Speaker 4: Second, I just wanted to get one in. Madam President.
Speaker 1: I get can each I. Ortega, i. Sandoval, i. Sawyer, i. Torres, I. Madam President.
Speaker 0: I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results.
Speaker 1: 13 eyes.
Speaker 0: 13 eyes. The resolutions have been adopted and the bills have been placed upon final consideration and do pass. Tonight there will be a required public hearing on Council Bill 20, Dash 1414 changing the zoning classification for 3397 South Geneva Street in Hampden and a required public hearing on Council Bill 20, Dash 1435, changing the zoning classification for multiple properties along East Hampden Avenue in Hamden and Southampton. Anyone wishing to speak on any of these matters must go online to sign up during the recess of council. If there's no objections from members of council, we will take a ten minute recess. Council members, please remember to turn off your cameras and meet your microphones and we will return at 6:46 p.m.. We have two public hearings tonight. Speaker 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 were promoted, your screen will flash and say Reconnecting to meeting. Please do not leave the meeting. You will be reconnected and will need to turn on your camera if you have one. And your microphone. If you have signed up to speak or to answer questions, state your name and note that you will be available for questions of counsel. Speakers will have 3 minutes. There is no yielding of time. 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 council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Councilmember Torres, will you please put Council Bill 20, Dash 1414 on the floor for passage?
Speaker 1: I move that council bill 20 dash 1414 be placed upon final consideration and do pass.
Speaker 0: Thank you. It has been moved. Okay. Thank you, Councilman Ortega. The required public hearing for Council Bill 20, Dash 1414 is open. May we please have the staff report?
Speaker 3: Can you see that?
Speaker 0: Yes, we can. And then can you make it full screen?
Speaker 3: You see? There.
Speaker 1: Very well so.
Speaker 0: Little. Maybe we might have to go back to your previous one so we can see the whole presentation.
Speaker 3: It's not. It's. Sorry about that. Is that working now?
Speaker 0: There you go. Yep. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Good evening. My name is Sammy Barnes. I am with Community Planning and Development. And today before you we have 30 397 south geneva street currently zoned sue f and the applicant is requesting seu f one. It's in Council District four and Kendra Black's and it is in the Hamden neighborhood. So the request itself is for a single unit residential asking specifically for the cf1 existing zoning itself, as if it's surrounded predominantly by that use in the neighborhood. You do have some open space and some residential uses nearby. When we look at the land use itself, it is a single unit, residential and Geneva Street as well as around daytime. You can see that it's predominantly single unit residential. And so the subject property is on the upper left corner. And as you can see, some of the surrounding properties are between one, one and a half and two stories. And then on the bottom left, you can see the multi multifamily residential building to the south of the site. So this went before the planning board on October 20th and it was approved unanimously and it is before you today. And as of present, we've had one coming of opposition, which is in the staff report. And primarily those concerns were regarding to absentee landlords not maintaining their properties, landscaping and maintenance concerns to the subject, property and other properties in the vicinity, as well as a home occupation permit for another property, not specifically the subject property and noise coming from an elementary school. I did reach out to the applicant, this individual that had concerns and opposition and was able to address all their comments as well as I had the applicant reach out to that individual and address their comments as well. And so. So before you, we have five specific criteria that we analyze when it comes to reasoning. And I will dove into the first one. The first one is consistent with adopted plans, and we're really looking at just two plans, which is comprehensive plan 2040 and Blueprint every land use and transportation plan 2019. So within comprehensive plan 2040, there are several specific goals and policies that give direction and I'm going to that there are highlighted in the staff report. But I want to highlight some here just in this presentation. One around equity around the equitable, affordable and inclusive go to strategy AIDS. Create a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood for all individuals and families, as well as an equitable, equitable and inclusive. Go through strategy, be use land use land use regulations to enable and encourage the private development of affordable, missing, middle and mixed income housing, especially where it's close to transit, as well as to ensure neighborhoods offer a mix of housing types and services for diverse populations and around climate is to promote infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place. When we're looking at the blueprint Denver, a 2019 plan, the subject property is in the suburban neighborhood context, which are predominantly large, single family homes. When we're looking specifically at the place types, it is classified as more residential, which are primarily large single uses as well as accessory ordinance are appropriate. And Geneva Street is a local street, which is primarily characterized by residential uses. As well as blueprint. There's a specific language about aid use, specifically policy for in the language in built form housing is the diversity housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units through all residential areas. And the staff report also does mention the other review criteria as well. And so therefore CPD recommends approval based on all findings and all review criteria have been met. I am available for any questions you might have as well as the applicant is here to answer any questions as well.
