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B
Good
morning
welcome
to
the
regular
meeting
of
the
business
inspections,
housing
and
zoning
committee
for
today
march
17th,
which
is
st
patrick's
day,
I'm
lisa
goodman
and
I'm
chair
of
the
committee.
As
we
begin
I'll
note
for
the
record,
the
meeting
has
remote
participation
by
members
of
the
city,
council
and
city
staff
as
authorized
under
minnesota
state
statute,
section
13d
.021
due
to
the
declared
local
public
health
emergency.
The
city
will
be
recording
and
posting
this
meeting
on
the
city's
website
and
youtube
channel
as
a
means
of
increasing
public
process
and
transparency.
C
B
Let
the
record
reflect
that
we
have
a
quorum.
The
agenda
of
the
meeting
is
in
front
of
us.
We
will
begin
with
the
consent
agenda,
which
includes
items
7
through
18.
item.
7
are
liquor
license
approvals,
8
are
liquor,
license
renewals
item
number
9
are
business,
license
operating
conditions
for
ties,
lounge
and
rooftop
item
number
10
are
accepting
grants
from
the
met
council's
livable
communities
grant
awards
item.
11
is
the
spring
grant
applications
for
the
met
council's
livable
communities
pre-development
grant
program
item
12
is
appropriating
funding
for
the
upper
harbor
terminal
item.
B
This
is
part
of
our
policy
to
ensure
representation
in
eviction
filings
item
17
is
a
contract
amendment
with
amani
construction
and
item
number
18
is
approving
the
appointment
of
meredith
anderson
from
ward
9
for
a
three-year
term
on
the
heritage
preservation.
Commission.
Are
there
any?
Is
there
any
discussion
or
any
questions
with
regard
to
the
consent
agenda?
C
B
That
those
items
are
approved
and
I'll
note
for
the
record
that
council
member
ellison
is
present
just
accidentally
missed
the
roll
call
with
that
we'll
move
on
to
the
public
hearing
agenda
starting
with
item
number
one,
which
is
a
land
sale
at
3514,
russell
avenue
north.
I
understand
we
have
a
new
employee
to
introduce
today,
so
I
am
going
to
turn
that
over
to
staff
to
make
that
introduction
and
give
that
report.
D
Good
morning,
council
member
goodman
I'd
like
to
briefly
introduce
tara
roberts,
tara
joined
the
city
three
years
ago
as
a
project
coordinator
and
was
working
with
our
owner
occupied
rehabilitation
loans.
She
was
just
recently
promoted
to
a
senior
project
coordinator
role
and
will
be
overseeing
our
minneapolis
homes,
financing
program
that
creates
affordable
home
ownership
units,
and
this
is
her
first
presentation
to
committee.
E
Thank
you
and
good
morning,
good
morning,
chair
goodman,
and
thank
you
for
having
me
I
am
presenting
on
the
request
for
a
council
approval
of
3514
russell
avenue
north
to
magnolia
homes
llc.
On
july
10
2021,
the
city
council
approved
the
land
sale
of
3334
lindale
avenue
north
to
a
magnolia
homes
llc
via
minneapolis
homes,
financing
program.
I
was
awarded
185
eighty
thousand
dollars
in
development
gap,
funds
to
construct
a
three-bedroom,
two-bath
duplex
on
each
side
each
unit
was
sold
to
a
home
was
to
be
sold
to
a
homeowner
below
80
percent
of
area.
E
E
E
In
addition,
cped
staff
proposes
to
also
transfer
185
000
of
the
development
gap,
funds
to
3514
russell
avenue.
North
the
city
of
minneapolis's
preference
policy,
was
originally
approved
to
apply
to
one
of
the
two
proposed
units
at
3334,
lindale
avenue,
north
the
same
policy
would
apply
for
3514
russell
avenue.
North
a
neighbor
could
notify.
Notification
was
also
provided
to
the
cleveland
neighborhood
association
on
december
9th
2021.
E
B
Thank
you,
miss
roberts
for
your
report,
we'll
see
if
there's
any
questions
for
you.
Thank
you
seeing
none.
We
appreciate
the
report,
I'm
going
to
proceed
to
open
the
public
hearing
and
ask
the
clerk.
