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RESOLUTION NO. 15-162
RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE 2030 COMPREHENSIVE
PLAN FOR THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK
UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES 462.351 TO 462.364
Southwest Corner of Wayzata Boulevard and Texas Avenue
WHEREAS, the 2030 Comprehensive Plan was adopted by the City Council on
December 21, 2009 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 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 of the City of St. Louis Park recommended
adoption of an amendment to the 2030 Comprehensive Plan on January 7, 2015, based on
statutes, the Metropolitan Regional Blueprint, extensive research and analyses involving the
Interests of citizens and public agencies;
WHEREAS, the City Council has considered the advice and recommendation of the
Planning Commission (Case No. 15 -29 -CP),
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WHEREAS, the contents of Planning Case File 15 -29 -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 RL — Low Density
Resid tial to RM — Medium Density Residential.
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Attest:
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City Clerk
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Adopted by the City Council October 19, 2015
(Continon Metropolitan Council review)
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