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Home My WebLink About04-048 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 2004/04/12• RESOLUTION NO. 04-048 A RESOLUTION APPROVING AMENDMENTS TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2000 TO THE YEAR 2020 FOR THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES 462.351 TO 462.364 TO CHANGE LAND USE DESIGNATION FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT SOUTHWEST CORNER OF HIGHWAY 7 and WOODDALE AVENUE SOUTH and TEXT CHANGES CHAPTER P, REDEVELOPMENT CHAPTER U, PLAN BY NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOOD #31 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 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 bnnging about significant savings in both pnvate and public expenditures, and WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan has taken due cognizance of the planning activities IPof adjacent units of government, and Resolution No. 04-048 -2- 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 Planning Commission of the City of St. Louis Park recommended adoption of an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan 2000-2020 on March 3, 2004, 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: Change the land use designation as shown on maps below from Civic -Mixed -Use to Commercial Mixed -Use and right of way (southwest quadrant of Highway 7 and Wooddale Avenue South). and The underlined text is added to Chapter P, Redevelopment, Elmwood Area. Elmwood Area The 30 -year vision for the Elmwood Area was developed for land use, transit and circulation and is contained within the Elmwood Area Land Use, Transit and Transportation Study completed in 2003. The long-range planning principles, established by the study process, provide the framework to direct and evaluate land use and transportation decisions as the Elmwood area evolves and changes. The planning principles also provide direction and focus for reinvestment in the public realm, and help affirm land development and infrastructure pnorities, sequencing and phasing. They also establish a common expectation amongst decision makers, property owners, tenants, and others. Future land use approvals and transportation improvements will be based upon Study recommendations and subsequent traffic studies that will verify the study assumptions and recommendations. Dworsky/Soomek Rug • Land use should focus on low-density office or other low -traffic generation uses. • Tenant mix should desire high visibility with convenient access and may be limited to uses with low traffic generation. Parking for residents and customers should occur on this site. • Architectural style and massing should provide a neighborhood gateway. • Extensive landscaping should be a mandatory project element. • Redevelopment should accommodate the realignment of the TH 7 Frontage Road. • Resolution No. 04-048 -3- The underlined text is added to Chapter U, Plan By Neighborhood, Neighborhood 31 Elmwood and the attached updated Elmwood Neighborhood map. Specific Development Guidelines: A land use study The Elmwood Area Land Use., Transit & Transportation Study was completed for the area outlined in blue on—the opposite page bounded by TH7, TH. 100, in January 2003. This area is subject to redevelopment, and uses compatible with the future transit potential of the CP Rail Bass Lake Corndor d were recommended by the Study. This may include a The Study recommended a location for the transit station, and recommended a mixture of residential, work place, and retail/service uses. Study recommendations have been adopted into Chapter P, Redevelopment of this Comprehensive Plan. One desirable result cite for a transit station. Additional land use designation changes will follow based on the study results. The Elmwood Area Land Use, Transit & Transportation Study recommended low density office or other low traffic generation uses forproperty on either side of Wooddale Avenue directly south of TH 7. This recommendation was adopted into Chapter P and will guide future land use approvals. Reviewd for Administration: Adopted by the City Council April 12, 2004 ntin Council. nt upon approval of the Metropolitan • Attest: tyClerk tv Clerk 04-05-CP/res-ord May Resolution No. 04-048 -4- CompPlan Land Use Residential Low Density Residential High Density Residential Medium Density Commercial Commercial -Mixed Use n Office Civic ® Civic -Mixed Use Industrial Park Right -of -Way Railroad OM Existing Comprehensive Plan I Resolution No. 04-048 -5- Pechiny Plastics CompPlan Land Use Residential Low Density F—I Residential High Density Residential Medium Density Commercial Commercial -Mixed Use Office Civic En Civic -Mixed Use Industrial Park Right -of -Way Riv•-:1 Railroad Proposed Comprehensive Plan 1 Resolution No. 04-048 -6- Elmwood Proposed Land Use Designatio 1111=_ 1111_ :1111 MI NM&— tall BIM 111111 11111 11111111 11111 1111 11111 !11111111_ ' X111: =tri 111111111111111\ Land Use Designations Residential Low Density n Residential Medium Density n Commercial I-1 Commercial -Mixed Use Office Industrial Civic n Civic -Mixed Use Park Right of Way r" --i Railroad Proposed Changes The area outiined in blue was the subject of the Elmwood Area Land Use, Transit and Transportation Study completed in early 2003 The goal of the Study was to provide a 30 -year vision for the area and to establish long-range planning principles to guide future land use and transportatation decisions These principles have been adopted in Chapter P Redevelopment Land use approvals for individual properties within the Study area will be based upon the recommendations of the Study and subsequent traffic and land use studies STATE OF MINNESOTA) SS newspapers AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION r COUNTY OF CARVER) Richard Hendrickson, being duly sworn on an oath states or affirms, that he is the Chief Financial Officer of the newspaper known as Sun -Sailor and has full knowledge of the facts stated 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 Thursday, the 22 day of April 2004, and was thereafter printed and published on every Thursday to and including Thursday, the day of , 2004, and printed below is a copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, which is hereb acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition andputS 'cation of th = otice abcdefghpk Imnrstuvwxyz BY Subscribed and sworn to or affirmed before me on this 29th day of April , 2004 CFO MARY ANN CARLSON NOTARY PUBLIC — MINNESOTA MY COMMISSION EXPIRES 1-31-09 RATE INFOR (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 $ 6 20 per line $ 1 40 per line City of St. Louis Park (Official Pubhcation) SUMMARY RESOLUTION NO. 04-048 A RESOLUTION APPROVING AMENDMENTS TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2000 TO THE YEAR 2020 FOR THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES 462.351 TO 462.364 SOUTHWEST QUADRANT OF HIGHWAY 7 and WOODDALE AVENUE SOUTH And < TEXT CHANGES • CHAPTER P, REDEVELOPMENT CHAPTER U, PLAN BY NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOOD #31 This resolution states that the land use designation of the southwest quadrant of Highway 7 and Wooddale Ave S , _ shall be -changed from Civic -Mixed -Use to Commercial - Mixed -Use The resolution also amends text related to the 1 Elmwood Area in the Redevelopment Chapter (Chapter P) and modifies Specific Development Guidehnes for the • Elmwood Neighborhood (Chapter U) ; • Adopted by the City Council April 12,'2004 Contingent upon approval by the Metropohtan Council Jeffrey W Jacobs /s/ - Mayor - A copy of the full test of this resolution is available for in- - spection with the Gay Clerk— _ - -, _-_ Published in St Louts Park Sailor April 22, 2004 ' (Apr 22, 2004)A3/sum res 04-048 map