Speaker 2: Easier. Council is reconvened. We have one public hearing this evening. Speakers should begin their remarks by telling the council their names. If. If you don't mind, in the back. We're going to get started.
Speaker 5: We all say.
Speaker 2: It. Excuse me, David. It looks like you have a really adorable baby back there. But if you don't mind, we're going to get started.
Speaker 6: Tony Massaro.
Speaker 2: All right. 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. If you are here to answer questions only when your name is called, come to the podium, state your name and note that you are available for questions of council speakers. 12 3 minutes. Unless another speaker has yielded his or her time, which would result in a total of 6 minutes on the presentation monitor. On the wall you will see your time counting down. Speakers must stay on topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and refrain from individual or personal attacks. Councilman Cashman, will you please put Council Bill 1034 on the floor? Thank you, Mr. President. I move the council bill 1034 we placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved and seconded the public hearing for Council Bill 1034 is open. May we have a staff report?
Speaker 6: Good evening. Theresa is Sarah with community planning and Development. This is a map amendment rezoning application for 1209 north of Perry Street. The proposed proposal is to rezone from general urban multi-unit, three storey and urban edge to unit to general urban residential mixed use five storeys. So the property is in Council District three in the West Colfax neighborhood, just north of the Perry Street Station and the Lakewood Dry Gulch Park, three blocks south of West Colfax Avenue, four blocks north of West Sixth Avenue. Property is about a quarter of an acre or 11,300 square feet. It is currently vacant. The property owner is requesting the rezoning to prepare the property for redevelopment. So again, the request is to rezone from general urban multi-unit three stories and urban edge two unit to general urban residential mixed use five stories. So the general urban context is characterized by multi-unit residential in a variety of building forms. Low scale commercial imbedded in residential areas. Residential uses primarily located on collectors or local streets. Generally in a grid street pattern. So again general urban multi-unit three stories and urban edge to unit C which is a 6000 square foot lot vacant property surrounding buildings scale of 1 to 2 stories. And on this map I'm not sure you can see well, but there's a darker orange. Those are three properties that are under site plan review for taking advantage of the M3 zoning and building townhomes or a triplex on the smaller property. So we're already seeing redevelopment on this block. Existing zoning general urban multi-unit three storey and urban edge two unit on three sides of the property and south is urban edge two unit. This gives you a little bit of a flavor of the context. Property itself is vacant. To the right is the house just north of the property. And then to the right. Lower right is the property across Perry Street. Then, of course, lower left is the Perry Street Station. And then a property across the alley on the upper left. Most of them. One or two stories, as we said. So informational notice on this went out to all of the registered neighborhood organizations in the area, as well as City Council on August 25th to notify everyone that we had an application that was complete. There was a planning board hearing held on October 19th where planning board voted 10 to 0 to recommend approval of this application. And the application did go to the Land Use Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on November 8th and was passed on to this body. And I'm going to take a drink because my thoughts getting dry. And you see here the list of the rhinos that were notified. The West Colfax Association of Neighbors, Sloan's Lake Citizens Group, Villa Park, Neighborhood Association, Denver Neighborhood Association and Inter-Government and Inter Neighborhood Cooperation. Today we have three letters of support that were attached to your staff report. So you know the criteria well, consistency with adopted plans, uniformity of district regulations, furthering the public health, safety and welfare, justifying circumstances and consistency with neighborhood context and zone district purpose and intent. The plans that apply our current plan 2000 Blueprint Denver and the West Colfax Plan that was adopted in 2006. So comprehensive plan 2000 tells us to protect our air quality by expanding the use of transit and increasing the mix of uses within our neighborhoods to encourage mixed use transit oriented development to determine the potential for transit oriented development in our station areas in particular, and encourage such opportunities where it is possible. Blueprint. Denver The land use concept is urban residential, a higher density and primarily residential concept, but does include some complementary commercial uses. The property itself is an area of stability and an area of change. It was an area of change. And then the RTD right of way to the south was all an area of stability. And then the alley got relocated to the north of the property. And so we ended up with a little bit of area of stability mixed with the area of change because the blueprint Denver map wasn't changed when the alley was relocated. So the street classifications are Perry Street is a main street