A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 8120 West Tufts Avenue in Marston. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from PUD 252 to S-MX-3 (planned development to suburban mixed-use), located at 8120 West Tufts Avenue in Council District 2. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 4-6-21.
I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announced the results. 12 hours 12 I Council Bill 20 1-0517 has been ordered published. Thank you, Michael. We appreciate you being here this evening. Thank you. All right. Moving on, Councilmember Cashman, would you please put Council Bill 356 on the floor for final passage? Yes, council president. I move that council bill 20 1-0356 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved and I think I got Councilman Herndon there with that second they're required public hearing for council bill 356 is open. May we please have the staff report? Yes. Thank you. Council President. Let me share my screen. Right. Can you see that and hear me? Uh huh. Go ahead. Okay, great. Thank you. I'm Libby Adams with Community Planning and Development. And I'll be presenting the MAP Amendment for 8120 West Tufts Avenue. This application is located in Council District two in the Marston neighborhood. The applicant is requesting tourism from PD to 52 to S-Max three. This site is located along West Tufts Avenue, just west of Wadsworth Way. It's just it's just under five acres. And it's the site of an existing car dealership. EOD 252 is within the former Chapter 59 zoning code. It allows for the B4 uses but is mostly allowed for an auto park. It has a floor area ratio of 1.14 to 1 for the entire PD and then a floor area ratio of 2 to 1 for each individual site within the pod. It's currently used for commercial and retail. And you can see kind of the western side of Wadsworth Way is mostly commercial retail. And then as you move farther west and then east of Wadsworth Way, it's multi-unit residential. This slide shows the existing building form and scale with the subject site on the bottom right, left hand side of the screen. And you can see there are several other dealerships in this area and some other auto oriented uses. And then there's multi-unit just to the north of across Tufts Avenue. This application was complete at the beginning of January and on January 10th, an informational notice to property owners within 200 feet and registered neighborhood organizations was sent out on or at the end of March, planning board unanimously recommended approval of this item on the consent agenda . And to date, staff has not received any comments from neighboring property owners or registered neighborhood organizations. The Denver zoning code has five review criteria which must be met in order for a rezoning to be approved. The first is consistency with adopted plans, and there are two plans that are applicable to this site. And in a comprehensive plan. This meets several of the strategies, but most notably it will provide by resorting to some x three will provide basic services and a variety of amenities to the area, and it could encourage mixed use communities where residents can live, work and play in their own neighborhoods. And Blueprint. Denver The future neighborhood context is suburban. These areas have a range of uses. The block patterns are regular and streets are curvilinear. The future place type in blueprint. Denver is community corridors. These provide a mix of office, residential, commercial and retail uses. With heights generally up to five stories. And then the future street type of Tufts Avenue is a local street. And these can have a variety of uses, but most notably their residential. The growth area strategy is community centers and corridors. This is where we anticipate to see 20% of new jobs and 25% of new housing by 2040. And then blueprint also includes specific policies. So this one is the Denver land use and built for general policy three strategy, which really encourages the rezoning of properties from the former Chapter 59 Code into the Denver Zoning Code. Staff also finds it meets the next two criteria the reason you will result in uniformity of district regulations and it will further the public health, safety and welfare by rezoning a property from the former Chapter 59 into the Denver Zoning Code, which is in compliance with our adopted plans. Additionally, it won't have a negative impact by rezoning one property out of an existing pad. There won't be a major negative impact on the remainder because there is a maximum floor area ratio for each site within the PD. So that will prevent any shifting of density in the properties that remain. Staff also finds there's a justifying circumstance and that the city adopted the Denver zoning code in this property remains in the former Chapter 59 code. And lastly, this proposed rezoning is consistent with the suburban neighborhood context. The mixed use zone districts purpose and the specific intent of the next three school district. Therefore, staff finds that all five criteria have been met and recommend approval. And that concludes the staff presentation. All right. Thank you, Libby. Tonight, council has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 356. And we have two individuals signed up to speak this evening. And our first speaker is Cole Bearer. It looks like. Okay, we're going to start out, I believe, with coal. A bear. If I mispronounce your name, call, please correct me. No, no problem. Members of council. Let's call Harbor last year silent. It's an old, old German name. So, yes. I'm. I'm the applicant's representative and I'm just really here to ask questions. You think Libby did a great job explaining everything and really stand up job helping us through this process? So that's all I have to say. All right. Great. Thank you. Call. Our next speaker is Jesse. Paris and Jesse. Earlier, we were having a little bit of difficulty with your Wi-Fi. So hopefully we've got a good signal here. But if you start breaking up again, we might just ask you to turn your video off. But go ahead and start out this. Okay. Good evening. Members of council. My name is Justin Bashar Paris and I'm representing for Black Star to move the first positive action to move for social change as well as the Unity Party of Colorado and for Black Nose. And I'll be the next mayor of Denver in 2023. We're just rezoning tonight. I just wanted to know if there was a traffic study done on this stretch was a very heavily populated stretch of was worth so much to do if there was a traffic study done on the stretch of walls where someone could please answer that question. