Speaker 0: All right. Thank you, Councilman Ortega. Ah, and thank you, Crystal, as well. Our next item up is Council Bill 1271. And Councilmember Flynn, would you please put Bill 1271 on the floor for final passage?
Speaker 1: Certainly, Madam President, I move that council bill 20 dash 1271 be placed upon final consideration and do pass.
Speaker 0: Thank you. It has been moved. And we have a second from Councilman Hines. Questions or comments by members of council. Councilmember CdeBaca.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Madam President, this question is for legal. I tried several of the property owners within the five points did reach out to me about not having a voice in the board decisions, especially during the pandemic. And there's been a concern and a desire to lower the mill levy. The five points bid has, I believe, the highest levy of our bids and are probably the most some of the most marginalized businesses left. And so I'm wondering from legal, what is where is the right place for people who are taxed by the bid to be able to have a say so in the mill levy? And what is the what are the requirements around? Property owner participation in these operating plans.
Speaker 0: All right. Thank you for that question. And I had Michael Carrigan listed as our staff support and then Beth Moisi. And so I'll leave it to you to answer.
Speaker 1: Hey. Thank you for allowing me to speak today. And I'm not I'm not part of the city attorney's office, so I'll give my comments. And then maybe if there is a city attorney on the line, they can they can help fill in some of the questions, too. So regarding the the the places where the constituents can talk and voice their their concerns, their expressions about the the mill levy that is actually during the budget approval process. So all bids are required to submit a a an open public meeting for, for all of their constituents. And, and then at that meeting, that's the constituents can come in and talk about the the mills. They're going to be a set of the mills that are going to be led. And then they can also talk about how those dollars are going to be spent. And I am sorry I didn't catch the rest of your question.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it would actually be helpful to dove a little bit deeper on that. So at the meeting where the budget was decided upon, this was a conversation that was not allowed to occur. And so what? What happens then?
Speaker 1: So I was not at that meeting. So I. I don't know what happened at the meeting. I don't know. Is there is there maybe somebody from the the bid that they can make comments to that question?
Speaker 2: Hi. This is veteran whiskey with the Downtown Denver Partnership. And we do work on behalf of the five points. We we help manage the meetings. But I also wanted to call out board director Ryan Carbons, who is on the call as well. And he was present at those public meetings. All the bid, all the five points board meetings are open to the public.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And Ryan, you know, I was president and that was raised in the chat because there were only the executive board is allowed to participate in the virtual decision making. And I made it clear that there were other people on the call who wanted to discuss the mill levy. And Paul said that that was not a topic of discussion.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, Councilwoman CdeBaca. I may tend to disagree, of course, in terms of the fact that we had several opportunities for public comment in the reminding ourselves as well that as I was part of the Five Points Business District Board that birthed the video and had a very extensive community meetings surrounding the amount of mill levies and what that tax look like. And of course, in order for the bid to pass, we needed the involvement of all the stakeholders which were the property and business owners along Wheldon Street. And so and I'm reminded that, you know, although our I believe we're at ten mills, the Cherry Creek area is at 15 mills. And so.
Speaker 2: So the question is, was it discussed at the budget meeting?
Speaker 1: So these pieces were discussed at the budget meeting this year. This year, yes.
Speaker 2: Can you provide that recording?
Speaker 1: I don't hold those recordings, but I can obviously seek those out. And I think this has been a point of conversation that we've had in terms of making sure that we address some of the concerns that you have coming before the vide meeting. And I know you've just concerns regarding folks that had dissension on the bid and challenges with the bid and where they were, where we were at tax wise. I know we've asked those questions in terms of let's reach out to those to make sure that those folks, whoever have questions, get those questions answered. In addition to that, making sure that we also reach out to those legacy business owners, and so trying to figure out who they are, I guess, is the question.
Speaker 2: While it's the.
Speaker 1: Participation.
Speaker 2: Dr. Cousins and Ms.. Steiger have both brought up reducing the mill levy. And there's never been a board discussion. They've never had that question entertained.