collector and 12th Avenue is designated local collectors balance, mobility and the land use. So the West Colfax Plan of 2006 has a framework plan that has future land uses and urban design districts. And this is the section of the plan that speaks to future rezonings of property, and it does designate this property as urban neighborhood station that should be located. These areas are located within a half, half to a quarter mile of the light rail stations. And these the plan says these areas should be single family or multifamily at a scale of 1 to 5 stories. Also in the plan is the concept of growth opportunity, areas that were sort of like areas of change and areas of stability. And this property was designated a growth opportunity area where existing housing stock is dated and declining and it might be appropriate to redevelop the area. And this just shows you that urban neighborhood station designation from the West Colfax plan and this is the showing you the residential growth opportunity area. It's a little hard to read, but the the red properties are that residential growth opportunity. The other thing that this map shows is multi-modal green streets, which Perry Street happens to be one where the plan talks about beefing up the urban design and the multi-modal use of this street. It's important because it connects to Colfax and it connects to the St Anthony's redevelopment. So the land use recommendations out of the West Colfax plan are to recommend higher density for housing diversification and higher density in strategic locations like station areas, main streets and town centers, and to support infill development and mixed use projects and says the plan says these are especially appropriate at town centers along Main Streets and in close proximity to transit stops. The West Colfax Plan also designates the area in district plans where it talks about the character of the area and talks about in that section of the plan redeveloping the edges of Villa Park and the West Colfax neighborhood. So this just shows you the designation of the Pleasant Hill Station in the West Colfax Plan with that staff believes that this application conforms with all of the plans and furthers the uniform uniformity of district regulations. By going to a standard zone district that's not custom. That will have the same rules throughout the city for that zone district and furthers the public health, safety and welfare by implementing the city's plans. Justifying circumstances, its 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. CPD believes this criteria is met. There is major investment in this area with the light rail. Metro White Light Rail. Redevelopment of St Anthony's within a half mile are the Knox and Perry Street stations. So this area is definitely undergoing change. So we believe there is. Correct. Justifying circumstances. There is changing conditions. And we did talk a little bit about the general urban neighborhood context, multi-unit, residential and a variety of building forms. Low scale commercial embedded within residential areas. Commercial uses in a variety of building forms. The X5 is intended to promote safe, active, pedestrian, scaled, diverse areas and activating the public realm. The mixed use residential mixed use zone district. You can have ground storey retail, but you can't have upper storey retail. You only are allowed lodging or residential uses in the upper storeys and you can also have a strictly commercial building. But if you have a strictly commercial building over 10,000 square feet, I mean strictly commercial building, then you're only allowed a building of 10,000 square feet in that zone district. And there is only one. Building form allowed and that's the shopfront building for. So staff believes that the g r x5 is the appropriate zone district for this property and. And staff recommends approval.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. We have two individuals signed up to speak this evening. First up, we have Bruce O'Donnell.
Speaker 9: Thank you, Mr. President, of members of the council. My name is Bruce O'Donnell, and my address is 386 Emerson Street in Denver. And I'm delighted to be your last matter of business this year. And before you everybody gets out for the holidays, I am not going to repeat Theresa's entire presentation. I'll try to be brief. I do want to point out that we did have good community engagement with two RINO's, as Theresa said, and have positive community input and feedback in support of the application. This is in a blueprint Denver area of change and in the West Colfax plan. This calls for tod type redevelopment with five storey heights and hundred percent lot coverage, which is exactly what the proposal on the District of gr5 accomplishes. This zone, district and this rezoning were initiated prior to the moratorium on the slot home form, specifically because this on the street would make it almost impossible to do that with the transparency requirements and the build tos and so forth. And so if that is in your mind at all tonight, this is being done because it's consistent with the moratorium and you're thinking on precluding that building for them. I also am available to answer any questions this evening. Should you have any? But consistent with the staff recommendation for approval and Planning Board's recommendation for approval. I requested City Council approved MAT in the amendment application 2016 i00026 rezoning 1209 Perry Street to grx5. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Next up, David Roybal.
