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, everyone.

Welcome to the Wednesday September.

October 8th.

It was budget week.

Meeting of the South Platte River Committee.

My name is Kevin Flynn.

I represent Southwest Denver's District 2, the headwaters of the Platte in the city and county of Denver.

I'm chairing this committee on an interim basis because our chair and co-chair are uh not present in the room.

Um I don't know if one of them is online, but we'll find out.

Uh do we have anyone online?

Oh, no.

All right.

Thank you.

Let's uh do introductions of other committee members and start over here on the right.

Chris Hines, Denver's Perfect 10, home of about 207 contiguous feet of the platform.

And that's it.

Rora Alvidres, Lucky District 7.

We have more than that.

Absolutely.

Uh Darrell Watson, Councilmember, representing the fine district nine.

Thank you.

It's a good thing we don't weight our votes on the committee in accordance with the length of the reach in the district.

Actually, and Councilman Watson, you represent the outflow from Denver.

I am on South Platte somewhere.

There you go.

We have uh one action item and one briefing.

Uh, and we have one item on consent, uh, one of the standard uh uh dedications of city uh parcels, and it's part of the right-of-way down on uh Evans and uh bannock, I think.

Uh that'll go forward if no one pulls it off.

Uh let's start with the action item.

Uh Will Prince from uh CPD.

You are presenting us with a rezoning in Council District 3 on North Grove.

Yes, uh good afternoon, council.

I'm gonna present the application for rezoning at 890 North Grove Street.

It's a request from ESUD to ERX 3.

Uh today we'll go over the request, the location and context, the process, and the review criteria.

Uh, this property highlighted in red in the middle there is 6,250 square feet.

It is a vacant corner lot.

Again, the request is a rezoned from urban edge single unit D to urban edge residential mixed use, three stories, with the goal to develop townhouses.

Uh, this site is uh adhered to the West Area Plan rezoning memo that was released just about a year ago and has a concurrent affordable housing plan as part of this rezoning uh application.

Continue on to the location and context.

This is located in Council District 3 with Council Member Torres and is located in the Villa Park neighborhood.

Uh again, the existing zoning is ESUD, which is the majority of the area, uh, right up against EMX3 along federal, and there's ERX3 further down just on the same block of this site.

As for the existing context, uh for the land use again, this site is vacant, and the majority of the area is single unit.

Uh we have a mix of industrial and commercial along federal and uh public quasi public with Eagleton Elementary down the down the street on 9th Avenue.

As for the building form and scale, you can see the vacant lot here on the upper left corner, and the typical one one and a half stories residentials along the street.

Again, this site is uh applicable for the West Area Plan rezoning uh rezoning implementation memo, and that memo outlines issues related to displacement, increased development pressures, and implementation of the West adopted plans in West Denver.

And from that, uh the key point is that potential rezonings are not consistent with further intent of plans until further stabilization programs, tools, and regulatories are in place.

Uh we look at this as an interim uh tool until a further citywide approach is uh defined.

And with that, uh with the memo and with this site, uh we have a concurrent affordable housing plan that the applicant is voluntarily signed with host.

Uh, this includes a negotiated alternative to the mandatory affordable housing requirements.

And the housing plan requires that the greater of 20% of the units are at 110% of the area media income, or essentially in this case, one of the five units, and this income-restricted unit will have at least three bedrooms.

Um we can review this further, and we also have a representative from host to discuss this as if there are any further questions.

Continue on to the process.

Uh, this received its informational notice in August and was heard last week at the planning board public hearing with the recommendation for approval.

We're here today at the South Platte River Committee, and we are tentative for the November 10th City Council public hearing.

As for public comments, there have been two received.

One was with the application itself and support.

And we had one comment of moderate support with concerns of height that was received last week.