Speaker 10: This gives you a sense of the scale. This is just east of the 61st and penner light rail stop. It's a vacant land again just to the east of the 61st. And Penn Station is just south of 64th Avenue and west of Tower Road. It's nearly 150 acres, a little over 147 acres. And the property owners are requesting the zoning to be consistent with the 61st in a stationary plan. It proposes a mix of urban and suburban contexts at a variety of heights. And it's going to see if this works. Yes, it does. I'm going to just walk you through the proposed zoning districts starting in the lower southwest corner. Is the C-Max eight zone district that is the closest to the light rail station. And the general pattern of this zoning proposal moves from the more urban and dense condition and pedestrian oriented design standards and zone districts closer to the station. And then as you move away from the light rail station, it gets a little more suburban and character. So, again, these two districts in the southwest corner of the proposed zoning area are C-Max eight and C-Max 12. Just north of those districts and to the east is the proposed C-Max. Eight a district and the A is a newer zone district that's a hybrid of urban and suburban contexts. It's basically a suburban scale of development. However, it provides more pedestrian orientation along key streets. And then as you move north in this purple colored zone district is the Max eight, which is a suburban context, mixed use of eight stories right in the center of the proposed zone area as a yellow zone district. That's S-Max 12. And there are some additional height there for reasons I'll get into when I get into plan consistency. And then furthest away from the station in the northeast corner of the proposed zone area, suburban commercial corridor. And that's proposed at a scale of five stories. So with that I will. That's the proposal. I'll move into consistency with adopted plans. Blueprint Denver identifies this area as an area of change and transit and orange development, along with open space, town center, commercial corridor and mixed use. The only street classification in this area blueprint in Denver is Tower Road as a commercial arterial. And so the recommendations for these land use designations in Blueprint Denver are somewhat self-explanatory. A transit arena development is obviously high density mixed use development with pedestrian friendly design features. Open Spaces Open Space Town Center is a little bit more of a mixed use feel along Tower Road and provides more of a destination use and commercial corridor is intended to be a more auto oriented in a more suburban recommendation closer to Tower Road and furthest from the light rail station. So next I'll move into the 61st and panel stationary, a plan. And as you can see, the box in blue is the proposed zone area. It's also similar to Blueprint Denver. It proposes a transit community core that's similar to transfer in development recommendation and Blueprint Denver and the pink area. And then as you get further away from the light rail station, it transitions into mixed use employment commercial corridor again closer to Tower Road and then town center just to the south of it, along with a linear open space concept that traverses through the site. 61st company stationary plant also has a building heights map. The the building heights proposed in the stationery plan range from 5 to 12 stories and eight stories is actually the most prevalent recommendation in the light blue. And so the proposed zone districts exactly match this recommendation from the 61st and Pena Station area plan in this area. Again, closer to the station, down on the south southwest corner, there's a recommendation of eight stories in the light blue, 12 stories in the purple. And then, as I mentioned previously, there's this sort of triangular shaped parcel here. It's shaped that way because of the proposed open space that runs through the site, and that's proposed for 12 stories to take advantage of the open space in front of that parcel and views towards the city. And then again, as you get further away from the light rail stop in the yellow, is that the five story or the lower intensity zone districts in the northeast corner? The 61st page station plan also has an urban design plan that specifies active edges and where pedestrian oriented building frontages should be oriented to. And so, as you can see here, this these blue corridors that run east, west through the station area are these key pedestrian and urban design corridors that link tower road to the to the light rail stop. And this is where the C-Max districts, which again are the more pedestrian oriented districts, are mapped in the proposed rezoning along with that hybrid S-Max eight A that I mentioned. And so that hybrid zone district will require pedestrian friendly frontages along these two key corridors of 60th and 61st Avenue. And then the remaining portions of the site can be left in more of the suburban context. So with that, we do find that the proposed rezoning is consistent with all of our plans with Blueprint Denver and with the 61st and Pinion stationary plan. It's consistent with uniformity of district regulations. It furthers the public health, safety and welfare. It meets, obviously the justifying circumstances criteria as the 61st Centennial Light Rail Station is open. We have several plans that are calling and recommending for more intensive development. It's also consistent with the neighborhood context and zoned district purpose and intent. With that, CPD does recommend approval. The planning board recommended approval unanimously and we have received no public comment on this case. I'd be happy to take any questions.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mr. Upton. We have only one speaker for 319, so let me call Fred Bellows up to the podium.