Speaker 1: And just so we know, those aren't just regular folks in our community. Those are actual you know, Dr. Cousins King was actually a board member of the bid. Correct. Ms.. Stiger is obviously a current member of the bid. And for her for us to have a conversation, of course, in a discussion is very simple for her. I have never heard either one of those parties raise those issues. And of course, I am also there at Coffee at the point every single day. And so.
Speaker 2: Mr. Carrigan, is it possible, since this is not a single reading resolution and this is a bill, is it possible for us to delay this one, to make sure that we get some of those property owners in to speak about their desire to lower the mill?
Speaker 1: So this is actually the second reading for this ordinance. And a city or a state statute does require council to vote on the D.A. budgets by December 5th every year. But today is actually the last opportunity. And, you know, those property owners did have an opportunity to speak at those board member those board meetings and very public comment section. So there's really not an opportunity at council for additional comments to be heard by but by those by those property owners.
Speaker 2: But what I'm explaining to you is that they they have raised this concern and it has not been addressed. What recourse do they have as property owners that are taxed by this, Mel Levy.
Speaker 1: If you don't mind, Mr. Carrigan, if I take 2 seconds on that one, the five Points Business Improvement District is something that years ago was on a wish list for us as the Five Points Business District Board. And to be clear. Part of the feeling, of course, my business celebrated its 10th year anniversary right at well in 27 a week and a half ago. Part of what we feared in our area is that Fivepoint wasn't being taken serious. Our feeling was we did a tremendous amount of work to pass the bid. A tremendous amount of work to pass the video with incredible amount of community engagement and investment in other individuals to help us ensure that we're reaching our our are not just our property owners and our business owners, but also our neighbors, our residential residential neighbors as well. The two individuals, Councilwoman CdeBaca, that you refer to, have probably just a voice in our neighborhood, but probably one of the loudest, louder places in our neighborhood. Steiger and Dr. Cousins came. You know, if there is dissension among those two individuals that I have not heard of from attending just about every community meeting going back to ten years and including the surrounding meetings, even with the rhinos that exist in five points, you know, I will personally, based on you, will reach out to them to see if they have questions. But I see no reason why to hold up the process, to further set our neighborhood back. I just I appreciate your time.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Mr. Collins. And this? The city would be out of compliance. If we entertain a motion to delay. We do have this on the floor for final consideration for a vote. And so just want to make that reminder. Next up, we have Councilman Hines.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Madam President. I just want to ask someone from the city. Wow. That so wise state statute. We have to vote by December 5th. What? What happens if we say no? So if you do not accept the the the budget tonight, the the budget would be and I'm paraphrasing because I'd have to go back and actually look at state budget law. But I believe that the district has to operate on the approved 2019 budget. And then I think there's there's some sort of a reduction take off of that budget as well. But I'd have to I have to do a little research to find that exact language for you. They approved the 2019 budget, even though this has been 20. Oh, sorry. The the approved 2020 budget. Sorry. Okay. Uh. Okay. Does anyone here able to answer what the 20 what the differences between the 2020 and the proposed 2021 budget is is there a significant dollar difference?
Speaker 0: I can go ahead, Mr. Collins.
Speaker 1: Yes, I can. I can pull that up. It'll take me a quick second. There is a 2020 versus 2021 on here. Yeah. So that I've got that too. So in addition to what you guys are approving tonight, you're approving an amended 2020 budget which approves a projected actual column of the budget. So the 2021 amended budget, what you what you be approving is $377,661 in total expenditure. And then the 2021 budget is $271,461 in total. And what what about. So, so thank you. But if we were to vote no, we would vote no. Also on the amended 2020 budget. So we would, by default adopt the unamended 2020 budget which we adopted council adopted last year. So what would that number be? So that was 275,116. So 275 116 And then the proposed 2021 budget is 50 something to 71 for 61. Okay. All right. So if we said no. We would theoretically be throwing a five point bid that they should lose about 20 K And then, Mr. Kerrigan, you mentioned that maybe there's a penalty as well, some sort of discount. Yes, I think it's I think it's a prescribed percentage reduction. And I can remember with that with that exact percentages. Okay. Thank you. Thank you both for your for your answers. I I guess that as Councilmember CdeBaca mentioned, this is one of our most underserved communities. So I have reservations in and in making them even more underserved. But I'll just leave it at that. Thank you, Madam President.
