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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Um, welcome to the community planning and housing committee of Denver City Council.

Today is apparently March 10th.

Um it is 1 30 in the afternoon, and we have um a rezoning to start with, and then we'll be hearing a development retrospective from host.

I'm Sarah Parody, I'm one of your two council members at large and the chair of the committee, um, and we'll introduce the other council members starting on my left.

Good afternoon, Florida Vidres, lucky to strike seven.

Uh good afternoon, Paul Cashman, South Denver District 6.

Good afternoon, Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver District 4.

Hi, Amanda Sawyer, just surprised.

Great.

And I think we are ready to hear about this rezoning.

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Um my name is Abner Ramos Altello.

I'm with Community Planning and Development, and I'm here to present the case for uh 4211 North Hooker Street.

They are requesting to rezone from PUD547 to USUC C06.

Here's a quick outline for the presentation.

As many of many of you are familiar, we'll go through the request, the location and context, existing conditions, then we'll talk about the process to date, and then lastly, we'll review uh the review criteria for this rezoning.

So here's an aerial image of the property itself.

It's on the corner of uh North Hooker Street and 42nd Avenue.

It is 12,500 square feet.

And currently on the site, there is a single unit home and a detached garage.

So this property is located in Council District 1, which is represented by councilwoman uh Amanda Sandoval.

It is in the Berkeley neighborhood, and the existing zoning is uh PUD547 and is surrounded entirely by USUC C06.

The proposed rezoning is to go to USU C06.

The reason for this is to be aligned with the uh need to protect the residential neighborhood character of the area.

Uh the property itself is meeting the minimum lot size of 5,500 square feet, and the allotted building forms would be the urban house and the detached accessory dwelling unit.

The conservation overlay is meant to preserve the single uh single and two-story scale of the neighborhood, so sort of these bungalow structures.

This is a graphic example of what I had previously stated about the allowed building forms being urban house and uh the tenant house, which is not applicable to this property given the uh exception stated in section 1235b.

The land use for the property itself is single unit.

It's surrounded by predominantly single unit.

There are some two unit and multi-unit uses as you go north along North Hooker Street.

However, it's primarily single unit.

In blue, we have the neighboring properties to the north, and red is the property itself.

There are a significant amount of trees surrounding the property, so there's not a clear image, but it is uh consistent with the surrounding scale and context of the area.

The process to date, they had their informational uh their informational notice back in December of uh this past year.

They recently went a planning board a month ago, and then they've noticed for this um hearing uh a couple weeks ago.

The planning board hearing unanimously voted to move this to consideration by full council, and the censorship date has been changed from 420 to 427 uh as requested by the council office.

So public comments to date, the only two comments uh that stand out are from the ROs.

One is a letter from Harkness Heights Neighborhood Association.

They were mostly concerned about the CO6, the conservation overlay, which this application uh was amended, and it does include the conservation overlay now.

And then uh Berkeley Regis United Neighbors, uh they attended the meeting uh that they hosted, and they receive support from the uh members.

Uh other than that, there have been no public comments received.

So the review criteria starting with consistency with adoptive plans, then moving to the other two.

First up is conference of plan 2040.

The application itself meets uh a number of strategies, mostly focused on info development, housing diversity, and then ensuring that there's a mix of housing types in the area.

For Blueprint Denver, it's consistent with the future neighborhood context guidance, which states that it should be urban.

It's consistent with the uh future place guidance, stating that it should be residential low.

And then lastly, the growth area strategy states that it should be all other areas of the city, which is accommodating to uh single units and accessory dwelling units.

In addition to that, there are some strategies that stand out that we should call out.

First of all, is the need to rezone properties from former Chapter 59 to the current Denver zoning code.

So that's what this property would be doing by rezoning from PUD547 to USUC C06.

In addition to that, this property addresses equity by increasing the development affordable housing and mixed uh housing types near transit services and amenities.

So this area is near uh federal and a number of bus lines.

Similarly, it addresses climate by uh providing a diversity of housing units near uh transit, which could uh contribute to redu uh reducing uh greenhouse gas emissions.

This can this application is consistent and meets the public interest by rezoning to uh meet the plan guidance, and then lastly, consistency with neighborhood context, zone district purpose and intent statements.

This property does meet the uh neighborhood context statement, the purpose and intent statements to promote the uh promote their residential neighborhood and the character of the area.

Based on the criteria for review in the Denver zoning code, staff recommends that the committee move application 2025 rezone 00000 uh 16 uh forward for consideration by the full city council.