evening welcome i want to thank you all for taking the time to come out tonight and for those who may be viewing at home or checking us out on a later date i ask that if you do have a cell phone you put it on silent and if you will please rise join me in the pledge of allegiance remain standing for a moment of silen okay so again welcome we have a nice packed agenda for the evening although it may be shortened by a little bit so we will have things go a little bit out of order and i'm gonna ask the clerk to please to seven county of jefferson state of colorado item twenty five ordinance oh mm nineteen fifteen vacating right of way for south ammon street between west duque avenue on the north and west easton place on the south who is the applicant to please come to the podium good evening good evening mister mayor and city council thank you i'm you pull the microphone closer thank you thank you my name is jarrod carlin with norris design we're representing richmond american okay all right the the question and because we have this is in an issue of great interest so the request is to postpone until june th two thousand and nineteen which would mean and council votes for that extension the public hearing will then be postponed until then we'll take no public comments on that tonight because it will be a new public hearing or a public hearing that's extended so as any questions for the applicant mist what was the reason again for the continuance just scheduling conflicts within our team and there's been multiple hearing dates set for this and changing recently so this is a legal request right it's always been the purview of the applicant to ask for additional time for whatever reason and he or she thinks is i'd like to second that motion so hold up i'm not making the motion  does this cause us scheduling conflicts will this be difficult for staff or for us to put on the june th meeting or does that agenda like already thank you yes we do have that the upcoming meetings do have pretty packed agendas on june th we actually have only one first reading ordinance at this at this time so that is one of the few meetings that doesn't already have a lot of event items so june th would be the first reading or the second it would be the second reading for this project okay do we have any other second reading or ordinances that night at this time we do not so then i move to continue ordinance i'm sorry yes sir so since we're doing it separately let's take a separate vote on okay twenty nineteen twelve is there any other questions councillor bita you have a question  s so i just clarification first of all from legal counsel so you said it's within the purview of the applicant to ask for a postponement but i assume it ultimately it's still in the discretion t council whether to grant that request or not correct otherwise we wouldn't be going through this exercise why they're here tonight okay and then secondly i guess i was wondering if we could get like just a showing of the number of people that are here and that it's i really support this motion because of the fact that this was we've gotten a lot of emails on it and i feel like giving another two weeks to have input from our constituents as important so i would like to i think the the rescheduling really makes sense and i'd like to ask counsel for that support counselor good one i i want to agree and i also want to really apologize to those of you that are here tonight for the inconvenience to speak on this motion i also think that you know get having an opportunity for a more public way in is going to be a good thing we did  have this information on lakewood speaks that said that it was probably going to get postponed and so my other concern is that a lot of the people who do want to speak on this issue were under the understanding that it was actually not going to happen tonight and we also let people know at our ward meeting that it was likely to get delayed  and so we certainly have had a lot of interest in this and so i also would like to ask counsel to support the delay thank you right i did just want to weigh in council recently had the ar ten on kind of the docket to talk about and at that time we thought we were just putting a tool in the tool belt and didn't realize that there was actually a project for which it was being contemplated so i definitely support this we now need more time to take a look so it's important in my view to have that extra time considering now we have an actual project that had been being discussed and i don't think many of us were aware we thought we were really putting just a tool in the tool belt for planning staff to have and in this case that we have a live project so i support the delay okay we have a motion  all very much and for a quick question will lakewood speaks remain open for the next few weeks for comments for additional comments what will probably happen i don't know that we've ever haven't won delay this long what will probably happen is it will go into pending mode until the two week period before the hearing but we may have an option to leave it open the whole time as well i do i know it'll be one of those t thank you very much and and to reiterate land use reasons are complicated and can be sometimes frustrating for our community members as well because they're considered quasi judicial so you're not going to get individual correspondence from your council members but every email that is received goes to the planning department and that becomes a part of our whole record or it's available on lakewood speak so we do see those but i know for some people you know have said well you haven't responded that's why your dilma get responses  and but they do go into the file they're all presented to the whole body at the same time so you're encouraged to continue to participate and send those and that's kind of the process in a nutshell so with that we're going to move into a few proclamations well the clerk please write a read item for and bring down some of his partners but no dinosaurs welcome and i'm gonna ask councillor frank's if she would please read proclamation the th anniversary of dinosaur ridge where as three decades ago members of the scientific community and surrounding neighborhoods joined together to protect the world class paleontological treasures from further erosion vandalism and theft and whereas the friends of dinosaur ridge mission is to educate the public about and to ensure the preservation of the natural and historic resources of dinosaur ridge triceratops trail and the surrounding areas and whereas nearby rooney ranch was homesteaded in the early s and the first material ever collected from the world famous morris  formation of late jurassic age was found at dinosaur ridge in one thousand eight hundred and seventy seven and whereas dinosaur ridge trail is famous for its dinosaur tracks bone and unique geological features with more than fifteen fossil and geologic sites over three hundred individual animal tracks three distinct dinosaur and one crocodilian a unique frozen snapshot of a titel habitat from a hundred million years ago and whereas in one thousand nine hundred and eighty nine the friends of dinosaur ridge was formed to address increasing concerns regarding the preservation of the site and to offer educational programs on the ridge is now welcoming more than two hundred and thirty zero visitors annually becoming a top rated tourist attraction and has earned worldwide distinction among paleontologists now therefore on behalf of the city council and the city of lakewood i adam paul mayor of the city of lakewood colorado by virtue of the authority vested in me do hereby recognize and celebrate the th anniversary of dinosaur ridge thank you so much for this honor excuse my little bit frog enos it's spring technologies i do want to recognize tonight our board president marsha barber our development director michelle davis and our operations director robyn morris robyn and michelle in particular have been planning the th anniversary events that are coming up in a few weeks which i'm going to talk just a little bit about i also want to thank the city especially the mayor kat hudson stacy alden for the support around this th anniversary event but also over the years when i talked to joe temple who some of you may know he was the longtime executive director of dinosaur ridge and i said you know who should we really think about inviting and involving in our big th anniversary celebration and on his first shortlist was adam and others in lakewood in the city of liquid in general because his sense i've only been there a little over two years but his sense was that in his sixteen years the city was always extremely supportive so you know there were a national natural landmark and councilman frank's just mentioned that we had more than two april th this year thursday to sunday we have six public events coming up i'm gonna give you fifteen seconds on each of them on thursday night april th we have a fun and scientifically accurate leading different walks of dinosaur ridge to really get in depth about what is there to our walks from various scientists affiliated with our organization friday night for our hardcore science people we have a  nation's top paleontologists coming in from ohio doctor louis jacobs called sea monsters sea monsters on earth life in angola is ancient seas that's going to get really technical during saturday day we have something that's going to appeal to all the families in all of denver metro we have a really big cretaceous community carnival lots of inflatables games popcorn cotton candy a lot of it with a dino theme and then saturday night we have our th anniversary gala to celebrate we're going to have our board members lots of our supporters and i know some of you will be there as well finally on sunday we have a special exhibit with photographs from throughout our thirty years of of people taking action to preserve what's great at dinosaur ridge and educating the community about it so there will be a big photographic as well as a presentation centered on the spirit of volunteering which has been just so key to our history volunteers found real organization and they continue to be the lifeblood of our organization so we invite council of course everyone here everyone  we hope the whole community can come out and enjoy at least one of our six public events during that weekend thank you so much again for your support councilor frank's nice job reading that those are some big words and you had very little practice and you did great i will also mention a couple of other things the alameda gateway or alameda connects is going to bring out some dinosaurs you might see them along the and our art line is anchored by three parks that all have dinosaur themed art installations so you might want to get out enjoy that in the spirit of their th so congratulations again the clerk please read item five five proclamation child abuse prevention month okay i'm gonna invite down jennifer kemp of the ralston house to join me please and i'll ask councilor libr to read this proclamation safe nurturing environment free from harm and fear all children do not receive appropriate care in fact too many children become victims at the hands of abusive perpetrators and is up to us as a community to tires tire y work to end it through awareness and action every responsible person will agree that even one abused child is too many and whereas the month of april has been designated nationally as child abuse prevention month at this time we encourage all liquid residents to join in and we're renewing our commitment to preventing child abuse and learning what we can do to promote the safety and well being of children and whereas the city of lakewood has dedicated individuals and organizations who work daily to counter the problem of child abuse and help parents obtain the assistance they need and whereas our community is stronger when all citizens become aware of child abuse prevention and become involved in supporting parents to raise their children in a safe and nurturing environment and whereas effective child abuse prevention programs such as the rouse townhouse succeed because of partnerships among families social service agencies schools religious and civic organizations law enforcement agencies in the business community and whereas all citizen citizens community agencies faith organizations and businesses will work to increase their efforts to support families now therefore on behalf of the city of lakewood and the people of the city of lakewood colorado i adam paul mayor of the city of lakewood colorado by virtue of the authority vested in me do hereby proclaim april th as child abuse prevention month so you know this is always a special time when we have the opportunity to honor the ralston house and all the efforts that you do you do an incredible job and it's an unfortunate when you have a community or when you have a community you have to have a need for the ralston house and to have those programs but we you know certainly are here to support you and say thank you and bring recognition and awareness to to the fact that our kids sometimes are being abused and it's a sad deal but we have folks here to help so i'd like to offer you the mic if you want to talk a little bit more thank you it's an honor for me to be here with you guys at the ralston house we forensically interview kids that have been victims of abuse we provide interviews medical exams victim advocacy our mission is to stop the abuse and start the healing and it's a wonderful experience for us to be able to serve the community and thank you to the city of lakewood for all your support the clerk please read item six item six proclamation autism awareness month right and i'm gonna ask a couple of our residents to come down sandy weathers and her son nineteen where as world autism awareness day was april nd an autism awareness month is april two thousand and nineteen giving us an opportunity to recognize and support all children and adults with autism spectrum disorder asd today millions of adults and an estimated one out of every sixty eight children in the united states have been diagnosed with some form of asd and whereas notwithstanding these diagnoses americans with asd make exceptional contributions across our nation and around the world in april we honor their accomplishments and recommit to ensuring that they enjoy the same opportunities to fulfill their potential that all residents of lakewood and citizens throughout the world deserve and whereas to maximize the quality of life across the entire act ism stress spectrum excuse me we must ensure that asd is accurately identified and diagnosed in both children and adults we must also support access to effective care critical resources and supportive services and whereas to further these important goals liquid is proud to be home of easter seals and other programs that help us to continue to promote acceptance inclusion and understanding of children and adults with asd and whereas the city of lakewood is committed to educate our community through area schools libraries churches restaurants offices and other places everywhere those on the autism spectrum can be truly valued for their unique personalities and talents now therefore on behalf of the city council and the people of the city of lakewood