City of Minneapolis, MN 2022 Minneapolis Boards & Commissions, 27 Jun 2022

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Good afternoon, everyone welcome to the regular meeting of the minneapolis planning. Commission today is monday june 22nd. My name is alyssa olson and I'm the vice president or the president of the planning commission.

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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. This meeting is public and subject to the minnesota open meeting law. At this time. I'll ask the clerk to call the role.

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Commissioner, alper.

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Commissioner baxley commissioner campbell.

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Commissioner feyola here, commissioner ford.

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Marwa here, commissioner mcguire.

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Here, commissioner olson here, commissioner rainville president, that six members present.

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All right we have a quorum with that we'll proceed to the agenda, a copy of which is available at limbs.minneapolismn.gov and also on the counter over there um we'll begin with acceptance of the minutes from june 13th. Could I have a motion to accept those minutes? I moved.

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Is there a second.

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Second, all right: we have a motion and a second any discussion, all in favor, say aye aye, all opposed any abstentions, all right that motion passes and the minutes are adopted.

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Our next item is to organize the minutes or organize the public hearing agenda, which again is available at limbs.minneapolismn.gov.

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I'm going to read through the items and state whether it's slated for consent, continuance or discussion consent items will be adopted according to staff recommendation along with any stated conditions.

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So, if you don't have any objections, you don't need to do anything, but if you disagree with staff recommendation and like would like to speak on the item, please indicate you would like to do so and we will put that item on the discussion agenda.

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So following items are on the agenda for this evening, number 4, 608 3rd street, north 618 3rd street, north and 246 7th avenue north staff is recommending this item for consent. Is there anyone who would like to speak against staff recommendation on this item all right? Seeing none I'll put item number four on consent: item number five 1823, 1827, 1831, 1835 and 1839 bryant avenue. North staff is recommending this item.

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Oh this item will be continued to july 18th. Unless there is any objection.

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Right item five will be continued to july. 18Th.

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Item item number: six is 250 fremont avenue. North staff is recommending this item for consent. Is there anyone who would like to speak against staff recommendation on this item.

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None we'll put item number six on the consent. Agenda.

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uh Item number: seven 608, 608, second avenue. South staff is recommending this item for consent. Is there anyone who would like to speak against staff recommendation on this item all right? Seeing none we'll put item 7 on consent, number 8, 2542, blaisdell, avenue staff is recommending this item for consent. Is there anyone who would like to speak against staff recommendation on this item right? It's not seeing any I'll. Put item number eight on consent.

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Item number nine is 110. West 26th street staff is recommending this item for consent. So anyone who would like to speak against staff recommendation on this item.

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Right, seeing none I'll put item number nine on consent and item number 10, electric vehicle charging ordinance. This item will be continued if there's no objection to the august. First meeting, all right continue item number 10 to august 1st, so we have items, number 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 on consent, and we will continue item 5 to july 18th and item 10 to august 1st.

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Could I have a motion to approve the agenda, so I moved all right. We have a motion and a second any discussion.

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Seeing none all in favor, say: aye aye, all opposed any abstentions, all right the agenda is adopted, so next we will go to our consent items, so these items are number 5 and 10 they're being continued to july, 18th and august 1st. But if you are here to speak on one of these items, you can do so now you can come to the podium state, your name and address for the record and proceed with your comments.

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Those items are number five and number ten.

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All right, I'm not seeing anyone, so I will close the public hearing on the consent agenda. Commissioners, can I have a motion to adopt items? Oh sorry, um go ahead.

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To ask questions about the.

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I, uh on the consent.

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Agenda I it was the consent agenda, but I said it like it was the continuance agenda. So that was my mistake. um So I just opened the public hearing for the continuance agenda. So if we can approve those, then I'll open the consent agenda and then you can okay all right. uh Could I have a motion to continue items five and ten, so I moved all right. We have a motion and a second is there any discussion all in favor, say aye aye, all opposed any abstentions, all right!

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So now uh we'll move on to the consent agenda, uh which is items four six, seven, eight and nine.

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So I will open the public hearing for the consent agenda. If there's anyone who would like to speak on any of those items, you can come forward and do so now state your name and address for the record.

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All right, I'm not seeing anyone, so I will close the public hearing on the consent agenda. Commissioners, uh uh commissioner, alper.

