HomeMy WebLinkAbout06-096 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 2006/06/05RESOLUTION NO. 06-096
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
4525 MORNINGSIDE ROAD
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 infect 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 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
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WHEREAS, the Housing chapter of the Comprehensive Plan states, "The
greatest deficit and need is for the creation and maintenance of detached, owner -occupied
single family housing which are large enough to accommodate families. City housing
efforts and resources should pnmarily address this need," and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of St. Louis Park
recommended adoption of an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan 2000-2020 on April
5, 2006, based on statutes, the Metropolitan Regional Blueprint, extensive research and
analyses involving the interests of citizens and public agencies, and
WHEREAS, the City Council has considered the advice and recommendation of
the Planning Commission (Case No. 06 -02 -CP), and
WHEREAS, the contents of Planning Case File 06 -02 -CP are hereby entered into
and made part of the public hearing record and the record of decision for this case.
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 the attached map from P - Park to
RL — Low Density Residential for the property at 4525 Morningside Road
(The south 15.00 feet of Lot 26, Block 2, BROWNDALE PARK, according to the
recorded plat, thereof, Hennepin County, Minnesota, lying westerly of the easterly
100.00 feet)
Revie ed for Administration:
City ana
Attest:
City Clerk
Adopted by the City Council June 5, 2006
Contingent upon approval of the Metropolitan
Council
Existing and Proposed
Comprehensive Plan Designations
Existing:
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Park
Low Density Residential
Proposed:
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