If
there
are
any
speakers
in
queue,
it
does
not
look
like
there
are
any
speakers
in
queue
and,
as
a
result,
I
will
close
the
public
hearing
and
see
if
there
are
any
questions
or
comments.
Otherwise,
I
will
be
calling
on
council
member
ellison.
B
C
B
E
So
I
am
presenting
on
the
request
for
council
approval
of
3635
gerard
avenue
north
to
amani
on
july
10
2021,
the
city
council
approved
the
land
sale
of
2301
golden
valley,
road
to
armani,
construction
and
development,
llc,
also
known
as
amani
via
minneapolis
homes,
financing
program
and
awarded
funding
for
development
gap
funds
for
duplex
each
unit
was
to
be
sold
to
a
homeowner
below
80
percent
of
area.
Median
income,
also
known
as
ami,
while
conducting
its
due
diligence
activities
on
the
site
in
preparation
for
acquisition
from
the
city.
Unsuitable
soils
were
discovered.
E
E
Gerard
avenue
north
be
used
instead.
In
addition,
cped
staff
proposes
to
also
transfer
the
development
gap
to
3635
gerard
avenue.
North
neighborhood
notification
was
also
provided
to
the
fall
well
neighborhood
association
on
december
9th
2021
amani
proposes
to
reduce
the
development
concept
from
a
co.
A
duplex
structure
to
a
single
family,
home
3635,
girard
avenue
north
is
not
sized
to
support
the
original,
side-by-side
duplex
concept,
as
originally
proposed
at
the
previous
location.
E
E
B
Thank
you
for
your
report,
we'll
see
if
there
are
any
questions.
Of
course
now
I
have
one
that
did
not
come
up
in
agenda
settings,
so
there
are
three
of
these
where
the
soil
correction
issue
is
a
problem.
Why
are
we
putting
lots
on
the
market
where
we
know
there's
a
soil
problem,
or
did
we
not
know
and
what
level
of
investigation
do
we
do?
How
did
we
acquire
these
lots
that
are
now
almost
undevelopable?
B
D
Often
often
it's
not
until
we
have
made
a
funding,
commitment
and
a
developer
is
actively
doing
their
due
diligence
for
a
site
that
they've
secured
that
they're
able
to
go
into
that
level
of
detail
on
a
project,
and
so
that's
part
of
the
reason
why
we
have
these
lot.
D
Substitutions
is
because,
at
the
time
of
application,
a
developer
thought
this
was
a
feasible
design
concept
on
this
particular
site
after
award
they've
done
their
due
diligence,
they've
gotten
some
more
clear
bids
for
the
property
and
because
of
the
conditions
have
concluded
that
they
aren't
able
to
move
forward.
There
are
several
properties
that
we
have
have
met
this
this
condition
historically
and
typically,
we've
been
able
to
remarket
them
with
some
additional
information
at
the
at
the
time
of
marketing
and
been
able
to
move
forward
with
them
at
some
point
in
the
future.
B
Okay,
thank
you
for
that
explanation.
It
sounds
like
we
have
to
do
a
bit
more
due
diligence
on
these
lots
before
we
put
them
out
to
the
public.
Have
a
developer
be
selected,
go
all
the
way
through
the
process.
Have
them
do
a
soil
test
and
determine
it's
not
feasible,
then
start
over
again
I
mean
no
wonder
people
don't
have
trust
in
the
system.
Where
did
these
three
lots
come
from
and
how
many
more
are
there
like
this.
D
I
can
follow
up
with
some
additional
information
about
that.
Chair,
goodman.
I
I
don't
have
have
that
information
off
the
top
of
my
head,
but
we
can
follow
up.
B
Okay,
well,
I
I
feel
like
when
I
hear
from
people
in
the
public
that
it's
difficult
to
do
business
with
the
city.
This
might
be
in
a
good
example.
There's
it's
not
a
staff
problem.
It's
just.
Did
we
get
these
from
hennepin
county
for
a
dollar
because
now
they're
worth
a
negative
hundred
thousand
dollars,
so
I'm
just
curious
how
we
acquired
them?
Why
we
would
take
on
this
kind
of
responsibility
and
why
it
would
be
it's
got
to
be.