colorado i adam paul mayor of the city of lakewood colorado by virtue of the authority vested in me do hereby proclaim the month of april twenty nineteen  thank you all very much in sandy thank you for bringing this to our attention another great honor for us to celebrate over this month but but all throughout the year and then really we talked about inclusion and the the really unique gifts that folks with autism bring to our lives and to our communities and you see a lot of wonderful stories now about people working in different industries and just doing amazing things so i want to thank you joey thank you for coming down it's always nice to see you hey i'm gonna ask lindsay rebecca from our lake woods victim witness witness assistance division she's a supervisor to come join me and counselor johnson is going to read this proclamation national commitment to a more equitable and supportive response to victims and whereas this commemorative week celebrates the energy perseverance and commitment that launched the victims rights movement inspired its progress and continues to advance the cause of justice for crime victims and whereas crime can leave a lasting impact on any person regardless of age national origin race creed religion gender sexual orientation immigration or economic status and whereas incorporating communities existing experts and trusted sources of support into efforts to fully serve survivors will develop a criminal justice system response that is truly accessible and appropriate for all victims of crime with the unwavering support of their communities and victim service providers behind them survivors will be empowered to face their grief loss fear anger and hope without fear of judgement and will feel understood heard and respected and whereas serving victims and rebuilding their trust restores hope to victims and survivors as well as supports thriving communities and whereas honoring the rights of victims including the right to be heard and to be treated with fairness dignity and respect and working to meet their needs rebuilds their trust in the criminal justice and social service systems and whereas national crime victims rights week provides an opportunity to recommit to ensuring that all victims of crime especially those who are challenging to reach or serve are offered culturally and lenses and linguistically accessible and appropriate services in the aftermath of crime and whereas the city of lakewood is hereby dedicated to strengthening victims and survivors in the aftermath of crime building resilience in our communities and our victims responders and working for a better future for all victims and survivors now therefore on behalf of the city council and the people of the city of lakewood colorado i adam paul mayor of the city of lakewood colorado thank you for having me tonight i wanted to just extend an invitation to both city council members and the community to the upcoming th annual courage walk every year during crime victim rights week this is the time that we honor survivors everyone out we have the mounted patrol there we have jefferson county sheriff's bloodhounds we bring out vintage police cars and do a lot of stuff for the kids then we have our walk where we honor our victims and we also do a dove release so we welcome anybody that wants to support the all right so normally we don't have that many proclamations but we don't we haven't had a lot of time and it was nice to be able to do some of those so again thank you to all the folks who are here tonight for those and if the councilmembers who read them having being asked about an hour ago to tune into those so the clerk please read item ten about item a to mate looks good to now i'm new to this so we go through one at a time and just kind of recognize so this resolution is for reappointing a member to the lakewood board of appeals and i believe  audience so if you could stand up to be recognized thank you mayor i moved for the adoption of resolution twenty nineteen thirteen so second second motion a second any discussion please cast your votes ten congratulations clerk please read em nine item nine resolution two thousand and nineteen fourteen appointing and reappointing members to the lakewood historic preservation commission and i believe we have jessica pierce in the audience and so if i can ask her to stand if she is indeed here jessica and we also had rebecca silva who is not here and just wanted to say we really on this on all of our boards and commissions but especially there's a we get folks who are it's just amazing how much they know and how much they value the historic preservation so these are this is the one of the funnest committees to sit on thank you for serving item ten resolution two thousand and nineteen fifteen appointing and reappointing members to the lakewood advisory commission and we have several folks here not all of them are able to stand but as i call your name if you're eleven please item eleven resolution two thousand and nineteen sixteen appointing a member to the lakewood planning commission and this appointment is for the position that was open for ward for alan healed i believe you're here in the audience you could and item twelve resolution two thousand and nineteen seventeen appointing members to the lakewood victim assistance compensation board and we i don't believe i'm margaret cass was able to be here tonight but we also have stefan hall and  you could go ahead and stand folks willing to step up and give back to your community we appreciate your service and look forward to to working with you as we move forward adam clerk items thirteen and fourteen try to explain thirteen and fourteen without going to back in two years of history but this is the first time i've been able to bring forward the citizen initiative to you and have you act on it so tonight you'll see on your agenda that you may vote according to our charter you may vote in favor and and hopefully our city attorney will help me if i get this wrong but you can vote in favor and adopt the citizen initiated ordinance as presented as is or you can go to the following item and call a special election which i am asking for a special election if that's your choice to be held on july nd does a mail ballot election thank you so for further clarification i you'd probably need to go through one to get to the other or if you choose one you get to go to round two depending on the outcome of round one that's if you choose to vote on it because what's important is that a council can vote on it without any change and if it's adopted its adopted it becomes an ordinance of the city if you choose to vote on it and does not pass with a majority vote you still then must refer to the voters it's not the end of the story if the council doesn't adopt and so if you choose not to vote you can simply send the matter to the voters directly without council voting on in the first instance councillor harrison so just to confirm to make sure that that that i understand if i voted no on the first item that doesn't mean that i don't support it or oppose it it just means i want the opportunity to send it to ballot so all the voters of lakewood would be able to vote correct correct the first decision to be made is does the council want to vote on it  not then you don't have to take that step you can simply adopt the resolution okay mayor pro time did you want to add anything else  i think we should probably vote on item thirteen and if and when it's rejected then we will make a motion on item fourteen and i think that'll just make it a cleaner  consensus kind of thing just vote that's fine great okay so i will now open the public hearing then on item thirteen and for those of you that are familiar most of you look familiar in the audience but you have three minutes so box here will be two and a half we'll be green for two and a half at your last thirty seconds i'll go yellow when your time's up it'll go red off politely ask you to wrap it up we do have a long night although not a lot of folks have signed to speak to this but in the matter instead of having redundancy if you want to just agree with the speaker before you go ahead and indicate that we'll make sure that the record knows that so first up i byrnes i am a resident in two creeks which is the neighborhood where you've got a whole bunch of development going on my mother owns the house and i live with her we're right on the northeast corner of th and harlan so we are literally smack dab in the middle of all the new development so this is a initiative that i was really very gratified to see to be honest with you i was going to come down here tonight and i was going to talk to you about pretty much everything that initiative says why it's such a bad idea to allow this unrestrained development in our city and why it's going to damage so many residents because it's going to destroy the character of these old neighborhoods that have been here forever and how it's gonna you know so burden the infrastructure and and all this stuff has been addressed in that initiative so that initiative is actually picking up on all the concerns that i as a citizen have as somebody who's living in the middle of all this development and it seems like they're addressing a lot of the concerns that i'm noticing a lot of other folks seem to have with regard to the changes to the zoning and the city and the development and other areas besides two creeks so i wanted to i'm not going to you know bore you with that but i did want to at least bring up one or two points that maybe you haven't considered sort of along these lines that might make a difference to the way you decide to vote on this or not i'd really like to see you decide to vote on it and adopt it rather than putting it forth for an election because an election is for one thing and it cost three hundred thousand dollars of taxpayer money that i can think of better things to do with for another thing it's also going to have people vote on this you know who are city residents but who are not living in these areas that are actually having the development and who maybe are not necessarily going to be convergent with all of the actual issues that are going to come up so i'd like to see that be avoided if we could a couple of things that you might want to think about just in making the decision as far as all this unrestrained development colorado is a boom and bust economy it always has been it always will be right now we are booming we've got lots of money lots of people coming here and we want all these apartments five years from now that may very well not be the case so if you destroy all these charming old neighborhoods that are tucked away and have all this great character but are the property of low income or moderate income people who can't stand up against these big developers then five years from now you may have destroyed these old neighborhoods four buildings that are gonna sit there vacant and degrade and just degrade the property values for everything so you really want to think about that you don't want to gentrify the neighborhoods and push out the homeless and push out these low and moderate income people and you do want to consider the possibility for bad publicity if this actually goes like to a ballot as opposed to city council being able to just make a decision and do the right thing so anyway thank you very much thank you very much thanks for coming out lynne and then linnea and i'm sorry russell and terry you do not wish to speak but you support the question hello mayor and city council i i think you you may understand the background of this strategic growth initiative we we do want growth but we want some limits on growth and  many citizens supported this but i think what's important is that it's this is a reaction to some of the recent what we feel is over building too much building too much density too much so that we we have to impose some limits in order to have quality of life here and to have sufficient water supply our schools are overcrowded and our roads are very much overcrowded and we don't want to have a lake would that the quality of lakewood living goes down so it's a reaction to the over building one example being the beacon of course on union we believe that i believe the initiative states that there's been closer to five percent growth maybe four percent and i wanted to consult margie greer how many citizen signatures did do you recall of how many we had on the strategic growth initiative i apologize  i i think it's in i caught her uh without preparation i didn't know we'll just keep the comments this way and then she can try to dig that up all right but i do want to point out that there was massive citizen support for this i know because i worked on it door to door and nearly everyone signed it that i went to on green mountain so i think there's overwhelming support for it and i would urge council to adopt it this initiative in order to save some costs when it goes on the ballot which are significant but i believe there's great support and that we should not over build i believe in some building but the idea is to make it quality building and when it's a large project to have city council be able to voice whether they believe this is a good project and that would also give citizens an opportunity to comment on the projects before they're approved so thank you for your consideration thank you excuse me i do have that number we had six thousand one hundred and ninety two acceptable valid signatures thank you which is sufficient to put it on the ballot more than sufficient thank you and if you did not sign up to speak on this please come down and sign up with  i find that my thoughts are were stated by lynn very well but i just want to agree with her that your vote to approve the petition is warranted over six thousand people said that they want under growth initiative i don't know that it's necessary to put it to the vote of the citizens and occur the expense and the time i would urge you to vote to approve the resolution tonight thank you thank you good evening council i'm here excuse me well i'm glad consul is finally addressing this after nearly two years nearly two years the lakewood residents have been unfairly denied their right to vote on a grassroots initiative instead it has been withheld from its rightful place on the ballot by a district court case that a judge says has no merit because of that the community's right to vote on an issue that weighs heavily in the city was thought at and delayed as co petitioner representing the thousands of registered voters who signed petitions supporting the lakewood strategic growth initiative i urge you to do now which should have been done over eighteen months ago to put this to a vote of the people the people you represent your constituents the people of lakewood the strategic growth initiative is the result of our years long effort to persuade our city government to mitigate the surprisingly unexpected consequences o zoning such as lack of green space and unhealthy densities recent denver post articles also referenced gentrification and the detrimental effects on affordable housing caused by too many high density luxury apartment buildings such as we see here in lakewood but the strategic growth initiative requires affordable housing it is inclusive in that it limits the effects of unfettered