Speaker 0: All right. Thank you, Councilman Hines. And so Council Member CdeBaca, we have this on the floor for a vote. Or are you looking to do a motion to delay?
Speaker 2: I. Is it possible to delay since we're at a compliance, or is there a possibility to reopen it mid-year?
Speaker 0: Michael, is that an opportunity to open it mid-year?
Speaker 1: I guess I don't understand what you mean by open it mid-year. Can you elaborate a little bit on that, please?
Speaker 2: So what you're hearing right now between myself and Mr. Corbyn's is at odds and there is video that could clarify. In fact, I think I see Jessie Perry's on the call right now, and he mentioned he could get Ms.. Stiger on the call or speak to his experience in those meetings. He's participated in all of those meetings as well. And the way that it was classified by Mr. Coleman's is not true. There have been several concerns. And for Councilman Hines, I understand that on its face it may sound like you would be disadvantaging a disadvantaged area . The issue here is that you might actually save businesses that are going out of business because they can't afford the levy imposed on them. And so that is why we should be listening to the property owners in this bid who are saying they can't they simply cannot afford the ten mills, not before the pandemic, and especially not now during the pandemic. And so my concern is that, you know, people could very well lose property if we don't act to lower this mill.
Speaker 1: May I respond.
Speaker 0: Sir? Well, the first. The first thing is, is that we don't have that power by council to do that right now, because we're not the board. And so I know we've talked about this quite a bit. This did come through thin gov. And unfortunately, we're ending up doing a lot of committee work to nine eight on the floor. And so I it doesn't sound like there's an opportunity to open this up midyear. We have a motion on the floor to vote on this. Or the only other option is. Councilwoman, for you to make a motion to delay it. But you would have to have a majority vote of council in favor of delaying it. And I don't believe that you're going to have that support tonight on it. And so right now we have it on on the floor. And so I'm going to go ahead. And we haven't heard from Councilman Herndon tonight on this one. And just a quick reminder, we have one more question, and then we do have five public hearings scheduled tonight, albeit three, that we're going to gavel in and gavel out of. But I want to be cognizant of the members of the public who are also joining us here tonight. So, Councilman Herndon.
Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am. I was just going to kind of go back to our responsibilities. As I mentioned earlier, we are going to approve a budget. It's either the 2021 that the the 5.3 idea worked through and went through the process or we vote no. And as Mr. Carrigan explained, we go back to the previous year's budget and I've not heard a compelling reason at all to not support the budget. So I would when we hopefully get to this vote really soon, I want to I will I will be voting yes. And I appreciate Mr. Comments for all his work that he does in five points. Thank you, Mr. President.
Speaker 0: Very good. Thank you. Well, we have a motion on the floor. Madam Secretary, roll call, please.
Speaker 2: CDEBACA No. Clark.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: Flynn.
Speaker 1: I.
Speaker 2: Herndon.
Speaker 1: I.
Speaker 2: Hines. Cashman.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: Can each I. Ortega. I. Sandoval. I swear, I. Torres, I. Black I.
Speaker 3: Madam President.
Speaker 0: I. Madam Secretary, closed the voting and announced results.
Speaker 2: One Ni 12 I's.
Speaker 0: 12 I's Council Bill 1271 has passed. The next item up is Council Bill 1200. Councilwoman CdeBaca, please go ahead with your questions on Bill 1200.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Madam President. Who is on the call for the project?
Speaker 0: Jason Gallardo.
Speaker 2: I'm actually looking for the applicant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we need to upgrade. Steve Ferris. Ferris?
Speaker 0: We've got him in the queue. Go ahead with your question.
