HomeMy WebLinkAbout05-164 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 2005/11/21RESOLUTION NO. 05-164
RESOLUTION OF DENIAL
RESOLUTION OF FINDING REGARDING THE APPLICATION
FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2000-2020
AND A REZONING FROM R-2 TO R-4 FOR THE PROPERTY
LOCATED AT 5714 LAKE STREET WEST
WHEREAS, on September 1, 2005, the Kieffer Family Limited Partnership filed an
application to amend the Comprehensive Plan land use designation for property located at 5714
Lake Street West from Low Density Residential to Medium Density Residential, and an
amendment to the Zoning Map to change the zoning from R-2 Single Family Residential to R-4
Multi -Family Residential, and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission held a public hearing to consider the request on
October 5, 2005 and continued that hearing to October 19, 2005, and
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
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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 Planning Commission considered the staff report, the statements of the
applicant and public and recommended denial of the request on a vote of 5-0; and
WHEREAS, the contents of Planning Case File No. 05 -58 -CP and Planning Case File
No. 05-59-Z are hereby entered into and made part of the public hearing record and the record of
decision for this case.
WHEREAS, the City Council has considered the advice and recommendation of the
Planning Commission (Case No. 05 -58 -CP and 05-59-Z).
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of St. Louis
Park that the applicant's request for an amendment to Comprehensive Plan 2000 — 2020 to
change the land use designation at 5714 Lake Street West from Low Density Residential to
Medium Density Residential and the rezoning request from R-2 - Single Family Residential to R-
ulti Family Residential is hereby denied.
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Adopted by the City Council November 21, 2005
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