Speaker 3: Good evening heard bells representing Elsie full in rider anchored the developer. 1125 17th Street Suite 2500 Denver. And I got to admit, that was rather surreal. It's a flashback anyway, but that's not why I'm here to speak. Yes, we're excited about this rezoning. It is consistent with the station area plan. This property has a lot of properties in town that have waivers and conditions. Didn't get re zoned with the new zoning code in 2010. This brings us into compliance with it. And we've worked hard with the staff to make sure that this zoning will match the station area plan. In fact, we created a news only district that you all approved as a max eight a the really kind of specializes some of the particular aspects on this property. So and as you'll see later tonight we need to rezone to avail themselves of the signage overlay that hopefully you'll also pass. So I'm here to answer questions and we ask for your support.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mr. Cross. We have no other speakers. Do we have any questions from members of council? Uh, Councilman Espinoza?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Could you go to the slides about the plan? It was first shows to the proposed zoning zone districts.
Speaker 10: You must see the. The proposal.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We're going to step through these again. This one. Well, let's let's start at that last one. And then we'll come to this. Okay.
Speaker 10: Blueprints. Denver And this is the most visionary plan.
Speaker 2: So second on the blueprint, Denver. Sorry. Okay. Second, on the recommendations for that letter listed here. Who knows what the true priority is, is open space. And then you clearly have that green belt shown here. And if we were to scroll through every single subsequent plan, you also have that greenbelt shown here. Now, if you could go back to the actual proposal in district. Map. How come there isn't any OWS zoning? Even vaguely. I mean, there's no ozone district here whatsoever. How come there isn't any attempt to sort of recognize that? There are several plans that call. It looks like the you know, the max eight. Honors that that boundary. But there is nothing here that would obligate open space other than, you know, whatever the zoning requires. And it could be put here, there and everywhere.
Speaker 10: Great, great, great, great question, Councilman. So I didn't mention I probably should have in my presentation that there is an approved general development plan for this area that does require a 10% open space. And so similar to the last case that this came up with with the Broadway station, all of these zone districts allow open space. The general development plan will be the tool to require that that open space and especially in these areas where the real detailed designs are still to come. Often what we've seen is when we map. Those open space districts. Before that detailed design happens, we'll have to come back in and make some small adjustments and go through a rezoning process just to reconfigure some of those own districts. So the general development plan, combined with these zoning districts, we feel, is not only meeting that 10% requirement, it's requiring that 10% requirement, but it will allow a better development process going forward.
Speaker 2: So I thought I thought I saw at some point in a point in a committee where those sort of notions were married. But is there anything that compels that them to make that open spirit, meet that open space requirement in sort of that large aggregate, contiguous sort of form that was shown in the plans?
Speaker 10: Yes. So so the general development plan not only requires the minimum, it also delineates where it is generally. And so the general development plan is essentially what you're looking at here in terms of the design of the open space.
Speaker 2: Okay. So if if any development was being proposed, it needs to conform to the GDPR, which would clearly honor the intent of these underlying plans. With respect to where the open space. Absolutely places. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Ortega.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Mr. President. I wanted to ask a question about the scale of the development. So we've got 147 acres that makes up this site. Would you remind me what the amount of acreage is that is to the West that makes up the whole stationary plan that we've already done rezoning for?
Speaker 10: Do you happen to know? So are you showing the proposed zone map here? Are you talking about.
Speaker 6: I'm not talking about the area that we're rezoning here. I'm looking at the big picture of how much development we're going to be seeing and then looking at the sort of scale and density of what we're looking at in this general area with what we've already rezoning with this zoning.
Speaker 10: So I'll just put this map up that this shows the whole the whole station area. And so the the blue box is the the proposed zone area that we're talking about. So it's maybe a third of the whole 61st opinion stationary itself. To my knowledge, this is the. This is the first zoning that we've done in this station area.
Speaker 6: Okay. So what I get confused with is I don't sit on the ah land use committee and we've seen many different phases of this project that have come through piecemeal and so it's hard to keep it all straight in terms of which ones are. You know, the phasing of them and you know what each one is doing. And so I'm just trying to understand the scale because my next question is going to get it. How much big box retail are we looking at as part of this overall development? Because as we know, we've got people who live in Denver that shop in Aurora, and we want to be able to have some of those amenities in Denver County that Denver residents can shop at. And so just looking at that overall scale for me is is helpful to understand the big picture and where we might see that on on the map.
