Speaker 2: 12 Ice. One Abstention. Oh 12 Eyes Council Bill 549 has passed. Thank you. Congratulations. Councilman Sussman, we please put Council Bill 551 on the floor.
Speaker 7: Yes, Mr. President. I move that bill 551 be placed on final consideration and do pass.
Speaker 2: It has been moved. And second it the public hearing for Council Bill 551 is open. May we have the staff report?
Speaker 11: You may. I'm looking for my.
Speaker 2: PowerPoint and Miss Lucero to the comments earlier from Councilwoman Canete. Please try and see what page you're on. Okay. When you're turning the page.
Speaker 11: I'm not seeing my PowerPoint, so I'm going to load it.
Speaker 2: Okay. But on their.
Speaker 11: Okay. Sorry for the delay. So for the record, Teresa Lucero with community planning and development. Property we're talking about is 4402 Umatilla Street.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 11: Soon to get. It is making me. I'm sorry. Are you seeing this? You are seeing this. It does not like. Really just loading the PowerPoint without me looking at an update in a hurry.
Speaker 2: Madam Secretary, can you. Can you help her up?
Speaker 11: Three. This is something I did that three times. Tapas. We just.
Speaker 2: Exchange presentation.
Speaker 11: We have to activate.
Speaker 2: Mary Beth, been through enough of these. She's going to go ahead and do the presentation on her screen.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 11: Is this an openness?
Speaker 2: It meets all the requirements. I mean.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 11: Here. Okay. So 4402 Umatilla Street proposal is to rezone from a former Chapter 59 PD number 358 to urban context. Main Street two storey height limit. Property is in Council District one in the Sunnyside neighborhood. Just at the corner of 44th and Umatilla, the northwest corner south of I-70, east of Federal Boulevard, west of Chaffee Park. I'm sorry. I'm not saying that I'm moving the slides. I am now on request. It was three slides in. It's force of habit. Property is about 12,000 square feet or nearly a third of an acre. It is an existing office sort of industrial use. Property owner is requesting to redevelop the property, add some height, repurpose the existing building, add a new building. So again, the the request is to reason from 8358 to urban context. Main Street two storey. And I'm moving on to the urban neighborhood context. This is a context that has similar use uses to the B to zone districts, which was the basis of the PD commercial land uses and small scale embedded in the neighborhoods, single family and multi-unit primarily located on local or collector streets and multi-unit along mixed use arterials or main streets. And so it is in the urban context and regular pattern of square blocks or rectangular blocks with or without alleys. So again, this is a former Chapter 59 PD. There is also on the property a it's within a view plane, the 51st Avenue and soon a street view plane, which is protecting a view of downtown from the park at 51st and Zuni. The allowable building height would be 59 to 61 feet, and so would not affect this property because the two storey height limit is way below that. So again, the it's an existing industrial warehouse land use. The PD, the terms of the PD restrict the gross floor area built on the property to about 6000 square feet. The height limit is 25 feet. There are, as I said before, the PD was based on the beat, the old B two zone district, which was a neighborhood serving zone district. So the PD also added a few more intense land, uses special trades, contractor assembly and fabrication, wholesale and retail sales repair, renting and servicing and parking and commercial storage of vehicles. And the PD excluded adult business and single and multi-unit land uses. So I'm moving on to existing context zoning. The we see the existing PD surrounding on the north and east is urban main street two zoning to the south, urban to unit zoning and to the West urban main street to ex zoning. And then to land use existing context. It is an existing one storey building. There are adjacent commercial on either side of 44th Avenue and then adjacent to low density residential land uses on the north and south and then existing context building form and scale slide. These pictures give you an idea of the context we're talking about. The building itself is on the upper right. Another commercial building to the east on the lower right. Duplex across 44th Avenue. On the bottom. Duplex just north of the site on the top. And then another commercial building to the west on the left. So moving on to the process. Notice of receipt of application went out in May of this year. Planning Board heard this on July 20th and by a vote of 8 to 0 recommended approval plan committee saw this on August 16th. And of course, we're here tonight. All of these meetings had the proper public notice and sign postings, as has tonight's meeting. These are the general neighborhood organizations that were notified today. We have no comment letters on this application. So moving on to review criteria, you know this well, consistency with adopted plans. Uniformity of district regulations. Furthering the public health, safety and welfare. Justifying circumstances. Consistency with neighborhood context and zone. District purpose and intent. Review