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Approving the Interim Use Permit for a temporary emergency housing facility at 2329 Hendon Street (Stub Hall at Luther Seminary).
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WHEREAS, on March 13, 2020, Governor Walz issued Executive Order 20-01 “Declaring a Peacetime Emergency and Coordinating Minnesota’s Strategy to Protect Minnesotans from COVID-19” pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 12.31, Subd. 2, which was subsequently extended, most recently to December 14, 2020 by Executive Order 20-97; and
WHEREAS, COVID-19 is a pandemic illness and possess a risk to the health, welfare, and safety of the public; and
WHEREAS, the United States Government and the state of Minnesota have issued numerous guidelines, recommendations and orders intended to slow the spread of COVID-19; and
WHEREAS, persons without a place of residence (the “unsheltered”) with COVID-19, or exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, and lacking a place of residence, are particularly vulnerable thereby creating a housing emergency for the unsheltered; and
WHEREAS, social distancing recommendations employed to slow the spread of COVID-19 require more space to safely provide emergency housing for the unsheltered; and
WHEREAS, an emergency housing facility is a conditional use permitted in a T1 zoning district under Leg. Code § 66.321; and
WHEREAS, the Ramsey County Department of Health desires to use a site commonly known as Stub Hall, 2329 Hendon Street, a dormitory building on the site legally described as LUTHER NORTHWESTERN,ADDITION THAT PT OF LOT 1 BLK 1 LYING NELY AND SELY OF FOL DESC L BEG AT SLY COR OF SD LOT 1 SD COR IS COMMON WITH SW COR OF LOT 2 BLK 1 TH N 32 DEG 23 MIN 03 SEC E ASSUMED BEARING ALONG NWLY L OF SD LOT 2 AND NELY EXT A DIST OF 510.63 (hereinafter, “Stub Hall”) for temporary emergency housing for the unsheltered; and
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Saint Paul (“Council”) finds that the peacetime emergency created by the COVID-19 virus and the rapidly developing need to provide some means to house t...
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