gentrification it preserves green spaces and it is sustainable both economically and environmentally the strategic growth initiative is mentioned also returns to you decisions that the city council should be making decisions which are now in the hands of an administrative employee again in case you didn't hear me the first time i eared you to put the strategic growth initiative on the ballot so the members of our community can finally express their vision for our city's future thank you anybody else all right i'll close public comment oh yeah sure please if you wouldn't mind on your way when you're done just checking with the clerk so we can get your information welcome i'm kristin armstrong  and i have to say i think this should definitely be put up for a vote if if at all possible but on top of this i think one percent growth is just it's too small and i come from a city of sunnyvale california i've lived in boulder colorado and i'll tell you right now it all sounds great on paper but it doesn't allow anybody in my age range to be able to actually afford housing at all i mean you're stifled and you'll end up just renting endlessly and i don't understand if everyone's given this chance when you were younger to have affordable housing why isn't my generation given the same chance so  stifling the growth in this community you're basically stifling my growth has a potential millennial and i really think this should be put up for everyone to be able to vote their their opinion on this situation thank you there's a motion and a second council discussion councillor franks thanks mira paul i did want to make sure that folks knew that of those six  on many people reached out and said that they weren't sure whether they were in support of it or were they gonna be opposed to it they really wanted to dig in and read all the contents and so they're i don't know that the six zero represents people who were going to vote yes for it i just know they're people who wanted it on the ballot and i certainly think that is fair i did want to speak also to the the cost aspect and maybe we can get some other folks maybe to weigh in  but when this was brought forth it could have made it's like two elections that we've missed where we could have been on the coordinated ballot because it came up for a legal challenge so it is unfortunate that the costs are higher when you have to do a special election and go it alone but the the petitioners did bring it forth in time to get it on a coordinated ballot that just unfortunately didn't work out and to the woman who spoke about the the one percent i think that the city provided some numbers on that as far as historic and i think there's only been a couple times and we'll certainly get the data up there where we've exceeded that and that's been in in unique circumstances so while the one percent i think it's just important to know that the date is going to be important for the community to concern consume and make sure that you're making your decision based on good solid data rather than maybe a numb sounding low and maybe it not really in our historical view being low so just really wanted to throw all that out there and say that i certainly will be in support of it going to the ballot i think that's what the communities asked for  i like it when people vote to tell us what they want and how they want it this initiative will reflect the vision of our community the vision of itself and where they want to go in the future whether it is democracy and i certainly want to put this to a vote thank you celso bita well i just locked you out there you go i just want to make sure it's clear so on the motion that's before us if we vote no if there's a no vote on it that would automatically then send it to the ballot is that not right right there'll be action taken to what the better on the ballot automatic is not quite the right word to reject this ordinance your next action will be to place okay so let me ask the question why would we take action to do that when that's the only other choice we have as a matter of law under our charter it seems to me by saying no we are choosing the second alternative it's different actions and so we just want to make sure that there's a clear record that the council is sending it to the to the voters it sets the date of the election as well that's part of the action so okay thank you okay there's been a motion expecting there to be more lights on the board there so i will also be supporting putting this to a vote of the people and i wanted to just say that i think that no matter what happened tonight growth is one of the most important issues that we are going to address as a community it's probably been the greatest topic of conversation both in this room and at our ward meetings and so we certainly have experienced some successes and some benefits as a result of economic growth but we've also certainly  experiences some real challenges that we all feel in our everyday life and i think that you know we've really made a big effort to come together and address those challenges and i to share some concerns about this how a growth kappa would impact our community in terms of being able to afford to live here an example that i look at is bolder and you know we're virtually a middle class essentially can't afford to live there anymore and so you know yes we have to address growth and i believe we can do that together and that said i also really believe that the right to petition your government is a fundamental important aspect of democracy and so i will be proudly supporting sending this to the ballot thank you thank you so we have a motion in a second just to be clear yes vote would be for council would then send us to our next item which is a resolution and for those in the audience these things are very rare in that i don't think we've seen a referred measure and probably a decade plus so bear with us so item fourteen resolution two thousand and nineteen eighteen calling a special municipal election for july nd two thousand and nineteen to be conducted as a mail ballot election i just had a question related to the july nd i do know it's gonna be a mail in ballot and that's been something that folks were you know that's how we do ours but i just wanted to understand how much time does that give folks because again with it being you know right around a holiday how soon do those ballots drop so is it like mid june they drop and people get a couple weeks to fill out their ballots i just want to be sure that if we're scheduling it for a july nd that people have ample time around that holiday the mail ballots are sent out approximately and i don't have the exact calendar in front of me but i think it's sixteen to twenty one days prior to the election great just wanted to let alais people's fears who had plans for the holiday so when that thing comes in the mail it's one question and so shouldn't take a lot of time but there will be i'm sure a lot of material out there on both sides that people can educate themselves at advance to be ready to cast that so that sample time they earlier because of the workload and couldn't go any lighter because of the charter i always asked for the latest date possible to give us the most time our charter and our ordinance says that from the time you called a special election or today when i bring you that initiative petition forward i you have to set the election date not less than thirty and not more than ninety days from tonight so that july nd date was kind of our further state out to give us enough to i mean we have to contract with you know printers and the mailing houses and that sort of thing so it takes quite a while thank you okay so we have a i'm here addressed specifically the election and the timing of the election which was mentioned nearly two years ago lakewood community members began collecting signatures to vote on an issue that weighs heavily in our community the strategic gro initiative was time to be on the november two thousand and seventeen ballot and our grass grew grassroots group went out of our way to ensure that six weeks into our signature gathering i receive this email from our city clerk informing me that if we wanted to qualify for the november ballot and not cost our city a lot of money then we would have to turn in our signatures two weeks earlier than allowed by our charter we chose to save our city the money and qualify for the november two thousand and seventeen ballot and sacrifice what was likely thousands more signatures to turn in the petition two weeks earlier than our charter allows to qualify for the november and seventeen ballot we were also given the option instead to continue gathering signatures and we could qualify for a special election which would cost our city a lot of money we chose to qualify for the november tw ballot the eighteen month delay in getting this to the voters is due to a lawsuit which a judge has said has no merit the cost of this special election plus nearly one hundred thousand dollars in legal fees to the city and fifty thousand dollars to small community members like myself a teacher is due to a lawsuit a lawsuit which a judge says has no merit a lawsuit recruited by mayor adam paul a lawsuit recruited simply to keep us from voting thank you tonight and i apologize that this has to be a special election when their grassroots group went out of our way to ensure this could be on the so i have a couple of interesting notes of notes to visit about first of all the the lakewood kiwanis will be presenting a donation cheque of ten thousand dollars to the mayor on april th at three o'clock p m and the purpose of this is it's a fundraising efforts for a new playground at the visitor center at bear creek lake park and it's called that's going to be a really nice addition over to over at the visitor center bear creek lake park and please mark your calendars for may nine may th is the national veterans creative arts festival which is returning to lakewood and it'll be held at the cultural center from one zero to three zero again it's the national veterans creative arts festival it's returning to lakewood and it's going to scheduled for thursday may th and we'd love to see you there did you know that at the mills mall we now will be where you will see a store that's an under armour store and a ralph lauren store at mills mall so go shopping there that sounds last week you had a tour of the shops did you enjoy that tour of the shops we will be having a follow up study session to talk more specifically about all of the details related to a potential relocation what that's going to cost what those what all those logistics are and we'll have a presentation from our public works director jay hutchison as well as our finance director larry door to talk about some of those funding options that hasn't been scheduled yet but while that tours is fresh in your in your memory we're gonna do that in the next several weeks finally you have a city manager annual report pretty sooner annual review and that is held on my favorite day of the year which is april nd you in your boxes right now the annual report i just finished it and it's in your boxes today and it's hard copy so please take that and review it and then you the evaluation instrument will be sent to you i think in the next couple of days and our hr director jeff dolan is coordinating that so your you need to turn that back into him and then again we have the executive session on my review on april nd so if you have any questions please contact our human resource  and that concludes my report thank you very much miss hudson before we go into the consent agenda i'm gonna go ahead and bump item twenty eight up and mister where we'll go ahead and since it doesn't look like there's any presentation or any comment there may be a question or two so madam madam clerk we please read item twenty eight item twenty eight ordinance o two thousand and nineteen sixteen authorizing a supplemental appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars to the two thousand and nineteen fiscal year to fund porchlight a family justice center thank you so i'm gonna open the public hearing on this nobody's indicated a desire to speak on the abel we have heard a lot about this project all of it good it is a oh bonus for our  this is a community effort sponsored and being supported through all the cities in the county to bring this forward i want to thank the district attorney's staff for really spearheading this it'll be unique and it'll be a great way to help bring better service to again we heard a lot tonight about folks who are in need and sometimes the folks that are going to be going to this place or going through some of the most challenging times in their life so i will gladly support motion in a second a more discussion please cast your  and that passes ten i's zero nays thank you clerk please read the consent agenda mayor i believe we passed general public comment oh certainly we did  discombobulated i have two scripts going so so now now is the time for public comment general public comment so this is the point the meeting where the public ismai to address the city council on items that did not appear on the agenda all comments should be directed to the city council i ask that all in attendance observe the decorum of city council chambers and refrain from applause or audible support or discord with the speaker again there's a three minute time limit two and a half minutes green thirty seconds yellow and when your time's up it'll be re are you gonna pool with so you have laura you have there is everybody here one two three four five six seven eight nine okay but is everybody here that's on your list okay all right come on down yeah representatives thank you for the opportunity to speak about the redevelopment of white fence firm i'm a part of a neighborhood hoa group that is discussions about the property and we felt that it might be beneficial to give you an overview in case you have the opportunity to meet with the developer at some time in february crescent communities the developer looking to purchase the white fence farm restaurant site and the public relations group associated with them crl associates invited a few of the surrounding a choice to attend a meeting to give an overview of what was being planned at white fence farm that meeting was held in the barn at white fence farm with wall to wall city of lakewood residents and attendants they didn't have to offer to meet with the community and as you can imagine it was it was a quiet wasn't a quiet meeting due to the fact that so many of these residents were going to be impacted by what was being suggested to be built on this property two four stor buildings to house two hundred and sixty unit apartment complex and at that time consisted of studio one and two bedroom and three bedroom units to be determined at the end of that meeting the representative from crescent communities ben collins offered to meet at a different time to further discuss their plans so as a result of that february th meeting eleven neighboring formed a group of some and some of which are here th many of us had never met before but we thought it might be more productive if we all came together voicing our concerns in that many were one in the same issues those eleven hoas included nine hundred seventy two homes near the