B
These
are
small
businesses
probably
buy
box
small
businesses,
and
so
they
have
to
put
a
bunch
of
time
into
this,
and
then
they
find
out
they
can't
build,
and
then
we
have
to
start
over.
So
perhaps
we
need
to
do
more
due
diligence
on
some
of
these
lots
on
the
front
end
of
it,
so
that
we
can
be
more
user-friendly
when
we're
trying
to
get
these
houses
built.
So
perhaps
this
this
is
not
this
miss
robert's
problem,
but
I
do
think
we
probably
need
to
look
at
this
more
carefully
because
this
isn't.
B
This
is
the
second
we're
hearing
about
there's
also
a
third
right
after
this
yeah.
So-
and
this
did
not
come
up
in
agenda
setting-
I
had
asked:
are
there
any
issues
and
I
was
told
no,
but
I
would
say
this
is
an
issue
that
rises
to
the
level
of
we
should
know
about
it.
So
I
appreciate
that.
Are
there
other
questions
from
members
of
the
committee
on
this
or
this
general
topic?
B
Seeing
none?
I
appreciate
your
report
and
all
of
the
time
you
put
into
this
miss
roberts.
Thank
you
for
that.
I'm
going
to
open
the
public
hearing
and
ask
if
there
are
any
speakers
in
queue
for
the
item.
B
B
E
Chad
goodman,
I
am
presenting
on
the
request
for
council
approval
of
3635
gerard
avenue
north
to
amani
on
july
10
2021,
the
city
council
approved
the
land
sale
of
2327
golden
valley,
road
to
armani,
construction
and
development,
llc,
also
known
as
amani
via
minneapolis
homes,
financing
program
and
awarded
funding
of
development
gap
funds
for
a
duplex
each
unit
was
to
be
sold
to
a
home
owner
below
80
percent
of
area.
Median
income,
also
known
as
ami,
while
conducting
its
due
diligence
activities
on
the
site
in
preparation
for
acquisition
from
the
city.
Unsuitable
soils
were
discovered.
E
The
city's
soil
correction
allowance
under
the
city's
real
estate
disposition
procedures
for
development
property
allows
for
reimbursement
of
net
steel
proceeds
of
the
sale
of
the
sales
price
to
pay
for
the
soil.
Remediation
costs,
the
cost
of
the
soil
remediation
on
the
property
was
found
to
not
be
financially
feasible.
Despite
the
plot,
this
policy
for
reimbursement.
E
E
E
E
B
Thank
you
so
much
for
your
report
I'll
see.
If
there
are
any
questions
for
staff,
seeing
no
questions
for
staff,
I
will
proceed
to
open
the
public
hearing
and
see
if
there
are
any
speakers
in
queue
on
the
item.
It
does
not
look
like
there
are
any
speakers
in
queue.
So
I'm
going
to
close
the
public
hearing
and
call
on
council
member
ellison.
F
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
also
happy
to
move
approval
of
this
item
and
then,
if
I
could
just
make
one
note:
hey
congrats
to
miss
roberts,
happy
to
have
you
here
at
committee,
giving
presentations
and
then
also
wanted
to
make
a
note
of
the
preference
policy.
F
This
is
a
part
of
our
anti-displacement
work,
erica
coleman,
who's
moved
on
to
to
bigger
and
brighter
things
was
a
big
part
of
of
bringing
that
a
policy
to
fruition,
as
well
as
roxanne,
kimball
and,
and
I'm
sure
many
others,
and
so
just
wanted
to
make
a
note
that
I've
heard
it
several
times
today.
F
I
know
some
some
some
cases
where
it's
still
applied
and
somewhere
no
longer
applied,
but
it's
really
great
to
see
this
anti-displacement
work
be
becoming
the
norm
in
how
we
do
and
how
we
do
our
policy.
So
thank
you.
That's
all.
I
wanted
to
say.
B
C
B
Are
six
eyes
that
carries
and
the
motion
is
approved,
we
will
now
move
on
to
two
items
involved
in
a
property
at
28,
36,
12
avenue
south
called
midtown
crossing
I'd
like
to
give
miss
geisler
an
opportunity
to
introduce
mr
smith,
who
is
also
nude,
not
new
to
the
committee
today.
So
I'll
turn
this
over
to
you
miss
geisler.
