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From YouTube: February 24, 2020 City Planning Commission
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Minneapolis City Planning Commission Meeting
https://lims.minneapolismn.gov
A
All
right
we'll
call
to
order
the
feb
24
30
Minneapolis
Planning
Commission
hearing
my
name's
Sam
Rockwell
serve
as
president
of
the
Commission
I'm
joined
today
by
commissioners,
Meyer,
Luca,
Pierre,
Schrader,
Olsen
and
Capri
knee
our
first
order
of
business
is
to
approve
the
minutes
from
the
February
10th
2020
Planning
Commission
meeting
the
minute.
The
actions
do
I,
have
a
motion,
a
motion
and
a
second
to
approve
the
February
10th
regular
meeting
actions
all
in
favor,
say
aye.
Any
opposed
motion
carries
next.
A
B
A
A
Is
to
organize
the
agenda
for
this
hearing,
for
those
of
you
here
will
walk
through
the
agenda,
if
you're
here
to
testify
against
a
staff
recommendation
or
to
modify
staff
recommendation
on
item,
please
let
us
know
when
we
go
through
that
when
we
walk
through
that
agenda
item,
otherwise
we
will
place
items
on
the
consent,
agenda
and
vote
on
them
as
a
block.
The
first
item
on
our
agenda
is
item
number
five
1800
Chicago
Avenue
in
Ward
six,
and
that
is
a
preliminary
and
final
plat
as
anyone
here
to
speak
on
item
number
five
see.
A
No
one
will
place
item
number
five
on
consent.
Item
number:
six
is
the
Holland
Arts
Building
change
of
use,
non-conforming
use
application.
There's
anyone
here
to
speak
on
number
six
saying:
no
one
will
place
number
six
on
consent.
Item
number
seven
is
Medina
mall
20
at
fifteen,
twenty
eight,
seventeen,
twenty
eight
twenty
one.
Twenty
eight!
Twenty
five
and
twenty
eight
thirty
three
13th
Avenue
South
in
Ward
nine,
a
rezoning
and
conditional
use
permit
for
use
there
is
anyone
here
to
speak
on
item
number
seven.
A
A
So
our
agenda,
as
amended,
is
the
we
will
discuss
items
number
seven
and
eight
and
item
number.
Five
and
six
are
on
the
consent
agenda.
Commissioners
could
I
have
a
motion
to
approve
the
agenda
as
amended
motion
and
a
second
to
approve
the
agenda
as
amended
all
in
favor,
say
aye,
any
opposed
motion
carries
next.
Could
I
have
a
next
I'll
open
the
public
hearing
on
that
consent
agenda
on
a
five
and
six?
Is
anyone
here
to
speak
in
favor
of
those
items?
See
no
one
I'll
close
the
public
hearing
on
the
consent
agenda?
A
C
C
So
you'll
see
that
there's
an
l-shaped
alley
in
that
part
of
the
portion
of
the
parcel
that
is
north
of
the
le
has
actually
been
split
off
administrative
Lee,
so
that
was
done
prior
to
this
land
use
application
coming
in
for
the
rezoning,
and
one
of
the
implications
of
that
is
that
rezoning
signatures
were
not
needed
for
this,
so
the
applicant
is
applying
to
rezone
the
property
from
a1
to
c2.
That
would
allow
a
shopping
center
to
go
into
the
existing
building.
C
C
C
C
It's
just
kind
of
like
a
not
striped
loading
area,
but
they
would
add
some
landscaping
along
there
and
then
we
have
some
floor
plans
showing
the
location
of
the
shopping
center
staff
has
asked
for
clarification
on
the
exact
uses
within
the
shopping
center,
because
right
now
it's
are
saying,
display,
room
and
there's
some
coffee
shops
and
restaurants,
but
we'd
like
additional
detail
prior
to
the
approval
of
a
permit.
If
this
gets
approved.
B
C
A
D
D
Jeff
Mikkel
Marie
is
my
name
and
I
was
kind
of
a
I'm.
A
designer
and
I
was
in
the
project
early
on
and
I
did
all
of
the
food
places
in
there.
There's
three
coffee
shops,
two
restaurants
and
a
halal
market,
the
rest
of
it
would
be
just
little
shops,
dress,
shops
or
money
transfer
or
whatever
else
little
shops
would
go
in
there.
But
what
my
say,
what
my
my
original
function
was
was
to
do
all
of
the
the
food
type
places
in
there.
D
So
we've
been
playing
with
this
thing
for
a
very
long
time,
but
in
order
to
really
utilize
and
bring
everything
up
to
to
kind
of
a
lawful
shopping
center
is
why
we
have
to
re
donut
for
shopping
center
nowadays,
why
those
I,
like
industrial
uses,
are
kind
of
gone
by
the
board's.
Most
of
that
light,
industrial
work
is
done
in
China
these
days,
so
there's
very
few,
a
very
little
need
for
it.
Even
the
railroad
is
now
the
Greenway,
and
so
anyway,
if
you
have
any
any
other
questions,
why
I
can
say?