Speaker 3: Sure, Councilwoman. Thank you. So the entire land area for Union Station area, Penn Station area plan is 384 acres. This is about 147. There is a landowner to the south that's from 56 to 60th. It's about 150 acres. The remaining land is a small landowner to the north west corner that has about 20 acres, and then DIA has the remaining 60 acres. DIA runs along Pena Boulevard to the west of this property.
Speaker 6: So so does all of that make up the 384 or that's enough to.
Speaker 3: Know that that all of the together those four landowners Dias Donald Airport and I don't think they envision any residential and probably not any big box. So the big box would be along Tower Road. This our rezoning proposal would allow big banks along Town Road, most likely at about 64th and tower where you come into the station at 60th, first and 60th. That's where we had the cinema. A And really that is designed to be more pedestrian friendly, which frankly big box is not. So that's why we have as CC up at the corner of 64th and Tower Road currently I believe the rezoning and I'm sure that CPD staff could speak to it. The zoning on the southern portion that's not being redone tonight is a mix of CMU ten, 20 and 30. And frankly, that probably has more flexibility overall for Big Box. Although if they were to rezoning the Long Tower Road to SCC, they could have the same opportunity. So we are planning on keeping portions of the site on the major arterials tower and 64th and tower and 56 of L four. Big box.
Speaker 0: Great.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Right. Are there any other questions for members of the council? All right. A public hearing for Council Bill 319 is closed. Comments from members of Council. Councilman Goma.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr. Pro-Tem.
Speaker 7: You know, this gets us to a place with the 61st and Pena Station area plan that, you know, is really exciting for myself and constituents in District 11. I think maybe I was two months into office when we started having these conversations and I very quickly had to pull up the 1988 IGA and delve very deep talking about, you know, noise overlays and how this area was envisioned and really staying true to that vision and working with the community of District 11. We held a very large town hall visiting visioning. Evening with about 100 community members to specifically talk about this and other developments in District 11 and had CPD staff present to answer any questions and through that process had over a thousand, you know, constituent responses to a different survey. And this was one of the questions that we asked about what people would like to see. And honestly, to Councilwoman Ortega's question, you know, retail is something very important, followed closely by, you know, entertainment opportunities for families and residents and then full service restaurants. And so really having the density that, you know, you need to encourage that sort of retail development is something that that this will get us to. And I will be supporting this tonight, and I would ask my colleagues to do the same and consider it. Thank you, Mr. Pro-Tem.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Flynn.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mr. President. And Councilwoman Gilmer. I'll be very happy to join you in supporting this. It's simply amazing to me to see how quickly the private sector and the CIA and RTD have worked together to make this happen. I read because I, as you know, for I worked on the the airport train project at RTD. And I remember when the mayor and Full and wider came to RTD and said, you know, we want to we want to move ahead with that station there. And then we would start pulling our hair out, say, how are we going to do this? We've already started construction. And wouldn't you know that by opening day, by opening day 61st and Penn Station was available? And I have to say, despite the sticker shock that you guys probably experienced during the negotiations, it's a beautiful station and an 800 car and 800 space park. And. Right. It's already being used by commuters. And to see what's happening there, this is exactly the kind of opportunity that this city wants to and needs to take advantage of to to accommodate the growth that's coming to our city. So I congratulate the city, the DIA, RTD and full and wider on putting this together. I'd be happy to support it. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Councilman. Councilman Espinoza. That's my husband.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Question for my colleague. I just wanted to thank Stacey for. For bringing this forward and and embracing density out there, because this is this is are one of the few pieces of greenfield sort of that we have. And we're going to be putting infrastructure in and we're going to be it already has infrastructure and recycled water systems and stuff that are out in northwest northeast Denver. And, you know, it's a great opportunity. If you look at the stormwater plans that we looked at, you know, just last week, you'll see that they've got nothing but green. You know, it's handled out there. There's ways to do this, do development and all aspects of development, all the things that are difficult to do it right and do it relatively economically out here. And so it's it would be a travesty to continue to do more single storey I mean, single family, you know, resource intensive suburban developments, a longer rail. So as she knows, when they came forward, I said it's not going high, high enough. So I just hope that you're able to curate and bring the sort of developer partners to really bring something completely different to Denver, to certainly capture the housing needs, the the retail needs of that area and all the other needs. Because this is the certainly the zone districts that are proposed have a lot of latitude to do a lot of creative things. But they also because our form based zoning will allow such a wide range of things, it could really be sort of stagnant at the same time. So it's really up to you guys to, to, to do it and do it in a way that is really, really, really vital for years to come. So it will be sort of supporting the rezoning because it can capture those things. But it's up to you guys to follow through. Thanks.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Councilman, are there any other comments?
