Speaker 2: Think. Thank you. All right. LEMON Let's go ahead. And you put Council Bill 1095 on the floor.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Madam President. I'm a the council bill 14 dash 1095 be placed on final consideration and do pass.
Speaker 2: Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. I do. The public hearing for Council Bill 1095 is open now. Do we have a staff report? Hello again. Hello, Deirdre. OWS Community Planning and Development presenting to you an application for a rezoning at 1673 South Emerson from you as hub which has urban context as a single unit be to us you b one. The substantial change here is that the applicant is requesting a zone district that will allow an accessory dwelling unit. It is still a single unit district located in Council District seven in South Denver. Just let's get to your map between Iowa and Mexico along Emmerson Street. This is a property that is just two properties in from the corner. It is adjacent to the east to an urban, as you see, zoned district, and then to the west to a U.S. B one. The key point here is that the US sub one, which was applied to the site during the 2010 update to the Denver zoning code. The zoning code also allows for properties that are adjacent, directly adjacent to that US sub one zone district to be exempt from minimum area requirements. Normally would have area requirements of four or eight acres or two blocks. In this case, because this property is adjacent to the US sub one minimum work area requirements are essentially met by being adjacent and it's simply an expansion of what U.S. sub one is today. On the applicant is Casey and Scott Hermansen and Casey Hermansen is here this evening and the property is. It's going to go back. One four acres. The site that we're looking at is the house that's kind of in the trees, that little Tudor house behind the fence and then to the west and the east. These two photos show substantially their larger properties actually to the east and to the west of this site. This went through all the same sort of review as a rezoning would go through asset management, public works surveyor. We have had no substantial comments on this application. Public Review Notice was sent for planning board for Neighborhood and Planning and for City Council. Planning Board recommended unanimous approval of this December 3rd with a vote of 8 to 0, focused on the positive nature of the rezoning request. And the fact that this type of rezoning helps to keep families in neighborhoods, helps to stabilize neighborhoods. Those are some of the comments we received from them that people can stay while making improvements to their sites. The review criteria sections 12, four, ten, seven and 12 four, ten, eight, including consistency with adopted plans, uniformity of district regulations , and furthering public health, safety and welfare. 12 410 eight including justifying circumstances and consistency with neighborhood context. In this case, Comprehensive Plan 2000 Blueprint Denver and the Louisiana Purchase Stationery Plan. To some extent, it has some relationship to this site in comprehensive plan 2000, there are supportive policies and legacies land use and housing, encouraging quality, infill development , increasing density and new uses where it's desirable and can be accommodated in encouraging preservation and modernization of Denver's existing housing stock. That's probably the most important policy that we'd pull out of the plan for this site. For Blueprint Denver, it is designated as an area of stability, as single family residential development. That zone district that it is today you a sub and a change to you sub one would still be consistent with that single family framework. Applicable concepts include the site known as a committed area where a stable neighborhood may benefit from stabilizing effects of minor infill like the addition of accessory dwelling units. The Louisiana Purchase stationary a plan. This site is within the half mile study.
Speaker 1: Area, but.
Speaker 2: Recommendations in the plan were actually limited to just a quarter mile from the station area. What I can say is blocks south of that quarter mile within the Louisiana parole plan are consistent with this block where some of the subject property is located in uncommitted areas, stability, and where that residential density and that character would be continued to the south. The MAP Amendment does result in regulations that are uniform across the district and the site would follow. The regulations of U.S. would be one. The proposed UCB one preserves the character of the existing neighborhood while allowing for small scale reinvestment and justifying circumstances. The land or its surrounding environment has changed or is changing to such a degree that it is in public interest to encourage a redevelopment of the area. The 2010 code update, as I said, provides for zoning to allow accessory dwelling units west of an adjacent to the site, providing for those small scale change opportunities that are really important for keeping these neighborhoods stable in our community. Proposed rezoning is exempt from minimum area requirements, as explained before, as it's already adjacent. With regard to neighborhood context, purpose and intent, it is a single unit district that does not change. It is the addition of an accessory dwelling that makes the primary change between the U.S. hub and UCB one. The urban neighborhood contains one and two. Family residential development and proposed rezoning promotes preservation of this context without CPD recommends approval. Thank you. Thank you, Ms.. Oth. We have one individual signed up to speak tonight. Our first person is Casey Hermanson. You have 3 minutes.
Speaker 1: My name is Casey Hermanson, and I'm the applicant, and I'm here for any questions you think you feel. That concludes.
Speaker 2: Our speakers. Are there questions from members of council and. CNN. This public hearing is closed. Comments by members of council.
Speaker 9: Councilman Nevitt Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll be very brief. I know everybody has been sitting on those hard benches a long time, but I just want to say a couple of words about this rezoning. So back in 2010, when we did the entire rezoning of the city, we created the zoned district that allowed for the accessory dwelling unit. And the accessory dwelling unit was meant to be a way for people living in single family neighborhoods to nonetheless create a granny flat, create a home office over their garage. It's a way of both creating opportunities for people to age longer in place or to provide affordable housing mixed in with the single family housing and the rest of the neighborhood. Some parts of the communities that I represented embraced this. Some parts of it were thoroughly repelled.
Speaker 8: By it and rejected it. I think it's a great idea. I wish it were an.
Speaker 9: Option in all of our single families own districts, but we're not ready to go there. Nonetheless, when somebody comes forward and says, yes, I want to shift from a zoned district that doesn't allow the the carriage house doesn't allow the granny flat to one that does it's an opportunity we should embrace. Glad you're doing it. Happy to help. And I hope my colleagues will approve this with me.
Speaker 2: Thank you, councilman levitt. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill five. Nevett i.
Speaker 5: Ortega. I. Rob Shepherd. Sussman, i. Brooks.
Speaker 2: I. Brown I. Fat I. Can eat.
Speaker 1: I. Laman i. Lopez Hi, Madam President.
Speaker 2: Hi. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results.
Speaker 4: 12 Eyes.
Speaker 2: We have 12 eyes council bill 1095 has passed. Councilwoman Lehman, will you please put Council Bill 67 on the floor?
Rezones property at 1673 South Emerson Street from U-SU-B (Urban, Single Unit, 4,500 lot size) to U-SU-B1 (Urban, Single Unit, 4,500 lot size, Industrial) in Council District 7. (NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLANNING) Rezones property at 1673 South Emerson Street from U-SU-B (Urban, Single Unit, 4,500 lot size) to U-SU-B1 (Urban, Single Unit, 4,500 lot size, Industrial) 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 1-7-15