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Home My WebLink About02-008 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 2002/01/22RESOLUTION NO. 02-008 A RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2000 TO THE YEAR 2020 FOR THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES 462.351 TO 462.364 TEXT CHANGES ' CHAPTER U, PLAN BY NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOOD #25 WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan 2000-2020 was adopted by the City Council on May 17, 1999 (effective September 1, 1999) 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 vanance 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 pubhc activities and will promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, and WHEREAS, said Plan will prepare the community for anticipated desirable change, thereby bnnging about significant savings in both pnvate 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 penodically 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 adoption of an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan 2000-2020 on January 2, 2002, based on statutes, the Metropolitan Regional Bluepnnt, extensive research and analyses involving the interests of citizens and public agencies; Resolution No. 02-008 -2- 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: The underlined text is added to Chapter U, Plan By Neighborhood, Neighborhood 25 Wolfe Park. Neighborhood Character: This neighborhood is distinguished by its diversity, containing a mixture of housing, commercial, medical, office, and industrial uses. New, intense mixed-use development is proposed for the area located northeast of Excelsior Boulevard and Highway 100. This area, named Park Commons, is proposed to be a new town center for St. Louis Park. Park Commons will feature a new town green and Wolfe Park as important civic features. Wolfe Lake and Bass Lake provide major recreational and visual amenities, and function as storm sewer and ponding areas. A pedestnan trail has been developed around Bass Lake which connects Bass Lake with Wolfe Park, the Recreation Center, the new Park Commons, Excelsior Boulevard, Park Center Boulevard and Highway 7. High-density residential uses exist on the north side of Bass Lake and on the south, east and west sides of Wolfe Park. Industrial uses are located on the west side of Beltline Boulevard and along the northeast corner of the neighborhood except that portion immediately adjacent and north of West 36th Street where commercial uses are proposed. Mixed medium and high-density residential uses are existing along the south side of Bass Lake Most of the commercial area and those areas south and west of Monterey and 36th Street are part of the proposed Park Commons and are included in the City's Redevelopment Distnct. The Redevelopment Plan identifies land use and sets forth development goals and objectives. See also the Chapter P, Redevelopment and Chapter R, Livable Communities. Specific Development Guidelines: An urban design for Park Commons is included in Chapter P. All redevelopment of the Park Commons area shall comply with the Redevelopment Plan for the area. Any expansion of commercial uses north of Excelsior Boulevard and east of Monterey Drive shall provide aesthetic barriers and transitions from the commercial front on Excelsior Boulevard to residential uses being mindful of scale, density, quality, aesthetics, land use intensity, and vehicle access. Commercial uses that complement the area with limited impacts on adjacent residential distncts are permitted on properties abutting and north of W 36`h Street : Outdoor sales, restaurants with in -vehicle sales and service, motor fuel stations, motor vehicle service, repair, motor vehicle sales, uses that serve intoxicating liquor, shopping centers over 50,000 square feet, and single retail uses/tenants in excess of 20,000 square feet are prohibited. Any redevelopment of this area will require buildings to front on West 36th Street with parking on the north side of buildings and access points at least 150 feet from the Beltline/West 36`h Street intersection. Desired Neighborhood Improvements: Trees; adult recreational programs; improved transit; improved winter sidewalk maintenance; affordable senior housing; sidewalks especially on Park Glen Road; improved pedestrian crossings; pedestrian lighting; noise reductions. • • • Resolution No 02-008 Reviewed for Administration / /1�� itit6Manager Attest. 51--A-4"-----71. Clerk -3- Adopted by the City Council January 22, 2002 Contingent, upon approval of the Metropolitan Council r' (--- (11 Mayor, • STATE OF MINNESOTA) SS newspapers AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) Gene Carr, being duly sworn on an oath states or affirms, that he is the publisher of the news- paper known as Sun -Sailor , and has full knowledge of the facts stat- ed below (A) The newspaper has complied with all of the requirements constituting qualification as a qualified newspaper, as provided by Minn Stat. §331A 02, §331A 07, and other applicable laws, as amended. (B) The printed public notice that is attached was published in the newspaper once each week, for one successive weeks; it was first published on Wednesday, the 30 day of January , 2002, and was thereafter printed and published on every Wednesday to and including Wednesday, the day of , 2002, and printed below is a copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, which is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of the notice • abcdefghnklmnopgrstuvwxyz BY. G�✓" Subscribed and swo t• or affirm d efore me on this L day of , 002 \T\ Nota' President and Publisher yr,nnnnnnM.,. td MERIDEL M HEDBLOM NOTARY PUBLIC MINNESOTA MY COMMISSION EXPIRES 1 31-2005 RATE INFORMATION (1) Lowest classified rate paid by commercial users for comparable space (2) Maximum rate allowed by law (3) Rate actually charged $ 2 85 per line $ 620 per line $ 1.40 per line City of St: Louis Park (Official Pubhcation) SUMMARY RESOLUTION NO. 02-008 A RESOLUTION APPROVING AN - AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2000 TO THE YEAR 2020 FOR THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES 482.361 TO 482.384 TEXT CHANGES CHAPTER U, PLAN BY NEIGHBORHOOD - - NEIGHBORHOOD 826 - Thie resolution modifies the Neighborhood Character land use descriptions and Specific Development Guidelines for the Wolfe Park neighborhood for the area north of 36th Street and west of Belt Line Boulevard Adopted by the City Council January 22, 2002 - CoRtingent upon approval of the Metropohtan Council Jeffrey W Jacobs /a/ Mayor A copy of thesfull text of thus resolution is available for in- spection with the City Clerk '(January 30, 2002)A3/Res 02-008 -