Speaker 2: Mr. Ferris, I'm curious about this vacation. Originally, it seemed like it set up the ability to have private parking. With vacated public land. And then I understand you all got permits to encroach in the right of way so that there public spaces. I'm curious about how that will be possible because are you not protecting managed in road into those public spaces.
Speaker 1: Me, I guess. What we have is a former right of way. If vacated, that would have an easement. Or utilities underneath it. So we couldn't remove that roadway. We couldn't build on top of it. In other words, either the driveway would remain and then the six parking spaces you referred to are going to be in public land , 20th Street right away that is not being vacated. So I guess I'm trying to get my head around your question, but I believe by telling you that, you know, that that easement in that driveway will be remaining, there will always be access to those six parking spaces. Does that help?
Speaker 2: Kind of. I'm looking at the picture and trying to understand how someone would access those parking. Are they on the street?
Speaker 1: Yes. Those six bases and I can share a screen if everybody else wants to see it are going to be in 20th Street. Right of way. Okay. You got me.
Speaker 2: And I asked Jason earlier if they were going to be metered spaces because it's predominantly a metered area. And he said that they are not going to be metered. Can you explain, Jason, what the thinking is around that?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So my comment is.
Speaker 1: At this time, we don't have a plan to meter those spaces, but that doesn't mean that we won't be moving forward with meters if the site eventually gets approved and moves forward where it's just too early for us to do a parking assessment with our team, our parking assessment team, to be able to go there and find out the best way to meter these if if it is to meter and we're not neutral, we just can't answer that question yet is too early.
Speaker 2: So what is the square footage split between the parking's and the rest of the land vacated?
Speaker 1: The land being vacated is just under 3000 square feet. The six public spaces that we see, I guess I'm looking at, they're not even measured in the sense that they're in 20th Street right away, that subject to an encroachment permit and a transportation engineering plan, both approved by Doty. But I mean, the average parking space is 300 square feet, so you could say it's 1800 square feet in those six spaces. And then, of course, we also constructing that pedestrian walkway, an accessible route, also into 20th Street right away in and around those six parking spaces.
Speaker 2: Got it. And so. There was something in your application that said that the plan was to in the future that this would this vacation would contribute to another project. Is that correct?
Speaker 1: I might have been the only project we were referring to at that time. You know, we've been working on this for 18 months and there's about six different permits from zoning to engineering plans to variances, and I mean several. So I might have been it's all one project with an encroachment permit with six different permits. So maybe I was referring to that those relationships. Got it. I don't recall. It's never been there's only been one project planned here, and that is a 17 car parking lot.
Speaker 2: Got it. Just making sure that there was nothing else. That's it for my questions on this one, Madam President.
Speaker 0: Right. Thank you, Councilwoman CdeBaca. That concludes our items to be called out. All bills for introduction are ordered, published. And Mr. Farris, we're just going to ask you if you could remove your screen sharing for us, sir.
Speaker 1: Madam President.