white fence farm property everyone acknowledged the fact that there will eventually be some development on that site at some point we contacted crescent communities and crl and they both were gracious enough to meet with the representatives of those eleven hoas we met on march six there were copious note taking within the room including crescent communities and sierra crl because needless to say we are all impacted by what was being proposed with high density buildings that we are told will be built and sold it's important that you realize that we're all for growth in lakewood however it must be conscientious growth this copacetic within the neighborhoods with the he regarding traffic monitoring and cara muller and planning who always is available direct us or field numerous questions no matter what the subject might be and now with this development we've contacted them both again with rapid responses to questions kara was asked to attend ward three meeting by our ward three councilman where she presented that timeline what that timeline looked like for this development when that application was received t residents we don't envy the position that kara's in as she's following the rules that have been set forth by the planning commission and we're most certain as she must be inundated with many calls and emails with a growth in city of lakewood the site plan now has been submitted to the city for review and although the number of units have changed from two hundred and sixty to two hundred and thirty four it still does not address the fact that the intention is to build two four story high density buildings in order to make this financially feasible we are told that this is what the project will require crescent communities will be meeting with our neighborhood group hoas again the th of this month took over the issues that were brought to their attention that included density parking traffic environmental issues along with a list of much much more again we realize that they're not required to do do this but we are hopeful that there might be some resolution with what we requested of them there be an opportunity to address the proposed development by looking at its implications so that the final product actually fits in to what is currently built there we're reminded that the city of lakewood is suburban not a denver urban scenario and should be treated as such our many residents throughout lakewood who are expressing the effects of the growth throughout colorado in relation to the city of lakewood we're very appreciative of both a strategic growth initiative that was begun about a year and a half ago and your newly formed parking study session members who are working diligently to sort out the neighborhood parking issues they may not impact what currently is being looked at and proposed for white fence farm but they will certainly impact future developments thank you yes thank you so mike you're gonna represent the phase two all right come on down good evening mister mayor and honorable members of council good evening my name is mike berry my partner robbie and i own a patio home that is part of the wildflower patio homes which are located right behind the white fence farm  restaurant site i'm also on the wildflower patio homes hoa committee that was formed to review the apartment development and i've been actively involved in the joint hoa committee that liz mentioned i grew up here in and eu law school i am an attorney but while i am an attorney i'm not representing one in that capacity in this matter tonight i would like to address a concern we have about a number about the number of dwelling units and densities shown on the site plan submitted by the apartment developer developer to the city's planning department the site plan submitted by the developer shows two hundred and thirty four apartment units for the site in this presentation i will describe the applicable zoning for the restaurant site i will also provide details about the official development plan commonly referred to as an od p you're going to hear me say odp a few times here that applies to the site finally i will show you how the developers proposed two hundred and thirty four entitled april eight two thousand and nineteen city council meeting presentation concerning maximum dwelling units and density i have extra copies if you don't have one i think we're so okay good i'll start on page one by discussing the zoning for the white fence restaurant site the white fence restaurants white fence farm restaurant site is governed by an od p an official development plan the odp was approved by lakewood city council and signed otp covers the restaurant site wildflower patio homes carmel oaks retirement community summer field townhomes country manor single family homes gated community and wilson family park which is owned by the city the part property owners the odp is binding upon any person who undertakes development of the property in the odp area the odp includes specific standards limiting the number of dwelling units and density for the area covered by p the developers plan for two hundred and thirty four apartment units exceeds the specific standards set forth in the od p for the maximum number of dwelling units and density a copy of the current zoning map taken from the city's webpage is on page two and you will see the restaurant site is a the second from the left there it is our community surround the site carmel oaks retirement community to the left wildflower patio homes behind sommerfeld townhomes to the right there and and country manor to the north and east jewel is at the bottom on page three i will show you the number of dwelling units and density allowed for this area per the odp for this neighborhood section seventeen point three point six point three discusses the topic of official development plans and says all pd zone districts and you'll remember from the zoning map r this is a pd zone district it's one pd zone district for you into my presentation as you can see from the bottom the maximum dwelling units for the white fence farm odp area are three hundred and eighty dwelling units or four seventy five dwelling units that's the total maximum density for this area on page four i will discuss how the developers plan for two hundred and thirty four apartment units is inconsistent with these standards for the odp again the maximum number of dwelling units for the white fence farm area is three hundred and eighty dwelling units the developers plan for two hundred and thirty four apartment units exceeds the maximum dwelling units by eighty three dwelling units so it's simple math here you can look maximum  allowed by the odp or three hundred and eighty and then you look at what i was currently existing in the neighborhood between wildflower patty holmes carmel oaks summer field townhomes and country manor homes that was our two hundred and twenty nine units subtracting two hundred and twenty nine from the three hundred and eighty results in one hundred and fifty one available units to be built in this odp area obviously if you subtract two hundred and thirty four the developers plan attract one hundred and fifty one from the developers two hundred and thirty four dwelling unit plan that is eighty three dwelling units more than can be accommodated per the odp and if you'll notice the develop developers plan for two hundred and thirty four dwelling units more than doubles the number of dwelling units in this neighborhood per the otp the maximum density the number of dwelling units per acre is four point seven five dwelling units and the developers plan for two hundred and thirty four apartment units would result in a density calculation of five point seven nine and that exceeds the density limitations allowed by the otp in conclusion as property owners we relied in good faith on the maximum dwelling unit and density standards in the otp when we purchased our individual properties we believed that these standards would protect the character character of our neighborhood that our quiet neighborhood wouldn't have the noise traffic parking and other problems associated with higher density neighborhoods allowing the four story two hundred and thirty four unit apartment buildings and there are two of them to be built on the white fence farm restaurant site would more than double the number of dwelling units in our neighborhood in direct violation of the otp that was approved by city council this would be like pulling the rug out from under us it would completely change the character of our neighborhood the maximum dwelling unit density density standards set forth in the otp are binding upon the developer of the white fence farm rest site site per the odp these standards can be enforced by the city of lakewood and the property owners of the white fence farm neighborhood as property owners we asked the developers site plan for the white fence farm restaurant site be denied in its current form based on the maximum blowing unit and density standards set forth in the city council approved odp thank you thank you very much nice job you have copies of the odp if anyone wants one you can if you want to leave them with the clerk that's fine thank you thank you good evening mister mayor and city councilors my name is debra easley emmert and i'm a resident of the city of lakewood residing at six thousand and twenty eight west colorado lane in the summer field townhomes which is part of the wilson property i've been a resident here for the past four and a half years after a thirty year absence from colorado though i am a col native and a graduate of bear creek high school as noted by the previous presenter the wilson property is governed by an official development plan which was approved by the city of lakewood council and  and eighty two you should also have a packet for me that will follow through and this really builds on what mister berry just presented the wilson property odp includes specific height restrictions by parcel the white fence farm restaurant property is parcel h in this odp as defined in the architectural character section of the odp quote the commercial business parcel h will have compatible architecture throughout the total area some um height of buildings will not exceed forty two feet end quote and quote all architectural plans will be approved by an architectural review committee of the property owners association architecture will be closely coordinated between areas within land uses and also between separate land use parcels end quote the purpose the propose multifamily apartment development as submitted to the city of lakewood and posted on march th reflects a planned height of fifty three foot ten inches for building one and fifty two feet four inches for building two these proposed heights exceed that allowable via the odp for this parcel by over ten feet section seventeen three dot six five of the lake zoning ordinance states that the ordinance applies to a planned development unless it is specifically modified as part of the pd based on the fact that our odp limits the height for this parcel to forty two feet it should be enforced as such section seventeen three dot six five of liquid zoning ordinance further states that where an otp contains specific provisions regarding the odp modification process the provisions outlined in the otp shall be used to modify the otp the wilson property otp states that any change shall be quote consistent with the content and intent of this official otp sorry official development plan as it has been approved by the lakewood city council end quote a building height which exceeds ten feet greater than that defined in the otp does not follow the intent of the otp to provide a consistent and cohesive neighborhood the sections of the zoning ordinance are included for your reference the developer attempting to use a clause in the in the lakewood zoning ordinance adopted january th two thousand and fifteen which states that it may may allow for increase increased development height of twelve feet if a league scorecard is submitted along with proof of lead registration and just for reference lead is leadership in energy and environmental design it's a program that is govern governed by the us green building council and it's one of the most widely used green building rating systems in the world it's felt that a height any height increase is not benefit of the owners their successors heirs representatives and the signs and shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon any person who shall undertake development of the property end quote of note and possible concern to the city is that there may be a loophole in this section of the zoning ordinance although a leed scorecard and proof of leed registration is required in order to be granted the additional height or another provision is to allow tax credits for low income housing the actual certification of a building attempting to achieve leed certification of any level is not granted until after the completion of the project and after all papers and documents are submitted to us gbc and cbc bci gbc i for approval what are the consequences if a project is granted the additional height provision by the city of lakewood but then does not actually achieve the leed gold certification at this point the building is already completed there appears to be no consequence it is not likely that they will be made to tear the building down after the fact the housing the existing housing on both the east and the north sides of parcel h are a maximum height of thirty five feet in accordance with the odp carmel oaks which  three storeys tall is to the west and it does not exceed the forty five feet restriction for that parcel in accordance with the odp the proposed structures of fifty two feet plus in height are not in keeping with either zoning ordinance or the lakewood two thousand and twenty five moving forward together a comprehensive plan in terms of the city's desire to preserve existing neighborhood integrity section seventeen dot five thirty four of the zoning ordinance and goal ln of the comprehensive plan both referred to the need for new adjacent developments to be compatible by incorporating appropriate design scale and height transition the land use vision map three point two one in the lakewood two thousand and twenty five moving forward together shows parcel h in the wilson property odp as a neighborhood activity area not  growth area and this project as proposed by the developer is not in keeping with the city's stated vision in conclusion the maximum height for the white fence farm restaurant parcel is set forth by the city of lakewood approved original development plan is forty two feet this should be maintained in accordance with the provisions of this odp allowing a four story building on the site would be in direct violation of the odp for this planned development what is the point of having planned developments if their conditions are not being upheld in all probability this developer is using the zoning provision to gain additional building height not for the purpose of providing a greener project which i believe was the city's intent but rather to maximize dwelling units on the site for financial and they've indicated that they will most likely sell this project prior to or shortly after its completion we as homeowners relied on the