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?
Speaker 4: Yes, Madam President. I closed my script because I was thinking about the years of my apology. I moved that Councilor Bill 21 to ask 1325 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 1325 is opened. So we have staff report.
Speaker 5: Awesome. Thank you, counselor. President I'm Libby Adams with Community Planning and Development, and I'll be presenting the MAP Amendment at 4736 North Pennsylvania Street. This application is located in Council District nine in the Globeville neighborhood, and the applicant is requesting to rezone from urban edge single unit D to Urban Edge Single Unit C one to allow for an accessory dwelling unit. As stated previously, this property is zoned Eastside which allows the Urban House building form on a minimum zone lot of 6000 square feet. The site is occupied by a single unit home with mostly single unit and park uses surrounding it. And this slide shows the existing building form and scale of the area. A postcard notifying property owners within 200 feet of the site was sent out on July 15th. And then this rezoning went to planning board on November 3rd, where it was unanimously recommended for approval on the consent agenda. And to date, we have not received any public comment. The Denver zoning code has five review criteria that must be met in order for rezoning to be approved. The first is consistency with adopted plans, and there are three plans that are applicable to the site. This rezoning meets several of the strategies and comprehensive plan 2040. It will create a greater mix of housing options in the Globeville neighborhood and promote infill development for infrastructures already in place. And then in Blueprint Denver, the future neighborhood context is urban. These areas are mostly single and two unit residential areas, with some multi-unit and mixed use. Embedded throughout the block. Patterns are regular with alley access. There's a high degree of walkability. Blueprint identifies the property as a low residential place type. These place types are mostly single unit residential uses and adus are appropriate. And then Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Street is identified as a local street. These are mostly characterized by residential uses, which is consistent with the proposed request. And then blueprint provides further guidance when a rezoning request is made to a district with a smaller minimum zone size. So the you yes, you see, one district has a minimum zone that size of 5500 square feet and the existing ESD has a minimum zone lot size of 6000 square feet. And the appropriateness of the request depends on the sizes of the lots and the surrounding blocks. So as this map shows, there's a pattern of lots consistent with the U.S. You see one zone district. And then the growth area strategy and blueprint Denver as all other areas of the city. This is where we anticipate to see 10% of new jobs and 20% of new housing by 2040. And then there's also the blueprint policy in the land use and built form housing policy for strategy, which talks about but individual rezonings that allow use are appropriate and should be small, an area such as this one. And then this site is also within the Globeville Neighborhood Plan. And the land use concept for this area is single family with ideas. And the plan also discusses updating the neighborhood context from urban edge to urban, and choosing a district that fits the existing lot sizes. And then also in the Globeville plan, it recommends a maximum building height of two and a half storeys, which is also the maximum building height in the proposed district. And staff also finds the requested zoning meets the next two criteria. The rezoning will result in uniformity of district regulations and will further the public health, safety and welfare by implementing both citywide and adopted plans and providing a new a new housing type in this area. And then staff also finds as a justifying circumstance and with the newly with the adopted guidance that's in both Blueprint Denver and the Globeville neighborhood plan for use in this area. And then lastly, the proposed request is consistent with the urban neighborhood context. The purpose of the residential districts and then the specific intent of the U.S. you see one zoned district. And that concludes that presentation. So finding all of your criteria have been that staff does recommend approval.
Speaker 1: All right. Thank you, Libby, for the staff report. We have two individuals signed up. Both are joining us online. And so we'll go ahead and start out with Kevin Jacoby. All right, Kevin. Kobe doesn't seem like we have him in the queue at all. All right. We'll go ahead and move on to Jesse Paris.
Speaker 10: Members account for those watching at home. I'm a person I'm representing for Black Star families, for self-defense Paths of Change, as well as the Unity Party of Colorado and front line black male. And I'll be the next mayor of Denver. I'm in favor of this, listening to my voice. I'm as I stated at a previous hearing. We need to use all over this city dwelling units. All over the city of. I'm glad that you guys asked the questions about the affordability and the short term rentals, because that's been a question that I've been having as well. I remember this neighborhood quite vaguely actually knock doors in this neighborhood for NBC. The popular before she became councilwoman, came to see the market. So, yeah, I'm in full support of this to my good job, Candace, and have this. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That concludes our speakers this evening. Questions for Members of Council on Council Bill 1325. Councilman Flynn.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Madam President. Libby, I need some clarification on the decision to, first of all, change the context for the single lot to urban rather than edge. Because there is a zone district in the urban edge as you the one that would fit this perfectly. So I'm trying to understand why, and I understand the Globeville neighborhood plan says that at some point the entire area would be had a context change from urban edge to urban. But with this single lot, when you have available ESU, D1, why was that not chosen? Why are we spot zoning and urban context on this little block across from Argo Park?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's a great question. So it actually say that this would not be an example of spot. So sure. So sorry. I would say that this would not be an example of spot. So even though it is literally a spot on the map, that's different. But what spot zoning actually is is approving a rezoning that's not consistent with adopted plans and with our justifying circumstance. And so this district is the most consistent with our current adopted plans, because both Blueprint and the Globeville plan talk about updating the context from urban edge to urban.