Speaker 5: Hello. Good evening, counsel. Thank you for the honor to speak names. David Roy Bach, Star Citizen, a large 21 or seven cell. Jason Street, born and raised in this area, went to Lake Middle School. This area means a lot to me of the tragedy that we happened that we had there. Which are we lost? I went to school with the Mother Lake. It's a part of the Midwest. We we used to have a time we used to have a studio there. It was called Time Council Studio, and we had a store three blocks away. So when it says General, General Urban, mixed use, I just hope it's an area that can serve the community and it's something that I want to pay attention to. And I hope constituents on Channel eight are paying attention to of the first rezoning on on the south side of Colfax. You know, we already know what happened already on the other side of of Colfax by Lake Middle School. It's a neighborhood I don't know. I don't even know. I grew up there, but I don't look like it. So I just want to be real cautious. If this is the first rezoning that's going to start pushing into the West Side that is affecting all of Villa Park because Villa Park actually goes all the way through the whole Lakewood Gulch. And I've been part of the eminent domain, the light rail, since 2007, and I've seen the long, hard battles that was fought for the property along there. So it's kind of overdue to see a rezoning there after the light rail. It's a huge transit area from the light rail. Kids walk to there from lake a lot of kids it's a kid access to go to school the nine bus so I just hope that it's something that's good and doesn't change it and I just sort to know how they reached out to the Jewish community because that is a huge part of Jewish Denver that's still there, been there for hundreds of years, at least 125 years. And I just speak in support of this, that it's going to help strengthen the community and not bring any gentrification and divide the west side. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of council. All right, Councilman Espinosa.
Speaker 5: Theresa, quick question. Is the e utu c a protected zone district. It is.
Speaker 6: But in this case, there is an intervening right of way. And so.
Speaker 5: And we move that right away to the north of the property.
Speaker 6: But there's still some left now.
Speaker 5: So the E2 C is on the south border where the train track is.
Speaker 6: Yes. And there's some right of way there between the station and the property.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Okay. So enough to.
Speaker 6: Separate the separate. And so the protected district has no effect.
Speaker 5: Great. Because that's that's where I was going with that as I was hoping that we were in a upper story setback situation on the south side of this building. So you're just confirming that that is not the case?
Speaker 6: That is not the case.
Speaker 5: Wonderful. Thanks. No further questions.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Councilman, because we know. All right. The public hearing for counsel, Bill 1034 is closed. Comments by members of council and council. Councilman Lopez.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Mr. President. This particular rezoning started pretty early on. It makes one you know, I was very happy with the the community outreach that took place. As you see, one of the neighborhood associations had signed off on it and they didn't get any letters of opposition from either Villa Park or West Colfax. We can see it kind of speaks for itself, the fact that it's right on 12th and Perrier, where the light rail station is, this is exactly the kind of density that calls for. It is that area of change. But when you when you see where that station is, it's important that that we're able to increase the amount of units and availability for folks to be able to use that light rail station. Otherwise, as a light rail station, it goes through a single family neighborhood. And when you look at the West Colfax plan, when you look at the Villa Park plan, a little parks and older plan, it doesn't account for the library or not the library outside the light rail station. But when you go to that West Colfax plan to the north, it does talk about that particular area picking up. And when you look at blueprints, you know, long standing call for area of change in that area. This is what it is. You know, back in 2010 when we did the citywide rezoning, you know, we knew that, you know, the opportunity would come where we would actually see more increased development that really utilizes that the West Line and to be able to see, you know, this become a little bit tighter of his own district and find out I think it's a. It's a plus for the community. So you know that we have no opposition. I don't have any opposition to this particular rezoning.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Espinosa.
Speaker 5: I just want to thank the applicant for moving forward with our x five because of the shopfront form. I think we can sort of at least your architecture can turn the corner. I hope that it does and address that. The Gulch and it does provide some ground for activation if you choose to if the opportunity is there. So hopefully you're open to tell what Mr. Roybal is saying and see if there's any need in the community. But I recognize that once the zoning is in place, it could be 100% residential. And so it goes. At least here's a place where the form based zoning code may get it right. We'll see. But that was it. That's all. I do like this as a zoned district in this sort of context, more so than some of the other ones we've allowed thus far. Thanks.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Councilman. Seeing no other comments, madam secretary.
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Speaker 2: All right. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results.
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Speaker 2: Tonight, Kels Will 1034 has passed. On Tuesday, January 17th, 2017, Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 1193, changing the zoning classification for 2099 and 2101 31st Street and a required public hearing on Council Bill 1199 Changing the zoning classification.
A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 1209 North Perry Street.
Rezones property located at 1209 North Perry Street from G-MU-3 and E-TU-C to G-RX-5 (general urban neighborhood mixed use to residential mixed use) in Council District 3.  The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 11-8-16.