Speaker 0: Oh, I'm sorry. That's right. Councilman Hines, I'm so sorry I had the wrong view up, and so go ahead with your question, Councilman.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Madam President. I'm sorry. I have questions for a couple of questions as well about the the vacation. It appears that the purpose that you intend to use the land for is a parking lot. Right. Mr. Harris. You're muted if you are, which is. I thank you. I got unmuted. I thought we were stepping away and I forgot. But yes, there's up. The parking lot will be on land to be vacated and land to be maintained is right of way. But of course, as part of that parking lot and it was part of the understanding when we first proposed this plan that we would construct that walkway and accessible route to a wider up from the backside of the King Soopers there. So this parking lot is for that. Theoretically, the people who would part in this lot would be going to King Soopers. If if they wanted to go to King Soopers, they could park in the public spaces. We intend most of the 11 spaces to be serving the existing retail operation that's there now. It's a two story building. Okay. Some other businesses way. So how did how do people get to these other businesses now? The business that is there, the retail marijuana shop is not is. I think people are walking or biking to it. There isn't really any parking serving. I think there's one spot in the front. I'll have to look, I think, as I recall. But otherwise there is very, very limited. And you want to add 17 spaces or 11 spaces. To serve a retailer that. Currently all their customers walk or drive. Well, we've what we believe and this is that they their Canada has asked they have a 13 year lease, an option to extend for another ten. The business is thriving, but they feel that parking is an is in demand in that area. And there's a there's a shortage of it. And they feel it's part of the lease and part of the services they provide would be assisted by having more parking. Okay, so I noticed that the accessible cost of travel and all the accessible parking spaces are in the right of way. But non-vaccinated right away is what let's say we we don't know for the vacation. Are you going to proceed forward with a lot? And with a smaller amount of parking. Or you see it at all. We're not going to proceed at all because we have to package it as a work, as a as an investment for the time and money. To do it without the vacation is what we look at in our analysis. And so who's profiting? So there are no meters on the spaces. There are. This is a public life. So you say that the finances it doesn't make it is unprofitable. How is someone profiting? From public parking spaces without meters. Well. We came in with this plan that we wanted to try to construct parking there, and we started talking to the city about how to do that. And they pointed out that the Division Street right of way and the small section of a water in the front of the lot really impeded our ability to get access to any parking. So we discussed how best to do that. And they there was an interest in this accessible walkway and we said and there was interest in public parking. And however the city decides there are six spaces are metered or left for the public. Either way, we're not we're not planning on using them for the business. And that's that's up to the city. And we're flexible on how they want to provide that or limit that access. It's it's kind of like on street parking, as far as we're concerned. It's it's not under our control. But to answer your broader question, I think about why we found out that we couldn't get access to the internal lot without requesting the vacation of Division Street. Right of way. If you look at the site. Okay. You want me to share it again? No, no, no. I get what you're saying now. Okay. Thank you. The reason this curiosity is because all of the accessible improvements are dependent on the vacation. And as someone who would use that, I just I don't want to I want to make sure that we're if we're going to install a parking lot, that it isn't using a justification of the disability community to put in a line that may or may not actually be available to people with disabilities. But and that's let me add that's a fair question. You know, that would we proposed ten car lot I believe we would have one accessible space. We proposed seven 1617. So the ratios required us to provide to where we put them wasn't as important. They just seemed to fit over there best in, in, in the layout of the site. We could have put them on private property, too. It really wasn't a deciding factor. You know, we we just they it was the way the design work that they they take up more space and they fit well. They're we're happy to I think they're I think they're great that they're public. But it's not it wasn't like they were. We insisted on that. So long as you're in compliance with FDA, I'm not going to. I don't think this is the reform you talked about. So thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 0: All right. Thank you, Councilman Hines. Glad we were able to get your final questions in there. All right. That concludes the items to be called out. All bills for introduction are ordered published. Council members remember this is a consent or block vote and you will need to vote. Otherwise, this is your last chance to call out an item for a separate vote. Council Member Flynn Will you please put the resolutions for adoption and bills on final consideration for final passage on the floor?
Speaker 1: Muted.
Speaker 0: Oh, you're muted. Council and offline.
Speaker 1: You're muted. We can't hear you either.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Thank you. You go. All right.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I click it and it works and sometimes it doesn't. I move the resolutions be adopted and bills on final consideration be placed upon final consideration, and do pass in a block for the following items. All series of 2020 1188 1330, 1331, 13, 32, 1333, 1334, 1335, 1340 1339 1349 1350 1357, 1114 1228, 1265, 13, 28, nine , 28, 11, 17, 13, 16, 13, 24, 13, 25, 1343, 1189, 12, 70, 12, 72, 12, 73, 12, 74, 12, 75, 12, 76, 1277, 12, 78, 1279, 12, 8012, 81, 12, 82, 12, 83, 12, 84, 1285, 1149 1211 92.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilman Flynn. It has been moved and seconded by Councilman Ortega. Madam Secretary, roll call, please.
Speaker 2: Black eye. CdeBaca. I, Clark.