D
A
E
Hello,
my
name
is
Andrea
crawl.
I
live
at
28,
23,
14th,
Avenue
South,
so
I'm
in
the
350
feet
zone
of
the
shopping
mall,
so
I
guess
I
have
a
question
first
before
we
even
get
started.
Is
that
if
you
guys
are
aware
that
in
2007
and
then
again
in
2010
that
they,
the
City
Council,
approved
the
Midtown
Greenway
development
plan,
where
it
stated
in
that
development
that
any
changes
made
to
anything
along
the
Greenway
was
supposed
to
go
from
i1
to
residential
and
then
with
the
to
the
2040
plan?
E
Have
it
here,
if
you
want
it
so
I
guess
that's!
My
first
question
is:
why
is
this
even
up
for
debate
so
in
2014
they
brought
it
before
the
midtone
Neighborhood
Association.
They
did
not
have
support
for
it.
At
that
time,
I'm
kind
of
the
voice
of
my
two
blocks:
there's
no
Main
streets
that
access
the
properties
so
anytime.
Anybody
is
going
in
and
out
of
that
property
they
have
to
go
on
residential
100%
residential
streets.
E
I
email
to
mailing
I
believe
your
name
is
so
I
email,
copies
of
the
signatures
to
her
from
two-block
radius,
some
from
2014
and
then
my
main
people
in
the
350
feet
area
that
we
are
all
100%
opposed
to
this,
just
because
of
the
traffic
issues
that
it's
people,
driving
in
and
out
of
residential
streets
plus
on
top
of
that
is
that
the
2010
agreement
was
supposed
to
be
changed
to
residential,
so
mailing
has
the
original
signatures
and
I
can
provide
the
original.
We.
E
A
C
You
know
we
we
kind
of
outline
what
the
policy
is
for
that
and
comment
on
it,
and
the
our
comment
is
that
the
commercial
zoning
would
be
consistent
with
this
future
land
use
guidance.
It
includes
this
category
includes
individual
commercial
uses,
small
collections
of
commercial
uses,
primarily
away
from
major
streets,
and
that
should
continue
to
serve
their
existing
function.
Commercial
zoning
is
appropriate.
The
parcels,
the
cluster
of
parcels
that
are
more
mid
block.
Those
are
guided
for
urban
neighborhood,
but
still
commercial
is
not
not
allowed
under
urban
neighborhood.
C
So
it's
predominantly
for
a
resident
residential
area
with
a
range
of
allowed
building
types
that
includes
small-scale
institution,
institutional
and
semi
public
uses
like
the
neighborhood
mixed-use
category
commercial
uses
can
continue
serving
their
existing
commercial
function.
Commercial
zoning
is
appropriate
for
these
properties,
while
expansion
of
commercial
uses
and
zoning
into
surrounding
areas
is
not
encouraged,
and
so
this
would
not
represent
an
expansion
of
existing
commercial
uses.
This
is
this
has
been
commercial
historically
or
industrial.
In
fact,
so
this
would
actually
have
some
less
intense
uses
then
is
otherwise
allowed
under
the
current
i1
zoning.
C
So
yeah
like
I,
said
that
daycare
facility
has
been
there
the
Midtown
Greenway
plan
that
has
been
kind
of
absorbed
into
the
2040
plan.
So
when
they
the
2040
plan,
they
were
looking
at
all
of
the
pre-existing
small
area
plan
policies
and
tried
to
incorporate
that
into
their
final
land-use
and
belt
form
recommendations.
So
we
are
looking
to
the
2040
plan
for
those
recommendations
and
we
found
that
it
would
be
consistent.
The
this
recommend
recommendation
would
be
consistent
with
the
2040
plan,
I'm,
not
sure.
If
there's
anything
else,
that's.
A
That's
great
well,
thank
you
very
much,
sir.
Anyone
else
looking
to
testify
on
this
I
see
no
one
will
close
the
public
hearing.
Commissioners,
we
have
a
rezoning
in
a
conditional
use
permit
to
allow
shopping
center
before
us.
Sorry,
any
further
discussion
and
further
questions
of
staff,
or
would
someone
like
to
start
us
off
with
emotion.
A
If
a
motion
to
approve
the
rezoning
is
there
second,
if
a
motion
and
a
second
to
approve
the
rezoning,
is
there
any
discussion
say
just
briefly,
you
know,
looking
through
the
staff
report
and
and
mailing
did
a
good
job
of
summarizing.
What's
in
that
report,
you
know
the
2040
plan
has
made
changes
to
what
our
land-use
guidance
was.
A
G
A
G
G
A
H
An
opinion
in
the
bike
bridge
right
there,
242
units
6,500
square
feet
of
ground
floor,
commercial
along
Lyndale,
Avenue,
it's
measured
at
8,
storeys
and
93
feet
in
height
and
in
large
part
that
taller
building
is
the
20-foot
great
difference
that
exists
on
the
site.
Also,
the
applicant
has
I'll
just
know.
The
applicant
has
broken
the
building
into
two
different
massing
x',
with
different
cladding
to
help
the
building
relate
to
the
neighboring
surrounding
and
bring
that
building
down
in
size
to
what
to
that
height
I.