Thank
you
for
being
here.
G
Thank
you,
madam
chair
and
good
morning
committee
members
and
thank
you
for
giving
me
a
minute
to
introduce
oliver
smith.
As
you
noted,
he
is
not
new
to
the
residential
finance
team.
He's
been
with
us
for
a
couple
of
years
and
he's
had
several
reports
go
through
biz
before,
but
this
is
the
first
one
that
he's
done
at
presentations,
so
I
just
wanted
to
take
a
minute
to
recognize
him
help
welcome
him
to
the
committee,
and
I
will
turn
it
over
to
oliver.
Thank
you,
mr
smith.
Welcome.
H
H
I
am
before
you
today
with
two
recommendations
to
support
the
midtown
crossing
project,
a
land,
sale
recommendation
and
a
bond
issuance
recommendation.
Midtown
crossing,
formerly
known
as
greenway
apartments,
is
being
proposed
by
reuter
walton
development.
The
project
is
an
86
unit.
New
construction
project
proposed
to
be
located
along
the
midtown
greenway
between
11th
and
12th
avenue
south
in
the
midtown
phillips
neighborhood.
H
The
project
will
feature
a
mix
of
studio,
one
two
and
three
bedroom
units
affordable
at
thirty
percent.
Fifty
percent
and
sixty
percent
area
median
income,
midtown
crossing,
will
be
five
stories
and
include
underground
parking
access
to
the
midtown
greenway
for
residents,
community
space,
fitness
room,
bicycle
storage,
room
with
direct
outdoor
access,
an
outdoor
grilling
area
and
play
area.
H
The
parcel
will
be
sold
for
redevelopment
for
37
962
dollars,
which
is
the
appraised
value
with
respect
to
the
bond
issuance
reuter
walton
development
has
created
midtown
cross
and
limited
partnership,
and
they
have
submitted
a
bond
application
requesting
up
to
13
million
in
multi-family
housing
revenue
bonds
for
the
project.
Developer.
Participation
in
the
project
includes
1.9
million
in
deferred
developer
fee.
H
This
request
is
the
final
source
of
financing
that
needs
to
be
secured
for
the
project
to
move
forward
to
closing
which
is
tentatively
scheduled
for
may
2022,
with
construction
beginning
immediately
or
after
the
bond
allocation
allows
the
project
to
meet
the
required
50
test
and
will
be
issued
in
a
one-bond
series
as
permanent
debt.
The
bonds
will
also
generate
approximately
10.2
million
in
housing.
B
Thank
you
so
much.
I
do
want
to
ask
the
clerk.
I
assume
you'd,
like
a
separate
opening
and
closing
of
the
public
hearing.
Enroll
call
vote
one
on
the
land
sale
one
on
the
bond
issuance.
Is
that
correct?
Yes,.
B
Great
thanks
so
we'll
first
start
with
the
land
sale.
Thank
you
for
the
detail
on
the
land
sale,
mr
smith.
We
truly
appreciate
it.
I
will
go
ahead
and
open
the
public
hearing
and
I
see
that
there
is
one
speaker
on
the
public
hearing,
paul
keenan.
You
are
invited
to
press
star
6
to
speak
to
this
issue.
Now,
if
you
choose.
B
Okay,
thank
you,
we're
not
answering
or
asking
questions
we're
in
a
public
hearing.
So
if
you'd
like
to
speak
great,
if
not,
we
will
move
on.
B
Sounds
like
you
don't
want
to
speak!
That's
okay!
I
will
note
that
there
are
no
other
speakers
for
the
public
hearing,
so
I'm
going
to
close
the
public
hearing
on
the
land,
sale
at
2836,
12th,
avenue,
south
and
call
on
council
member
chavez.
A
Thanks
chad,
goodman
I'll
move,
this
item
for
approval.
B
C
B
H
Thank
you,
chair,
goodman,
nothing
to
add
on
the
bond
sale.
Thank.
B
You,
sir,
then
we
are
going
to
proceed
to
open
the
public
hearing.
The
clerk
has
informed
me
that
paul
keenan
is
here
for
the
public
hearing.
I
want
to
have
an
opportunity
to
call
on
him
to
see
if
he
has
any
comments.
