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Home My WebLink About04-061 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 2004/05/170 RESOLUTION NO. 04-061 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 EXCELSIOR AND GRAND PHASE III (PHASE E) NW corner of Excelsior Boulevard and Monterey Drive Text and Concept Plan Redevelopment Chapter (Phase E, Park Commons East) 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, theieby 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 Lows 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 May 5, 2004, based on statutes, the Metropolitan Regional Blueprint, extensive research and analyses involving the interests of citizens and public agencies; Resolution No. 04-061 -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: Figure P-5: Park Commons East Redevelopment Concept Plan This plan for Park Commons East is a concept that will be refined by detailed redevelopment plans through the PUD approval process. Office buildings will include at least 50% ground floor retail/service/restaurants A mix of uses will be incorporated, including approximately 145,000 sq. ft of retail/service/restaurants, 115,000 sq. ft. of office, and 660 residential units, including rental and for -sale units Density shall be considered overall for the entire redevelopment plan rather than block -by -block or land use designation -by -designation. Site access points shall generally comply with the redevelopment plan, although some modifications may be approved by PUD Parking shall be within structures or on -street, except that a small at -grade lot may be approved for the southwest corner of Monterey Dnve and Park Commons Dnve if that parking is screened from the adjacent streets and by a wall that also provides a structural edge to the project area Building heights south of 380h/39`h Street will generally be 2-4 stones, except that a 5 -story residential building can be approved by PUD at the corner of Monterey Dnve and Excelsior Boulevard , while Building heights north of 38`h/39`h Street will generally be 6-8 stones The actual heights of buildings will vary, due to different floor to ceiling heights of different uses Buildings over 4 stones in height should be rendered in such a manner as to retain a human scale at the street level (See Chapter R Livable Communities) and minimize the visual impact of the upper stones One solution is to set back upper floors The design of the park edge and town green will be further refined. The following modifications to performance standards may be adopted through PUD consideration • Resolution No 04-061 -3- Mixed-Use Crtterta: Daycare can be considered a retail/service use for meeting ground floor mixed-use critena, and a fitness center (indoor entertainment) can be considered an office use for meeting upper story mixed-use criteria, since both can be converted in the future. The actual mix of uses may vary on a given lot provided that the overall ratio of uses falls within the ranges esthed under Land Use Allocations below eview:d for Administration. Adopted by the City Council May 17, 2004 Co . . gent upon approval of the Metropolitan ouncii City Man Attest: Dr,4City Clerk • Mayo STATE OF MINNESOTA) SS newspapers AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) 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 week(s), it was first published on Thursday, the 27 day of May , 2004, and was thereafter printed and published on every Thursday to and including Thursday, the day of , 2004, and punted 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 publica- tion of the notice abcdefglul klm nopgrstuvwxyz IIL Subscribed and sworn to or affirmed before me on this 27th day of May , 2004. Notary Public RATE INFORMATION (1) Lowest classified rate paid by commercial users for comparable space 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 colRsi zi I!1r@i"rBlioml SUMMARY RESOIX1fl iN NO. 04-061 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 EXCELSIOR AND GRAND PHASE III (PHASE E) NW corner of Fscelsior Boulevard and Monterey Drive Redevelopment Chapter (Phase E, Park Commons East) This resolution states that amendments will be made to Chapter P - Redevelopment text describing the Park Com- mons (Excelsior & Grand) concept plan to allow Phase E to include approximately 13,000 sq ft of ground floor re- tail and 88 condominiums allow a building height of up to 5 stones on Phase E without the 5th story set back, and allow access to Phase E from Park Commons Drive and a surface parking lot along a portion of Park Commons Drive and Monterey Drive Adopted by the City Council May 17, 2004 Contingent upon approval of the Metropolitan Council A copy of thr spection with Pubhshed m F ll Jeffrey W Jacobs Is/ Mayor 'ution is available for m- or. May 2'1„mem 161 Pk Cates