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Speaker 4: Yes, Madam President, I move that council bill 20 1-1, three, two, one. Be placed upon final consideration and do pass.
Speaker 1: Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 1321 is open and I see we have Andrew Webb here with us for the staff report.
Speaker 0: Great. Thank you and good evening.
Speaker 1: And Andrew, because of the mask mandates in the city, we're going to ask that you keep your mask on for us this evening.
Speaker 0: Thank you for explaining. I didn't realize that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no worries.
Speaker 0: Great. Well, thank you. Andrew Webb here from Community Planning and Development, presenting on this proposed map amendment for multiple properties in the East Colfax neighborhood from ESU, D X to E, cd1x. This proposed legislative map amendment is sponsored by Councilmembers Sawyer and Herndon, and it would result in all properties in the East Colfax neighborhood with single unit residential zoning so that accessory dwelling units or 80 use would be allowed. This map shows that the East Colfax neighborhood on both sides of Colfax is in council districts five and eight. This rezoning would impact about 2050 parcels or about 476 acres. And it would establish the the you as you are I'm sorry, the ESU, D1 that is the urban edge neighborhood context. That's a single unit zoned district allowing secondary dwelling units or accessory dwelling units. This map shows the existing zoning of the site as well as zoning of properties that are proximate to the site. As you can see, there have actually been most of the area zoned currently as huge. There have been a handful of property owner initiated rezonings already in the area to ESU D1 acts to allow to use zoning along Colfax as a main street zone district, allowing a mix of uses and then between the single unit areas and core facts. You do. We do see some higher intensity residential zoning like row house and two unit districts. Existing land use in the areas impacted by this rezoning are primarily single unit residential. As you can see here, there are also a handful of church and school type uses and an apartment. The slide shows some of the existing contexts, some of the built form that we would see in the East Colfax neighborhoods showing some typical single unit development on streets that would be impacted by this rezoning. And this slide shows some of the typical development that we would see along Colfax, adjacent to but outside this area of rezoning . So there has been quite a bit of public outreach done in advance of of even applying for this rezoning led by the the council districts, including mailers and fliers that were sent out earlier this year, early this year, in advance of two town halls that were held this year, and then an online survey that was in effect from August of last year. So 18, 20, 2020 to February of this year, once we receive the official application, information will notice went out in August of this year. Agency review, typically required of any rezoning occurred from August to September. And I'll just highlight here that we did hear from from Dottie Wastewater regarding some concerns around sewer capacity. And it has given us our department a great opportunity to be more intentional about how we work with Dottie to ensure that we're that their wastewater plans are are aligned with our our land use plans and the expected actual build out that comes from rezoning to allow ADA use. The other dates are shown here as well. The planning board hearing was held on on November 3rd and received unanimous recommendation of approval from planning board. And then this was considered by the ludy committee on November 9th. In terms of public comment, we have not received any comment from registered neighborhood organizations in the area, but we have received about five letters from neighbors and a letter from a local nonprofit organization. The Fact Partnership. In support of this proposed rezoning, we've also received three letters of opposition, and all of that written correspondence is included with the full staff report. I'll just highlight here and my colleague, a barge will be up later with another item on the agenda tonight. And that is a text amendment to address an error that was introduced into the Denver zoning code by the most recent bundle of text amendments that impacted the maximum building footprint for detached accessory dwelling units in some of the urban edge zone districts, including the one that's proposed here. So concurrent with this rezoning is a is a very targeted text amendment to the Denver zoning code to return that building form standard back to the original number. So as you're aware, to to adopt a legislative rezoning, the Council must find that the proposed rezoning is consistent with these three criteria from the Denver Zoning Code. With regard to adopted plans, there are four plans that impact the site the Comprehensive Plan and Blueprint Blueprint. Denver. The East Area Plan, which was adopted last year and then I listed together is housing and inclusive Denver. But it's actually the five year housing plan more recently adopted guiding our our city's housing policy blueprint. Denver identifies this area as being within the urban edge context, so that makes using the urban edge or EA zone districts appropriate for this site is identified as a low residential area of future development, meaning we would predominantly see single and two unit uses in these areas and per blueprint. Accessory dwelling units are also appropriate in areas designated as low