HomeMy WebLinkAbout16-055 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 2016/04/04RESOLUTION NO. 16-055
RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE 2030 COMPREHENSIVE
PLAN FOR THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK
UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES 462.351 TO 462.364
2460 State Highway 100 South
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 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,
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 City received an application on February 1, 2016 to amend the 2030
Comprehensive Plan to change the land use designation from Office to Commercial for the subject
property;
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission held a public hearing on the application on March
2, 2016, and recommended approval;
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WHEREAS, the City Council has considered the advice, testimony received at the public
hearing, and the recommendation of the Planning Commission (Case No. 16 -07 -CP);
WHEREAS, the contents of Planning Case File No. 16 -07 -CP are hereby entered into and
made part of 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:
the land use designation as shown on the attached map (Exhibit A) from Office to
Reviewedi�pr Administration: Adopted by the City Council April 4, 2016
A 1 I Co tin ent upop-qpproval of the Metropolitan
Manager
Attest:
IRAN TOM
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