City of Minneapolis, MN 2022 Minneapolis Boards & Commissions, 7 Mar 2022

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From YouTube: March 7, 2022 Planning Commission

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How about now, can you still hear me? Yes, thank you.

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The regular broadcast of the minneapolis city planning commission for march 7th 2022 will now begin.

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Good afternoon, everyone uh welcome to the regular meeting of the city planning commission it's monday march 7th 2022. My name is alyssa olson and I am the vice president of the planning commission I'll note for the record that this meeting has remote participation by members of the city, council and city staff as authorized under minnesota statute, section 13 d .021 due to the declared local public health emergency.

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The city will be recording and posting this meeting to the city's website and youtube channel as a means of increasing public access and transparency, and this meeting is public and subject to the minnesota open meeting law. At this time, I will ask the clerk to please call the role to verify quorum.

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Commissioner, alpher.

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Oh I'm sorry, I didn't catch that, but I don't know if it's on my end.

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Okay, I'll I'll come back to that, and maybe someone can confirm if they were able to hear commissioner albert um uh going on uh commissioner baxley.

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Commissioner, campbell here.

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Okay, thank you, um commissioner olsen here.

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Commissioner, paulie will not be here this evening.

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Yes, I understand and um mr brainville and then one more time, uh commissioner alper present no okay they're full. Thank you present.

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Oh good, all right, uh eight members present, so we have a quorum next, we'll proceed to the agenda, a copy of which was posted for public access to the city's legislative information information management system, which is available at lims.minneapolismnn.gov.

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We'll begin with acceptance of the minutes of the regular meeting on february 22nd 2022 commissioners, could I have a motion to accept those minutes? Commissioner, ford.

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Commissioner mcguire, second, all right: we have a motion and a second is there any discussion.

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All right, seeing none I'll ask the click to please call the role.

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Rachel you're, muted.

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So I am thank you so much, commissioner alpher hi.

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Commissioner, ford.

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Commissioner, marwa hi.

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Mcguire hi.

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Are you there, yes, okay, thank you so much, and then, um commissioner campbell.

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Thank you. So that's eight, eight and zero days.

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All right that motion passes and the minutes are adopted. Our next order of business is to organize the public hearing agenda, which is again available at limbs.minneapolismnn.gov.

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I'll read through the agenda numbers and addresses and I'll tell you whether they are slated for consent, continuance or discussion consent items will be passed without discussion and we will adopt the staff recommendation listed on the agenda along with any stated conditions.

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So, if you agree with this recommendation, you don't need to do anything and we will pass it as recommended by staff. If you disagree with the staff recommendation, please speak up indicate that you would like to speak against the item. When I ask and we'll pull that discussion or pull that item and put it on discussion, um if you're calling in to unmute yourself, you press star six, um so with that we have the following items on our agenda.

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uh Number four is modification number two to the lake and nicolette redevelopment plan and modification number 131 to the common plan, and this item is recommended for consent and is not part of the public hearing.

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Next is item number five 1500 jackson, street northeast and staff is recommending this item for consent. Is there anyone uh here to speak against staff recommendation on item number five.

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If so, you can press star six to unmute yourself.

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All right, I am not hearing anyone, so I will put item number five on consent. Item number. Six is 35 7th street south and this item will be continued again. One cycle to the march 21st meeting.

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And our last item is item number seven is uh 2630 university avenue. Southeast and staff is recommending this item for consent. Is there anyone here to speak against staff recommendation on this item?

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If so, you can press star six to unmute yourself.

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All right, I am not hearing anyone so we'll put item number, seven on consent, so to review. uh We have items number four, five and seven on consent and we will continue item number six to the march 21st meeting.

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Commissioners. Could I have a motion to approve the agenda.

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Commissioner, marwa.

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Hi I have to um recuse myself from this vote for because of item number five, so I will not be voting on tonight's consent agenda. Thank you.

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All right, thank you, uh so we'll go to commissioner mcguire for emotions.

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I will motion to adopt the uh consent agenda.

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Our second bed.

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All right, we have a motion and a second is there any discussion.

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All right, seeing then I'll ask the clerk to please call the role.

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Rachel, are you there to call the roll?

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uh Oh, I think rachel left the meeting. uh Does anyone have a list.

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Called the role, can I.

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Here, yes, I am here, give me just one moment: okay, thank you.

