HomeMy WebLinkAbout90-14 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 1990/02/05RESOLUTION NO. 90-14
A RESOLUTION DENYING AN AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE
PLAN 1980 TO THE YEAR 2000 FOR THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK
UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES 462.351 TO 462.364
3120 GLENHURST AVENUE SOUTH AND PROPERTY SOUTH OF
31ST STREET, EAST OF JOPPA AVENUE AND NORTH OF HENNEPIN
COUNTY REGIONAL RAILROAD AUTHORITY PROPERTY
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan 1980-2000 was adopted by the City Council
on March 5, 1984, and provides the following.
1. An official statement serving as the basic guide in making land use,
transportation and community facilities and service decisions affecting the
City.
2. A framework for policies and actions leading to the improvement of the
physical, financial, and social environment of the City, thereby providing a
good place to live and work and a setting conducive for new development.
3. A promotion of the public interest in establishing a more functional, healthful,
interesting, and efficient community by serving the interests of the
community at large rather than the interests of individual or special groups
within the community if their interests are at variance with the public
interest.
4. An effective framework for direction and coordination of activities affecting
the development and preservation of the community.
5. Treatment of the entire community as one ecosystem and to inject long range
considerations into determinations affecting short range action, and
WHEREAS, the use of such Comprehensive Plan will insure a safer, more pleasant,
and more economical environment for residential, commercial, industrial, and public
activities and will promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, and
WHEREAS, said Plan will prepare the community for anticipated desirable change,
thereby bringing about significant savings in both private and public expenditures, and
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan has taken due cognizance of the planning
activities of adjacent units of government, and
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan 1980-2000 is to be periodically reviewed by the
Planning Commission of the City of St. Louis Park and amendments made, if justified
according to procedures, rules, and laws, and provided such amendments would provide a
positive result and are consistent with other provisions in the Comprehensive Plan, and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of St. Louis Park recommended
denial of the request for amendment to the Comprehensive Plan 1980-2000 on December 20,
1989, based on statutes, the Metropolitan System Statement, extensive research and
analyses involving the interests of citizens and public agencies;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of St. Louis Park
that the Comprehensive Plan 1980-2000, as previously recommended for adoption by the
Planning Commission and adopted,by the City Council, is to remain as is and the request to
change the land use designation of the subject property from High Density Residential to
Industrial is hereby denied, based on the following:
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. The change from High Density Residential to Industrial would result in the
generation of truck traffic which would pass through the adjacent residential
neighborhood resulting in detrimental effects on residential development in the
area.
2. Designation of the site for Industrial purposes would conflict with Goal III E. in the
Comprehensive Plan whichistates:
"Preserve and enhance the integrity and character of neighborhoods."
3. Designation of the site for Industrial purposes would conflict with Policies W K and
M in the Comprehensive Plan which state:
K. Reduce or eliminate adverse impacts such as pollution, noise, glare, odor and
activity of incompatible land use on residential development and
neighborhoods.
M. Eliminate potential sources of deteriorating residential neighborhoods.
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4. Designation of the site for Industrial purposes could result in undesirable
environmental effects on the existing residential neighborhood.
ATTEST:
Reviewed by administration:
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City Manager
Adopted by the City Council February 5, 1990
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Approved as to form and execution:
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