He'd
like
to
make
with
regard
to
the
bond
sale,
please
plus
star
six
to
unmute.
B
J
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
I'm
happy
to
move
this
item
forward
for
approval.
B
D
B
Five
eyes
that
carries
and
the
motion
is
approved,
we
will
now
handle
the
quasi-judicial
public
hearing
on
our
agenda.
This
is
a
quasi-judicial
hearing
on
the
decision
of
the
planning
commission,
for
which
the
committee
is
limited
by
law,
to
hearing
arguments
from
the
parties
to
the
matter
consisting
of
the
city
staff,
the
appellant,
the
project,
applicant
and
nearby
property
owners.
The
committee
has
been
provided
with
the
full
record
of
the
matters,
including
reports,
statements,
attachments
and
the
decision
from
the
underlying
board.
B
This
committee
is
prohibited
from
considering
any
matters
outside
of
the
rector
record
or
any
ex
parte
communications
and
must
base
its
decisions
on
the
official
public
record
and
arguments
and
presentations
made
at
the
hearing.
The
final
plat
is
being
appealed
by
roberta
castellano
and
we
are
here
to
consider
her
appeal
today.
I
will
ask
ms
sether
to
please
give
her
report.
B
K
You
very
much
chair
goodman
good
morning
and
good
morning.
Committee
members
item
number.
Six
is
an
appeal
of
the
decision
of
the
city
planning
commission's
approval
of
the
final
plaque
for
the
project
known
as
france50,
and
that's
located
at
the
properties
4901
through
4921
france
avenue
south
the
development
project
for
france,
50
included
several
land
use
applications,
including
a
petition
to
rezone
the
properties
to
r2
conditional
use
permits
to
allow
for
our
planning
and
development
and
to
increase
the
height
in
the
shoreline
overlay
site
plan,
review,
administrative
height
increase
and
a
preliminary
plan.
K
These
applications
have
all
been
approved
because
this
project
is
a
planned
unit.
Development.
Both
a
preliminary
and
final
plot
are
required.
The
preliminary
plot
was
approved
on
january
27
2022,
following
the
approval
of
the
preliminary
plat,
the
applicant
submitted
a
complete
application
for
the
final
plat
next
slide.
Please.
K
K
The
final
plot
boundaries
are
consistent
with
the
approved
preliminary
plot
next
slide.
Please.
K
On
february
22nd,
the
city
planning
commission
adopted
staff
findings
and
approved
the
final
plant
on
march
4th
2022,
roberta
castellano,
appealed
the
decision
of
the
city
planning
commission's
decision
to
approve
the
final
plant.
The
full
statement
for
reasons
of
appeal
are
available
online.
In
limbs,
staff
has
also
received
an
updated
or
revised
statement
of
appeal
from
the
appellant
shortly
well
during
the
meeting
actually,
which
has
been
forwarded
to
the
comment
or
forwarded
to
the
city
clerk's
office.
K
If
not
for
the
pud
the
plan
unit
development,
an
administrative
lock
combination
would
normally
be
required
to
consolidate
properties
into
one
tax
parcel,
but
because
of
the
planning
and
development,
the
final
plan
is
required.
K
B
You
miss
sether
for
your
report,
we'll
see
if
there
are
any
questions
for
ms
sether
on
her
report
with
regard
to
this
appeal
after
this
appeal
action
concludes.
We
will
call
on
council
member
chavez.
He
had
a
technology
problem
on
the
last
vote,
so
he
can
be
recorded,
but
we
will
first
go
ahead
and
work
through
this
issue.
B
I'm
going
to
proceed
to
open
the
public
hearing
with
this
type
of
hearing,
we
give
the
appellant
an
opportunity
to
make
their
case
first.
I
understand
miss
castellano
or
her
representative
is
on
the
call.
I
would
invite
you
to
press
star
six
to
unmute
and
I
will
offer
10
minutes
for
your
presentation,
and
the
other
side
will
also
have
no
more
than
10
minutes.
I
do
want
to
note
that
there
will
be
a
timer
and
your
comments
will
be
cut
off
after
10
minutes.
Miss
castellano
welcome.
J
Thank
you,
chair
goodman.
Can
you
hear
me
we
can.
Thank
you
all
right
thanks.
Well,
you
know.
