Speaker 1: Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing. They must direct their comments to council members. They must refrain from obscene speech and direct your comments to the Council as a whole. And please, no personal attacks. Councilman Espinosa, will you put Council Bill 1022 on the floor? 1022. A move that council bill 1020 to be placed upon final consideration and do pass. All right it's been moved and second it. The public hearing for counsel bill 1022 is open. May we have the staff report the results at all.
Speaker 6: Good evening, Theresa and Sarah with community planning and development. This is a map amendment for property at 2001 through 25 East 18th Avenue. It is located in City Council District nine in the City Park West neighborhood. And at the nine five.
Speaker 1: No, I'm just.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Did I just. I messed up. Keep going.
Speaker 6: All right. At the northeast corner of 18th Avenue and Ray Street, a block southeast of the Presbyterian St Luke's Medical Center, and four blocks east of Saint Joseph's Hospital, three blocks west of City Park. Property is 6250 square feet. It is a vacant duplex structure that is being renovated. A property owner is just modernizing the commercial uses allowed on the property to be in line with the adjacent properties. Again, the request is to rezone from a chapter 59 pad number 107 to General Urban Multi-unit. I'm sorry, mixed use three stories. So it is in the general urban neighborhood. That's right to my notes characterized by single unit two unit multi-unit residential with a in a variety of building forms, low scale commercial embedded in residential areas. So. Sort of your typical old Denver neighborhood. Existing context. Again, the zoning is that Chapter 59 PD. There is a view plane from City Park and the Natural History Museum that governs that governs the height on the property. And the allowed height is 73 feet. The property again is a vacant duplex that's being renovated. So the number 107 was adopted in 1985. It allows the old chapter 59 are for land uses, and that was their residential office that had some limited retail. And so north of the property is a general urban residential office. Three story east, north and south east is the x three, same as the proposed, and then west is a medical office building that's zoned campus h two, which is among the campus zone districts, is a transitional zone district. So again, sublet properties vacant adjacent uses. Multi-family commercial civic with the hospitals, a very healthy mix of uses in this area, the property you can sort of see behind the trees. But I just wanted to give you an idea of the height of the surrounding structures and kind of the variety of uses in the area, the property itself. You can see at the top of this slide, I'm on slide 11, just let's see, I can get my directions mixed up behind the property. Is the buildings on the upper right directly adjacent to the properties on 18th Avenue is the picture on the bottom. Right across 18th Avenue is the multi-unit condominium building and then a medical building across directly across race street on the upper left, all about well up to three stories or more. So informational notice on this went out in July, a notice of a complete application planning board hearing on September 6th, and the board unanimously voted to recommend approval of this. There was one person who testified who was the neighbor adjacent behind who really was there just to find out information about the rezoning. And then this was at the Land Use Committee on October 3rd and passed through committee. So we're here tonight for the public hearing. There are a number of registered neighborhood organizations in the area, but today we have no public comment on this application. So the plans that apply are Plan 2000, Blueprint Denver and a 1986 Uptown Neighborhood Plan, which I have to state was a very pleasant plan to work with. Its its recommendations seem to still hold up. So plan to 2000 tells us to encourage quality infill development to promote mixed use development, to encourage positive change and diversity while protecting our traditional character of our neighborhoods. To identify areas where increased density and new uses are desirable and can be accommodated, and to support retention of our businesses in the city. Blueprint Denver The land use concept is single family residential. Those are areas which are predominantly residential but which do have a smaller employment base generally embedded in the neighborhoods. And it is in an area of stability where of course we want to preserve our neighborhood character but also allow some reinvestment in our neighborhoods. Future Street classification for East 18th Avenue is a mixed use arterial. These are the types of streets that have a high degree of mobility, and a mixed use are generally located in our higher intensity mixed use areas, commercial areas and mixed well commercial and residential areas. Ray Street is an undesignated local street. The property is also within the quarter mile buffer of an enhanced transit corridor, which is York Street. And so those are areas where we want to have supportive land uses and policies for to support transit. The Uptown Neighborhood Plan, like I said, was adopted in 1986. It that plan vision is for an urban village to have distinct districts that are distinct in their building densities and mixture of land uses that is distinct from downtown, that is livable and economically vital. General plan recommendations are to reinforce the distinct districts in the area, to reinforce the distinctions between the districts, to encourage mixed use projects and to encourage housing. The district that the plan that this property is in is in the City Park West District. On the district map in the plan, those recommendations are to encourage housing, to encourage compatibility between new development and the existing residential and the well residential character of the District 4/18 Avenue to improve the pedestrian character and have hospital support and destination retail on East 18th Avenue and then retail recommendations to concentrate the retail uses on the east west streets particularly. Well, 18th Avenue was specifically named there and that the retail uses should be concentrated around. Some of the present retail development. So with that, staff believes that this application is conforming to our plans, that we are furthering the uniformity of district regulations by. Using our standard zone districts versus our custom zone districts, and that we're furthering the public health, health, safety and welfare by allowing this reinvestment in the property, by implementing our plans. Justifying circumstances are changed conditions. There are a number of new developments in the area, starting with the hospital redevelopment and a lot of new townhomes and condos in the area. So staff believes this is an appropriate changed conditions. And we did talk a little bit about the character of the general urban neighborhood context, multi-unit, single unit, residential in a variety of building forms, low scale commercial embedded within the residential areas, residential uses along local streets, but some commercial located along mixed use arterials such as 18th Avenue and then the Jim X three specific intent to promote safe, active pedestrian areas and to enhance the convenience and enjoyment of transit, walking and shopping and. That's about it. So with that, staff recommends approval.