Speaker 1: I. Flinn i.
Speaker 3: Herndon.
Speaker 1: I. I.
Speaker 2: Cashman. I can. H. I. Ortega. I. Sandoval. I. Sawyer. I. Torres. I. Madam Secretary.
Speaker 0: I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results.
Speaker 3: 13 eyes.
Speaker 0: 13 eyes. The resolutions have been adopted and bills have been placed upon final consideration and do pass. Tonight, there will be a required public hearing on Council Bill 1123, changing the zoning classification for 2483 South Josephine Street. A required public hearing on Council Bill 1124. Changing the zoning classification for 1634 Xenia Street. A required public hearing on Council Bill 1162 Changing the zoning classification for 2580. South Clarkson Street and Council will convene separately as the Board of Directors of the Reno General. Denver General, just Denver excuse me and will convene separately as the Board of Directors of the Reno for General Guide , General Improvement District, Denver, 14th Street and Gateway Village Improvement District to approve a work plan, adopt a budget, impose capital and maintenance charges, and make appropriations for the 2021 fiscal year for each district. Anyone wishing to speak on any of these matters must go online and sign up during the recess of council. If there are no objections from members of council, we will take a ten minute recess. Members, please remember to turn off your cameras and mute your microphones and we will return at 7:26 p.m.. Thank you.
Speaker 5: The magical spirit of the season comes to life in this acclaimed production and beloved holiday favorite. Tune in to view this special presentation of Colorado Ballet's The Nutcracker on Rocky Mountain, PBS. It premieres on Thanksgiving at 7 p.m.. Your Colorado Symphony is pleased to unveil an on demand digital video and audio content portal called Virtual Stage, featuring new and never before seen content from the Colorado Symphony go to Colorado Symphony dot org. For tickets and more information, enjoy the holiday safely at both the Gardens, York Street and Chatfield Farm locations with the blossom of lights and the Trail of lights. Go to Botanic Gardens dot org for guidelines and ticket information for both events. This year's parade will be a multi-week, socially safe extravaganza of activities across downtown. The parade floats will span from Denver pavilions to Union Station, offering multiple chances for you to relish in the charm and excitement of the holiday season . Go to downtown Denver accom. For more information. It's official. Zoo Lights has been making magic memories and even marriages for 30 amazing years. Don't miss this year's historic celebration. Tickets are only available online at Denver Zoo, dawg. The 20th annual Denver Chris Kindle market is moving to a spacious open air location in Civic Center Park. Go to Chris Kindle market Denver dot com for more information. The Clyfford still, M.K. Denver and Kirkland Museums, along with the History Colorado Center, are closed to the public to comply with the state's recent public health order. We will let you know when they are able to reopen. In the meantime, stay connected by checking out their virtual programing. Most are free. Please stay safe out there. And that's a quick look at what's happening in Denver this week. This week on your city. Now, officials enlist new measures in the COVID 19 battle and the expansion of housing opportunities continues. These stories are just ahead on your city now. As the second wave of COVID 19 infections continue to spread across the nation, Colorado officials have updated the state's dial system in an effort to mitigate the need for a full lockdown. The state has moved Denver to the new red level as of 5 p.m. on November 20th. Thus, new restrictions are in place across the city. Indoor dining has been suspended and the consumption of alcohol must end by 8 p.m.. But outdoor dining, as well as pickup and delivery options, are still open. Offices and gyms are limited to 10% capacity. Retail operations can stay open, but are limited to 50% capacity. Denver DMV offices will cease all in-person operations as of Monday, November 23rd. With the holidays, it's important to do everything possible to keep yourself and your loved ones safe while celebrating. Personal gatherings are prohibited under the new level. It has been advised you only interact in-person with people from your household and don't travel to visit family and friends. Continue to wear your mask and keep six feet of distance from others while in public. The new restrictions will be in place until at least December 18th. Housing on Colfax Avenue is changing as several multi-family developments are being proposed along what was once called the longest wicket of street in America. Here are some examples. On East Colfax, near Downing, there are plans to possibly tear down the Ramada Inn Hotel and replace it with a seven story building with 300 plus units. Further west, development plans have been filed for the 55 acres directly south of Empower Field at Mile High. Plans would include a mixed use neighborhood with market rate and affordable housing office, entertainment, hospitality and other stadium related land uses. One of the more unique proposals comes from Tucson, Arizona, based Startup Steakhouse. They plan to offer tiny homes out of 320 square foot shipping containers, with prices starting at $45,000. Stackhouse is currently under contract for a quarter acre site at West Colfax and Knox Court, where the company hopes to build a five story tower that can house 50 of the so-called alternative living units. Earlier this year, Denver Parks and Recreation closed all internal roads and parking lots in the parks to avoid crowding and promote physical distancing during the pandemic. Now, Parks and Rec is asking for your opinion via a survey about making this a permanent change.