restrictions of the wilson property odp when purchasing our individual properties believing that its restrictions would preserve our neighborhood and its character along with our property values we ask that the city of lakewood enforced the height restriction as set forth in the official development plan deny the developers proposed site plan as submitted we know that new development and redevelopment is crucial to the growth of our city of lakewood but it should not be at the expense of existing neighborhoods or its citizens thank you thank you very much general public comment are you here to speak on one of the agenda items yeah we are well general public comments for anything that's not on the agenda so i'll put you down speak on the agenda kept should pull down for you it's okay um thank you mayor and committee council i am here for something other than what has been spoken about i own a skincare college and i have a pride furs permit and when i went to apply for the permit i've just bought this building knowing that it was zoned for a school finding out that it wasn't never purchased a building before this one felt that i could rely on the professionals to advise me that is what they have a license for and get paid for i was also shown this building a year ago and that company also said it was  purposes i was recently notified upon plan for a permit that the building is owned for school not a trade school vocational school or beauties go only k through twelve of which there is one right across the street i have a hundred and twenty four students twenty three staff they'll be affected by the zoning mistake as background i am a nationally accredited college and licensed by the division of private occupational schools of which i have served as a board member since two thousand and twelve meaning an fbi check was performed by the state of colorado to allow me to serve as appointed by the governor i have been in the school business since one thousand nine hundred and eighty have opened an accredited three colleges in arizona two in california nineteen in texas i am not new to this industry my students and staff for tax pay decent people who have contributed greatly to the community the students spend money at restaurants for meals shopping and gas the college teaches students skin care facials waxing laser injectables permanent makeup body treatments and prepares them for taking their state licensing examination of which we have a hundred percent pass rate we have students come from all over the united states because of our reputation of excellence and without the proper zoning the college would have to close because the present leases are ending in june of this year there is nowhere in this amount of time to find another place to properly give them the education they need there's twenty three staff that would lose their job and one hundred and twenty four students that would be displaced because of the zoning issue the accreditation was just performed in september of two thousand and eighteen of which there were no limitations did you wrap it up please  sorry my main concern is that i would lose in school and would not be able to keep the students or have or be able to enroll any more so i'm asking for a special variance to be done as soon as possible so that we could keep that was good to see dinosaur ridge and proclamation this evening i thought after sixty five million years it's probably about time they got some recognition i wanted to spend a moment of reminding you inviting you all to the i burn neighborhood associations annual meeting which is scheduled for this thursday april th at saint paul's episcopal church  we'll start out with an open house as we have in the past at six o'clock it'll run to seven o'clock where neighbors can meet and socialize i've got developers local businesses local police department mess west metro fire and board members there too to meet and greet will also have a performance by liquid high school student vocalists at about ten minutes before seven zero so we ask d neighbors to come at their convenience during the six to seven hour seven o'clock hour the general membership meeting will run from seven to eight and our keynote topic this year's senior resources where we'll have david apple of the clements center presenting and we'll also have updates on the state of the neighborhood and some awards that we give out so i just wanted to bring that to your attention and that of your audience thank you sir appreciate i you're an easy one thank you very much for the public service announcement i would thank the neighborhood's who have come together i know you've been working hard and put together a thoughtful presentation and i think that the best thing is to continue that dialogue with city staff as well as with the developer and see how that and where that goes and then we'll make sure we have the information for the school and try to get a better understanding miss hudson yes i'm both regards staff already or is trying to schedule a meeting with the white fence farm folks that you heard from this evening and additionally i understand staff is also working with the owner of the college the skin care college thank you very much ordinances first reading ordinances appear on the agenda only for the purpose of setting future public hearing dates and ordering the newspaper publication of the proposal ordinance no public comments will be heard this evening on first reading ordinance ordinances the public will have an opportunity to comment on the proposal ordinances during the scheduled public hearing set forth by the dates tonight by city council any council member may request an item on consent agenda be removed for separate discussion under general business the clerk please read the consent agenda the consent agenda consists of item seventeen through nineteen are through twenty inclusive item seventeen ordinance o two thousand and nineteen seventeen authorizing a supplemental appropriation of three hundred thousand dollars to the two thousand and nineteen fiscal year to fund the july nd two thousand and nineteen municipal election and further declaring an emergency item eighteen ordinance o two thousand and nineteen eighteen for the conveyance of a water line easement to the bear creek water and sanitation district across a portion of hudson park item nineteen ordinance o two thousand and nineteen nineteen repealing and replacing portions of chapter nine five to in chapter twelve point o of the of the approval of the council minutes and order all ordinances on introduced on first reading to be published in the denver post with public hearing set for the date included in the ordinance all of which are included in the consent agenda items introduced into the record by the city clerk there a second second all right we have a motion a second i just make one comment we rarely do emergencies an emergency just means as soon as it's signed it becomes law which will allow those funds to be utilized all right anything else please cast your votes passes  the clerk please read item twenty one item twenty one ordinance o two thousand and nineteen nine endorsing the projects and project funding levels in the city of lakewood two thousand and nineteen annual action plan for the community development good evening mayor and city council i am a media kicker i'm a planner with liquids comprehensive planning and research division and i also manage the community development block grant program tonight i am here to which begins on june st two thousand and nineteen and ends on may st two thousand and twenty before i get into the actual projects i'll give a quick overview for everyone just so you can understand the program a little bit more the community development block grant program or cdbg is a federally administered grant from the department of housing and urban development or hud and it's managed through lake woods comprehensive planning and research division these grant funds are allocated through states counties and cities to be spent locally on local housing and community development efforts the annual allocation amount is based on a formula that's derived by population age of housing stock poverty rate and income of the households that reside within the community these grant funds are either used directly through the city departments or passed through and we get about nine hundred thousand dollars annually all community development block grant funds must meet one of these three objectives it must either benefit moderate and low income people reduce or eliminate slum or blight or address an urgent community which is most often a natural disaster in lakewood the majority of our grant funds are used for the first objective and that is to benefit those low and moderate income people that live within lakewood each year hud identifies the income limits used to determine who is moderate to low income in lakewood this would be a family of four earning seventy two thousand dollars or less so projects qualify based on an individual's income and family size or if projects benefit an entire area that would be considered lower moderate income based on census data we so on the map in front of you here you can see kind of the dark blue areas are those cens tracts where fifty one percent or more of the households that reside there earn eighty percent or less of the area median income and we in lakewood call those our cdbg target areas projects that are typically funded through these target you know or identified as target area projects are typically neighborhood park improvements or infrastructure improvements this is just a list of i've included that is eligible and non eligible uses for cdbg grant funds just to give you a little bit of an idea of how you can use these as with all federal funding there are a variety of other federal rules and regulations that the problem that the program must adhere to some of the main ones include obtaining environmental clearance for all projects that the funds are used they the funds must be used in a timely manner construction projects must comply with all labor standards and we must also follow a public participation plan only a maximum of twenty percent of the grant funds can be used for administrative activities and there is also a fifteen percent cap on funding that goes directly to benefit individuals through services so every five years hud requires entitlement communities to identify the greatest needs that they see in their community once those needs are identify each community must outline how those needs will be addressed over the next  this five year report is called the consolidated plan and this is liquid's guiding document for the cdbg program liquid's consolidated plan was last updated in two thousand and fifteen and through that planning process these following three priorities priority needs were addressed neighborhood improvements in target areas housing rehabilitation and improvements and supportive services for low income and special needs communities cdbg projects proposed over the next five years through the annual action plan which is what i'm talking about tonight must address one of these needs lakewood will actually begin our next consolidated planning process towards the end of this this map identifies the locations and project types within the city where cdbg was used during the two thousand and seventeen program year in lakewood we complete a variety of projects through both city departments and nonprofit agencies and we do our very best to leverage the funding as far as we can by using city staff when possible and we try to complete projects that have a comprehensive socio economic impact to the community so now that i've given a little context here of the overall program i'll get into the action plan this the action plan is basically lake woods application to hud for our annual cdbg allocation and nineteen ries sources include the estimated allocation for the two thousand and nineteen grant program income which is money received from the repayment of loans from our single family housing rehabilitation program and then we also have reserves from previous years now although the actual allocation is still an estimate because congress has not given us notification on what that is we do total budget and the funding levels of all the project will not change from tonight okay so the following is just a list of our projects we have our section one hundred and eight loan repayment this is a repayment that is budgeted each year for our section one hundred and eight loan which helped to fund the improvements to park and also the headstart facility at th and lamar and for anyone who is unfamiliar with what a section one hundred and eight loan is it's a loan through hud where you are able to borrow a large amount of money and then  pay it back through your annual allocations so we will be doing that through two thousand and twenty one our single family housing rehabilitation program we contract with jefferson county housing authority to provide emergency gran low interest loans to low income homeowners to do necessary improvements to their homes last year we were able to assist twenty three homeowners to make these improvements again this year we will also as part of the single family housing rehab program be partnering with brothers redevelopment to assist elderly and disabled low income homeowners as well with exterior painting and minor yard clean up through this  call it lakewood help for homes program we were able to assist for homeowners with cdbg funds last year and as another bonus lakewood staff west metro fire and other service organizations all work together last september to help to actually volunteer at these at these sites at these four homes so it was a is a very good community effort on everyone's part public facility projects this year we will be installing new playground equipment at the idlewild park in the iver neighborhood the play equipment there will be a will replace small outdated play equipment that's needed to be updated for quite some time so we're happy to to help out with that little pocket park there cdbg neighborhood cleanup this is a program that's funded year after year event per year last year our cleanup filled sixteen roll off dumpsters recycled three hundred and nine tires fifty two appliances and just over six thousand seven hundred pounds of electronics and five zero six hundred and sixty pounds of scrap metal and then in addition to that households are always encouraged to donate food or donate cash donations to the action center and we were able to generate  thousand nine hundred and twenty four pounds of food and two hundred and seventy six dollars in cash donations our supportive service projects include childcare scholarships for low income families attending headstart these scholarships allow parents to remain working full time or to pursue educational opportunities while their children are attending the headstart last year we were able to provide seventy three children with these childcare scholarships and then another supportive housing or a supportive skort project is our metro west housing self sufficiency program this is a program that provides services and programs to assist metro west housing solution residents with important life life skills to become more self sufficient some of the programs include case management