Speaker 3: It has been moved and we do second. Thank you. Council Bill three zero approves the Zoning Map Amendment. The Council is required by law to conduct hearings on zoning map amendments, and the Council's actions are subject to a court review in order to provide a record for court view. Testimony is recorded and any items presented to the Council are marked as exhibits and become part of the record. Public hearing for council bill 30 is now open. We have the staff report.
Speaker 10: Good evening. My name is Tim Watkins with Community Planning and Development here to present rezoning application number 2014 IE 82 for property located at 1410 and 1420 South Santa Fe Drive property is located in South Denver Council District seven, known as Lucky District seven in the Overland neighborhood in the northern northeast portion of the North Overland neighborhood and located at the intersection of Santa Fe Drive and Arkansas Avenue, the property collectively is just over 30,000 square feet and the owner is requesting a rezoning from E three, which is urban edge commercial corridor three story maximum two I.A. or light industrial. And this would allow for marijuana cultivation facility and an existing building and property and for the city's strategy of retaining First Amendment freedom of speech rights. The use overlay one or adult use would be retained and also use overlay to a billboard is proposed to be retained. The existing zone district urban edge commercial corridor three storey allows for development along auto dominated corridors and provides for a deep build to requirement, which allows for some parking between the building and the street. And this zone district allows for provides a transition between commercial and residential areas. The requested zone district, air or light industrial use is intended for employment areas, allows for offices, businesses and lighter manufacturing and warehouse uses, and does not allow any new residential uses. The existing context of the site in a surrounding area, beginning.
Speaker 6: With the zoning.
Speaker 10: Is surrounded by. Some heavy industrial or before. Just to the south or excuse me, not heavy industrial. That is a general bit general business. And then I.B. is the heavy industrial to the northeast and to the west and northwest is more urban edge. Commercial Corridor three story. The existing land use is predominantly industrial and the purple color as well as some surrounding commercial retail and office uses. You'll also note the rail corridor, major rail corridor running north and south, just a block or two to the east of the site. Here's an aerial image showing the property in the surrounding area and you can see that it is predominantly industrial and lies within quarter. About a quarter mile separates it from the established residential area, which begins just east of the Broadway corridor to the right of the screen. The building form and scale. The center image to the left is the property. This is a light industrial flex building that allows for general manufacturing office and retail or wholesale uses. For a number of years. This was actually the Monarch Shower Doors facility where they would manufacture these products and had a showroom for wholesale sales and service to the north west of the property is existing residential and light industrial flex uses and abutting the property to the south is a fairly new commercial retail complex fronting Santa Fe Drive. Public process to president includes applicant outreach to the Overland Park Neighborhood Association and other applicable neighborhood groups were notified through written notice for all public meetings , and also written notice was provided to all applicable groups for the Planning Board, Public Hearing and Neighborhood and Planning Committee, as well as the public hearing this evening at the Planning Board hearing on January seven. Planning board members unanimously voted to recommend approval for this application onto the five review criteria, beginning with consistency with adopted plans. Comprehensive Plan 2000 recognizes opportunities for smaller custom fabrication and entrepreneurial start up businesses in historic industrial areas, including the South Platte River Corridor and rail tracks, which has been an important part of Denver's economic base for over a century. It also addresses the age or suggests that the age of the buildings and infrastructure and the change changing needs of industrial users should be addressed. Blueprint. Denver The concept land use is industrial. Recognize that this area is an area of stability and there are two types of areas of stability recognized in Blueprint Denver including committed and reinvestment and reinvestment maintains is intended to maintain the character of an area but also accommodate new development and select redevelopment. And this is fitting for an aging industrial district where reinvestment could benefit the existing buildings and surrounding infrastructure. The Future Street Classification and blueprint. Denver recognizes Santa Fe Drive as a commercial arterial. These typically serve commercial areas and contain small retail strip centers with front parking lots. They are often highly auto dominated or oriented and less amenable to walking and bicycling. They're primarily intended to accommodate regional traffic from one part of the city to another, while providing access to nearby businesses . Arkansas Avenue is a local street. The Overland Neighborhood Plan, adopted in 1993, acknowledges the presence of industrial users in northeast, in the northeast, half of the neighborhood, and it encourages landscape buffers between industrial and residential areas, which is not applicable to this property, given the blue white distance between industrial uses and the residential areas that are about a quarter mile away. The next review criteria uniformity of district regulations. The Denver Zoning Code would be applied uniformly to this site, so that criteria would be met. The rezoning would further public health, safety and welfare by implementing recommendations of adopted plans. The justifying circumstance is that the land and surrounding environs has changed or is changing. This is characterized or could be characterized by the recent retail development adjacent to the property to the south. Also there is new residential and mixed use development occurring and in the more central and south part of the overland neighborhood closer to the Evans rail station. And this is creating more demand for retail in that part of the neighborhood, more so than this industrial sector. Also, the aging industrial properties are in need of a reinvestment and there are some new regulations that apply, including November 2000 medical marijuana, which was legalized in the Colorado Constitution at that time. And in November 2012, recreational marijuana was legalized in the Colorado Constitution. The Denver Zoning Code, adopted in 2010 specifies where growing of marijuana is allowed and there are excise and licensing spacing requirements and business application requirements provided through the Business Excise and Licensing Office. The fifth criteria is consistency with neighborhood context, and the purpose and intent of the zone district should be in alignment. So the industrial context is characterized by an irregular pattern of large blocks with parking that often surrounds and buildings. And businesses that are located near highways or arterial streets. The Light Industrial Zone District is intended for employment areas. It allows for offices, businesses, light industrial uses and warehouse uses, and no new residential uses are allowed. So these are a good fit with each other and for the area and CPD, upon finding that all review criteria has been met, recommends approval of this application. Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 3: We have three speakers. Sign up today. Call up all three. You can come to the first few. Tom Downey, Gary Cohen and Kara Swisher. And you all three can make your way up. And Mr. Downey, you can begin your remarks.
