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Welcome everyone to the South Plack Committee.

Thank you for joining us.

It's April 8th.

I want to start with those council members on Zoom if you want to do introductions.

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Southwest Denver's District 2.

Good afternoon.

Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver District 4.

Thank you both.

And in the room, Remote Al Vidares, that's Lucky District 7.

Good afternoon, Manitanmouth, Northwest Denver District 1.

And I represent Jimmy Torres, represent West Denver District 3.

Thanks for joining us.

We've got two action items today.

One item on consent.

Our first is a rezoning in on Laramir Street, and we're joined by Brendan.

Take it away, Brendan.

Thank you so much.

Good afternoon, Council members.

Brandon Shaver, Senior City Planner with Community Planning and Development, walking you through a rezoning request at 3232 Laramie Street.

Starting off with the request, you'll see that this property is near the intersection of 32nd and Laramer Streets.

It is requesting to rezone from RME 30 with the waiver to IMX3 D07.

Subject site is currently vacant with some accessory structures and it's under the same ownership as the adjoining parcel that's at the corner.

And that is the reason behind this request.

So this is in Council District 9, uh, represented by Council Member Watson and within the five points neighborhood.

Existing zoning, again, RE 30 with the waiver, which I'll walk through the next slide, but you can see that it is in close proximity to a number of other mixed use districts and some residential districts of higher intensity.

So the existing zoning was put in place in 2007, and RME 30 is a residential mixed use district, which allows for some higher density and some commercial development that is pedestrian scaled.

The current waiver on the property restricts the building height to 55 feet instead of 140.

And then just some interesting history.

For this site, most of the surrounding areas were rezoned to IMX in 2010 with the adoption of the Denver zoning code, but this property was left out due to that customization through a waiver.

And we've also since then created design overlay seven and mapped it throughout this area in 2018, but again, we're unable to include this subject site as it had customization.

So the proposed zoning is IMX D07, I'm sorry, IMX3 D07.

Um IMX districts are really serving that transition between mixed use and industrial districts.

Very characteristic of this area.

High degree of walkability and allows for a number of building forms.

The DO7 is really designed to make sure that new structures can adapt over time, has a minimum street level height and increased transparency and street level active use requirements.

Um surrounded by a mix of other uses, including commercial retail, mixed use, some single unit and two unit residential across the alley.

Um they voted unanimously to recommend approval.

Moving to our review criteria, the first being consistency with adopted plans.

Uh, we find this to be consistent with COP Plan 2040 and a number of strategies that are more detailed in the staff report.

So moving to Blueprint Denver, we have this mapped as an urban center context or a C.

However, the proposed district is going to an I and Blueprint does have some guidance on giving flexibility at the edges when we know that the requested district is still overall aligned with the intent of the context map.

This is a community corridor future place where heights are appropriate up to eight stories, and Laramie Street is a mixed-use collector.

So therefore, it is also in the community centers and corridors growth area, which is 25% of expected housing growth and 20% of new employment growth by 2040.

This is also within the Elyrian Swansea Neighborhoods Plan.

This is because this plan provides land guidance around the 38th and Blake Station, which this is at proximity to, and you'll notice the subject property is mapped in a mixed use area change.

So lastly, the Northeast Downs neighborhoods plan from 2011.

You can clearly see that this property is mapped as mixed use industrial up to three stories.

So that really refined guidance.

We think this is in the public interest and also find it to be consistent with neighborhood context, zone district purpose, and intent statements.

Happy to answer any questions, and the applicant is in the room in person as well.

Great.

Thank you so much, Brandon.

I don't have anyone in queue just yet, but maybe I'll ask the applicant about engagement.