Speaker 1: All right. Thank you, Mr. Sarah. We have two speakers this evening. We when I call your name, just come to the front bitch and I will start now. Adrian Weatherby and Alison Altair is. Out there is this study. Come sit down here. Mr. Wetherbee, your first 3 minutes.
Speaker 9: Thank you. First of all, for your public service. Thank you for supporting all of the issues that the first time bore witness to this evening. I was impressed. And I owe you that, I think. Thank you. My name is Adrian Weatherby. I work for a small architectural firm in northwest Denver. Our address is 3628 West 32nd Avenue. I am here representing this rezoning application. I wanted to thank Teresa as well. And Eugene, thank you for your work. The Planning Commission and the city staff again for the work on this application. As Teresa mentioned, the purpose of the application was remove restrictive code and allow a more modern set of commercial uses on the property. The property owner does not have any current plans to demolish the existing structure. The current plan is to renovate the first four units for commercial use and a second floor for apartments. We're looking forward to rehabbing the existing building, getting tenants in and making it a contributing member of the neighborhood. In terms of community outreach. We met with Capitol Hill United Neighbors several months back and took comments from them. We've reached out several times since then, and our understanding is that the neighborhood organizations are relatively neutral on this application. I'm happy for myself and our attorney, Allison L Terrace, to answer any questions the council members may have otherwise. We respectfully request your approval of this application.
Speaker 1: Miss others.
Speaker 2: Good evening, members of Council. Thank you for your time tonight. My name is Allison Altares. I'm counsel for the property owner and I'm only here to answer questions if you have any of my addresses. 319 Eudora Street.
Speaker 1: Great. All right, thank you. This concludes a comment portion. Any questions by members of council? I have one quick question. Is the owner of the property actually here? Out here? Okay. So so you guys are representing the owners. We had a conversation in committee around possible uses and obviously this is part of a food desert. We talked about, you know, grocery store. It uses things like that. Has that been talked about with the owner? Things like that?
Speaker 9: I think we mentioned that in kind of a summary of of meetings that we had previously to the owner. It was a very favorable meeting, we thought, and relayed some of those kind of ideas. I still think he's an undetermined at the moment as to what he might do other than restore it initially on the upper level for tenancy renters and some sort of commercial use on the lower level, although.
Speaker 1: So he will be using retail. We know that at the lower level, but he hasn't decided what what retail tenants would be in there. Okay, Councilman Espinosa. Yeah. Just a quick question for Teresa since hopefully you deep dived into that that uptown village.
Speaker 6: The small lot parking or.
Speaker 1: No. Normally that that's what I ask everybody that loonie. Yeah please don't bring that up. Yeah. There was a lot of forward thinking comments that you referenced here on that, you know, 31 year old plan. Mm hmm. You know, so hopefully, you know, these are things that we continue to sort of talk about debate. And now it's part of Denver. Right. I'm just curious because there are always some dated components. Did it talk about parking in this area and what did it speak to?
Speaker 6: Well, at the time the plan was written, there were multiple parking lots. I mean, the neighborhood was just a lot of parking lots. And in talked spoke very negatively about being parking lots for downtown.
Speaker 1: So I'd be it would be even it'd be fun. And maybe I'll busted out to see all the forward looking comments that are that are that resonate that you that you quoted, that resonate with a lot of our plans today. But it'd be interesting to see that because they were so impacted by all those surface laws that if they were actually language towards away from parking, that too would also be consistent with movements you see towards.
Speaker 6: Today, towards redevelopment. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I've got my questions answered on the small committee, so thank you. Good. I'm glad yours were answer because mine weren't. All right. Thank you, Councilman. Thank you, Councilman Espinosa. Seeing no other questions by members of comment, public hearing is is now closed. Comments by members of council. Any comments by members of council? All right. CNN's Madam Secretary, recall.
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Speaker 1: I. We've got very nice results.
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Speaker 2: Missing. Okay.
Speaker 1: How about now? There we go. We got it.
Speaker 4: Tonight.
Speaker 1: All right. Ten Eyes counts about 10021022 has passed. Congratulations. Thank you. All right. City council sitting as the ex-officio as the board of directors for the Denver 14th Street General Improvement District, the Reno General Improvement District, the Gateway Village General Improvement District will hold public hearings on Monday, November 20th, related to that 20,018 work plans and budget
A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 2001-2005 East 18th Avenue in City Park West.
Approves an official map amendment to rezone property located at 2001-2005 East 18th Avenue from PUD #107 to G-MX-3, (planned development in the former zoning code to general, urban mixed-use) in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 10-3-17.