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\"We hit 30,000 lead service lines replaced,\" Meg Truby, Denver Water public affairs manager for the lead reduction program, told the committee, reporting what the utility described as a major program milestone since launching the effort in 2020. Truby and Pam Williams, who co-manage communications for the program, explained the program’s five components: managing water chemistry, maintaining an inventory of service-line materials, distributing certified pitcher filters, replacing customer-owned and utility-owned lead service lines (no direct cost to customers), and ongoing communications and outreach.

Key updates Denver Water provided:
- Inventory revisions and online tools: Denver Water maintains a searchable inventory on denverwater.org; the utility added a self-reporting tool in 2025 that allows property owners and tenants to upload photos (mobile or desktop) to help identify service-line materials and remove addresses from the \"unknown\" category when confirmed.
- Consent and enrollment changes: Denver Water now accepts signed consent from tenants or authorized representatives (not only property owners), a change intended to accelerate replacements at occupied properties where owners are non-responsive.
- Pitcher-filter program: Free NSF-53-certified pitchers and replacement cartridges are distributed to enrolled addresses and tracked by address; replacements are issued automatically on a rotation and remain available until the service line is replaced and for six months afterwards.
- Replacement progress and inventory: The utility said it had replaced roughly 30,000 lead service lines. Denver Water’s earlier full-inventory estimate (80,000–84,000) has been refined: current inventory shows 60,000–64,000 addresses classified as lead or unknown, with about 30,000–34,000 remaining replacements to complete.
- Nonresponsive-customer protocol pilot and shutoffs: Denver Water ran a pilot with 199 nonresponsive customers; it issued shutoff notices as a last-resort enforcement step and reported one shutoff during the pilot. The utility plans to incorporate the outreach and shutoff protocol into routine operations during 2025, emphasizing layered outreach (mail, door knocking, robocalls, tags) before any shutoff.
- Regulatory changes: Revisions to the federal/state lead and copper rules require annual notice to customers whose service lines are known or unknown and will expand school and child-care facility testing beginning in 2027; Denver Water said these regulatory changes did not alter customers’ day-to-day participation in the replacement program.

Truby and Williams described restoration expectations for property owners: streets receive temporary patches during construction followed by permanent repairs coordinated with city paving schedules; Denver Water repairs irrigation and meter boxes and attempts to return landscaping to preexisting condition but does not perform drywall repairs inside homes. Denver Water recommends that households continue to use pitcher filters for approximately six months after a replacement and offers retesting at about the four-month mark to check for residual interior-plumbing lead.

Program staffing and procurement details cited by Denver Water: a combination of Denver Water crews and multiple contractor teams execute replacements; federal funding (a $76 million award from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) accelerated work and expanded contractor capacity. At the time of the briefing Denver Water reported four active contractor teams (transitioning to two later in 2025), a broader program workforce of approximately 500 people (staff plus contractors), and the utility’s total workforce at about 1,100 employees.

During Q&A council members raised neighborhood-specific concerns (e.g., Lincoln Street concrete panels and an aging main that require coordinated main replacement before service-line work) and distribution/identification questions; Denver Water pledged to follow up with individual council offices on localized scheduling and to publish work-area maps and a \"pipes\" map that shows current construction activity (denverwater.org/pipes). The utility announced a virtual community meeting scheduled for the following evening for residents in neighborhoods slated for 2025 work.

What this means locally: Denver Water’s program continues to rely on directed outreach, address-level inventory work and contractor operations to complete remaining replacements. Tenants and property owners who receive notices should use the online inventory tools, sign consent (owner or authorized representative), and use provided NSF-53 pitchers until their service line has been replaced and retested.

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Community Planning and Development staff described the request as a rezoning of a 6,240-square-foot property in the Platte Park neighborhood (Council District 7) from USUC to UTUC to allow construction of a two-unit duplex after demolition of existing structures. Fritz Claussen said the application is unique because the lot already contains two primary dwellings with separate addresses; the existing use is legal nonconforming while the structures are legal nonconforming.

\"While this proposed rezoning would broaden the range of housing types available, ... the allowance of different forms and higher intensity uses than what's currently allowed in the zoning and currently present in the neighborhood may be inconsistent with goal 1 strategy d,\" Claussen told the committee, noting that staff found the application did not meet all five rezoning review criteria and therefore recommended denial. The staff packet documents a Planning Board public hearing on Nov. 6, 2024; staff recommended denial there but the Planning Board voted 5–1 to recommend approval.