after school programs nutrition classes first time home buyers education transportation and recreation scholarships over two hundred and twenty one residents participated in one or more of those last year and then we have our homeless  activities it's a new program that we are piloting this year the city will be reserving funding for eligible activities to assist the homeless in our community through partnerships with jefferson county human services lakewood police and othe r local service providers collaborative strategies are being developed to both prevent and respond to families and individuals experiencing homelessness in lakewood activities could include limited rental assistance emergency motel vouchers case management transportation services or acquisition or rehab of temporary to permanent housing or homeless serving activities these funds will be reserved and not allocated to specific projects because we don't know those yet  and this way it allows the city to be flexible and responsive to emergency needs as they're identified through the program year and then lastly we have our cdbg administration this provides for the salary and benefit package of one and a half full time employees in addition to paying for all the costs associated with the planning oversight and management of the cdbg program so this concludes my presentation i'm asking city council to please endorse the action plan and approve the ordinance before you tonight and i'm happy to answer any questions that yes thank you i mean nice presentation counts real abeer one question i had was on the se repayment how much do we owe or how long will that take for the debt to be retired we will be in the program year two thousand and twenty one so it will be in june of two thousand and twenty two we will have that all paid oh yeah i was just curious about that because i believe every year since this administration's been in the white house they proposed getting rid of c mention obviously it sounds like the homeless initiative is new so you guys are just working on where those dollars would get spent my only comment on that was just it's not a whole lot of money generally so it seemed to me that it would be good for it to be very purposeful and where we spend it but obviously i think that sounds like it'll just take some time to develop that but i'd like to add to that the other part of that program is the navigator program that thank you a nice presentation i just had a few questions please the one hundred and thirty eight zero in unspent previous years is that typical to have that from year to year like that or rather than to spend it on some of the needs that you have i would actually say it is quite typical because of the large dollar amounts and the projects that we fund year after year often some of the projects come in under budget some projects are approved and budgeted and they may not come to fruition there's just kind of a lot of variables that often allow for for some unspent funds or reserves the city of lakewood is required to is allowed to have up to one and a half times the annual grant amount in addition to each annual grant so we are in complete compliance and we are actually in in good shape it's it's it's a it's a nice feature to have so that we can kind of keep keep that proposed budget moving forward prior to the actual allocation coming in like we're doing tonight it just seemed hyde to me so i appreciate your explanation how does a person contact you if they need some kind of assistance that you're offering i we have information on the city of lake woods website so  wwe lake would slash cdbg i'm happy to help or answer any questions that anyone has okay could you please tell me the administrative cost is would say over the past five years or so okay and a lot of a good portion of that what's budgeted for those dollars are our consolidated planning process that we're going to be going forward with we will be hiring a consultant to help with with that report as well as another hud mandated report that will be due in two thousand and twenty and then also i noticed in your report where you had descriptors of some of the different neighborhoods with two creeks and northeast and you also had i brr two creeks and northeast you mentioned that they have fewer parks and i would like to ask you if you could please put that descriptor as well in i bur that's an area that also needs more parks will now open public hearing nicole pop you signed up to speak on this come on down good evening oh come good evening thank you for having us i just wanted to um be brief and thanking you for the opportunity to have cbg grants and to the staff who make sure that we're continue to be eligible i'm here as on behalf of the ira neighborhood association i serve as the vice president and we were a grant applicant for the idlewild park improvement playground improvement and i also lived directly in that subdivision and my neighbors and i just wanted to share with you how thrilled we are to have this project being recommended for funding over thirty percent of the people who live in that subdivision signed in support of this application and my obviously i'm gonna be very self interested in seeing the improvements in this park but it is really necessary there are very few parts in idlewild because of the situation of the northern boundary of the light rail kipling oak street and then colfax it's a very isolated little subdivision and this little park improvement will go votes passes nope i need someone else to  good good evening madam clerk we please read you're gonna read both items into the record at once or do you want  and nineteen township four south range sixty nine west of the sixth principal meridian and in section fourteen township four south range seventy west of the th principal meridian county of jefferson state of colorado and item twenty three ordinance o two thousand and nineteen eleven to rezone land located at one four one zero zero west exposition place lakewood colorado eight zero four zero one county of jefferson state of colorado thank you very much and i'd like to welcome nineteen green mountain annexations for this for the city council meeting tonight i am ross williams your facility planner for the department of community resources i will breeze it presenting as the applicants representative and with me karen mueller senior planner for the city planning department who will be representing the city of lakewood as the liquid is proposing to annex three areas on green mountain into the corporate limits of the city the majority of the property proposed to be annexed is owned by the city with one parcel owned by the green mountain water and sanitation district the proposed n zoning for all properties to be annex is our one six small lot residential this matches the adjacent zoning within this currently within the city of lakewood there is no proposed development of land being into the city the city property is all owned for park and open space purposes and will remain that upon annexation the green mountain water and sanitation parcel is an existing underground water storage facility these two pictures show the general character of the land being annexed and zoned the top picture is looking north from the general vicinity of the radio tower on green mountain and shows the eastern slope that is to be annexed this this area down in this area here the lower picture is looking at the mountain from the kendrick lake area what is visible on the right and in front of the radio tower is the majority of the property that is being annexed the radio tower doesn't show very well  it's right here the area being annexed is this whole face of green mountain over here community resources presented representing the property owners has petitioned to have the properties accident to the city of lakewood and that was done at your february th meeting this action did not annex the property but the property the second step in the process is for the city planning commission to review the petition request and make recommendations to city council on the annexation petition and propose an initial zoning of the property the last step in that and that was the done at the planning commission was done on february th and i believe that was the mins from those meetings are in your packet the last step is for city council to hear the recommendations of planning commission conduct hearing on the proposal and take an action take action on the proposal this action is would be completed by an ordinance the ordinance process requires the first reading to be set the date of the public hearing and the first reading was approximately two hundred fifty eight acres it is completely surrounded by land within the city of lakewood the serial shows the northeast annexation is a parcel comprising of approximately two three five acres contiguous with the city boundary on the south immediately north of this parcels property owned by the foothills parks and recreation district in unincorporated jefferson the current zoning for the properties in the county are as follows the north west and kelly number two are zoned a to agricultural the northeast is part of a residential planned development the land is the questions were asked at the meeting related to the maintenance of the park potential of development of a parking lot on the northeast property and an understanding of what the proposed zoning is and land use for the planning commission meeting the property was posted  notice was published in the appropriate media and those were mailed to property owners within five hundred feet of the properties along with neighborhood organizations within a thousand feet of the property for city council action notice was published for four weeks prior to the date of action all the effect that special districts were notified and an impact report was properly filed and distributed the planning commission received comments from green mountain water and sanitation district west metro fire protection district jefferson county and xcel energy in relations annexation and zoning no concerns were expressed and the aunt with the all services will be as they are currently existing neighbors at the neighborhood meeting asked questions about the proposed zoning protection of the property as parks and open space and a railer of a parking lot in the northeast an n we have to admit i think councilor skeleton was at the meeting and that the gentleman perpetuated that rumor just to get more people to be involved in the public meeting and had no substantial substantiation of his claim that there was  ever a proposal for a parking lot up there there's no special zoning for parks in the city's zoning code parks may occur in any zone district the proposes own district for the annexed property will match adjacent zoning in the city by the city charter land held for parks and open space purposes may not be changed or otherwise disposed of without the proposed use change being presented to the electorate and a positive vote for the change no parking off south floral a has ever been proposed by the city in this room as i mentioned was promulgated by adjacent river addition the property owners greater than one sixth conductivity with current city boundaries the proposed properties demonstrated a common interest with adjacent land use within the city and the annexations will not extend beyond three miles from the current city boundaries matches current adjacent uses the proposed zoning will allow the new parcels to integrate with existing adjacent parcels there are no additional city engineering requirements made by the  i'll be available for any questions you may have thank you mister williams muller are you gonna go next no that's the whole presentation okay so we have some questions and before i go to the public hearings i think hopefully we got some of those answered but i  want to reiterate what you said about the annexation and the zoning of this land does not change the use does not allow it to be anything other than parkland just like all of our other parkland i wanted to say i really appreciate you stressing that multiple times but unfortunately councillor skilling i had to feel the pain of folks not understanding i think we have done ourselves a disservice when you have a sign up and hikers are going by and they see r it's just a conclusion that you would come to and so i remember at a point in my previous life before i was on council saying we probably need a zone district oh  i realized that it doesn't change the outcome meaning that the land is as protected as it's going to be it would have to go to a vote of the people who would say it would for another use but i would like to continue to throw it out there that i think we need to have a zone district that is for parkland that way when we go to do something like this it's just not a huge confusion for folks we spent a lot of time tamping down it's just not a worthwhile use of our time and with this is now then the second or third time that we've gone through this so i really don't have any question for you other than to say that as you're rethinking some of these things and planning commission let's please consider just doing a zone district oh rezoning all the park space and then we don't have to deal with this in the future things celso johnson thank you nice presentation ross actually i'd like to back up on what councilor frank's was talking about because  i think there's always a concern that even though it has been said that things have a way of changing and as i was reading through the presentation there was something in there about an  forty three and could you talk a little bit about that what does that mean and why did that even come up i it was unclear to me there well the city zoning ordinance does have an ar one  which is basically as one acre lots and that's his own district that could be recommend for this however if you look at the the parcel in relationship to all the land around it all of the land around it is zon r six and our comprehensive plan says try to be consistent tried match the zoning trying to match into the existing around it and so we've the recommendation was to continue just keep though all the zone district exactly the same across the whole area if we can look at that i'd like to see that as well also i noticed that it will not become effective until one one of twenty it was did i miss read that i don't have the page in front of me but perhaps i misread it ross maybe it was something else i believe it was our normal thirty days for ordinances regarding that it should be from the date that it's passed okay the ordinance for the rezoning is typical to any rezoning it'd be forty five days from basically the thursday after this because it's from the date of publication and then i believe it's thirty days for the annexation and it'll still fall within the fact that you have to rezone within ninety days of an annexation proceeding if it moves forwards so that's why that plus transparency is the reason we bring them together for the initial zoning as well as the annexation so that there's no confusion you can hear everything all at once perfect and the last thing that i noticed was that part of the green mountain water portion that is being annexed it's my understanding it has an underground water tank is that right okay i just yes that's