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File #: Ord 18-17    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
In control: City Council
Final action: 5/23/2018
Title: Granting the application of Baker East Partners to rezone property at 821 Raymond Avenue and 2421 Territorial Road from B2 Community Business and VP Vehicular Parking to T3 Traditional Neighborhood, and amending Chapter 60 of the Legislative Code pertaining to the zoning map.
Sponsors: Samantha Henningson
Attachments: 1. 18-036955 Resolution, 2. Zoning Committee Packet
Title
Granting the application of Baker East Partners to rezone property at 821 Raymond Avenue and 2421 Territorial Road from B2 Community Business and VP Vehicular Parking to T3 Traditional Neighborhood, and amending Chapter 60 of the Legislative Code pertaining to the zoning map.

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WHEREAS, Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes § 462.357 and § 61.800 of the Legislative Code, Attn: Baker East Partners, in Zoning File 18-036955, duly petitioned to rezone 821 Raymond Avenue and 2421 Territorial Road, being legally described as Lot 8 of AUDITOR'S SUBDIVISION NO. 4 VAC ST ACCRUING & FOL; BEG AT SE COR LOT 9 BLK 4 SD AUD SUB TH NWLY ON NE L OF TERRITORIAL RD 323.82FT TH NELY TO SE COR LOT 20 BLK 79 ST ANTHONY PARK TH E ON NL OF VAC ELLIS AVE TO SW COR LOT 19 SD BLK 79 TH NW ON EL ALLEY TO L 38.5FT SLY OF & PAR TO NL SD LOT 19 TH ELY TO WL RAYMOND AVE TH SLY ON SD WL TO BEG BEING PART OF LOT 19 BLK 79 ST ANTHONY PK & IN SD AUD SUB NO 4 PART OF LOTS 8 & LOT 9; and Lot 13 Block 1 of BAKER WEST TOWNHOMES LOT 13 BLK 1; PIN 292923340002 and PIN 292923340070, from B2 community business and VP vehicular parking to T3 traditional neighborhood.; and

WHEREAS, the Zoning Committee of the Planning Commission held a public hearing on March 29, 2018, for the purpose of considering the rezoning petition, and pursuant to §107.03 of the Administrative Code, submitted its recommendation to the Planning Commission for approval; and

WHEREAS, the Planning Commission considered the rezoning petition at its meeting held on April 6, 2018, and recommended approval to the City Council; and

WHEREAS, notice of public hearing before the City Council on said rezoning petition was duly published in the official newspaper of the City on May 3, 2018, and notices were duly mailed to each owner of affected property and property situated wholly or partly within 350 feet of the property sought to be rezoned; and

WHEREAS, a public hearing before the City Council having been conducted on May 16, 20...

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Date NameDistrictOpinionCommentAction
5/23/2018 7:52 AMPatty George Ward 4 Against I forgot to mark AGAINST vote on my previous statement.
5/23/2018 7:43 AMPatty George ward 4   I do not understand how any of this rezoning is acceptable when we were never notified with a rezoning postcard.? My business is across the street at 856 Raymond Ave, I never received notice of any neighborhood or city council meetings, until I happened upon them because of me inquiring about ORD 18-18. ORD 18-17 is still next to me and will affect my on street parking. So now my neighborhood that I planned on staying for 30-40years is cutoff, because developers decide they can think for others. This is another battle I do not have fight in any longer. Ord. 18-18 is big enough. Please recognize 6 story buildings next to 1 story or 2story houses that DO NOT BELONG. Put in development that is more in scale of our neighbor hood. We are not on University and North of Raymond and yet I cannot advertise on because I am out of the zoning. Tell me this is fair for the residents and businesses in our area? +1 -1
5/23/2018 7:40 AMPatty George ward 4   I do not understand how any of this rezoning is acceptable when we were never notified with a rezoning postcard.? My business is across the street at 856 Raymond Ave, I never received notice of any neighborhood or city council meetings, until I happened upon them because of me inquiring about ORD 18-18. ORD 18-17 is still next to me and will affect my on street parking. So now my neighborhood that I planned on staying for 30-40years is cutoff, because developers decide they can think for others. This is another battle I do not have fight in any longer. Ord. 18-18 is big enough. Please recognize 6 story buildings next to 1 story or 2story houses that DO NOT BELONG. Put in development that is more in scale of our neighbor hood. We are not on University and North of Raymond and yet I cannot advertise on because I am out of the zoning. Tell me this is fair even Rd. +1
5/23/2018 5:16 AMRaymond C. Bryan Against ment to accept provisos that meet neighborhood goals like energy self-reliance, green space, landscaping, setback from streets or existing structures, building height/m***ing, exterior building material/esthetics treatments, environmental concerns (see the guidlines that SAPCC has drafted and is in process of dating/revising). Simply rezoning on speculation, throws away all such leverage before any developer or plans come forward. And this neighborhood has seen a whole lot of dashed hopes and broken promises by developers over the past 44 years. This neighborhood has been an "urban village" for many years maybe since the arrival of "heavy rail transit" to the area. It has been a mixed use neighborhood for all of my life and my residence at birth was walking distance from Les & Rod's Market on Raymond Ave just off campus. Don't remember that? In that era there were small grocery stores at intervals of 3 to 6 blocks all over St. Anthony Park. 4 of them between Long and University. +1
5/23/2018 4:47 AMRaymond C. Bryan Against I have contest the city staff claim that this parcel was put forth as appropriate for T3 zoning. I was a representative from D12CC (SAPCC) to the station area plan process for Carlton and Westgate stations. The models that were done in that planning as I recall them, did not show 6 story buildings along Raymond Avenue north of Territorial and in fact the in conformance with our existing (and still in force plan of 2005 until the city ratifies recent changes) showed 6 story residential/commercial development along and either side of University to at most 1 block north or south of University except .5 miles from the station (Carlton to Pillsbury at University). Here is the humongous elephant in the room not being considered staff or commission; handing out a zoning change (or CUP to lesser extent) is meant to provide neighbors a lever to bring developers to the current stakeholders neighbors, residents, business owners and tenants to where these stakeholders get to persuade developme +2
5/23/2018 2:05 AMLinda Bryan Against The neighboring homes and businesses feel this zoning change has been run through, without proper examination of the implications this T3 zoning will bring forth. We received notice after their other parcel had already been rezoned to T3, and other residents and businesses near Baker Court had nor received any notice of the change. If you polled the small businesses & residents within a two blocks radius of Baker Court, I think you’d find that most of them oppose these T3 rezonings. Especially at that corner, the increased building height would be out of character with the existing neighborhood, and more suited to a location on University Avenue. Developers are drawn to our neighborhood for its urban charm, but are then willing to destroy that charm to meet their development needs. +2