Speaker 0: All right. Well, thank you very much, Edson. Council has not received any written comments on Council Bill 20, dash 1414. And we have one individual find it to speak. Storti.
Speaker 1: Hi there.
Speaker 2: So. I think that it's I just wanted to shout out the part about inclusive and affordable housing that is a part of the Denver plan. And. And I'm just. Hoping that city council can keep that in mind when we are.
Speaker 1: Planning, which, you know, I hope.
Speaker 2: That that type of planning is happening. It doesn't always feel like that, but when we are planning for our unhoused neighbors, so it seems like it's of relevance and it's being taken into consideration by the community and Community Development Development Department. And I just don't know who to speak with regarding how we can take measures in the same vein for everyone in Denver.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of council. All right. Councilman Flynn.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Madam President. I have some issues surrounding the. Use of aid to use in suburban contexts where we don't have alleys. I've talked about this before and when I read the staff report and I saw some some indecision or some issue over a detached ADU and how that would be applied to this slot. Thank you for your email today. You said that the applicant intends to do an attached ADU, but also with a separate garage on the property. Is that correct?
Speaker 3: The applicant is here and clarify that as what is intending to do with an additional garage or not.
Speaker 4: Okay. I don't know if Aaron is if we want to promote Aaron Roediger and have him respond to what what his plan is here. I know that we have some few of our 500 and think 548 A.D. use now in the city, according to the permitting office in the last ten years. And very few of them are on parcels that don't have access from a from an alley or a street. And so I wanted to I am concerned that CPD developed first some sort of guidelines for the suburban context, which is primarily dominated by lots that may be on cul de sacs as this one is, or actually on the end of a cul de sac. So the actual frontage isn't isn't very great. So the question was, how do we determine the rear plot line? How do we determine the envelope within which a detached adu could be built? I understand again that that this is going to be an attached adu. Aaron is in here.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 0: Aaron is. You might need to re pose your question, Councilman Flynn.
Speaker 4: I'm curious what your plan is. As I understand, it's to be attached to you, but also with a garage. Is that for certain now?
Speaker 3: Thank you for that, Councilman. Thanks. Aaron Roediger and the property owner of Geneva. Yes. So my my original plan was to actually build a detached garage, which would have a garage on the first floor, obviously, into the living unit, second floor, and that would be in the back. So if if you look at the front of the property, there is a very wide entrance for a gate, basically for steel to pull in. So the plan would have you would have a driveway going through the back area and.
Speaker 4: The garage detached.
Speaker 3: Within the property. You probably wouldn't see it.
Speaker 4: On which side of the house is the is the access going to be?
Speaker 3: That would be the the east side would be the left side if you're looking at it.
Speaker 4: Okay. Whether it's a gate there now. Yep. Okay. Are you currently renting the property out?
Speaker 3: I live here currently. I have two roommates, but I know it's the harvest.
Speaker 4: Okay. And so you're living here now? Not in California?
Speaker 3: No, I do go back and forth, but I do. Okay. I'm a software engineer. I work remotely. So I do like to jump around and possible.
Speaker 4: Okay. Thank you, Madam President.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilman Flint. Next up, we have Councilwoman Torres.
Speaker 1: Thank you, madam president. Edson I'm just wondering if you can share for folks that are watching. I know we've had a couple suburban applications come through in this question about absentee landlords has come up, done all of them, I think. Can you just share a little bit of what what you might have shared with the commenter who originally opposed this about whether or not that would be an issue with an edu rental?
Speaker 3: Yes, great question. The individual that originally wrote the letter of opposition was under the impression that the property owner didn't live on site and that it was completely being rented. And so they had concerns that it was going to be two units being rented out completely. And so the proper owner does live on site. And then there is a provision in our zoning code that states that states that end single units on districts where 80 days are allowed, that the property owner must live and maintain that unit. So if Aaron decides to build the the attached avenue and he is required to live on site, and that's only if he decides to build the ADU or not. And this happens for any zoned district, whether that's attached or detached.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilman. All right. One final look. If there's any hands raised in the public hearing for Council Bill 20, Dash 1414 is closed. Comments by members of Council. Councilwoman Black.