Criteria. The plans that apply our Comprehensive Plan 2000 Blueprint Denver and the Sunnyside Neighborhood Plan, which was adopted in 1992. So consistency with adopted plans. The Comprehensive Plan. Consistency with adopted plans for a comprehensive plan is detailed in your staff report, so I skipped that one. We are on Blueprint Denver. The land use concept is pedestrian shopping corridor, which are these neighborhoods serving areas which are low scaled compatible with the surrounding residential neighborhoods, similar in land use to our town centers, but definitely lower in scale. And this is property is in an area of change, which is of course where we want to direct the majority of our growth. Moving on to Blueprint Denver Future Street classification, Umatilla Street is an undesignated locale. West 44th Avenue is a residential collector, and the collector is a balance between mobility and access to the properties and local is more focused on access to properties. So. The Sunnyside Neighborhood Plan. Next slide is has a land use goal of maintaining and stabilizing the residential character of the neighborhood and encouraging small scale shops and offices, particularly in commercial zones along 44th Avenue and Tyrone that would advance and serve the neighborhood. And in their design guidelines for 44th Avenue. They definitely want to discourage auto related or liquor licenses, but encourage development of small scale, neighborhood serving business and small offices and in an economic development recommendation. The plan states we should work towards a goal of concentrated commercial nodes rather than scattered site development. All of the commercial so under review criteria for consistency with adopted plan staff believes this criteria is met by zoning out of a custom zone district to a standard zoned district. We believe we're furthering the uniformity of district regulations citywide, and by implementing our plans, we believe we are furthering the vision for the neighborhood and furthering the public health, safety and welfare. So under justifying circumstances for review criteria, the criteria, the circumstance justifying circumstances changed conditions. The land or its surrounding environs has changed or is changing to a degree that it's in the public interest to encourage redevelopment of the area or recognize the changed character of the area. Property owners cites this as a high profile location with changing conditions and the obsolescence of this. Chapter 59 PD staff believes that changing this building from light industrial to commercial, that is neighborhood serving commercial and implementing the plan and furthering the reinvestment in this in this property is a justified correct is a justifying circumstance for the proposed rezoning. We did talk a little bit about the urban context, single two unit small scale multi-unit commercial land use is usually embedded and the block shapes that are uniform and in a grid street system. The Zone District is intended to promote safe, active, pedestrian scaled commercial and staff believes that this zone district is the appropriate, that this proposal conforms with that. So with that, staff recommends that all of the criteria are met and we do recommend approval.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Ms.. Lucero. All right. We have one speaker tonight. Ben Gearhart, you have 3 minutes. Good evening.
Speaker 0: Counsel. Her name's Ben.
Speaker 5: Gearhart. I'm a resident at 3931 Julian Street. I'm here to answer any questions, so. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. All right. That concludes our speakers. Do we have any questions from members of council? Right. But we're hearing from Council Bill three, four, two, one is close comments for members of Council Councilman Espinosa. Now, I just want to thank Ben and the applicant and the CBD, but Ben, for taking the time to both talk with my office and with the community, the R.A. and the Pcdi there and having a good dialog before you pursued the eventual application, because I think this is a very sensitive community to the development. There's a certain ethos there, like there are in many other parts of Northwest Denver, and here it's still intact. And so I think they'd love to see neighborhoods serving businesses. I think you're you're proposing to bring in your development capacity, certainly would allow that. And but to be mindful of that community. And thus far, you have been. So I just hope that that continues as if you pursue any future licensing or anything else along that line. But I do appreciate you being willing to have that dialog dialog with the community. Thank you. Thank you. I will be supporting this rezoning. Thanks. Great. Any other comments by members of council? Madam Secretary, roll call.
Speaker 4: Espinosa. Hi. Flynn. Hi. Gilmore. Herndon. I can. I can eat. Lopez. Ortega. Sussman.
Speaker 7: Black.
Speaker 4: Clark.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: Mr. President.
Speaker 2: I please close the voting and announce the results.
Speaker 4: 12 eyes.
A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 4402 Umatilla Street.
Rezones property at 4402 Umatilla Street from PUD #358 to U-MS-2 in Council District 1. The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 9-9-16. The Committee approved filing this resolution at its meeting on 8-16-16.