residential and a variety of street types serve the East Colfax area, including, of course, Colfax itself, which is a main street arterial. Several residential arterials go east and west through the site, and then Yosemite, I just would highlight, is identified as a commercial arterial and main street collector for nearby segments adjacent to the to the area. And then in terms of the blueprint Denver growth areas, this area, like most single unit districts, is identified as part of the all other areas of the city where we expect to see about 20% of housing growth by 2040. Story Blueprint. Denver also highlights several equity concepts that we analyze when considering rezonings as well. One of those is access to opportunity. This area generally has average access to opportunity. It does have high access to transit, of course, along Colfax and other parallel streets, and which gives good quality access into downtown and other areas of employment and day to day services. There are there is lower access to health care directly in the community, but it is accessible by transit. And this rezoning will increase housing opportunity and diversity of housing options in an area that has this existing great access to to transit. The East Colfax neighborhood is does come up as more vulnerable to involuntary displacement. So that includes a lower median household income, a higher percentage of renters, as compared to the city as a whole, and a lower level of educational attainment as compared to the city as a whole. This proposed rezoning will or could impact and improve the vulnerability to involuntary displacement by expanding housing options, providing some lower cost options to help keep residents in place and provide wealth building tools for existing property owners in East Colfax is Colfax has generally does have a diversity of housing types. There is a variety of of apartments in kind of smaller building forms duplexes four plex is a variety of of house sizes and dwelling unit sizes. And then housing costs are generally low and there actually are slightly more designated affordable housing units in this area than we would see elsewhere in the city. This proposed rezoning will allow additional advances in the expansion of housing diversity in the area by allowing a typically smaller and lower cost housing type. Finally, with regard to the diversity of jobs, most of the jobs in this area immediately surrounding or impacted by this proposed rezoning are retail oriented, and it's not expected that this rezoning will have an impact on the diversity of jobs in East Colfax. Our housing policies also call for rezoning and updating our regulations to to allow for a higher diversity of housing and expand accessory dwelling units. The East Area Plan identifies this area as also has a low residential area and identifies accessory dwelling units as as appropriate for this area. The East Area plan also has several policies that call for the expansion of of addus and other other housing options and ensuring that people have access to housing in areas that have good opportunities to access transit and day to day needs like like groceries and jobs and that sort of thing. With regard to the second criterion, this proposed rezoning will result in the uniform application of the ESU D1 Access Zone District in this location, the same regulations that would apply in that zone district elsewhere in the city, and it would further the public health, safety and welfare of neighbors by primarily by advancing and implementing our adopted plans for the East Colfax area. So with that, based on a finding that these review criteria have been met, Stapp recommends that city council approve this application, and I'm happy to answer any questions.
Speaker 1: All right. Very good. Thank you, Andrew. This evening, we have one individual signed up to speak on this hearing. We're going to go online to Jessie Parris.
Speaker 10: Even though my name is not represented for Black Stars, the Movement for Self-defense, Positive Action for Men for Social Change, as well as the Unity Party of Colorado and Frontline Black Males. And I will be the next November 2023. I fight in District eight in Councilman Hardy's district. I'm in favor of this rezoning tonight. I support accessory dwelling units. When I ran for City Council At-Large in 2019, I still supported him, and in 2021 I still support them. So I'm in favor of this tonight. I would love to see all three dwelling units all over the city. So this is just one step in getting that accomplished. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 1321. The moment, Councilmember Ortega. Thank you.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Madam President. I'm not sure who this should be directed to, but I'm wanting to know if we are in any way as a city, looking at whether or not the affordability of creating more aid use is being addressed. Are we are we seeing these becoming more affordable or less affordable to people who are looking for permanent housing? Because as people are allowed to build in the EU, they can also use them as short term rentals. Right. Which kind of takes units off the market for people who are looking for permanent housing. So is there anything built in, whether it's at Host or CPD, to help us really kind of look at the big picture of what is happening in our city as we're allowing more and more and we've been doing these as one offs , but, you know, we started doing them in different neighborhoods where we're doing them neighborhood wide. And I'm just curious, Andrew, if, you know, whether that's been part of any bigger city conversation.
