western. Equally valuing the human factors of development, such as integration of jobs, training, health and well-being, and affordable housing for Elyria, Globeville and Swansea, and requesting that mediation services to work with the neighborhood are also a need for an ongoing role, as requested to me by neighborhood people, for an ombudsman to support neighbors throughout this fast moving process to help ensure that they are kept up to speed. No other neighborhoods in the city have been asked to be able to track the amount of public investment coming into and through their neighborhoods. And my worry is that the neighborhood will be left behind. So I just want to thank everyone again. And it was important for me to put my a little bit of my fears on the record, because my hope is that with the neighborhoods all coming together and all of the work that's been put into this whole process , that it keeps going forward but it keeps going forward in a suspicious, substantial and credible way, and that the neighborhoods here are not marginalized and are not seen included. They are, but they are. And. Marginalized as we go forward. If there's any opportunity for the sportsmen to play a neutral part in representing the neighborhoods is that all of these decisions are coming forward. I think it would be beneficial to all. So I'm asking my colleagues to support this very, very important proposal before us. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman Monteiro. Councilman Brooks. Thank you, Mr. President. This is a this is an exciting day. And I, I was looking at Paul Andrews and I was reminded of August 2011. You're not going to remember this. You will. When I tell you, though, we're sitting in a visit Denver boardroom and the conversation was about, you know, the National Western Stock Show going to Aurora. And boy, you could cut the tension in that room with a knife. And Paul was just almost, you know, best for his organization. But you could see everyone in the room was very tense and wanted the National Western Stock Show. And fast forward here, 2015, a neighborhood coming together, an entire agency formed from the mayor's office. An entire city excited. A ballot measure pending. We have moved really, really fast. And, you know, I just I couldn't be more thrilled to be a part of this. And I think this council that is leaving couldn't be more thrilled to be a part of this, as well as this is one of our last meetings. But we'll I think we'll hold the city and the community accountable to this to see how fast we can get things done. I think a lot of plans sit on the table. They sit on the shelf for a long time. But this is being implemented at a very quick rate and we're really excited about it. I'm excited to be representing this this neighborhood and just a couple of weeks. And the things that I've been underlining is community input, community engagement, continue to bring the community along, have them at the table, which is great. But the thing that I haven't heard mentioned a lot, but came up a lot at Alaska's Civic Globeville Civic Association meeting is the existing conditions of the environment that we're currently in, the number of businesses that are acting in violation. I mean, think someone brought it up to tonight and talked about it that, you know, we have a vision for the future. But unless we start taking steps towards helping neighbor, helping the neighborhoods, helping good businesses get up to code and things like that, we're going to be in trouble . And so those are some things I'm going to be real focused on. The other piece is when I knocked on a number of doors in Globeville area, Swansea, I was amazed at the number of people who are not a part of the process, the number of people in the community who don't know what's going on. And so we still have a lot of work to do in trying to get folks to the meeting, trying to get folks to be a part of this, in way in to what they're, you know, these decisions that we're making. So while I think we've we've come a long way, there's still a lot of work that we have to do. And I think the people in this room are ready for it. And so I just want to thank Councilman Monteiro again for for working hard. All of the bills tonight have been in your district, so that says a little something. She's been incredibly busy, but not just busy. I think there's a bunch of neighbors who support all the work that you've been doing. So great work. And as as far as the community, thank you for your involvement. We've got a lot of work to do. We're going to keep working hard and and we'll be there to keep moving the ball down the field. So thank you so much. Thank you, Councilman Brooks. All right. In the comments. 325. See none. Madam Secretary, welcome. Montero i. Nevett i. Ortega, I. Rob i. Brooks. I. Brown. Can each. Layman. Hi, Lopez. Hi, Mr. President. Hi. Madam Secretary. Please cause a very nice results. Nice, nice, nice. Nice. 325 has passed. All right, we've got one more. And just remind counsel. After the public hearing and vote on 381, we will also need to vote on 430 the companion bill. So don't take off after the 381 vote.