Speaker 2: No, thanks.
Speaker 1: Right. Madam Secretary, you ready for the roll call?
Speaker 5: Black eye, Brooks. Clark.
Speaker 8: I.
Speaker 5: Espinosa. I. Flynn.
Speaker 0: I.
Speaker 5: Gilmore. I. Cashman.
Speaker 0: I.
Speaker 5: Can each new. Ortega. I. Sussman. I. Mr. President, i.
Speaker 1: Is closed voting and announced results. 11 811 hours council bill 319 has passed. Councilman Espinosa, will you please put Council Bill 346 on the floor for final passage? Before I do that. And no, I'm being extra cautious here when I'm asking our assistant city attorney, do we need to move both of these at the same time or just one after the other? And that suffices. Oh three, 46 and 47.
Speaker 2: You'll need to motions, but you can you can make those at the same time.
Speaker 1: Okay. Do I get.
Speaker 2: And motion them separately or can I put them both moving separately and keeping.
Speaker 1: Them separately? Just want to make sure because.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. President. I move that council bill 346 be placed on final consideration and do pass.
Speaker 1: All right. The combine public hearing for council bills, 346 and 347 is open. You can address either or both bills at the conclusion of the public hearing. We will vote separately each bill. I mean, we have the staff report or actually. Yes.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. President. If council can go ahead and put the other bill on for final consideration as well. If you want to make that motion now.
Speaker 1: Okay. Councilman, do you want to do that?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir. And I move that council bill 347 be placed upon final consideration. Do passed as well.
Speaker 1: Thank you. All right. We have both of them combined a public hearing. May we have the staff report, Steve?
Speaker 11: Thank you, President Pro Tem and good evening, members of council. I'm giving one presentation and one staff report for these two items, both a text amendment and a map amendment. This is the opinion section. Next design overlay. And part of that overlay or part of this amendment includes changes to the Denver International Airport signage. This is Text Amendment number six, and that's an image of Pinion Station, which we've been talking about quite a bit this evening. This amendment was sponsored or is sponsored by the Department of Aviation and Department of Community Planning and Development. We have heard some comments in the last case of how quickly DIA was able to work with property owners with CBD as quickly worked with the area as well. And it's been a great relationship and working to put this bill in front of you. Also, we've worked quite a bit with the property owners at 61st and Pioneer, which you've heard from first. And I believe they'll speak again the process. Starting with December 5th and 2015, CPD presented a summary of amendments to the Inter Neighborhood Cooperation Zoning and Planning Committee on the 1st of February. A draft of the amendment was supposed to to the CP website and the email was sent noticing all Arnaud's and Councilmember members excuse me, on February 11th there was a Council District Town Hall, which our Council Chairman Gilmore mentioned on the previous case. And then on March 2nd there was a planning board public hearing. They continued the public hearing that evening we actually held a planning board study session to roll up our sleeves, get into more detail and into this amendment.
Rezones property at 18400 E. 64th Avenue, 6004-6294 Rifle St., 6006-6106 Salida St., 6007-6208 Telluride Way and 6297 Tower Road from C-MU-10 with waivers and conditions Airport Influence Overlay (AIO), C-MU-20 with waivers and conditions AIO, C-MU-30 with waivers and conditions, UO-1, AIO to S-MX-8 AIO, S-MX-8A AIO, S-MX-12 AIO, C-MX-8 AIO, C-MX-12 AIO, and S-CC-5 AIO in Council District 11.  (NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLANNING) Rezones property at 18400 E. 64th Avenue, 6004-6294 Rifle St., 6006-6106 Salida St., 6007-6208 Telluride Way and 6297 Tower Road from C-MU-10 (urban center, multi-unit, 10 stories) with waivers and conditions Airport Influence Overlay (AIO), C-MU-20 with waivers and conditions AIO, C-MU-30 with waivers and conditions, UO-1 (use overlay allowing adult businesses), AIO to S-MX-8 (suburban, mixed use, eight stories) AIO, S-MX-8A  (eight stories more urban form standards) AIO, S-MX-12 AIO, C-MX-8 AIO, C-MX-12 AIO, and S-CC-5 (suburban, commercial corridor, five stories) AIO in Council District 11. IF ORDERED PUBLISHED, A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON THIS ITEM.  REFER 