Speaker 0: Sure. Absolutely. I'm glad you asked that. And I may ask my colleague Abe to add to the discussion here, but especially as these these neighborhood wide legislative rezonings have come up, I know that that has been a question that has come up more frequently. And and we've had opportunities to look at some of the existing models out there for building and standardizing use as an affordable housing tool. And I would just highlight that we actually have a project going on right now. The Adams in Denver project that may be aware of that is actually looking at the the regulations and other trends relating to use and may be a good venue to explore issues around affordability.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think the biggest issue is access to capital. So if somebody doesn't have equity in their existing structure to be able to borrow to build another unit on their site, unless you are in an area where property values have appreciated more or you have the equity, you know, I mean, again, that's all about the equity in your property. But unless you have the capital to do that, certain folks in certain neighborhoods that may have been zoned will not have the same opportunities. So are we doing anything as a city to create opportunities for access to capital to assist this, especially for lower income home owners who would want to take advantage of some wealth building opportunities?
Speaker 0: Sure. Thank you, Councilwoman. There's a barge with community planning and development. I'll just jump in to help answer since I'm on the ADOS in Denver project team. The project that Andrew mentioned that will be having its first stakeholder committee meeting in about two months. So it's just getting started. Those are all really good points. You know, Blueprint Denver recommends it to use as a housing choice throughout the city under the assumption that it's going to expand opportunities for housing, bringing in new types of housing for neighborhoods that, you know, may only accommodate, you know, one type of lifestyle. But making it possible for there to be smaller and potentially more affordable market rate units in neighborhoods. But there's a lot of other questions that you bring up. There's the, you know, who really gets to take advantage of this question. And, yes, they're expensive to build. And so naturally, folks with more money are going to be more ready to actually build a to use. However, you know, we're certainly told that bank financing is changing and modernizing in a way that should increase access to capital for some folks that maybe are a little lower on the income range . But also there are programs like the West Denver Renaissance Collaborative, Single Family Plus program that's just operating in West Denver now. But that's a program that received some city support and they're looking to expand and we're in conversations with them. And it's a program that basically helps homeowners build accessory dwelling units. Generally speaking, the homeowner has to be income qualified or it has to be a homeowner that will agree to deed restrict the actual accessory dwelling on the income qualified. Residents. And so there really are a lot of things that we can talk about as part of the ideas in Denver program to increase access for people to actually live in accessory dwelling units, but also for existing homeowners to be able to take advantage of the wealth building opportunities that they have in their property.
Speaker 7: So the issue of whether or not we're seeing the impact to affordability, can you address that piece of it?
Speaker 0: So I guess what would your question broadly be? Is it making neighborhoods more affordable to have more less filling units available or.
Speaker 7: Less affordable.
Speaker 0: Or less affordable? Yeah. Yeah. That's a very hard monitoring.
Speaker 7: That is my question at all.
Speaker 0: We are we are trying to figure out if we can. And we just had a conversations with. Member of the Department of Finance.
Speaker 7: And access to the permits that they obtain. And then, you know, you would think by by seeing the address, somehow, we should be able to identify some of that data.
Speaker 0: But yeah, we can see, for example, what a property's assessed value was from the assessor before they added an ADU. And then we can look at, you know, up to two years later when the property was reassessed, how the value might have changed. Oftentimes even that is a little complicated because they many times would make a lot of other improvements to the property right at the same time. And as we know, property values in general have been going up a lot. So it's hard to figure out where some of these increases in value.
Speaker 7: Yeah, in some cases they'll go through the process, but not yet build them right away either.
Speaker 0: Now that we're pretty clear on from talking to the assessor and to real estate experts that we're not seeing property value increases just from rezoning to actually taking the action of improving the property with an idea, of course, does affect the property value.
Speaker 7: All right. So who is tracking that?
Speaker 0: The accessory dwelling units in Denver, project team and CPD, of which I'm part. Okay.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Very.
Speaker 1: Much for joining.
Speaker 0: Us.
Speaker 1: I did. Thank you, Madam President. Councilman Ortega, I just wanted to answer a couple of the questions that you had. Since Councilman Herndon and I are sponsoring this legislative rezoning. We did a number of conversations and calls with with West Denver Renaissance Collaborative, with organizations that are working to create affordable ADA use in places like San Francisco , Austin, L.A., several other places, so and Portland. So we did go through that, those conversations and also had that conversation with the community. We have already seen from assessor data that the value of land in East Colfax is going up, which is an indication that gentrification is already happening. So if we are so the purpose behind doing this is to help stop that gentrification in in one of many different ways. That is a tool in the toolbox to help support residents who already own properties in East Colfax to create wealth. We have talked to the West Denver Renaissance Collaborative and some other partners about, you know, potentially moving over to the east side to help support this rezoning. So there's a lot of conversation going on in the background. There's a section in the staff report that you can read about the conversations that we had during our research into this as we began this process in early 2021. So just wanted to to fill in what staff was saying with some of the things that we had done as well. And happy to talk more with you about that offline. If you're if you're interested in me going on and on and on about it.