Speaker 1: There's actually a variety of considerations that go into it. So obviously, if we're reducing vehicular through traffic, we're reducing the potential for pet and bike conflicts and can make an enhanced park user experience. It's a little quieter. There's a little more space to use. Obviously, there are other considerations that come into play. Our parks have regional attractions and regional destinations that obviously have a need for vehicular access and loading, like pavilions or large athletic fields. We want to make sure that we are providing an appropriate added parking access so that everyone can access these parks. So it's sort of balancing those considerations. We've been able to sort of through our day to day field operations, see how people have repurposed the streets and get individual feedback. But as we continue to evaluate whether there's opportunities to keep park roads or portions of park roads closed in the long term, we want to make sure we have a broader perspective and get as much feedback as we can through our online survey.
Speaker 5: The survey is open through November 30th. Denver City Council unanimously approved a rezoning of the Chaffee Park neighborhood to allow accessory dwelling units throughout that northwest Denver area.
Speaker 2: To rezone 1400 doors with no comments or questions from my colleagues. I was pretty shocked and really surprised. It was a great win. Chaffee Park neighborhood came to me as the councilwoman in 2019 after I was elected and asked if I would be interested in working with the neighborhood to rezone the entire neighborhood. It allows people to build a smaller apartment type structure in the backyard, and they can use it for a long term rental. They can use it for a short term rental. It adds some stability to a neighborhood and allows somebody the ability to build an accessory dwelling unit and have another source of income so that they can stay within the neighborhood.
Speaker 5: To learn more, visit Denver Gov dawg. You can catch new episodes of your city now every Friday. Thanks for watching Denver. The magical spirit of the season comes to life in this acclaimed production and beloved holiday favorite. Tune in to view this special presentation of Colorado Ballet's The Nutcracker on Rocky Mountain, PBS. It premieres on Thanksgiving at 7 p.m.. YORK Colorado Symphony is pleased to unveil an on demand digital video and audio content portal called Virtual Stage, featuring new and never before seen content from the Colorado Symphony go to Colorado Symphony dot org. For tickets and more information. Enjoy the holiday safely at both the Gardens, York St and Chatfield Farm locations with the blossom of Lights and the Trail of lights. Go to Botanic Gardens dot org for guidelines and ticket information for both events. This year's parade will be a multi-week, socially safe extravaganza of activities across downtown. The parade floats will span from Denver pavilions to Union Station, offering multiple chances for you to relish in the charm and excitement of the holiday season. Go to downtown Denver AECOM for more information. It's official Xu Lites has been making magic memories and even marriages for 30 amazing years. Don't miss this year's historic celebration. Tickets are only available online at Denver Zoo North.
Speaker 0: We have six public hearings tonight. Speakers should begin their remarks by telling the council their names and cities of residents and if they feel comfortable doing so, their home addresses. When called upon, please wait until our meeting hosts promote you to speaker. When you're promoted, your screen will flash and say Reconnecting to meeting. Please do not leave the meeting. You will be reconnected and you will need to turn your camera on if you have one on your microphone. If you signed up to answer questions, only state your name and note that you are available for questions of counsel. Speakers will have 3 minutes. There is no yield enough to time. If translation is needed, you will be given an additional 3 minutes for your comments to be interpreted. You will see your time flash on the screen when you have 30 seconds left. Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members as a whole. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Councilmember Flynn, will you please put Council Bill 1123 on the floor for final passage?
