HomeMy WebLinkAbout98-144 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 1998/11/02RESOLUTION NO 98 -144
A RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE
PLAN 1990 TO THE YEAR 2010 FOR THE CITY OF ST LOUIS PARK
UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES 462 351 TO 462.364
MODIFY AND RENAME CHAPTER 15 - LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
MODIFY CHAPTER 16 PLAN BY NEIGHBORHOOD
TO ADD THE LAND USE DESIGNATIONS COMMERCIAL -MIXED USE
AND CIVIC -MIXED USE
AND RENAME COMMUNITY FACILITIES DESIGNATION TO CIVIC
MODIFY CHAPTER 13 - RENEWAL
TO ADD THE PARK COMMONS CONCEPT PLAN
AND
TO RECLASSIFY LANDS WITHIN PARK COMMONS
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan 1980-2000 was adopted by the City Council on March
5, 1984 and amended on April 1, 1991 as Comprehensive Plan 1990-2010, 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
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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 is a living document intended to reflect social and
environmental changes, and
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan 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, in 1994, citizens of St Louis Park participated in a visioning process named
Vision St Louis Park, to identify and make recommendations about strategic issues facing St
Louis Park, and
WHEREAS, establishing a town center in the northeast quadrant of Highway 100 and
Excelsior Boulevard was a recommendation of Vision St Louis Park, and
WHEREAS, the City received a "Livable Communities Demonstration Account" grant to
incorporate a public process into planning the recommended town center, and
WHEREAS, in 1996 the City held a community workshop called a design charrette to
establish a concept plan for the Park Commons area, and
WHEREAS, refinements have been made to the plan as a result of subsequent task force
work and consultant studies, and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission initiated amendments to the Comprehensive Plan to
incorporate the concept plan for the Park Commons area, and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission also initiated amendments to the Comprehensive Plan
which would promote "livable communities" principles within the Park Commons area and in
other areas of the City, and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of St Louis Park recommended adoption
of an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan 1980-2000 on August 5,1998, based on statutes, the
Metropolitan Regional Blueprint, 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, as previously adopted by the Planning Commission and City Council, is
hereby amended as follows
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1 Chapter 13 - "Renewal" replaces the 1984 plan for the Excelsior Boulevard Redevelopment
District with the 1995 Park Commons concept plan and subsequent modifications and goals.
2 Chapter 15 - "Urban Design" is replaced by a new Chapter 15 - "Livable Communities"
which incorporates concepts from Vision St Louis Park, Park Commons Concept Plan, and other
"livable communities" principles in order to promote higher density design which is pedestrian and
transit oriented
3 Chapter 16 - "Plan By Neighborhood" is amended by adding a commercial -mixed use land
use designation and renaming the community facilities land use designation to civic. Lands within
the Park Commons area are also reclassified to reflect the Park Commons Concept Plan Minor
text amendments to the Wolfe Park and Minikanda Vista neighborhoods include language
referencing the Park Commons Concept Plan.
Adopted by the City Council November 2, 1998
Contingent upon approval of the Metropolitan Council
Attest
Reviewed for Administration
City Manager
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