I
have
a
lot
in
my
appellant
statement
and
and
as
planner
session
mentioned,
I
submitted
a
revised
version
just
this
morning
here
during
the
meeting,
and
so
I
think
what
I'll
just
kind
of
go
through
and
and
use
the
time
and
rely
on
you
for
the
cut-off
I'll
just
go
through
what
I
can.
J
Maximums,
including
maximum
height
base
floor
area
ratio,
will
be
far
maximum
and
maximum
growth
square
footage,
and
all
of
these
can
be
in
addition
to
that.
All
of
these
can
be
accomplished
without
variances,
and
all
of
this
constitutes
excess.
You
know
it
doesn't
constitute
balance,
it
doesn't
constitute
transition
to
a
low-density
residential
neighborhood.
It's
it's.
It's
pushing
pushing
the
limits,
you
know
and
going
going
beyond
the
limits,
and
it
might
be
appropriate
in
some
areas
of
the
city.
J
To
have
that.
You
know
I
mean
it's:
it's
written
into
the
zoning
code
to
do
those
excesses,
but
I
I
believe
that
it
is
not
appropriate
here
and-
and
I
think
you've
the
city
has
heard
a
lot
from
many
neighbors
about
that
and
additionally,
one
other
comment
of
if
you're
exceeding
the
maximum
lot
area
of
the
lot
size
for
this
plat
would,
in
some
circumstances,
require
variance,
but
for
the
fact
that
the
city
code
is
structured
to
avoid
a
variance
for
the
more
intensive
development
that
france
50
represents.
J
And
given
that
a
variance
request
would
most
likely
not
succeed,
then
it
is
at
that
very
point
in
the
city
code
that
the
variance
requirement
does
not
apply,
and
I
just
personally
think
that's
wrong.
It's
the
way
the
code
is,
but
I
object
to
it
so
and
then
going
beyond
that
in
continuing
with
the
fact
of
the
non-conforming
lot,
then
I
observed
in
in
studying
the
code
and
correct
me
if
I'm
wrong.
J
But
what
I
observed-
and
I
reported
in
my
appellant
statement-
is
that
there
could
be
mixed-use
development
in
the
or2
high
density
office,
residential
district
without
having
all
of
those
excesses
of
zoning
and
that
there
are
two
factors
involved
in
and
that
require
a
pud.
And
that
would
be
the
number
of
dwelling
units
on
a
zoning
lot.
J
J
I
feel
that
that
would
be
more
accurate
than
simply
denying
that
there
would
be
injuries
if
there
would
be
any
injury
or
loss
of
enjoyment
deny
another
detriment
and
and
denying
that
there
would
be
a
substantial
increase
in
congestion
in
the
public
streets
and
going
on
to
the
traffic
study
that
the
developer
submitted.
J
Srf,
prepared
that
a
trip
generation
review
and
provided
to
developer
representative
tom
dillon-
and
it's
important
to
note
here
that
srf
under-reported
the
amount
of
commercial
space
under
consideration
reporting
only
fourteen
thousand
square
feet
of
commercial
and
when,
in
fact
the
requested
amount
is
15
878
feet.
So,
in
other
words,
they
they
under
reported
the
amount
of
commercial
space
by
about
12
and
therefore
under
reported
by
whatever
calculations
they
were
using
so
using
their
proportions.
I
J
I
added
another
70
trips
per
day
for
a
total
of
845
more
trips
per
day
onto
an
ordinary
residential
road
and
that's
in
addition
to
the
existing
traffic
levels
of
today,
and
all
of
that
845
is
going
to
be
concentrated
in
this
one
spot
on
49th
street
and
as
one
of
our
neighbors
had
reported
the
situation
of
the
alleys
and
the
neighbors
using
the
alleys
right
adjacent
to
it,
as
well
as
a
neighbor
driveway.
That's
directly
across
from
that
access
and
egress
or
ingress
and
egress
points.
J
I
don't
know
how
you
could
think
I
mean
on
france
avenue
you
know
which
carries
an
enormous
amount
of
traffic.
Okay,
fine,
but
neither
the
srf
study
nor
owner's
representative
tom
dillon
discussed
what
the
impact
would
be
of
845
more
trips
per
day
estimated
directly
onto
residential
49th
street.
