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Memorializing the City Council decision granting an appeal by the Hamline Midway Coalition from a decision of the planning commission to approve a conditional use permit for a fast food restaurant rebuild with a drive-through service window at 565 Snelling Avenue North.
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WHEREAS, On June 25, 2020, Border Foods Inc. (“Applicant”) duly filed with the Saint Paul Planning Commission (“Commission”) under Commission File No. 20-047-173, an application relating to the following provisions of the Saint Paul Zoning Code: Leg. Code §§ 61.501 (conditional use general standards), 61.503(d) (change in conditional use permit for demolished and rebuilt buildings ) and 65.513(standards and conditions applicable to drive-through sales and services) for the purpose of reconstructing a restaurant building and constructing a drive-thru window at property commonly known as 565 Snelling Avenue North, legally described as Lots 1, 2, and 3, Block 2, R.B. Thompson Addition, Ramsey County, Minnesota AND Lots 1 and 2, Block 1, Stierle, Mcconville and Seeger's Midway Addition, according to the recorded plat thereof, Ramsey County, Minnesota, EXCEPT the South 6.05 feet of the West 37.42 feet of said Lot 2, Block 1, and EXCEPT the South 1.00 feet of the East 10.50 feet of Lot 2, Block 1, Stierle, Mcconville and Seeger's Midway Addition [Parcel Identification No. 33.29.23.14.0031]; and
WHEREAS, on July 16, 2020, the Commission’s Zoning Committee (“Committee”), pursuant to Admin. Code § 107.03 and Leg. Code § 61.303, duly conducted a public hearing on the said zoning applications, the hearing being conducted remotely pursuant to Executive and Emergency Orders in effect at the time as it had been deemed, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, neither practical nor prudent to conduct “in-person” public hearings and, accordingly, members of the Committee and the Committee’s staff in attendance, together with the Applicant, participated remotely while members of the public were afforded the opp...
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