H
Also
just
wanna
note,
the
project
is
within
the
transit.
Ten
land
use
feature
land
use
and
we
encourage
the
applicant
to
go
bigger
than
what
what
they
did
with
this
proposal
from
a
parking
standpoint,
they
have
a
want
nearly
a
one
to
one
ratio
from
one
parking
space
to
every
Union
torn
38
units.
Two
hundred
forty
two
parking
spaces
and
the
traffic
demand
management
plan
does
not
anticipate
the
development
having
an
adverse
impact
on
traffic
in
the
area
in
the
addendum
packet.
H
We
have
minor
alterations
that
the
applicant
wanted
the
Commission
and
to
know
that
there's
slight
modifications
we
all
consider
those
to
be
minor
alterations,
but
we
wanted
to
be
upfront
what
those
changes
are
in
the
public
comments
section
of
the
addendum
packet
there's
three
residents
that
voiced
concerns
with
traffic
and
height,
but
the
neighborhood
did
write
a
letter.
Support
for
the
applications
and
I
know
that
the
applicants,
supportive
of
the
conditions
of
approval
that
are
listed
at
the
back
of
the
staff
report,.
A
I
Hi
there
I'm
travis
nor
guard
with
LMC
of
representing
the
applicant
on
this
project.
Just
one
quick
clarification,
I
think
we're
242
apartment
homes
just
want
to
make
sure
that
we
get
that
straight
for
the
record.
But
here
for
any
answer
any
questions
you
might
have
we're
here
with
our
architecture
team,
so
ready
for
any
of
your
questions.
A
J
Hello,
my
name
is
Walker
Reese
living
at
1,
1,
1,
7,
West,
26th,
Street,
Minneapolis
I'm,
the
chair
of
the
zoning
committee
of
the
Lowry
Hill
East,
Neighborhood
Association,
and
just
wanted
to
first
speak
very
briefly
on
our
library.
On
the
letter
of
support
we
wrote
the
board
is
in
favor
of
all
of
the
of
the
conditional
use
permit
and
the
to
non
withdrawn.
Variances.
B
J
We
conducted
a
survey
in
which
42
people
responded,
the
positive
aspects
of
it
were
the
bringing
the
additional
housing
units
to
these
neighborhood
and
the
development
of
retail
space
along
that
corridor,
where
it's
currently
just
for
the
blank
building.
The
negatives
were
the
lack
of
affordable
housing
and,
as
staff
mentioned,
the
potential
concerns
with
bringing
roughly
250,
potentially
200
250
cars
into
the
neighborhood,
although
similarly,
the
board
is
generally
favorable
to
this
project.
Thank
you.
A
K
Hi
Laura
Chamberlain
for
40
Ridgedale.
Our
excuse
me
Ridgewood
Avenue
about
a
block
and
a
half
west
east
of
the
property
I'm
here
just
as
a
resident
to
give
my
support
for
this
project,
in
particular,
glad
to
see
more
opportunities
for
residential
development
in
such
a
great
neighborhood,
with
access
to
transit,
jobs,
parks,
grocery
stores
and
as
well
as
close
to
museums
and
the
arts
in
particular
on
the
site.
The
widened,
sidewalks
along
Lindale,
South
and
Franklin
West
will
make
pedestrian
connections
easier
within
the
air.
K
I
know
that
within
the
staff
report
they
mentioned
working
with
Metro
Transit
on
transit
shelters.
That
is
something
I
think
that
is
desperately
needed
at
that
corner
and
I
would
like
to
encourage
the
city
in
whatever
capacity
you
have
that,
especially
during
construction
to
work
with
the
county,
as
this
is
an
opportunity
to
make
a
temporary
alignment
of
the
intersection
at
Franklin
and
lyndale,
which
is
right
now
kind
of
a
mess
and
pretty
dangerous
for
almost
all
users
to
encourage,
especially
any
lane
closures
during
construction
that
that
promote
the
most
vulnerable
users,
pedestrians
and
bicyclists.
A
You
very
much
is
there
anybody
else
wishing
to
testify
on
this
item,
seeing
none
I'll
close
the
public
hearing.
Commissioners,
we
have
a
number
of
applications
before
us.
A
conditional
use
permit
three
variances
and
site
plan
review.
Is
there
any
for
the
questions
of
staff,
any
discussion,
or
would
somebody
like
to
start
us
off
with
a
motion.
A
F
A
A
A
F
L
Yes,
so
the
first
step
update
is,
we
did
receive
an
appeal
of
the
art
and
architecture
project
that
was
heard
at
our
last
meeting,
so
that
will
go
forward
to
voting
and
Planning
Committee
meeting
on
March
5th,
and
then
we
did
have
a
public
hearing
at
the
previous
znp
meeting
for
the
three
new
appointees
for
Planning
Commission
that
will
be
considered
by
the
full
council.
This
Friday
we
have
some
training
scheduled
and
hopefully
those
new
commissioners
will
be
on
board
for
our
March
9th
meeting.