Speaker 7: I think that's that's helpful to know that that was part of this process as well.
Speaker 1: All right. Great. Thank you, Councilmember Sawyer and Ortega. Next up, we've got Councilmember Flynn.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Madam President. Andrew Robb. I don't know who can best address this or perhaps council members from those two districts can address it. But I'm taken in the staff report by the very small number of letters directly to us or in support or opposition, just a handful from such an enormous area that's being risen. I did see a list of comments supportive and in opposition, and there were quite a number of them that apparently came from a survey or a meeting or maybe you can explain that. But no R.A. letters, no registered neighborhood organization letters. I've heard a lot about the outreach that was done, but why are we not having the feedback? Do you have an explanation for that?
Speaker 0: Thank you for that. And I'll I'll ask the sponsors to perhaps add to that as well. But I certainly I should have also noted that there were extensive responses received on those on those surveys. And so and, you know, I can only speculate, but it may be that, you know, some residents or neighbors thought, oh, I've already weighed in on this. And so we didn't receive further input directed toward us, our staff. But but yeah. So they did get hundreds of participants in and surveying.
Speaker 6: Part of our interruption. Can you were these online surveys or were they collected at meetings or combination of that?
Speaker 1: Do you want me to take that?
Speaker 0: Yes, if you would, Councilman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. So, Councilman Herndon and I prepared a survey that actually Councilwoman Sandoval provided to us from her TV park rezoning, and we changed it and added to some of those questions based on the specific need to East Colfax. We sent oh, gosh, we sent at least two mailers to every household. We knocked every household and delivered information to them about it. We had two online meetings where the assessor's office was there. The exercise license was there to talk about the issue of short term rentals. Tina Axlerod was there to discuss some of the specifics around the footprint of ADA use. And, you know, there are a couple of places where there aren't alleys. So looking at those kinds of specifics, we had a gosh, I mean, I think we had something like 8% or a Renee Martinez Stone was a presenter as well and the partnership was also present are so there's only one neighborhood organization in the east Colfax and then two sort of business support groups. The East Colfax Neighborhood Association chose not to take a position at all. One of the business groups chose not to take a position. The other business group sent a letter of support. So and also just to clarify what you're looking at in there, we so it was an online survey, but we we worked with the neighborhood organizations and the business groups to get out into the community, to get them to get people to fill out those surveys. Well, over 70% of the people who filled out the survey were in support of of this rezoning. And additionally, when you are doing a SurveyMonkey survey, you can, on the back end do some things to make sure that the data is accurate and people aren't responding over and over and over again and things like that. So we moved everyone who responded, who was not a resident in the East Colfax neighborhood or did not identify as a resident in these Colfax neighborhood out of the survey and then looked at the survey results. So what you are seeing in the staff report is all of the comments that were positive and all of the comments that were negative and then the results of the report of the survey by people who are living in the East Colfax neighborhood.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much. That's very good to hear. Do Andrew or Abe, do you have a count based on what the councilwoman said as to how many unique individuals did provide input? During this process.
Speaker 0: I believe the information we got that was that they received 139 responses. And and of those, 106 said that they supported the proposed.
Speaker 6: Rezoning, and that was the filtered list that Councilwoman Sawyer mentioned. I believe it was just residents filtering out those who identified as outside the neighborhood or who did not identify as within the neighborhood, I believe.
Speaker 1: FLYNN That's correct.
Speaker 6: Okay. Thank you very much, Madam President. That's all I have.
Speaker 1: All right. Great. Thank you. Up next, we've got Councilman Cashman.
Speaker 0: Yeah, thank you, Madam President. Either one of you gentlemen can answer this. I would hope, and I don't think you're doing it yet, that the addresses of 80 youths that are approved and resound to the one X or whatever it happens to be would be cross-referenced with our list of short term rental licenses. And when the rental registry program goes into full speed and I don't remember, Madam President, when that said to go the rental registry program.
