Speaker 0: Lebanese, Iranians, Lebanese, Iranians. 1015 has been placed upon final consideration and does pass. All right. We're moving on to the second public hearing on 1034. Councilwoman Monteiro, would you please put 1034 on the floor?
Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr. President. I move that council bill 1034 be placed upon final consideration and do pass.
Speaker 0: The public hearing for council. Bill 1034 is now open. May we have the staff report?
Speaker 2: You do? Hello. My name is Andrew Johnson with the Department of Finance Manager of Financial Development, giving you the staff report for the Council Bill 1034 before you today, which approves the service plans of the Ninth Avenue Metropolitan Districts numbers one, two and three. The districts will support public infrastructure financing for the redevelopment of the former University of Colorado Health Sciences Center site. The development plans for the Ninth Avenue metropolitan districts are being submitted for City Council approval on behalf of Ninth Avenue Venture LLC, pursuant to the requirements of the Special District Control Act. Title 32, Colorado Revised Statutes. A business improvement district is also currently overlays the property. However, this district is anticipated that it will be dissolved upon the approval of the proposed metropolitan districts to ensure no duplication of services will exist. The boundaries of the districts will eventually encompass 26 acres located approximately three miles southeast of downtown Denver Central Business District. The boundaries of the district are generally east of Colorado Boulevard, north of Eighth Avenue, south of 11th Avenue and west of Bellaire Street. The developer is going to be continuing, as you've heard in the previous public hearing, and will be redeveloping the University of Colorado's Health and Sciences Center campus. The development plans calls for a combination of residential, commercial and retail development. The Ninth Avenue Metropolitan District shall have all the powers of a metropolitan district described in Title 32 as limited in the pending service plans. The plans authorize the districts to issue debt not to exceed 160 million in aggregate, and sets a debt cap of 50 mills for debt service. The service plans also anticipate an operations and maintenance mill levy of approximately ten mills that the district's proponents are targeting a November 2015 election for the district's creation upon approval of the by their qualified electors at the November election, the District will have the authority to operate in the manner prescribed in the service plans before you. This evening, the Department of Finance recommends approval of the service plans for the Ninth Avenue Metropolitan District, number one, two and three. And we are here to answer any questions that you might have. Also here is Frank Cannon from Continuum, Maryann McCurdy and Elizabeth Cortis from the Lofts of Maggie Cisneros and Joanne Weinstein from the City Attorney's Office. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Mr. Johnson. We have three speakers for 1034 and I will call off three. Frank Cannon, Chairman, SEC Chairman Sekou and Larry Donovan. So Mr. Cannon, you can go ahead and begin your remarks.
Speaker 2: Good evening again. My name is Frank Cannon. We're department director of Continuum Partners. Thank you for your prior votes with regard to the Metropolitan District, once we build this great new neighborhood, we need a way to maintain it and make sure that it is a viable, vibrant neighborhood for many years to come, which is really the reason and the purpose of the metropolitan districts. We need to be able to maintain the public spaces, the back of curb improvements we build for sidewalks and pedestrian environments that really make this a great neighborhood asset for us. So it's really the purpose of that. And then long term, the potential of capital repair and replacement of improvements that will be building, such as stormwater improvements, plaza improvements, parking improvements that the district will have obligations of maintaining and ultimately long term capital repair and replacement. So that's really the purpose for it. We're excited about the opportunity to move the project forward. We look forward to getting underway in the very near future. And again, if you have any questions, I'm here to answer them. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Chairman Sekou.
Speaker 9: Yeah, some. There's not much more that has been already said that I can really add to other than thinking about the. Outstanding leadership that we had on this from council with Ginny and Mary Beth. At moments like this, I can honestly say that we are truly going to miss your leadership and your commitment to service and your neighborhood. You've done an outstanding job and we've been very blessed to have Jeanie as a life coach. That has kept me coming back to City Council for four years and. I have been thoroughly blessed with being in your presence. I know it has been a test of patience, but I'm still here. And that's it. That's the beauty of this process. I met Mr. Kidd is going to be working in your district during this upcoming election. Outstanding fiscal.