Public comment totals attached to the staff packet showed 30 people in support (21 letters) and 42 people in opposition (37 letters). Opposition cited traffic and street-parking pressure near a nearby fire station, concerns about alley access and potential changes to neighborhood character; supporters cited the property owner’s proposal and the need for housing options. After the Planning Board hearing the applicant pursued mediation with neighbors; an initial mediation session occurred in early January and the process remained ongoing at the committee meeting.

Applicants addressed the committee and said they considered the property a unique case: Katie Harrison, an applicant representative, said a pre-application had warned the applicants the case would be an \"uphill battle,\" but they proceeded because the property currently contains two units and their intent is to build housing for family members. Harrison said the applicants had identified nearby duplexes within two blocks but acknowledged staff concerns about setting a broader precedent for rezoning in single-unit areas.

Committee members debated legal and policy constraints. Council Member Chris Hines and others described the tension between Planning Board support and staff findings; Jonathan Griffin, Deputy Legislative Council, explained the committee’s procedural role in confirming the application’s readiness to come to the floor for a quasi-judicial hearing where the full council will accept evidence and make a determination under the zoning code. Several council members said they were likely to support forwarding the item from committee but noted they might oppose it on the council floor if it conflicts with adopted plan guidance.

Council Member Laura Alvidrez moved to forward the application; Council Member Torres seconded. The committee advanced the application to the full City Council for hearing; no roll-call tally was recorded in committee minutes.

What’s next: the staff packet lists a tentative City Council hearing date of Feb. 24; the applicant may continue mediation with neighbors before the floor hearing and council members may request additional packet materials or legal analysis in advance of committee or floor debate.

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The item drew sustained staff presentation and member questions but no recorded roll-call vote in committee; the motion to forward was made by Council Member Chris Hines and seconded by Council President Sandoval and was moved to the floor by voice/thumbs up.

City planning staff presented the request as a rezoning of a 9,380-square-foot corner property at Seventeenth Avenue and Williams to align the parcel with surrounding zoning and the city’s adopted plans. Fritz Claussen of Community Planning and Development said the proposal is consistent with Comp Plan 2040, Blueprint Denver and the East Central Area Plan (2022), which identify the site’s corridor context and encourage medium-scale, pedestrian-oriented mixed-use buildings. \"We recommend that this application move forward to the full city council based on finding that all the review criteria have been met,\" Claussen said.

The staff report notes the parcel currently contains a two-story commercial building; the applicant seeks rezoning to allow redevelopment in a GMS3 building form (generally one- to three-story, local-corridor scale). Claussen told the committee the existing zoning approximates GMS3 but remains in the former Chapter 59 code; moving to a standard zone district would increase uniformity of regulations.

Public comments filed with staff included eight letters of support and 22 letters of opposition. Supporters cited new residential opportunities; opponents expressed concern about demolition of a locally used building and possible impacts on adjacent businesses. Committee members pressed staff for more detail about neighborhood engagement and the sequence of public comments; Claussen said planning notices were sent Aug. 6, 2024, with Planning Board notice Oct. 22 and a Planning Board hearing held Dec. 18 after an applicant-requested continuance to allow mediation.

Committee members sought confirmation about outcomes of that mediation. Claussen and Council Member Chris Hines described a mediation that produced a memorandum of understanding between the applicant, an adjacent property owner and the City Park West registered neighborhood organization, executed Nov. 25; Claussen confirmed the applicant already holds a certificate of demolition eligibility for the existing structure. Council Member Hines asked staff to try to include the mediation outcomes in the committee packet or otherwise confirm them for neighbors.

Planning staff emphasized the site’s place-type guidance under Blueprint Denver as a \"local corridor\" and noted East Central Area Plan height guidance up to three stories. Claussen summarized the staff findings as meeting the five rezoning review criteria: consistency with adopted plans, uniformity of district regulations, furthering public health/safety/welfare (by permitting potential housing), justifying circumstances (city plans and the Chapter 59 conversion), and consistency with neighborhood context and zone district purpose.

With a motion from Council Member Hines and a second from Council President Sandoval, the committee advanced the map amendment to the full City Council. No additional committee-level conditions were recorded in the meeting minutes.

What’s next: the full City Council will consider the rezoning at a future floor hearing; interested parties and neighbors should consult the staff packet and the Planning Board deliberation documents for details associated with the Dec. 18 Planning Board recommendation.

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