Speaker 0: Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to council members. Please refrain from profane and obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and refrain from personal attacks. Councilman Herndon, will you please place Council Bill 311 on the floor?
Speaker 10: Yes, Mr. President. I move that council bill 311 be placed upon final consideration and do pass.
Speaker 0: It has been moved and second it. Councilwoman Sussman, go ahead and offer your motion to amend.
Speaker 6: Okay. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that council bill 311 be amended in the following particulars on page two, line 17 Strike April 27th, 2017, and replaced with May 5th, 2017.
Speaker 0: Okay. It's been moved. And second, it comes from Sussman.
Speaker 6: Sure. Thank you, Mr. President. This minute we'll align the effective date of the proposed text amendment bundle to coincide with the proposed amendment to the small light parking exemptions so that they could all go in the same bundle. By aligning the dates, the city is able to save republishing costs and reduce redundant staff time.
Speaker 0: Great. Putting it all together as it should have been. All right. Actually, Madam Secretary, do we need to vote on this or we're okay?
Speaker 1: We can vote on the amendment.
Speaker 0: We can't vote. Okay. It's only the second. Madam Secretary, call.
Speaker 1: SUSSMAN All right.
Speaker 6: BLACK All right.
Speaker 0: Espinosa No.
Speaker 1: Flynn.
Speaker 5: I.
Speaker 1: Gillmor, I. Herndon. Cashman. I can eat. Lopez. I knew. Ortega, I. Why would you, Mr. President?
Speaker 0: Please close the voting and announce the results.
Speaker 1: See? Sorry someone hasn't voted. Ortega, I said I.
Speaker 0: Ortega.
Speaker 7: I just voted.
Speaker 0: Okay.
Speaker 1: I take to Councilman Clark.
Speaker 0: Hmm. Councilman Clark, you're on a voter list. You got to hit it on your screen. I'm glad you can join me. 12 eyes, one one. Nay. The Amendment Council Bill 311 has been amended. The public hearing for Council Bill 311 is open. May we have the staff report? Sarah? White.
Speaker 6: Good evening. I'm sorry. It was CPD here to present the staff report for the 2016 proposed text amendment bundle. Today, I'll go over the purpose of what these bundles do, the process that we've gone through so far, given that the bundle does have 78 separate items and there has been council member briefings and alluding info item throughout this process, I will just be doing a big picture, high level highlights of what's included and then go through the review criteria and staff recommendation. So the purpose of these bundle text amendments is part of the city's ongoing effort to keep the Denver zoning code modern, clear and user friendly. And CPD Department will propose a new series of text to the code. City staff periodically reviews the Denver zoning code and prioritizes potential updates in response to customer and community feedback, industry changes and other factors. Text amendment packages are proposed when the number of hyper updates reaches a mass. Many of these updates that we do as part of these bundles come in direct response to feedback from permit customers and residents. And the most previous bundle, the most recent bundle previous to this was adopted by City Council in June of 2015. We started this process early last year with a meeting with ANC to brief the scope of the bundle. A summary of the text amendment was posted to the website for public review in November. We had a televised info item at Planning Board in December as well as a televised info item at Luti. The red line draft of the text amendment was posted to the website for public review and notice was sent to Arnaud's and Council members in January. In February we had a series of three office hours for the public, four walk in hours to answer any questions that may come up. We had them at different times of the day one in the morning, one in the midday, and one in the evening to cover all availability. And then ahead of the planning board public hearing, we again sent notice to the registered Arnaud's and Council members. The Planning Board Staff Report and Red Lion was posted to the website in February and March 1st was the Planning Board public hearing with a unanimous recommendation of approval. The Council Adoption Red Line Draft was posted March 9th and Luti voted to move this bill forward on March 14th. We had first reading on March 28th and it was noticed appropriately on April 3rd. We also did outreach via the email newsletter from CPD, the Development Services Code Alert Newsletter, Development Services, annual newsletters and meetings with other interested groups to answer questions about the proposed bundle. We did receive four written comments before the staff report was published and an additional one after the staff report was published. The four letters we received before that were included in your packet were from various industry folks supporting several of the amendments that we're doing related to manufacturers, sales rooms and telecommunications standards, as well as a letter from the Colfax Mayfair bid in support of our revisions to surface parking between the building and the street. We did receive a letter from Robert Schmidt with general comments on the clarity of the draft and several suggestions on the draft, as well as suggestions on other topics not related to the bundle and the letter we received after the staff report went out and should have been distributed to you afterwards was from the Clayton neighborhood R.A. writing in general support of the bundle, but opposing the inclusion of the RCS three zone districts with the preference for the edition instead of an hour x two zone district. So the summary document has been posted on the website and was organized into eight groups. Generally summarizing what the bundle does. Revising general provisions. Talking about neighborhood context design standards. Our General Design Standards Parking Standards uses our zoning procedures, our rules of measurements and definitions. And then entire cloak code clarifications and