Speaker 1: We are it's going to kick off the beginning of 2022 for early registration. Great.
Speaker 0: Well, and the same thing for that list. So we can really understand what what these properties are being used for. I'm generally a strong supporter of ADA use, but I do as I believe Councilwoman Ortega put forward, have a have a question. I don't want to see them used only for a use or in large numbers. I think it would defeat the promises that were this important program is being put forth for. And I'm just amazed at the amount of outreach that Councilmember Sawyer and Herndon put forth on this, whereas with Councilman Flynn, one speaker, you know, at the public hearing and no real strong comments from neighborhood groups. Thank you. That's all.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Councilmember Cashman. We've got Councilmember Hines. You're up next.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Council president, thank you for your work. Councilmember Ortega asked about housing affordability. Areas can be used for short term rentals, but only when the home or 80 was occupant or occupied. As I write, the owner must live on site. That's correct. And what about an 80 you and a home? One of which is a 365 short term rental and the other is a short term rental for just shy of half a year. I was an article in Denver write about a woman is traveling in South America and she is you know, she lives in her home just over half a year. Can is that allowed? I know I'm kind of asking you a question that well, it's certainly relevant to this conversation because we've got 2000 potential ideas. Yeah, and that's a great question. Councilman Hines and I may ask Abe to add to this as well, but you can only have one firm license or a short term rental license per property. So there may be some challenges, you know, renting out both the primary dwelling unit and the and the accessory dwelling unit, even if somebody doesn't live in the primary dwelling unit all year round. I, I don't believe it would be possible to have two separate short term rentals on one property. But that. Sure. Thank you. Councilman Hines. A barge with CBD again. So Andrew is correct that the pertinent regulations are that you could hold only one license for the property. The rules state that you can have only one short term rental contract at any given time, meaning that you couldn't rent to multiple parties on the same night under the same license. However, I don't remember all the details. I did read the article and was very jealous of the woman living in Peru. But she could, if she, for example, had a detached accessory dwelling unit and lived there as her primary residence. She had her voter registration there or other things, and she was there about half the year she could, while she was gone, rent out either the accessory dwelling unit or the primary house to a party of people on as a short term rental, but not both at the same time. Well, I think that's a good question and something that may require a little more clarification moving forward. My read of the regulations would say she could rent the whole property to two one group of people, including both the primary dwelling unit and the ADU. But it would be like one family, not, you know, one group of students in the ADU and a family in the primary or something like that. Okay. Well. This woman chose to put herself in the press. So I'm sure I'm sure we'll look into it. I want to ask one more thing. So to Councilmember, I take his point about affordability. We have seniors, right. Who have lived in their homes for 40 years, 50 years, and and the value of their home has gone way up. But they don't realize that value until it's sold. And so what they do realize is that their property taxes are way more than they were when they bought the home. And so as you're considering this analysis, I would also encourage I don't know how exactly to do it, but I'm giving you the problem. You figured out the solution. How many units are now made affordable where the owner could not afford the property taxes or the on going living in that in their dwelling, if not for the extra income that a native provides. Hmm. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Casper.
