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Memorializing decisions of the Council to: (1) grant the appeal by District 6 of a decision of the Planning Commission approving a conditional use permit to operate a department of corrections-licensed community residential facility at 1394 Jackson Street, and (2) deny the appeal by the Volunteers of America regarding conditions imposed by the Planning Commission on the conditional use permit to operate a department of corrections-licensed community residential facility at 1394 Jackson Street.
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WHEREAS, Volunteers of America - Minnesota ("VOA"), in PED Zoning File No. 12-048-442
, duly applied to the Saint Paul Planning Commission ("Commission") for a Conditional Use Permit ("CUP") to operate a Department of Corrections Licensed Community Residential Facility at property commonly known as 1394 Jackson Street [Parcel Identification Number 192922420025] and legally described as J W Bass Garden Lots Ex The S 65 Ft and Ex The E 300 Ft; Lot 9; and
WHEREAS, in its CUP application, VOA also requested the Commission to modify zoning standards under Leg. Code ยง 65.154(d) which limits the number of residents permitted in Department of Corrections Licensed Community Residential Facilities to sixteen: under its CUP application, VOA sought approval for "up to 74" residents; and
WHEREAS, on May 10, 2012, the Commission's Zoning Committee ("Committee") duly conducted a public hearing at which all persons present were afforded the opportunity to be heard and having received a staff report recommending approval of the said application, and upon hearing testimony both from those in favor of the application and those opposed to it, the Committee duly closed the public hearing and, rather than making a recommendation to the full Commission regarding VOA's application, the Committee moved to lay the matter over to May 24, 2012 for the express purpose of having staff provide clarification regarding: the history of uses at the subject site, the overall...
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