corrections. So again, some of the the big picture highlights of things that we're doing this bundle, there are several items that are related to vehicle access standards, encouraging alley access where appropriate and possible. Several items across the board that encourage or allow the adaptive reuse of existing buildings, including old drive thrus and industrial buildings. A significant amount of cleaning up conflicting provisions related to the Federal Fair Housing Act requirements, federal telecommunications requirements, state liquor store licensing and local retail marijuana licensing. Another big thing that we're doing is removing the minimum area requirements for map amendments, conservation overlays and design overlays. A revised approach to siting parking on zone lots with multiple street frontages and multiple buildings for parking between the buildings and the streets. And a revised approach for the use restriction in the urban house and duplex building form. So you may be familiar with the fact that we are adding a use restriction to the duplex and urban house building forms in the general urban neighborhood. And what has changed since the briefings on that is simply adding an effective date so that existing buildings are able to still use the multi-unit provision to split up existing structures. And the review criteria that we use to evaluate tax amendments. The first is consistency with the city's adopted plans and policies. Comprehensive Plan 2000. This is consistent with the requirements that the zoning code remain flexible and accommodating of current and future land use needs. And it also promotes the adaptive reuse of existing buildings. Blueprint Denver has language about amendments and the creation of new zone districts that are recommended to implement adopted plans and improve compatibility with existing plans. Furthering the public health, safety and general welfare is the second criteria. The proposed amendment provides clarity and predictability by facilitating planned and desired private enterprise and route development. And it continues to implement adopted plans to regulatory changes. And the third criteria is that the amendment results in regulations that are uniform. So the amendment regulations are uniform in their application to buildings and land uses within each zone district. And the amendment improves greater consistency in zoning regulations and removes conflicting provisions, which improves the city's ability to administer and enforce the code uniformly. Playing Boards recommendation at their public hearing on March 1st was approval, with the condition to allow for revisions, for clarity and correctness. So given that all three criteria have been met, staff does recommend that City Council approve the Denver Zoning Code Text Amendment 2016 bundle, and I'm happy to answer any questions about specific items. Thank you.
Speaker 0: All right. Thank you. Tonight, we have zero speakers. So we'll go straight to questions by members of council.
Speaker 7: Councilman Ortega said that Councilman Councilwoman Sussman had her.
Speaker 0: Yeah, I think it was.
Speaker 7: Was that from the amendment? Okay. So I wanted to ask two questions. The first is where most of these originally came from. Was there a committee that was formed based on complaints or issues that were being brought forward? Or were they identified in-house as recommendations for changes? I'm just curious how they all came about.
Speaker 6: So we keep a running list of texts, amendments, suggestions that we receive both from internal staff, from the public, from Arnaud's, from council members. And we are always accepting additions to that. And every time that we get to scoping a bundle, we review that list and at that time review the resources that we have available and go through every amendment suggestion and make scoping packages at that time, which is then approved by CPD management.
Speaker 7: Okay. So one of the issues that I don't believe was part of this conversation is ordinance 565, which regulates the group home section of the zoning code. And we have. A provision in that ordinance that will be expiring next year. So are you aware of any internal conversations that have begun to start to look at this issue? Because I've talked to a number of folks in the city about the fact that we don't want to wait till it expires in. This specifically regulates not only our shelters where, you know, if there are changes that we want to make to that ordinance, we should begin having a conversation about it. But in addition to that, the specific provision is around the community correction facilities. And Sarah, I don't know if you're more familiar with any internal conversations that are that are beginning to happen, but I, for one, would like to know, you know, is there an update on where that's at and how does that play into proposed changes down the road? Because I think it was sometime last year that I started talking to folks in the city about it.
Speaker 6: So I'm sure I can give you a brief update. I'm Sara Showalter, the citywide planning supervisor, CPD. And I know that there's definitely conversation where our our staff is definitely aware of the fact that next year we need to have an update or address this issue. And I know we've been talking closely with the mayor's office about what is the right agency to help lead this conversation. So we'll definitely be part a partner and be very active in it because it will involve changes to the zoning code, but it also impacts a lot of other agencies. So it's also likely that it would be the kind of amendment we might run on its own instead of packaging into a bundle like you have before you tonight. So the list that Sara mentioned, we have multiple types of amendments on there that could happen to the code and some are often big enough in scope or need enough outreach or coordination that we run them on their own. So it would likely be one of those instead of packaged into a bundle. But it's definitely on our radar and we're talking to the mayor's office to figure out who the right agency is to lead the conversation.