Speaker 6: Why would we not just do as CSU de one? And then in some future year, when the context is changed and there's a wholesale map amendment change this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah. That's a great quote. I mean, you know, this is what was applied for by the applicant. And so that's what we reviewed and we found that it was okay.
Speaker 6: Well, I do know, though, that the applicants don't normally come in and say, this is what I want and you give it to them. Usually there's a lot of staff guidance that changes the two of you do. Do we know when the Globeville neighborhood context. Would change from urban edge to urban. And I'm not totally familiar with the global neighborhood plan from 2016. So what is the reasoning for that change and when do we anticipate it would occur?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so my understanding is that the feedback received during that planning process was that the urban edge context is a better fit. You know, this is an area that has alleys. It's really more of a grid pattern versus urban edge. It's kind of our it's in between the suburban and urban contexts where sometimes there's alleys, sometimes there's not there can be some more organic streets. So I think that was my understanding because I was not working here, worked on that plan. And I don't know, I don't think we have any direct plans to actually rezone this entire area to the urban or the urban context. I think it's more of that was the guidance for when these individual rezonings do come in. That could be our chance to update these parcels that do come in.
Speaker 6: Okay. I'm a little uncomfortable with doing these one off when there's a when there's an off the shelf zoned district within that context, within the existing context that fully addresses the program or the proposal, I don't know Abe or Andrew, is there a quick answer you can give as to when we might expect? An update to the context there.
Speaker 0: Sure. Thank you for that. As Libby said, I don't I don't. And this is this is present in several area plans where the work of the area planning process is identified, that an existing context may not be the most appropriate for a particular neighborhood or several blocks. And it is typically the recommendation of the plan that the the context change be implemented by both applicant driven rezonings or by, you know, larger legislative rezonings that might take place for a not for some other reason. For example, rezoning an entire neighborhood to allow accessory dwelling units might be an opportunity for that. But it is clearly expressed, expressed in those plans that that the intent is to implement those as as the zoning of property changes so that those updated the new context zone districts would have a more applicable and appropriate fit to that that that specific context there. This isn't the only area plan that makes a recommendation like this.
Speaker 6: Okay. So when that occurs in the future, this particular lot, the single lot on on Pennsylvania Street would be swept up in that, but actually would already have the urban context.
Speaker 0: That's correct. So so if at some point in the future, this neighborhood, this whole neighborhood was rezone to allow accessory dwelling units, then at that time, the urban context would be recommended for all of those properties and this property would not be standing out on its own. But I would also highlight that there are several other single parcel rezonings that have occurred in that neighborhood and others that have also had that context change.
Speaker 6: Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Andrew, would you introduce yourself for the record, please?
Speaker 0: Yes, my apologies. Andrew Webb from Community Planning and Development. Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Flynn, we've got Councilmember Hines.
Speaker 0: Thank you, counsel. President. So I think I'm trying to make sure I understand Councilmember Flynn's line of questioning. And so the the the what he's suggesting is that it should have been rezone to be, as you see, one instead of you. As you see. One is that my getting that right? Okay.
Speaker 5: Or maybe ESD one.
Speaker 0: Sorry. Yeah. Okay. So, um, and you mentioned there are two plans that both suggest urban, not urban edge. Which, which are those?
Speaker 5: Yeah. So Blueprint identifies this area as urban. And then the Globeville plan also specifically talks about updating the neighborhood context from urban edge to urban.
Speaker 0: And it's clear in both of those plans that the idea is that Globeville, including this parcel, should be urban, not urban edge.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 0: There's no discrepancy. So it would actually be out of context if we were to keep it urban edge, and we would have to vote against it because it would not be in conformity to plans if it remained urban edge.
Speaker 5: It would definitely be more of a challenge, I think, especially with the you know, obviously we haven't done the full analysis, but with the language in the Globeville plan, it would be hard to find consistency with a plan that clearly says to update the context.
Speaker 0: Sure. And we are meant to look. Thank you. Thank you, Kaspersky.
Speaker 1: All right. Wonderful. Thank you, Councilmember Hines and Libby, for answering those questions, not seeing any other folks in the queue. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 1325. And we're going to go to the virtual platform. This is in Councilwoman Cedar Barker's district. And so wanted to allow her to make a comment, if she'd like first. No comments on this one. All right. Thank you, Councilmember. So you know, and the members in the queue, I'm happy to support this this evening. It does meet the criteria. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 1325, please. CdeBaca. Clark.
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Speaker 5: Herndon.
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Speaker 5: Clark, I think it's Madam President.
Speaker 1: I think, Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 12 Hours, 12 Eyes Council Bill 21 Dash 1325 has passed. Thank you, Libby and Jesse Paris for commenting on that. I was going to say members of the community, but we only had Jesse on that one.
A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 4736 North Pennsylvania Street in Globeville.
Approves a map amendment to rezone property from E-SU-D to U-SU-C1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 4736 North Pennsylvania Street in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 11-9-21.