Speaker 0: Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker. Stick to the topic.
Speaker 9: Everybody, for participating in this. You guys have done a wonderful job in partnering with this team and you serve as a model for the rest of the city of what can be done when we decide to get the job done.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Thank you. Larry Donovan.
Speaker 2: I'm Larry Donovan. I reside in 90 Cherry Street and Hilltop, and I meant to check the box for the previous bill. And so I'm here just as an endorsement. I'm a member of the Premier Park Hilltop Civic Association. I'm not speaking on their behalf, but I was asked to come down here and I'm simply speaking as a resident. And I've been attending the public meetings hosted by Continuum all of this time. And finally, they're they're the ones that really get it, have it together, I should say. Continuum has been a significant, incredible developer in the suburbs and within the city. They have also had been have been have a financially strong partner out of California. And they have been sensitive to the neighbors concerns and vision so far. I feel there's a relatively comfortable feeling that continuum will compliment the neighbors thoughts and vision. I trust they will continue on the right path, especially how it impacts traffic. I therefore encourage you to pass this bill as you have already passed the first one. So I'm a big advocate of theirs. They are infill people. They're terrific in the city as well, in the suburbs. And I thoroughly endorse it.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers for 1034. Do we have any questions from members of the council, Councilwoman Sussman?
Speaker 6: Thank you, Mr. President. I do have some questions. Just for clarification, I think I know the answers. Andrew, you mentioned very briefly, but we did have a metropolitan district before and we're dissolving that because that was a placeholder, as I recall. Correct.
Speaker 2: We have there is a business improvement district, not a metropolitan not.
Speaker 6: A metropolitan special district. Right. That's all right. Thank you for that clarification. And I promise I should know the answer to this one. But why three districts and not one?
Speaker 2: A lot of times it's a it's a strategic move by in order to allow for different styles of development, whether you have commercial or residential, you might need to have different services provided to these different localities within the development. So perhaps you might activate one and in one area, one another, one in another area. That's one of the reasons that you would have multiple districts.
Speaker 6: And you might have different people serving on these districts given whoever is within that area.
Speaker 2: That is correct. The board of directors that serves the Metropolitan District of operations is made up of the property owners.
Speaker 6: Okay. Let me take there is anyone and it'll go to a vote on November 15th. The passes this evening.
Speaker 2: If it passes this evening, then the there will be a creation election in November of 2015 is the plan.
Speaker 6: Okay. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: You're welcome.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilwoman Sussman. Councilwoman.
Speaker 6: Well, I feel like a clone. I had basically the same question in my. Let me just say, how are we disbanding the bid? Is that part of this ordinance? Is it part of. I don't think it's part of the vote, but do the property owners in the bid have to vote to disband it? I'm just remembering.
Speaker 2: The the bid is not being dissolved as part of this ordinance. We you may have remember that earlier this year we created the Santa Fe bid, our business improvement district, which involved the dissolution of maintenance districts that were currently there. So we're not doing a combination in the ordinance like we did there. What we're doing is we're just creating or creating or authorizing the service plans to this evening and sometime during the course of next year, we will come back through and AV, I believe the process would be actually coming here and passing an ordinance that says there's no outstanding obligations, there's no debt outstanding, and thus this district can be dissolved.
Speaker 6: Okay. And then I went through the service plans. But how much flexibility is there in the service plan? Can a metropolitan you know, I looked at the parks and rec and the roads and the things that were listed there. But can the metropolitan district take on lighting, safety issues, even some retail promotion, which is a job of bids?
Speaker 2: But so the construction operations for metropolitan districts as a whole can do almost everything except for what the last thing was, which is marketing. The metropolitan district is really geared for infrastructure and maintenance of that infrastructure as long as it's within the public right of way. So that is the core concept of metropolitan districts for.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Councilwoman Robb, are there any other questions from members of council? Scene nine public hearing on 1034 is been closed now. Time for comments. I'll start with Councilman Robb. If you have any sense hearing it.
