HomeMy WebLinkAbout16-023 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 2016/02/01RESOLUTION NO. 16-023
RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE 2030 COMPREHENSIVE
PLAN FOR THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK
UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES 462.351 TO 462.364
7500 EXCELSIOR BOULEVARD
7630 EXCELSIOR BOULEVARD
8000 POWELL ROAD
8050 POWELL ROAD
4103 TEXAS AVENUE 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 Planning Commission of the City of St. Louis Park recommended
adoption of an amendment to the 2030 Comprehensive Plan on January 6, 2016, based on statutes,
the Metropolitan Regional Development Framework, extensive research and analyses involving
the interests of citizens and public agencies;
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WHEREAS, the City Council has considered the advice and recommendation of the
Planning Commission (Case No. 15 -46 -CP).
WHEREAS, the contents of Planning Case File No. 15 -46 -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:
1. To remove the following properties from the Land Use map:
8000 Powell Road
8050 Powell Road
4103 Texas Avenue South
2. To add the following properties to the Land Use map, and designate them as
"Industrial":
7630 Excelsior Boulevard
0.65 acres of 7500 Excelsior Boulevard located north of 7630 Excelsior Boulevard
Reviewed for Administration:
Attest:
MerissV Kennedy, Crerk
Adopted by the City Council February 1, 2016