This meeting covered two main agenda items: a unanimous committee vote to advance a landmark designation for "The Gables" apartment building to the full City Council, and a detailed quarterly briefing from the All In Mile High initiative on homelessness, including progress metrics, challenges, and upcoming contracts.
Welcome back to this weekly meeting of the Community Planning and Housing Committee with Denver City Council. Your community planning and housing committee starts now. You think something, okay. That's how we just started the meeting. We got on air, so killed on our sawyer in Denver. Shared with the group that she. Because we met some shelter dogs from the Denver Animal Shelter, which are very dogs. Adorable for Christmas. Unless you're allergic dogs, like our colleague from Mr. Five. Welcome to the community planning and housing committee meeting of whatever day this is, December 16th, 2025. I'm Sarah Fardy, you're one of your council members at large. And we will start on our right. I was just saying. To do my right, which I didn't know. Hi, Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver District 4. Good to think about it. Yeah, good afternoon, the very sneezy allergic to dogs of Andes Sawyer District 5. Morad Vitres with Lucky District 7. Good afternoon, Paul Cashman, South Denver District 6. Good afternoon, Darren Watson. Fine, Disney. Alright. And Becca's been here set up, just waiting to present this rezoning to us. So I'm not gonna make her wait any longer. Well, and it's actually a landmark designation. Well, you know, you're in for a treat. History lessons. Those are actually a lot more fun. Don't tell the don't tell the other folks. My lips are sealed. Good afternoon, Council. Um this designation application is for the Gables, an apartment building located at 1407 East 11th Avenue, which is on the corner of Lafayette and 11th Avenue. This is in Council District 10 in the Cheesman Park neighborhood. And this is an owner supported designation. You can see the proposed boundary on the screen. It encompasses the whole lot. As a reminder, per the landmark ordinance, which is chapter 30 of the revising municipal code. Uh there are four elements that we look at when we're deciding whether a building can be eligible to be a Denver landmark. It first must maintain its historic integrity. It must be more than 30 years old or have exceptional importance. It needs to meet at least three of ten significance criteria. The property we'll be talking about today qualifies under the following three uh categories that are folded here on the screen. Uh designation criteria C, D, and G. And I'll go through each of these in turn. So first, the property is a good example of the Tudor revival style. Built in 1914 to 1915, the three-story brick building embraces a style that was popular in Colorado during the 1910s and 1920s. Distinguishing features of the style are exhibited in the property, including masonry construction, half timbering with stucco infill on the upper levels, as you can see in the upper picture. Multiple prominent cross gables, a tower, and a prominent porch with masonry arch, which you can see in the lower picture. Additionally, the building has notable craftsman elements, a style that emerged from the arts and crafts movement of the earliest 20th century.