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Thanks, I just had a more general question that relates to the consent agenda items um just for our own knowledge since we're a lot of new commissioners here. When can somebody help help me and help others sort of describe when a tdm plan gets triggered or required.

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Yes, so there are certain types of uses that require a mandatory tdm like a reception or meeting hall, and then there are thresholds for number of residential units and number of or the amount of commercial square footage, and I can direct you to the part of the ordinance.

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Maybe that refers to them, but as far as when they're reviewed in the process, it's typically done as part of the initial review, so we don't deem applications complete unless they have a complete travel demand management plan and that gets reviewed by planning staff and public works staff, and it's an administrative decision between planning staff and public works staff. There's often quite a bit of back and forth with applicants to make sure that their amenities proposed are approvable and are actually meeting the goals that we're looking for.

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So you know this is a relatively new change that came with the parking changes when we eliminated parking requirements, but I think it's been working well so far, we typically in the staff reports we'll just note which strategies are being proposed since the tdms are typically already approved by the time we're looking at writing. The staff report.

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Great, so if we as commissioners want to weigh in on any of those tdm strategies, is the time to do it best, perhaps at committee of the whole, when we first see the project. No, yes,.

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um Yes, you certainly could then, um but okay, because it's not a planning commission decision, it wouldn't come before the commission. um Typically at that point, we know which strategies they're going to be looking at, or that could be a question that you asked the applicant at committee of the whole to engage in that conversation. Okay,.

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Great- and I think I remember the requirements that it's 50 000 square feet of commercial- maybe.

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And there's there's a there's, a long list of things, so I can send it to you. I don't want to say one or two yeah yeah yeah yeah, the other totally fine. So thank you.

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All right, commissioners, any other discussion before we vote on the consent agenda, all right. Seeing none would someone make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

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Motion to approve the consent agenda.

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Second, all right: we have a motion and a second any discussion, all right, all in favor, say aye aye, aye, any opposed abstentions, all right the consent agenda has been approved uh and that occlu. That concludes all of our public hearing items. For this evening, are there any announcements from staff.

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um Just wanted to give a brief update. The city did appeal the judge's decision on the lawsuit regarding the 2040 plan. We also requested a stay on the order related to that decision. We are currently in a waiting period right now, where we're waiting for a response from the judge on a request for a stay with that we don't want to get into too much conjecture about where things are at, because it is ongoing.

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But you are going to see at the july 18th meeting a couple of applications for rezonings.

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We are bringing those forward upon the advice of our city attorney that because the planning commission's decision is not a final action on a rezoning application, it is a recommendation to the city council.

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We are going to be bringing those things forward to the planning commission, but we will not be able to make final decisions on any rezonings at the city council at this time until we hear back on our request for a state.

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So just wanted to note that ahead of the july 18th meeting, since you will see a couple of those in your packets.

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um Kimberly if people submitted applications before the judge's ruling, are they being considered under what was in place at that time or so.

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The only rezoning applications you are going to see are the ones that were deemed complete prior to june 15th prior to us getting the decision anything after that is deemed incomplete. We added some language to our general land, use application checklist that essentially keeps us from being able to deem rezonings and comp plan. Amendment applications complete at this time.

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Okay, all right! Thank you, uh commissioner. Mcguire.

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I have a question too: um could we I just have a question about why we use septed in our reviews and if we could look at a different way to look at public safety as opposed to septet. I don't know if that's in our code- and I would have to take a code amendment, but some of their principles are very odd.

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It is indeed in our code in chapter 530 of site plan review, so that is why we have to review it. It would take an amendment to that chapter of the zoning code, which we are currently prohibited from doing, um but we could definitely bring it up with our code development team. There are going to be a number of things that we're looking at in the site plan review chapter going forward as we work on further implementing some of the built form guidelines and the land use rezoning study.

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So it is a chapter that will be open, hopefully at some point in the relatively near future, and we could take a look at that.

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Yeah great, if you could add it to the parking lot list somewhere for some day, that'd be great.

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Sounds good um and then the only other thing I had was just a reminder that we are canceling committee of the whole this thursday, due to a lack of agenda items and the two items that had been on the agenda for our last committee of the whole meeting will be discussed on july. 18Th.

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Thank you uh anything for many commissioners, all right, uh if not and without objection. I will declare this meeting adjourned. Our next planning commission meeting will be monday july 18th, and our next committee of the whole meeting will be after that. Thank you. Everybody.

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