HomeMy WebLinkAbout99-8 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 1999/01/19RESOLUTION NO. 99 m 8
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
PORTION OF FORMER HUTCHINSON SPUR RAILROAD PROPERTY
SOUTH OF 36TH STREET
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
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 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 Comprehensive Plan currently designates the former Hutchinson Branch of
the Burlington Northern's railroad corridor (the "Hutchinson Spur") as a proposed major
pedestrian/bicycle route, and
WHEREAS, the intent is to provide a regional trail system that would link Minneapolis with
St. Louis Park, Hopkins, Minnetonka and west to Victoria, and
WHEREAS, on June 30, 1998, the City purchased a significant portion of the Hutchinson
Spur property for the trail, and
WHEREAS, McCullough Companies retained certain portions of the Hutchinson Spur
property for development, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to move approximately 600 feet of trail designation onto adjacent
Phillips Parkway right-of-way, and
WHEREAS, the Planning -Commission of the City of St. Louis Park recommended adoption
of an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan 1980-2000 on December 2, 1998 on a vote of 6-0,
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:
Move the trail designation from the former Hutchinson Spur property onto
adjacent Phillips Parkway right-of-way for distance of about 600 feet south of 36th
Street
Reviewed for Administration:
Attest:
City Clerk (Dep u
Contingent upon approval of the Metropolitan Council
Adopted by the City Council January 19, 1999
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