Speaker 2: Thank you, madam president. And thank you, edson. We talked a bit about this at the looting meeting. It is the first application to make it to council in a suburban salt zone district. And I am very curious about it, as is Councilman Flynn, because we don't have alleys mostly in these kinds of neighborhoods and there's big setbacks . And so it'll be interesting to see what happens with this. So I guess here we go, suburban zone districts. And I guess I'll just look forward to seeing what the project proposal is and Mr.. Right after. I'm glad to hear that you live in Denver, New and I guess that's all I have to say. It meets the criteria as laid out by Exxon. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilman Black. Next up for comments, we have Councilwoman Sandoval.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Councilman. So just a little side note. I live in an urban context and I have no alley. I live and like several of my blocks in northwest Denver, have no alley and a half a block. Rezoning is actually coming forward for the 46th and more for accessory dwelling units that have no alley. So this isn't, I think, just in the suburban context, I think this is a context everywhere in Denver where you have no alley. Because I know some of my neighbors would like to see an accessory dwelling unit in my neck of the woods. But once again, we have no alley, so I'm not quite sure. How do you determine that? So just wanted to go on the record saying that I would support CPD looking at this in all context where there is no alley and how do we address people going in and out from the yard? And I guess I'm more personally curious because I have lived for 20 years on a block that has no alley right in the smack heart of northwest Denver. I know several people as well. My mom lives on the same block as I do, and I'm interested to see how these rezonings come forward with no alleys. So just wanted to go on the record to say that as Councilman Black mentioned, he did meet the criteria. But I still hope that CPD studies this a little bit more. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilwoman. Next up, we have Councilman Sawyer.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Madam President. Just wanted to jump in on that conversation. As Councilman Herndon and I are looking into the rezoning in East Colfax for 80 years. This is an issue because there are blocks that don't have alleys in East Colfax and it's very site specific. We've actually been talking to the fire department about what that looks like and the fire department and CPD in site review have a have a plan for that. So there is there is conversation happening about that, but it is very site specific and it very much matters exactly what is already on the land. So it'll be interesting to see exactly what happens with this particular one. But it it matters what form and structure is already built on the land. So it's very interesting. Thanks.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Next up, we have Councilman Flynn.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Madam President. I want to support Councilwoman Sandoval in her request. That's exactly what I was going to suggest. Also that CPD take a look at the different settings and and determine that rather than a one size fits all, even just determining what envelope they could be built in. Take a look at such things as life safety and public access and things like that. There is no I mean, there is no public access to the rear of this particular property. So I think that's appropriate. And I support Councilwoman Sandoval in asking CPD to take a look at that going forward. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Wonderful. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. And I'll go ahead and chime in, seeing that this meets all the criteria. I am happy to support it, but I think we're all paying close attention what this looks like for suburban context and where we go forward. It's an exciting time to see what this might look like. And so seeing no other hands raised for comments. Madam Secretary, roll call, please.
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Speaker 1: Fine.
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Speaker 1: I. Ortega, I. Sandoval, I swear. I. All right. I. Madam President.
Speaker 0: I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 1313 IES Council Bill 20 1414 has passed. Our second hearing tonight is 20 dash 1435. Councilmember Taras, will you please put Council Bill 20 1435 on the floor for passage?
Speaker 1: I move that Callum Hill 20 dash 1435 be placed upon final consideration and do pass.
Speaker 0: Thank you. It has been moved and I think Councilman Herndon got that second in the required public hearing for council bill 20. Dash 1435 is open. May we please have the staff report? We've got Jason Morrison here from Community Planning and Development.