correct okay please help me with this how large are these things do they leak what are they made out of and does green mountain ever need to have access to that how does that work mountain water remount and water and sanitation district owns several underground water storage facilities all across the east face of green mountain i believe there are six surrounded are five or six that are surrounded by city like w regularly there are easements connecting these tanks to the water system within the green mountain sanitation water and sanitation district that are maintained within those easements and they have the right to go the through those easements and maintain their water lines and their tanks these were all these all these green mountain tanks were in existence prior to the city acquiring interest in the property thank you that's all i have a few years back lakewood park was proposed to be commercially underlying commercial zoning one of the concerns at the time was that that would have allowed if there were to be a community building built on the park that underlying zoning as commercial would have allowed a larger building on the park site the neighbors raised the issue and planning administration decided that residential zoning would be a good under lying zoning would be a good idea since that park was surrounded on if we're just gonna beat around it i would just i think the community would enjoy knowing why we do r residential because as councilman frank's indicated we did get a large volume of interest in this and  meeting that mister williams had also referenced i don't think anybody other than the sixth avenue west folks who were really concerned about that little strip other than them nobody would have showed up to that meeting if it wasn't sown it seems like a mister cox or yeah that would require a little more research to fully answer the question but i can tell you there it's it's something that gets looked at it's something that's adopted in some jurisdictions and not in others there are reasons not to have it at the at the at the moment one reason that comes up is under our regulations for disposal of city owned property the measure is whether something is held are used for par purposes it's not really a zoning question it's it's how it's actually used and so you could potentially have the situation where a piece of property is zoned for park purposes but not used for that purpose and that may make it difficult to you know do something with that property if it's not it's not intended to be used as a park for a long long range planning so i would defer to mister parker for further discussion of the pros and cons of parks zoning but it is something that can be discussed well i think and and we can do that i'm happy to take that project on i think the result i would probably not come up with is the are is the residential part i mean that's the part the freaks everybody out you could say any other other than that and you probably wouldn't get the response whether we call it city park purpose activity zone come up with the longest acronym you can think of we do that it would probably still even if it's confusing would not freak everybody out for no good reason cuz that's what they see green mountains as our one six smaller residential then you say well no we don't really mean small residential that's just the thing that we have and that response is getting tiresome but i'm certainly happy to take that on and i maybe will talk with others about that as well and see what we can come up with if those are the issues i think we can solve it so that we don't have r again the next time we annex something thank you when i would echo i think the real protection lies in our charter its parkland city also has land that it owns isn't park land which is municipal purpose land which doesn't need a vote of the people so this is the most protected parcel and i think if you called it mixed use if you called it anything it would alarm people but the reason is when you annex something in you have to also do the zoning and all of our parkland has a zoning attached to it and it's always protected in perpetuity unless for some reason the the majority of the population want to change it and so you know we certainly have folks who are here who are concerned and hopefully this helped lend itself to some of the concerns that are out there but again as echoed protected by the charter which is the constitution of the city of lakewood as parkland  ultimately since the lands protected either way it's just next time if we could put at the bottom the sign you know a little little more explanation i'm not asking for a lot other than not spending as much time on this so at the bottom if it literally said reference the charter land is permanently protected by charter just some verbage that would have tamped all this and wouldn't have allowed it to kind of spin up out of control did they did say for parked purposes and would continue to be part purposes putting signs up on grima i think i agree that the language was on the sign i went past those signs many times i think maybe we can make those words more prominent maybe at the beginning of all the other language and also at the end or something because i happen to live in that area and heard a lot of concerns as well okay all right now i'll open the public don't wish to speak you're good okay all right again three minutes two and a half green thirty seconds yellow welcome nice to see ya good evening mayor and members of the city council my name is steve drago and i'm a one of your neighbours up in the green mountain area first came to colorado forty years ago kept trying to stay here in a military career pulled me away until finally even though two kids were born here about twenty years ago we came back and made lakewood our home just over four years ago and bought a property up  in in green mountain thank you so much for your comments tonight your leadership with this and i did want to bring just a bit of context to the discussion because it sounds here like it's all academic and it's all on the sign and we're good to go but they're actually a lot of people's lives are feeling that feeling very disturbed right now many of our neighbors and thinking of one in particular charlotte seventy six year old neighbor who's lived there for thirty years and she's terrified that the same thing is going to happen like what the folks up with the right farm issue are facing or what happened with the giant apartments down that used to be a field or etc etc so and in light of yes we have that one percent growth the impact though is not one percent on the folks in that area as you know and i know you know this but i would support you one hundred percent with the idea to actually come up with some statement because we can say that this is all in the charter but then when you see on the powerpoint slides no development proposed which then the elliptical part is at this moment but watch out because this is coming to get you so don't buy here because you can't trust what's going to happen down the road and that's just the the concern as you know of our neighbors so i would really encourage you and support you and thank you if you can actually somehow codify that that yes this will be protected in perpetuity because that really is the crown jewel of the entire westside of denver area it's wonderful so thank you for what you do all the time every day and staying this late to to hear us and and do what you do for the community thank you this is early mister apple come on dow the last twenty two years we moved there to kind of come up from the city a little bit and get into a little more quiet area and then especially because of the open space the park area on the on the east side down below us and we also were very concerned about them continuing with building across from us as well as up the mountain and up the dead ends and so on and we had heard the stories about kelly property and how the city of lakewood had taken it over and so on and how it came to be under the auspices and responsibilities of the city of lakewood and that there would be no more residential development in our area on the hill unless it was signed off by the residents that would be impacted by it which was basically both sides of the mountain green mountain on the alameda side and on our north side and how many of our people that lived on the hill are going to sign off on new development and continue to develop out the mountain and have all that  more traffic and congestion services that a little overloaded and so on who would gonna sign up sign off on it so we bought the house we've been happy as clam i've not enjoyed my lifestyle as much in the last twenty years as i have been living in lakewood and i've lived in other parts of lakewood twenty about twenty two years and other parts of lakewood down near to garrison and sixth and so yes this has all gotten everybody sort of a nerve but where are they why haven't they come and showed up i think the only answer that i can come up with is apathy i think they feel so powerless that they look at maybe the city or the council or the planning commission as a machine and if they want to get their way they're going to get their way and there's nothing they're going to be able to do and they basically didn't show it's a lot it's a matter of trust is what it all comes somewhat known out there i've talked to a lot of people that live on the hill around me and they they would be so thrilled if there was the rezoning part of this an could be something other than an hour zoning category you know okay i see i'm supposed to stop i have talked to a lot of people in the neighborhood and they all feel the same way  too they're scared to death and it's a trust issue so if you could do something about it this time not for the next annexation but this annexation yeah i think you'd make a lot of people happy in the city of lakewood and thank you for allowing me to get up and speak thank you appreciate it so that exhausts the roster anybody else on this yes please you were signed up on a previous sheet right that's okay welcome hi mister mayor and city council men and women my name is mark wall camp and i've been a liquid resident for about thirty five years and fortunate enough to live right on the  i walk and bike green mountain probably three or four times a week now that i'm retired i have a question about the green mountain water and sanitation property i know and i've walked that  area many times i know it i know it like the back of my hand that is an underground water storage my question is will that change from being an underground water storage and if it does not does the city incur any liability should there be any sort of damage or leak or any other problem related to this underground water storage that's that's the first question and then the other one is will by taking this within the city will that area that that is housed by this underground water storage facility which has a hideous looking barbed wire fence around it will that change can we actually make it look like the rest of green mountain and not not a prison border thank you we'll finish the public comment anybody else sir resident of lakewood and a business owner within the city of lakewood continuously for thirty five years i've got quite a stake into the city one of the things that i have noticed in my time being in business is that my property's been rezone four times i can't keep up with it anymore i was rather shocked to see what i can do with my property right now and i'm just gonna like this is crazy and i'd never want to do that to my neighbors it's a wide open zoning and zoning is what zoning is but my issue is back onto this point when you sign a contract you go by what the written word is and not by any verbal assurances and i hear the verbal assurances that this will be protected underneath the charter and that it will be once it is public lands that it cannot be but that's all open for interpretation then we have to go back to the city charter and that can create other legal issues if it comes in and it's signed in on this contract for that it's our one zoning i don't want to hear later on coming back say well you took it in and you knew it was our one zoning regardless of what was said what it goes down is that i got that zoning it just seems inappropriate that if it's park why can't you call it park we have a large portion of parks within the city of lakewood i think all them should carry a uniform to say its parts what hurts what hurts to call a duck a duck if it looks like a park then let's call it a park and give it those protections with that and not call it something else to say well that's really what it is trust us so councillor skilling if you wouldn't wanted to take that on or if anyone wanted to i think it was really be appropriate it just makes sense that's good government i think that the people would be much happier to know that it is actually going to be kept as a park i have one question i don't have the time for it but i really would like to know why does the city of lakewood want this so bad what's the issue that taking on extra responsibilities i can see the borders and make them one portion but it seems like city of lakewood doesn't get very much for taking it on thank you very much for hearing me and appreciate the opportunity to address council right anybody else okay so miss hudson i may have to have you help me here or mister mister williams so the green mountain water prior to nine hundred and eleven you didn't have to have fences on any of the properties i was on the water board that's a whole separate homeland security that's changed because you had vulnerable water facilities sitting out in the wide open so you're not going to see fences come down probably i can't imagine that's just the way of the world that's why those fences went up as far as any sorts of leaks things like that that's still on on cream out and water and sanitation district those those are their properties second will it be it is already designated parkland it's also not only parkland but it was purchased with open space dollars or some of open space dollars which it could potentially add another layer of protection to that and why do we want it because we just bought it we've been paying for it for twenty years and we just paid the last two hundred thousand dollars for that piece of property and so it is now ours and it makes sense to bring what we just purchased into the city lake would have that helps on that williams the question was where would somebody go to find that that is deeded parkland is that actually in the deed then purposes so that was the put put set park an open space connotation on the properties some some the two north and parcels were and were purchased with open space funds the large portion that was used with conservation trust funds which has has conservation required on it so it'd be at the council resolution adopting or accepting those deeds  would be the place to look at those things okay so what i'm hearing one it has owning on it so unfortunately when we annex and we take zoning which wouldn't put my mind at ease if it was any kind of zoning whether it was rm any kind zoning i understand that so but we have conservation easements we have our charter and we have jefferson county opens basse dollars all