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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-111 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 2004/09/20• • RESOLUTION NO. 04-111 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 4100 VERNON AVENUE SOUTH 4135 WEBSTER AVENUE SOUTH 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 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 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 Resolution No 04-111 -2 - 1 WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan identifies the Brookside School as a community center and neighborhood amenity and designated the site as a Civic land use, and WHEREAS, the St. Louis Park School Distnct 283 has stated that since the Toss of a lease with the Minneapolis School Distnct, it can no longer afford to maintain the property as a community center, and WHEREAS, the St Louis Park School District 283 is disposing of the Brookside School property for private use and has entered into a purchase agreement with the residential developers Foundation Land Development and Master Development Group, and WHEREAS, the St. Louis Park School District 283 and developers have made application to amendment the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map to change the Civic designation to Low and Medium Density Residential and a text change to eliminate the Brookside School as a public amenity, and WHEREAS, the Planning Comrmssion of the City of St. Louis Park held a public hearing and heard testimony from the public to consider the requested amendments and recommended adoption of the amendments to the Comprehensive Plan 2000-2020 on July 7, 2004; 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 map below from Civic to Medium ensity Residential and Low Density Residential. Reviewe ange the text in Chapter U, Plan By Neighborhood as shown on the attached. for Administration: Adopted by the City Council September 20, City Attest: ity Clerk 2004 Conti r}gentLupo apgroval of the Metropolitan Counci� Mayor Residential Low Density Residential Medium Density Residential High Density Commerical Commercial Mixed Use Office Industrial ZpilCivic FACivic Mixed Use Park Right of Way Railroad Existing ive s 390 195 0 390 Feet ` IL S o (v 1- No- o. ()/7L/// Plan By Neighborhood — Brookside Neighborhood Neighborhood Name: Brookside Major Neighborhood Features: Minnehaha Creek; Excelsior Boulevard Neighborhood Park: Jackley Park Major Neighborhood Streets: Excelsior Blvd; Brookside Ave. 1996 Average Weekday Traffic Counts: Excelsior - 21,500; Brookside - 1,500 % Change From 1980: Excelsior - 6% decrease; Brookside 10% decrease Housing Condition: See Chapter P In.,titutions. rr�rscastrcxvrrs: -- - Neighborhood Character: The Brookside Neighborhood, like most St. Louis Park neighborhoods located south of Excelsior Boulevard was subdivided prior to WWI (1908). Half of the homes were constructed pnor to 1933. A major amenity of the neighborhood is Minnehaha Creek which flows along its southern border. The Brookside Neighborhood is essentially low density residential neighborhood with a few commercial and industrial uses adjacent to Excelsior Boulevard. and Brookside Community Center at Webster Avenue and 41st Street. Brookside, a collector route, is also the only through street in St. Louis Park which connects to Edina west of Highway 100. Specific Development Guidelines: No expansion of commercial use into the residential areas is proposed along Excelsior Boulevard Desired Neighborhood Improvements: Park improvements; larger homes; townhomes; add sidewalks; safe pedestnan crossings on TH. 100 and Excelsior and along Excelsior Blvd; streetscape project west of TH. 100 on Excelsior Blvd; improved transit including LRT and north/south connections; traffic calming; trails; pedestnan lighting.