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Amending Chapter 74 of the Legislative Code by enacting a new section designating the Theodore Hamm Brewing Company Heritage Preservation District as a Heritage Preservation Site.
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WHEREAS, on April 2025 HPC staff received a nomination form from JB Vang Partners that was prepared by local architectural historians for the designation of the Theodore Hamm Brewing Company Heritage Preservation District as a Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Site; and
WHEREAS, Heritage Preservation staff reviewed the nomination form and determined it was complete and scheduled the nomination for a public hearing before the Heritage Preservation Commission (“HPC”) to determine whether the Theodore Hamm Brewing Company Heritage Preservation District met the criteria for designation under Leg. Code § 73.05(a); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes § 471.193 and Legislative Code § 73.04(3), the HPC initiated the process to designate the Theodore Hamm Brewing Company Historic District, in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood of Saint Paul, at the following addresses: 707 Minnehaha Ave E., 685 Minnehaha Ave E., 722 Payne Ave., 720 Payne Ave., 691 Drewry Ln., 694 Minnehaha Ave E., 688 Minnehaha Ave E., 704 Minnehaha Ave E., 700 Minnehaha Ave E., and 680 Minnehaha Ave. E. (see map for district boundaries), as a Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Site; and
WHEREAS, on May 19, 2025, the HPC, having provided notice to affected property owners within 100 feet of the proposed district boundaries, published notice in a newspaper of general circulation, and posted the agenda to the city website and the City’s Early Notification System, duly conducted a public hearing on the Theodore Hamm Brewing Company Heritage Preservation District nomination where all interested parties were given an opportunity to be heard and based upon all the testimony and the records received, the HPC found that Theodore Hamm Brewing Company Heritage Preservation District met the criteria for designatio...
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