protecting this land in perpetuity unless for some reason not just the people agree mountain decided they wanted to change it would have to be the entire city of lakewood would have to change that designation that is correct as a charter reads the proposal would have to be made presented to city council city council would have to determine if they w accept the proposal and refer the proposal to the citizens of lakewood with all the the exact language in the without question okay the the terms in consideration have to be also presented to the citizens of liquid for the entire citizens history of liquid to register electors of the city at a straight special a regular municipal municipal election and shall vote in favor by majority of those registered electors voting in those elections would have to make those changes now if these particular parcels do not have those mistakes revert on but in other cases there's mixed hodgepodge of different ownership patterns that we have on green mountain if land was given or purchased by the city through the open space program and went through the jefferson county process there would also be another layer of on that if the citizens voted to change it from park and open space we don't have the say on some of those parcels they'd revert to the county and they would have final say on who would what those properties would be even even if the citizens of lakewood voted to sell the property for a real estate interest anything any interest out there those properties would revert to the county before they could be actually developed out there so with the city of lakewood has very strong protections for park and open space property within its city charters and one of the looking at over the metro area is one of the more stringent and tougher regulations regarding parks and open space in the in the metro area thank you hudson the only thing i the only other thing i would add is russ mentioned part of the funding is from the conservation trust fund and those are the lottery dollars again another layer affection once something's purchased with lottery dollars very similar to jefferson county open space dollars we we can't turn it into anything else so there really are layers and layers of protection it's unfortunate that the zoning is misleading and that it's caused this consternation because that parkland was purchased over a long period of time for the sole purpose of park and open space to provide some relief from the urban setting in the city and i remember from years past as does ross that that was the intent of this purchase so there really are layers and layers of protection of this property and there there won't be development residential commerce or anything else well i wanted to thank everybody for going through this i think that this conversation it was important to have it talking through all of those layers really does help and but i do want to respect the gentleman who came and spoke maybe there was a couple about trust you have folks who from we're immersed in this and so we kind of you know get to see it at a different level you know you have people who not too long ago there was a trade a possible trade proposed for some parkland so people who that have that in their mind they don't know all these details and so their trust isn't high then we had land that was set aside for municipal purposes inside of an o and again citizens had to fight further for that land so i want to respect that but i also wanted to call out that certainly we're hearing about layer upon layer upon layer of protection so i just have one question  as an additional layer of protection which i think would be sort of a non issue you said earlier ross that the r is just because that's what surrounds it and generally we like to do that but as an no meaningful outcome i get that but serve to add one more layer of per what would that do i want to administrative lino if that would cause any undue consternation one thing anything but park space and that's specifically in the zoning code as wells check section seventeen point four point one point four city owned land which is used or held for open space or park purposes shall not be permitted to be used for any purpose other than open space or parks purposes so the the code was written so that it doesn't matter what our park space is zoned it's limited even by zoning even if there's a vote you know even if other things happen now external to zoning there's another layer of protection and while i appreciate that those of you that know i was involved in the twenty nine that the youth did not seem to protect our community in the way we wanted so i guess the underlying question is and while i do appreciate that that you called that section out i'm asking does it make it does it make a difference you if it would help with the perception and the trust again is it is it worth saying no to when it does nothing differently i get that but i want to be cautious of making motions that you'd said that probably doesn't make a difference anyway so that's why i'm asking what the difference is for them i'd like them to answer that question i think you know and i'll we can hear from travis as well but i think the fundamental issue we'd be dealing with  is the process where you have an application to zone to a certain designation for better or worse that's out there the public is obligated to be notified of what that zone district is going to be and may be hard to conceive of why someone might show up for an r hearing but not for our one hundred and forty three hearing but that's part of the issue is that you notice property and you publish what's going to happen and what's proposed for it and people decide how to respond to it sort of then just assign a separate designation a different zoning designation on the fly would not be in keeping with the process that's designed to give people that opportunity to participate well i appreciate that that's why i wanted to ask the question i mean again we know it doesn't offer anything more but i think it was a question that needed to be asked and certainly we need to talk through that trust aspect which then demonstrates that we really need to work on something that's that's more durable more permanent  i won't be making the motion but i wanted to ask the question skilling and i apologize if i didn't see in the packet but is there anything to preclude this particular r from changing if we do come up with some solution to what we've been talking about tonight and everyone's comfortable with or whether it's called oo or plaid or whatever it's called is there anything by us doing the zoning tonight whether it's a vested issue or what have you that would preclude it from being changed if say we came up with something in six months we wanted to rezone all of these types of parcels in the city the reason i ask is because folks come in for the rezoning they get the vested rights and we can't change things so thank you skilling for the question and please feel free to jump in if this is incorrect but i would say that we would just bring forward if there was a parkland zoning and probably bring all the parks forward at one time and just do a citywide wine i will look forward to these discussions in the development dialogue it sounds like that's the direction we're heading and i think that certainly makes sense the last thing we want is to add undue concern in the community  but i just want to you know take this opportunity to say that i'm really excited that we're finishing this process green mountain somebody mentioned is you know it's one of the crown jewels in the city of lakewood and open space is one of our biggest priorities and most important things to the community so i'm just excited and proud that this will be preserved for generations to come and in perpetuity and know you should never just trust a politician based on what they say and you know that's what all the legal protections are for and like councillor frank said we do live this day in and day out but so i can understand that to someone who doesn't the difference between a zoning protection and a charter protection that may not be clear to everybody but the reality is this has the highest and greatest protections available so that it will never be anything other than parkland so yeah thank you do i have a motion  a motion a second please a second okay there's a motion second any comments please cast your votes that passes ten eyes zero nays thousand seven hundred eighty eight dollars and authorizing the expenditure of grant funds from the denver regional council of governments for the west colfax pedestrian safety project thank you i will now open the public excited to support it councilor in the beer yeah we just add to that i'm really excited about this grants really looking forward to hearing the findings of this study and my only thing i'm really looking forward to is just when we have a discussion about how to put even more money into making sure that this is a pedestrian safety project is a priority in liquid so excited about this thinks thank you i'm appreciative for this hopefully somehow there would be a way to address jaywalking i don't know if this can do it or not but i'd like to see that as part of it as well thank you nays clerk please read item twenty seven item twenty seven ordinance o two thousand and nineteen fourteen authorizing a supplemental appropriation to the two thousand and nineteen annual budget in the amount of seventy dozen people there the mayor came to speak despite the fact that it was a political right an a political event everyone discussed neighbors and friends and how good the meatloaf and apple pie were no politics and there will be according to the initial estimates four hundred and fifty dollars was raised for the action center also last week there boy george look alike it really took us back for those of us who remember any part of the eighties and it was nice to see that community come to get apple thank you mary real quick just wanted to remind everybody that the state of colorado is going to be doing some work on the watts worth corridor so just wanted to reach out to all the traffic and say please be patient and please please please pedestrians please be careful we don't need any more accidents thank you it's a good one thank you to everybody who came to our award five meeting we had a really great roundtable discussion about growth and our concerns about growth and what success would look like if we were to see successfully manage growth and put together a list on the white board of about fifty or sixty things that were really important to consider in every decision that we make about gro and we also went through the development dialogue proposals and asked for feedback about parking and short term rentals and tiny homes and so just want to thank everybody  for the great discussion and the respectful discussion and for the first time we ate all of the donuts so very very good work on that as well thank you  and i are having our ward meeting wednesday seven thirty or six to seven thirty p m we're having a little time change so things are switching things up a little bit hopefully we're gonna stick with this for a while and see how it goes i hope somebody shows up i might be the only one there look forward to seeing someone there thanks joe harrison oh my goodness you came around i want to congratulate my ward mate she was awarded an award here gutwein and i'm really proud of her of what she did she got an award for all of her hard work through jefferson county health department correct for supporting vaping or no vaping and trying to protect our youth and i want to say she is the epitome of a hard working counselor that tries to protect our kids and i just want to say hats off to you dana i'm really proud they're with you thank you this coming saturday we have our reward for meeting it starts at to eleven and we will have a speaker on the lodging licensing program and how that benefits the entire city so we're looking forward to that it will be followed by an open forum and that counselor skilling will have to kind of field mostly because my bees are arriving on that same day and my husband i don't think is going to want to pick them up alone so i will be leaving early thank you councillor johnson thank you we had our ward one meeting this last saturday and we had an interesting speaker tim jackson who's the president of the colorado automobile dealers association and he gave an update on different legislation and things that are going on and afterwards it was interesting to me that some people felt he was very left and some people felt it was very right and in the world that we live right now we all have our own filters for the way that jeffco schools foundation have held their gala on friday night and pastor reg cox received a really cool prestigious award for all that he's done for terracing county public schools and just connecting and trying to help make our community a better place so it was quite an honor to be there and see him except that he does so much for our city whether it's leading the faith coalition or working with our homeless a lot of great things so congratulations to him and then it was an awards week on thursday night that's your west housing a uli impact award i think this is the second year in a row lake woods won an impact award and this was for their project five two  hundred right down the street the old martyrs shank building and the new redevelopment that's a beautiful affordable housing development and they beat out the dairy block and base camp which is a really cool project up in silverthorne so congratulations to them and wheatridge our neighbors won a cool impact award for their redevelopment of the fruit day school fruit dale school up on th it's getting close to census time  may not seem like it is the city has a lot of work to do and so i thank you for those that may have submitted some names it seems like it might be a little bit challenging but we're gonna start to put that together and get that group formed so if you have any b else that you would like to add to that would much appreciate getting that taken care of and then i've briefed folks a little bit on transportation issues as part of a larger scale whether it's d metro mayor's there's discussions going on currently about potentially allowing mpos which would be our doctor cog the ability to look at asking for additional funds through the voters that's in its really kind preliminary early stages and then also a debriefing measure that could be referred through the state legislature that would address transportation education and i think there's a third one but not exactly sure but you'll probably hear more about that as that comes down the down the pike and potentially through our council legislative committee and lastly i would just say i need to remind council that when you do a city council request form that form goes right through mary ruther and on to the schedule it doesn't come to the mayor's desk to say yes or no thumbs up or thumbs down i think there's was some confusion and i want to reiterate that that i have no say in your council requests those go through mary and come out here so if you have any further questions on that process i think it's pretty cut and dry please let me know and with that that concludes what i have to say madam