The South Platte River Committee convened to review a rezoning request, approve a major construction contract for Washington Street improvements, and receive a briefing on flood mitigation and park development projects in the Globeville area. The meeting focused on land use changes, infrastructure investments, and community benefits tied to the South Platte River corridor.
Welcome back to this biweekly meeting of the South Platte River Committee of Denver City Council. Join us for the discussion as the South Platte River Committee starts now. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for joining us. This is South Platte River Committee. I'm Councilwoman Torres. I represent West Denver District 3. Let's do quick introductions before we get started. And thank you. We are a little early because we have a pretty full agenda. So I'll start to my left. Good morning. Actually, it's afternoon, my gosh. Good afternoon. Daryl Watson, fine district nine. Kevin Flynn, South West Denver's District 2. Thank you very much. And just checking. Okay, nobody online. We can go ahead and get started. We only have three members of the committee in uh in the meeting, but we'll need four to actually do the action item. But Justin, please go ahead and present. And hoping we get our fourth one in pretty soon. Sounds good. Thank you, Councilwoman. All right, my name is Justin Montgomery. I am a senior city planner with community planning and development, and I'm here to present the official map amendment for 1252 West Buyers Place. The presentation today will consist of four main parts. I'll go over the request, talk about the location and context of the subject property, talk about the rezoning process, and then the review criteria that staff uses to analyze the project. The request before you is a rezoning request from Urban Edge 2 Unit B to Industrial Mixed Use 3 with waivers. The subject property is under uh 8,000 square feet. It's vacant and located on the south side of West Buyers Place and east of South Navajo Street. Now I'll get into the location and context of the subject property. It's in Council District 3, represented by Councilwoman Torres. It's in the Valverde statistical neighborhood there on the southeast side. The existing zoning of the property is urban edge two unit B, and it's next to properties that are also zoned the same, the ETUB. It's also next to IMX 3 B4 and in close proximity to EMX 3A along Alameda Avenue. The proposed zoning is industrial mixed use three with waivers. And it's gonna accommodate a mixture of uses with a three-story height limit. One thing to note the proposed waivers would not allow for the townhouse building form to be used on the subject property. And here's what the waivers are. The intent of the waivers is to ensure that the site is not developed with only residential uses because the property is within the Sun Valley Manufacturing Preservation Area. So it is uh calling for specific uses on the street level for this property. The uh land use currently is vacant and it's the site's being used uh for adventure van parking right now. Uh it's adjacent to other industrial properties, commercial properties, and residential properties as well. The building form scale of this area is primarily one and two-story residential and industrial buildings. Um, on this block, there's residential properties to the east and industrial properties to the west and across the street. Now we'll talk about the rezoning process. The application was deemed complete in February, and uh informational notice was sent on February 6th.