Speaker 6: Just ditto my former comments. I support this.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilmember Catwoman Canete.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Mr. President. I was trying to make Larry feel better. I, too, should have chimed in on the prior bill, but I was just enjoying listening to the dialog that I missed my window. So I wanted to just call out my colleagues for their leadership. Sometimes you don't know what you can get without saying no. First, it's a very scary position to be in, but they were among the folks on council who led the way in giving us this opportunity. And then in terms of the affordable housing, I wanted to first thank Dora and the university because when we approved the urban renewal area, we had a pretty vibrant conversation about affordable housing from this dais. And I feel that you all heard that. And before even the competition happened for this second round and this parcel, I believe that you made this a part of the request in a part of the conversation and opened those doors. And so I appreciate your responsiveness to this council and then continuum, obviously, for walking through the door. I have not been in the meetings by an air stand. There's been dialog with the community about that and I think senior housing is a great opportunity. We also have, as you said, a city where children live. And so I hope that housing for families with children continues to be considered as an opportunity for this site. But regardless, I'm very happy and pleased at the responsiveness in the dialog about that issue because we do have folks who will be working at the grocery stores and the restaurants will have folks who age out in the neighborhood and maybe want a little less yard and house to take care of, maybe interested in the higher density housing. And so I believe the intergenerational and or the mixed income aspects of this are really something to be proud of. So I want to thank you as well as for these wonderful metropolitan districts to take care of all the infrastructure. Thank you, Mr. President.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Counsel. Any other comments on 1034 seen on Mr. Secretary? Raquel Lopez Hi, Montero. Nevitt Hi, Rob. Hi, Shepherd. Hi.
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Speaker 0: But I can eat i laman Hi, Mr. President. Hi, Mr. Secretary. Please close the voting and as the results Lebanese, Iranians, Lebanese, Iranians 1034 has in place upon final consideration and does pass. All right, Council. The last thing we need to do, we postponed voting on 893 until after the public hearing. So is now that time, Councilwoman Monteiro, would you please put 893 on the floor?
Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr. President. I move that council bill 893 be placed upon final consideration and do pass.
Speaker 0: All right. We're going to wait for technology to catch up on that one, Mr. Secretary.
Speaker 6: I'll second it terribly.
Speaker 0: All right, Mr. Secretary, we'll catch up. Moved by Councilwoman Monteiro. Seconded by Councilwoman Sussman.
Speaker 7: Which committee is it in?
Speaker 0: It's 893. Yeah.
Speaker 6: It's in finance, finance.
Speaker 0: Finance and services. Oh, I see. Okay. Do we have any comments while we're waiting from members of the council? I got the first. Got the second. I seen no comments. Mr. Secretary, roll call brown.
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Speaker 0: I just i. Mr. President, I. And the irony is, Councilman Robb, your vote hasn't been voted twice now. All right. There you go. Mr. Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results of an i09 11 I zero nays 893 has been placed upon final consideration and does pass one three adjournment announcement. There will be a public hearing. Monday, December 15, 2014. Concerning the Denver Zoological Foundation Certificate of Designation Application for a Proposed Waste to Energy System at the Denver Zoo. Also on Monday, Monday, January 5th, 2015, the Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 962 relating to the Denver Zoning Code, enacting the South Sloan's Lake Design Overlay and seeing no other business before this body. This meeting is adjourned. Environmental 30 on the Don. One.
A bill for an ordinance approving Service Plans for the creation of 9th Avenue Metropolitan District No. 1, 9th Avenue Metropolitan District No. 2 and 9th Avenue Metropolitan District No. 3 relating to the redevelopment project at approximately 9th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard.
 (FINANCE & SERVICES) Approves the Service Plans for the formation and establishment of three (3) Title 32 districts:  9th Avenue Metropolitan District No. 1; 9th Avenue Metropolitan District No. 2 and 9th Avenue Metropolitan District No. 3. The boundaries of the districts are east of Colorado Boulevard, north of 8th Avenue, south of 11th Avenue, and west of Bellaire Street. The Committee approved filing this bill by consent on 11-20-14.