Speaker 7: Well, I would like to be part of that conversation, but I also want to make sure that we've got Greg Morrow, who oversees all the community corrections facilities out of the manager's office manager safety, as well as our shelter providers.
Speaker 6: Sure. Okay. Okay. Thank you.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Thank you. Councilman Ortega and Councilman Espinosa. Yeah. Thank you for this great work. I want it eight days sooner. That's why I voted no. Can I just ask for a clean. I mean, the sort of final proposed section that has the x three in it either, you know, sent to me because it's relevant to an upcoming rezoning.
Speaker 6: Sure, I can. I can make sure that you get a clean copy of that. But the red lines are available on the website, if you want to start with that on our text, my web page. Yeah, but we'd be happy to get that to you.
Speaker 0: No, I can do that. I was looking through it in art for the red lines in our documents, and I didn't see it. But I'll go to the website. That's fine. Thank you. Councilman? No.
Speaker 5: Sarah Hood. Just a few of the poets watching this tonight. Just give you just our last two or three things that you think the public will notice about these changes that they would.
Speaker 6: I think a lot of what this bundle is doing is making things easier for our customers who come to our development services counter. A lot of things that are part of these bundles are clarifications or solidifying of practices that may be confusing currently. So one helps our development services staff be clearer with our customers of what's expected and also fixes some of the issues that they're seeing when they're trying to get their projects through. I think another big one, given the ongoing conversation about Slack homes, is the addition of the use restriction to the duplex building form in the general urban context, because that has been something that we have seen result in multi-unit development that is in the character of this home. So it's kind of helping to start that conversation as well.
Speaker 5: So from from a developer point of view, some of the permitting process will be improved by some of the changes.
Speaker 6: Yes, it should be great.
Speaker 5: It's a big issue that I know you hear a lot about it, I'm sure. So thank you very much.
Speaker 0: Great. Thank you. Councilman new. I'm sure a small lots would be improved as well. I just. I just next week. Okay. Okay. We have no.
Speaker 3: More. And we open comments back.
Speaker 0: With no more questions. The public hearing for Council Bill 311 is now closed. Comments by members of Council. Oh. Councilman Espinosa. Yeah. Mostly because I do, in fact, have the website up, so don't leave because I need help and I can't find it. But yeah, I just wanted to say thank you to the CPD staff and. Well, Sarah and. Tara. They're both serious. Both Sarah. It was like suddenly for the great work. And I really appreciate you guys coming through with these and looking forward to voting yes on these. Thank you. All right. Good job on this. You guys, I think, you know, we originally took the smaller out because it was so contentious among this council parking on those little bitty lots. But I'm excited to have the conversation next week. And thank you, Sarah, Sarah, for making sure that we are friendly to our customers. That was very nice to be able to read that in the preamble of this bill. It has been moved and seconded. Madam Secretary, roll call.
Speaker 1: Need a motion to pass as amended.
Speaker 0: So I, I I'm pretty sure that Councilwoman Sussman did that.
Speaker 1: It did. Your amendment now needs to pass.
Speaker 0: Okay. So we need a yeah, we need a motion to move as amended. All right, Councilman Herndon, can you put can spell. I'm sorry. 311. 311. Yes, I.
Speaker 10: Move the council bill. 311 be placed upon final consideration and do pass as amended.
Speaker 0: Nice. It has been moved and seconded by Secretary Call.
Speaker 1: SUSSMAN My black eye. CLARK All right. Espinosa. Hi, Flynn. Hi, Gilmore. I'm. Printed caption Carnage. Lopez. Nu Ortega. Mr. President, I.
Speaker 0: Police Close Voting US Results.
Speaker 1: 3939.
Speaker 0: Kingsville 311 has passed as amended seeing no other business for this body, we stand adjourned.
AS AMENDED a bill for an ordinance to amend Chapter 59 (Zoning) of the Denver Revised Municipal Code relating to the Denver Zoning Code and to amend and restate the Denver Zoning Code.
Approves a text amendment to the Denver Zoning Code comprised of multiple substantive, clarification, and usability changes across the entirety of the code, prioritized in response to customer and community feedback, industry changes and other factors, to maintain a citywide zoning code that is modern, clear and user-friendly. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 3-14-17. Amended 4-24-17 to align the effective date of the proposed text amendment bundle to coincide with the proposed amendment to the small lot parking exemptions.