Speaker 5: Good evening. Members of Council. Jason Morrison, senior city planner with Community Planning and Development. And the rezoning in front of you today is for a legislative rezoning sponsored by Councilwoman Kendra Black in the Hampton and Hampton South neighborhoods. The Map Amendment resource owns a number of commercially zoned properties along East Hampton Avenue, with the goal of improving design outcomes by decreasing setbacks and requiring greater build to percentages. As I mentioned, we're in Council District four, Kendra Black's district. In the Hampton and Hampton South Statistical neighborhoods. And the request. The proposed rezoning includes three large areas along East Hampton Avenue. These three areas include approximately 122 parcels or 164 acres from Interstate 25 to the west to south of Anna Street to the east. The proposed Map amendment intends to rezone properties that are in the former Chapter 59 Zone District and the S.C. three s annex to mix three and six five within the Denver Zoning Code to S-Max 3amx5a. The purpose of the rezoning is to facilitate better design outcomes along East Hampton Avenue. And in addition to bringing many of these former chapters of the nine properties into the Denver zoning code. The additional design standards found in this mix three eight and in the next five eight districts include improved building form standards along this corridor to create an active and uniform street front. This includes, among others, reducing setbacks of current zoned districts, increasing build to requirements, eliminating surface parking between the primary street and the building, and finally requiring entrances to face the primary street for pedestrian access. There are many existing zone districts included in this rezoning, including several business districts pwds within the former Chapter 59 zoning code and mixed use and commercial corridor districts within the Denver Zoning Code. The existing zone districts are largely commercial districts which allow parking between the primary street and the building. And these zone districts also contain generous setbacks. More information on these individual zone districts can be found in the staff report. A portion of Area One, which is near Interstate 25, is within the sophomore Park U. Plane. This results in building height limits ranging from 12 feet to 42 feet. The view plan does not does allow exceptions in allowable height, including that any district zone for businesses may be built to a height of 42 feet above the natural grade. Furthermore, in existing structures that do not comply with the height, restrictions may be replaced with the current height and use the proposed zone districts within the view plan RSM s3a and 658 and have a maximum height of 45 feet and 70 feet respectively. We're looking at the existing land use, the properties contained within this rezoning, our commercial, retail and office with some industrial mixed use and parking uses. The proposed rezoning is adjacent to mostly single and multi-unit residential uses as well as park and open space. And here's a look at some of the existing building form and scale within area one of the proposed rezoning. And to orient you, this is near Interstate 25 in East Hampton Avenue. And here's a look at some of the existing Brill Building form and scale. Near Yosemite Street and East Hampton Avenue. And then finally within area three, just near Havana Street, near Kennedy Golf Course. This is some examples of some of the existing building foreman skill in that area. The Map amendment application was unanimously recommended for approval by Planning Board, Planning Board and before it by committee. Since the staff report was published, we received no public comments. The Council office held an open house to discuss the rezoning back in November of 2019, and overwhelmingly, residents agree that they'd like to see new, walkable, mixed use development that activates this area. Because this is a legislative rezoning. It's only subject to three of the review criteria shown here. We'll start first with consistency with adopted plans. We have two adopted plans and that's Plan 2040 and Blueprint Denver. There is no neighborhood plan for this area. Looking first to comprehensive plan 2040, the proposed MAP amendment is consistent with several strategies from current Plan 2040 shown here and also detailed in your staff report. Specifically, this application is consistent with two equitable, affordable and inclusive goals and strategies. Because the proposed districts allow for a variety of uses that will provide services and amenities to the residents of the surrounding neighborhoods, and the design standards will promote greater walkability and accessibility to those uses established along the corridor. Similarly, they're consistent with the climate strategy because the text and map amendments will allow high quality and mixed use development at locations where infrastructure is already in place. Switching gears and looking at Blueprint Denver Blueprint Denver maps, this area is mostly as a suburban context. The proposed zone districts are consistent with this plan direction of commercial development that is focused along main corridors and the aspiration to make the context more urban in nature. The western portion of Area One, which is near the South more RTD station along Interstate 25, is mapped as the urban center context. These areas have a high mix of uses and street level activation. Blueprint states that neighborhood context are meant to guide which zone districts are appropriate and may be interpreted with limited flexibility. The 63a and five zone districts will implement the mixed use and walkable areas that are envisioned within the urban center neighborhood context. Looking at future place type. The frozen districts are consistent with the future places mapping of this area of community center and community corridor which allow for a mix of uses with heights up to five stories and typically have an active street level. The proposed districts are in mixed use districts allowing 3 to 5 stories and include design standards that do promote an active street. Hampton Avenue is a mixed use arterial and other streets within the rezoning are commercial arterials and residential arterials and collectors.
A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for multiple properties along East Hampden Avenue in Hampden and South Hampden.
Approves a legislative map amendment to rezone multiple properties from S-MX-5 UO-1, UO-2, S-MX-5, S-MX-3, B-3, B-3 with waivers, R-MU-30, S-MX-2, B-1, P-1 waivers, B-2, B-2 with waivers, S-CC-3X, PUD 173, PUD 198 to S-MX-3A, S-MX-5A and S-MX-5A UO-1, UO-2 (creates a main street district along the Hampden corridor), located in the Southmoor/Hampden neighborhoods in Council District 4. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 12-8-20.