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Can you folks see and hear me now we can now you folks can see me and hear me, okay! So sorry about that, I don't know what happened. Thank you for your patience. My understanding is. Marijuana has recused herself and that four five and seven are on consent. Is that all accurate yep? That's correct.

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Okay, yeah undo that, okay, all right. So with that, uh commissioner alper.

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Commissioner, marwa.

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Yes, thank you, um commissioner mcguire hi, mr rainville.

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Was under the impression he had joined us since our last roll call.

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Having problems yeah, okay, okay, we'll come back to that um commissioner fayola now. I already said that uh commissioner campbell.

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uh And vice chair olsen, I I miss anyone.

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Okay, so with that, I have seven yays and one abstention. Thank you.

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All right that motion passes and we have approved the agenda, so we will proceed to our um public hearing agenda well, actually, first we'll open the public hearing for our consent items and approve those items and after that we'll open um our continuance public hearing. um So I will now open the public hearing on the consent agenda. Would anyone like to speak on items four, five or seven?

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If you would like to you, can press star six to unmute yourself.

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All right, I am not hearing anyone, uh so I will close the public hearing for the consent agenda.

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uh Commissioners, I have a motion to adopt the consent agenda, which is items four five and seven commissioner.

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I motioned to adopt the consent agenda. Commissioner, ford.

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All right, we have a motion in a second. Is there any discussion.

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Seeing none I'll ask the clerk to please call the roll.

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Commissioner, alpher aye.

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Are you still with us? Yes, hi? Oh thank you so much, uh commissioner ford. All right, commissioner. Marwah abstain.

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Thank you, commissioner mcguire. I.

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Commissioner, at rainville.

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Commissioner, campbell.

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And vice chair, olsen, aye, seven yays and one abstention. All.

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Right that motion passes so those items were approved. If you have questions you can ask the staff listed with those items, uh we will now proceed to our continuance item so I'll open the public hearing for item number six, which is 35 7th street south. We will discuss this at the march 21st meeting, but if anyone is here today to speak on this item, you can do so now.

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You can press star 6 to unmute yourself.

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All right, I am not hearing anyone.

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Commissioners could I have a motion to continue item number six to march 21st, uh commissioner mcguire.

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A motion to continue item number six, all right.

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Do we have a second.

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All right, second from commissioner baxley, uh is there any discussion.

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Seeing none, I will ask the clerk to please call the roll.

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Commissioner alper, I.

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Commissioner baxley aye mr ford.

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Commissioner, marwa.

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Sorry, my chat was in front no worries.

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Glad to have you with us, commissioner, mcguire.

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Hi commissioner rainville.

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Commissioner fayola hi commissioner campbell hi and um uh commissioner reister olsen hi, so that's eight yays and zero nays.

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All right that motion passes- and that was our last item on the agenda for this evening. Are there any announcements from staff.

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I just wanted to take a moment to welcome our two newest commissioners. uh We are joined by joe campbell this evening, who is a newly appointed city council appointee on the commission. He is filling the position previously occupied by commissioner smiley and um tammy fayola is our new hennepin county representative so welcome to both of you. um I think this was a good first meeting with zero discussion items. They don't all go this way, but a nice introduction to the planning commission. So thank you for volunteering.

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Your time in this capacity and for joining us tonight, um just a reminder.

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Have a few text amendments at committee of the hole this thursday and um at our next meeting I believe we are going to start the process of electing our new executive committee now that we have a full complement of commissioners. um Our president role is currently vacant. So thank you to commissioner olsen for stepping up, as vice president and filling that role until we can do our executive committee nomination and voting process. um So we will take nominations.

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I believe at our next meeting I'll give you more details at committee of the whole on thursday on that.

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All right, thank you, kimberly and welcome to our new commissioners from all of us as well. uh All right uh is there anything else before we adjourn from any commissioners.

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And commissioner ford and I both got reappointed for two more years: oh okay, so.

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We're here too,.

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Gloss over that, yes, thank you for that.

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Glad to have you back.

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I just I just want to warn our two commissioners. This is not normal. You know what 20 minutes. That's not the normal part thing gird yourself for this.

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Yes, the next meeting will surely be longer all right uh anything else from anyone.

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I want to cut anyone off all right, if not and without objection. I will declare this meeting adjourn. Our next planning commission meeting will be monday march 21st, and our next committee of the whole meeting will be this thursday march 10th. Thank you. Everybody.

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