Speaker 1: Go. Yes, Madam President, I move that council bill 20 dash 1123 be placed upon final consideration and do pass.
Speaker 0: Thank you. It has been moved and seconded the required public hearing for Council Bill 20 Dash 1123 is open. May we please have the staff report?
Speaker 3: Let me know if you can see my screen.
Speaker 0: And how we can see it. And we just need you to put it in. Full screen for presentation.
Speaker 3: That is not working.
Speaker 0: Thanks for an.
Speaker 2: Excellent.
Speaker 3: Good afternoon, members of City Council. My name is from Pineville and I'll be presenting tonight an overview of the Map Amendment four 2483 South Justice Street. The subject property is located in Councilman Paul Cashman, District six. In the University Park neighborhood. The subject property is between Wesley Avenue and Harvard Avenue, and it's only one block east from University Boulevard. The subject so note is approximately 7500 square feet and the applicant is proposing to rezone the property from. You as you see to you, as you see one Southern district which allows for the Urban House and the touch accessory dwelling unit building for us. The maximum height for a house is 30 to 35 feet and 24 feet for the Dutch. 80. The property is currently in the urban single unit season district, which allows for a minimum standard of 5400 square feet. And as you can see on this map, most of the surrounding properties are also sold. U.S. you see with some U.S. you d to the south and grx5 to the west. Site is currently occupied by a single unit home and it is surrounded by mostly other single unit uses to the north, east and south by you can see out to the west there is some mixed land use. This lake here shows the existing area with the site of the proposed rezoning on the top right and on the bottom right. On left, you can see some images that show the character of the neighborhood. So you can see in the bottom left the five story building to the west. Speaking to a process. Information on notice of the application was sent on July 21st, 2020. Planning Board recommended approval on September 30th, and notice of this public hearing was sent on November nine and the property was appropriately notice of present. One letter of support from the I.R.A. and three letters of support from the public have been received. The Denver zoning code has five review criteria, which I will go. The first criteria is that the rezoning request must be consistent with adopted plans. Therefore, adopt the plans that apply to the request rezoning. We have a comprehensive plan. 2040 Blueprint. Denver Housing and Interest. Denver and the University Park Neighborhood Plan approved in 2008. The rezoning is consistent with several of the tragedies in comprehensive plan 2040, but I'll go over a couple of them. This MAP amendment will promote equity by creating a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood, and it will lead to an environmentally resilient Denver by promoting infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place. Now looking at blueprint Denver the subject properties map as part of the urban neighborhood context. This context is described as containing small, multi-unit, residential and mixed use areas that are typically embedded in one unit and two unit residential areas. Look, buttocks are generally regular with a mix of alley access and they have been described as having a high degree of walkability, likability and good access to transit with less reliance on cars. Now the future places map designates the subject property as low residential place type. This place types have predominantly two single and two unit uses, and accessory dwelling units are appropriate. Josephine Street is designated as a local street, which is mostly characterized by residential uses. But it's important to note that the property is only one block east from University Boulevard, but it's a mixed use arterial. The growth area in Blueprint. Denver is full of areas of the city. This area is anticipated to see a 10th percent employment growth and 20% housing growth by 2040. Blueprint also has specific policy recommendations. So the housing policy number four talks about diversifying housing choice through expansion of accessory dwelling units. Throughout all residential areas and a city wide approach to enable it to use is preferred. But until holistic approach is in place, individual rezonings to enable you to use in all residential areas, specifically where tools
A bill for an ordinance approving an Amended Budget for 2020 and an Operating Plan and Budget for 2021 for the Five Points Business Improvement District.
Approves the 2021 Operating Plan and Budget and amending the 2020 Budget for the Five Points Business Improvement District in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 11-10-20.