Speaker 1: All right. Thank you, Councilmember Haines. Councilmember Sawyer. Thanks, Madam President. Just wanted to quickly respond to Councilmember Hines this question about the short term rentals. So Councilman Flynn and I sit on the short term rental advisory committee, and that is one of the things that we are discussing in one of the upcoming quarterly meetings. So I invite you to attend. But the issue of short term rentals and their effect on affordability to rent long term in the city is one of the things that we are looking at. So just wanted to let you know that that's one of the things that short term rental advisory committee is is undertaking next year. Thanks. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Steuer and thank you, Abe and Andrew for answering those questions. The public hearing is closed comments by members of Council on Council Bill 1321, and we'll go to Councilmember Sawyer first and then Councilmember Herndon and follow up with any other members in the queue. Thanks, Madam President. I got to put my reading glasses on here. First, I want to really say thank you so much to CPD staff. You guys were amazing over the course of this, I guess a year and almost a half since we started talking about this. So truly grateful for all of your guidance and support and assistance and all of those different things. And looking forward to seeing what comes from the EDU working group in the next couple of years. And also a huge thank you to Councilwoman Sandoval and to Naomi, because you just truly gave us all of the help of background in the world and support to allow us to be able to do this. So thank you so much for that. Councilman Herndon, also, I really want to say thank you. You are you've been a fantastic partner and I very much appreciate on that. I very much appreciate that. So I'm not going to rehash everything. We've kind of talked about it, but I do just want to quickly touch base on the broader picture. So Blueprint, as we heard, called for us to implement zoning tools to incentivize the preservation of smaller and more affordable housing units. With the median home price in Denver nearing $600,000 and an average rent of nearly 1900 dollars a month. Blueprint's plan to incentivize affordable housing options has become more than a mandate. It's more than optional at this point. It's something we have to do as legislators in any way we can to help preserve affordability in our city. Rezoning these almost for, I guess, a little over 475 acres allows homeowners to construct, to use. And it's a small and crucial step in helping the greater city of Denver and keeping it a great place to live. So I hope the rest of my colleagues will support it. And thank you so much. Thank you, Councilmember Sawyer. Councilmember Herndon.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Madam President. And this is an exciting time. It's funny, I remember these first conversations and now we are here before this. And so I'm just thankful for everyone. And the one person that was not thanked, it was Councilwoman Sawyer for your partnership on this and for your work, the East Colfax community. And I think this is a testament to the outreach that we've done. Everyone was well aware of this and multiple opportunities to weigh in. And now we're here in front of council and we had one speaker who actually doesn't live in East Colfax, but we appreciate Jesse Parrish giving his comments anyway. And so this is a great opportunity to do multiple things, whether you want to read out the ADA or move into the ADA because you want to downsize because the house that you have is too large. And so I'm excited about this neighborhood to have this opportunity. I hope that other council members will consider this as well. And again, Councilwoman Sandoval, thank you so much for your efforts in letting us know how to work this, because, as we say, plagiarism can be a form of flattery because we try to do almost everything that she did. And lastly, I just want to thank Leah Hartman from my District eight office, because she was the point person in doing this, working with Council District five, working with CPD. And I really wanted you to publicly. Thank her for all of her work, and I hope my colleagues support this. Thank you, Madam President.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Councilmember Herndon. Councilmember Sandoval.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Madam President. Just want to acknowledge the two council. It's not an easy task to get this kind of outreach done, especially during the time of COVID. And for the record, in Chaffee Park, we were here almost over a year ago, rezoning 1700 birds and Chaffey Park, and not one ADA permit has been pulled. People are working on them. But it doesn't mean that just because you have the entitlement, meaning you have the ability to build something, that you necessarily build it. And one of the things that I hope that comes forward when the ADA you project task force comes is that the cost of the accessory dwelling units do go down in Loveland. They just rezoning the entire city of Loveland of 78,000 people, which probably makes them more council districts. But what they did is they have everything being accessory. So you don't have to get a separate sewer tap. You tap into your main tap because it's an accessory dwelling unit to the main dwelling unit. And so when Naomi from my staff and I met with Loveland, they gave us a lot of great ideas on how to make more of the accessory dwelling units affordable moving forward in Denver. Because the need for this type of gentle density in a city that has changed the landscape and the built environment has changed is so necessary. So I just wanted to offer my support and say thank you. Well, then.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval. And I'll go ahead and chime in. We don't have anybody else in the queue. I'm really happy to support this. And I want to sincerely thank councilmembers Sawyer and Herndon for your proactive front end work. I think it is a testament to the engagement and questions answered of community, something this significant. We did have one speaker and the questions were pretty routine and so really appreciate all of the work that you put in to this and happy to support it this evening. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 13 1321, please. CdeBaca.
Speaker 5: Sawyer. I. Herndon.
Speaker 0: I. I.
Speaker 5: Katherine.
Speaker 0: I.
Speaker 5: I. Sandoval. I. Torres. Right. Black. I. Clark.
Speaker 7: My friend.
Speaker 6: I.
Speaker 1: Madam President, i. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 12 Hours 12 IES Council Bill 21 Dash 1321 has passed. Councilmember Herndon, will you please put Council Bill 1325 on the floor for final passage?
A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for multiple properties in East Colfax.
Approves a legislative map amendment to rezone multiple properties from E-SU-Dx to E-SU-D1x (allows for accessory dwelling units), located in the East Colfax neighborhood in Council Districts 5 and 8. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 11-9-21.