Speaker 12: Good evening, Mr. President. Council members. Tom Downey, 9856 East 27th Drive.
Speaker 10: Where the attorneys representing the applicant.
Speaker 12: And we're just available for questions.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Gary Cohen and.
Speaker 10: Gary Cohen.
Speaker 13: 1318 South.
Speaker 10: Marion. I'm available for questions.
Speaker 6: I'm the owner of the building.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 5: I'm curious. We see little 150 West Ninth Avenue, apartment 4512 in Denver, and I'm representing the applicant. All right. Available for questions.
Speaker 3: Thank you. That concludes our speakers. Do we have any questions from members of the council? Councilwoman Fox.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr. President. One thing in the presentation just raised my curiosity. I'm familiar with this area because I drive by it often. And there was a statement not about the grow house. I understand that use, but when I said in the interest of free speech, they wanted to retain the adult use. What are you planning?
Speaker 10: I won't go back to the slide, but it is the general policy and recommendation city of Denver to retain First Amendment freedom of speech right in the city that whenever existing property owner has a existing district that includes you overlay one, we encourage that to be retained to provide for that that right throughout the city. But it's not necessarily an intended use by the applicant.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 5: I really was asking the applicant if there is any use that you are intending for this, because I'm curious.
Speaker 10: No, councilman, there's no plans for an adult use. I was just at the request of the planning department. We did not request a change in that availability.
Speaker 5: I appreciate the explanation. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Councilwoman Fox, Councilwoman Ortega.
Speaker 5: Councilwoman. Fantastic. My question. Thank you.
Speaker 3: All right. Any other questions on public airing for accountability? Seen on public hearing is now closed. Time for comments. Councilman Nevett.
Speaker 9: Thank you. I'm going to see if that works. Oh, it did work. Okay. But you called on me anyway. I don't have a whole lot to add. This is pretty straightforward, pretty cut and dried. I can tell you that I did a little extra outreach to the surrounding neighborhoods and got no particular interest or concern from them . So I hope will move forward with this and improve it tonight.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Count Commonwealth. And the other comments on Council Bill three zero. Scene on Madam Secretary. Roll call.
Speaker 4: Now. Nevett I Ortega. Rob Shepherd Sussman. Brooks Brown. Hi, Fats. I can each layman. Hi. Lopez. Hi, Monteiro. Hi, Mr. President.
Speaker 3: Hi, Madam Secretary. Please close the building and announce the results. 3939 as council bill three zero has been placed upon final consideration and does pass. All right. We're moving on to this excellent second one, which is Council Bill 83, a bill for an audience approving a proposed cable franchise agreement between the city and county of Denver and Quest Broadband Services Inc, also known as CenturyLink, granting a non-inclusive cable television franchise. Councilman Brown, will you please put Council Bill eight three on the floor to be ordered published?
Rezones 1410-1420 South Santa Fe Drive from E-CC-3 UO-1, UO-2 (Urban Edge, Commercial Corridor, 3 stories, Use Overlay allowing adult businesses and billboards) to I-A UO-1, UO-2 (Light Industrial, Use Overlay allowing adult businesses and billboards) in Council District 7. (NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLANNING) Rezones 1410-1420 South Santa Fe Drive from E-CC-3 UO-1, UO-2 (Urban Edge, Commercial Corridor, 3 stories, Use Overlay allowing adult businesses and billboards) to I-A UO-1, UO-2 (Light Industrial, Use Overlay allowing adult businesses and billboards) in Council District 7. A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD AT LEAST FOUR WEEKS AFTER PUBLICATION. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 2-4-15.