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Jesse. And that concludes our speakers this evening. Questions from members of Council on Council Bill 356. All right. Looks like we have a question from council member Flynn. Thank you, Madam President. I can't find the race hand feature on the iPad here. Nope. Raising my real hand. And, Libby, maybe you could just clarify. My understanding is that this reasoning that there is no actual redevelopment proposal accompanying this, that this is simply to remove a very restrictive piece of the PDF that requires that there be a primary use of new car sales if there is to be used car salesman along with it, that this rezoning will allow the primary use of selling used cars. Is that do I understand it correctly? Yes, that is correct. Okay. Thank you, Madam President. That's all we have. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Flynn. Next step, we have Councilmember two for us. Thank you. Let me a slightly unrelated question. The neighborhood plans for this area. I noticed the far southwest is not coming up for a neighborhood planning initiative. But you said it's slated to have 20% of Denver's future growth. Is that did I hear that accurate? Yeah. So in Blueprint, it's designated the growth area as community centers and corridors. So together all community centers and quarters throughout the city, we anticipate to see the 20% of new jobs and 25% of new housing. Okay, got it. You don't have a date, do you, of when the far southwest is coming up for neighborhood planning initiative? I don't know. Okay. Just curious. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Torres. And seeing no other hands raised for questions. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 356 Council Member Flynn. Think about. The. Fact that, yes, all dogs can learn new tricks. I wanted to comment on this. When this Southwest Auto Park was initially zoned after annexation in the 1970s and a bunch of court cases that upheld and and rejected some of Denver's annexations down here in South Jefferson County. I was writing about this at the Rocky Mountain News, and I asked my one of my predecessors, Councilman Ted Hackworth, why on earth you would want to be so restrictive as to set up this entire stretch of Wadsworth, a primary retail order as basically a haven for auto dealers, particularly when it is on the edge of Denver and is surrounded by Lakewood, Jefferson County, little town and places like that where people who buy their cars in Denver nevertheless don't pay their sales taxes in Denver, when you buy a car, you pay your sales taxes to Golden or to a little town, to Arapahoe County or to Jefferson County. And I never understood why my head was so intent on on having auto dealerships here. So I am very, very pleased to be able to be part of the dismantling of a little bit of the very restrictive period requirements that were placed on this to allow the sale of used cars that were certified pre-owned. If you're trying to sell me a three year old car, you're going to certify it's pre-owned. I already know that. But this will allow allow the former Alpine GMC Buick to become a used car dealership on Tufts Avenue. And being in the middle of one of the most dense multifamily residential areas of my district, just about four blocks from where I live, actually, it's that also has the possibility at some point of becoming multifamily housing as well. And as many of the places, Madam President, where we thought there would be auto dealerships, we now actually have some pretty large multifamily apartment complexes. So the best laid plans of the eighties don't always turn out to be appropriate in the 20 teens. And with that, I would ask my colleagues to support to support me and in making this change. Thank you. Very good. Thank you, Councilmember Flynn. And I definitely think that this meets all of the criteria, and I'm happy to support it this evening as well. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 356, please. When I. Herndon. I. Hines I. Cashman All right. Can each right. Sandoval. I swear. I was. I. Black. I see the. I. All right. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary closed the voting and announced results. 12 hours. 12 eyes council bill 20 1-0356 has passed. All right. Or on to our third public hearing this evening. Councilmember Cashman, would you please put Council Bill 370 on the floor for final passage? Yes, council president. I move the council bill 21, dash three seven to be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has moved and I think I got Councilman Herndon or yeah, councilman got one again. So we are opening the required public hearing for Council Bill 370. May we please have the staff report? And welcome back, Val. Thank you, Madam Council. Let me share my screen and I am going to turn off my video because I'm a little glitchy on my end. I don't know if it's the storm that apologies me.