J
So
I
think
that's
unacceptable,
and
in
line
with
that,
I
also
wanted
to
let's
see,
compare
the
parking
that
was
available
at
the
nolan
maine's
development,
which
appears
to
be
the
ideal
that
that
the
developer
is
shooting
for,
but
no
one
means
the
mixed-use
apartment
and
retail
commercial.
Mostly
retail
is
located
entirely
within
the
50th
and
france,
commercial
district
and
in
my
appellant
statement
I
included
an
ariel
to
show
the
north
parking
ramp
is
owned
by
the
city
of
edina.
J
I
compared
to
pinehurst
the
pinehurst
building,
that's
just
to
the
south
of
the
subject
site
and
how
it
has
a
parking
lot.
It
doesn't.
The
building
doesn't
occupy
as
much
of
the
site,
it's
about
half
of
the
site
and,
although
there's
a
lot
of
impervious
there,
there
was
before
that
too.
But
the
surface
parking
buffers
from
the
residential
that
is
to
the
to
the
east,
and
then
also
you
know
the
the
double
that
is
to
the
north
of
it.
But
it's
part
of
the
subject
site
now,
so
it
has.
It
has
some
buffering.
J
I
in
concerns
about
the
traffic.
I.
J
B
Ms
castellano,
I
will
note
that
your
10
minutes,
I
think
it
was
a
little
bit
more,
was
up,
and
I
appreciate
your
comments,
and
I
should
also
note
that
we
do
have
your
statement
and
the
clerk
has
it
handy
and
it
has
been
distributed
to
council
members
as
well
was
earlier
this
morning.
Thank
you
for
your
testimony.
I
will
now
give
the
project
applicant
an
opportunity
to
speak
if
they
should
choose
to
do
so.
B
I
Thank
you,
chair
goodman.
My
name
is
tom
dillon,
I'm
the
project
applicant,
and
I
just
wanted
to
touch
on
a
couple
of
points
on
our
on
the
hearing
today
on
the
plat
appeal
from
planning
commission.
Just
a
couple
of
comments
on
the
issues
that
miss
castellano
brought
up.
One
of
the
things
she
mentioned
was
traffic
and
the
relative
size
of
our
commercial
space.
I
On
the
first
floor
at
15
000
square
feet.
The
reality
is
this
project:
has
we've
continued
to
study
the
first
floor
level
for
commercial
and
also
space
to
serve
the
upper
residential
floors
and
right
now
we're
at
a
total
square
footage
of
about
5
500
square
feet,
so
we
we
will
not
be
14
or
15
000.
We
will
be
more
in
the
range
from
about
5
500
square
feet
of
commercial
space.
I
Some
of
the
comments,
especially
on
nolan
maine's,
with
regard
to
parking
500
stalls
at
noland
names.
If
I
understood
miss
castellano
correctly,
500
stalls
actually
serves
the
entire
district,
not
just
the
nolan
maine's
project,
so
that
would
be
you
know,
a
large
portion
of
the
commercial
and
retail
area
of
the
50th
in
france
area.
I
The
pinehurst,
although
it
may
have
you
know,
a
heavier
concentration
of
parking
that
building,
of
course,
was
built,
I
actually
don't
know,
but
probably
at
least
20
some
years
ago
and
built
at
a
different
time
and
place
with
regard
to
parking
and
vehicular
traffic.
That
project
is
probably
over
parked
by
today's
standards.
So
I
think
you
have
to
take
all
these
comments
in
context.
That's
really
all
I
have
to
say
just
based
on
the
testimony
and
if
there's
any
questions,
I'd
be
more
than
happy
to
answer
them.
Thank
you.
B
Thank
you
for
your
testimony.
I
don't
see
that
there
are
any
additional
speakers
signed
up
for
the
public
hearing
I'll
just
confirm
that
with
the
clerk.
B
G
C
B
C
B
Thank
you,
council
member
chavez
and
I'll
take
this
as
an
opportunity
to
point
out
that
we
won't
have
this
technology
problem
if
we
could
meet
in
person,
and
it
is
my
great
wish
that
we
move
forward
with
that
as
soon
as
we
are
able
with
that,
I
see
no
further
business
before
us
and
without
objection.