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.

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Hi.

Good afternoon.

I'm Diana Romero Campbell, and we are here for the community planning and housing meeting today.

We have an action item, a briefing, and a few items on consent.

And we are gonna start with introductions.

I'm gonna start to my left.

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Good afternoon.

My name is Ronald Vitres, and I represent Lucky District 7.

Hi, Amanda Sawyer, District 5.

And I believe we have some council members online.

Maybe Cora for Dover District.

Three.

Chanta Luis, District 8.

I hear you.

And I did not announce for my district either.

So Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver District 4.

So let's go ahead and get started.

We have a rezoning for 1760 East 56th Avenue and 4991 North Tellurde Street.

I'm gonna turn it over to you, Libby.

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Thank you.

Libby Glick with Community Planning and Development, and I'll be presenting the rezoning for 4991 North Telly Ride and 1760 East 56th Avenue, also known as the Denver Spur.

So first I'll go through the request, then the location, the process, and finally the review criteria.

The applicant is requesting to rezone this property at 56th Intellide from CMU 10, which is a mixed use district with conditions and CMU 30 with waivers and the adult use overlay to SMX 5, which is a mixed-use zone district and SMX 8, as also a mixed-use zone district.

So as stated previously, the applicant is requesting SMX 5 and SMX 8.

You can see where each of those districts are proposed on the map.

But the SMX 5 allows for up to five stories or 70 feet in height, and then SMX 8 allows for up to 8 stories or 110 feet in height, and they both allow the drive-thru building forms as well as general and shop front.

So now we'll go through the location and the context.

This is in Council District 11 in the Gateway Green Valley Ranch neighborhood, just east of Pena Boulevard.

So as stated previously, the current zoning is CMU 10 with conditions and CMU 30 with waivers and the adult use overlay.

So both of these are zoned districts in our former Chapter 59 zoning code that allow for a variety of their mixed-use zone districts.

So they're uh close to some single unit districts, as well as other mixed use and then the DIA district.

So the current uh land use is vacant, but it's adjacent to some single unit properties and multi-unit, both to the east.

This shows these existing building form and scale with the subject property on the top, and then you can see an example of some of the single unit homes down below that are directly east of the site.

So this property submitted for the large development review process, and it was deemed to be applicable because it's larger than five acres.

Um there's specific guidance in the far northeast area plan about using the LDR process.

A rezoning was proposed.

There's also infrastructure improvements that would be required through an infrastructure master plan as well.

Um there's also urban design standards and guidelines that uh are applicable to this area.

So they are about street design, site planning, architectural design, landscape design, signage, and lighting, and the intent is just to make sure that the built environment is as an appropriate scale.

They have also are they are entering into a high impact development compliance plan with host.

Um so this would require 12% of the multi of the residential units to be income restricted at up to 60% of area median income, and then 10% would be restricted to those earning up to 30% of AMI, and then a minimum of 70% of the total IRUs will have to have two or three bedrooms.

And we do have hosts here who can answer more questions about this high-impact development compliance plan.

So now we'll go through the process.

This was complete at the beginning of September.

It went to Planning Board January 21st, and we're here before you today, and it'll go to City Council in early April.

Um we've only received two public comments.

One is from the Montbello 2020 and beyond RO, and they submitted a letter in support citing the applicant's community engagement, the public amenities that would be provided as a part of this rezoning, which sorry, I should have mentioned this earlier.

As part of the rezoning, 17 acres has been sold to Denver Public Schools to become a future school site.

So with schools, and then as well as the subdivision regulations in this part of the city require a dedicated park space, so there will also be park space that's included.

So those public amenities as well as the affordable housing as a part of this high impact development compliance plan.