HomeMy WebLinkAbout18-179 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 2018/11/05Resolution No. 18-179
A resolution approving an amendment to the 2030 comprehensive plan for the
City of St. Louis Park under Minnesota statutes 462.351 to 462.364
3100 Natchez 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 October 17, 2018, based on statutes, the
Metropolitan Regional Development Framework, extensive research and analyses involving the
interests of citizens and public agencies;
Resolution No. 18-179
Whereas, the city council has considered the advice and recommendation of the
planning commission (Case No. 18 -52 -CP);
Whereas, the contents of planning case file no. 18 -52 -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 from medium density residential to civic for the
property legally defined as Lots 1 and 2, block 2, Mazey & Langans Addition to St. Louis
Park, including adjacent % of vacated alley.
for dministration: Adopted by the City Council November 5, 2018
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Contingent upon Metropolitan Council review
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