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Amending Chapter 65 of the Legislative Code by adding a new section defining a Hotel.
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WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Saint Paul, in Council Resolution No. 19-41, previously found that while the City’s zoning code stated that a “hotel” was a principal use permitted in several of the City’s zoning districts, that the zoning code also lacked a definition of a hotel, and lacked standards applicable to a hotel for any of the zoning districts in which a hotel was a permitted use; and
WHEREAS, the Council further found that although the City’s licensing code defined a “hotel” at Leg. Code § 407.02, the Council noted that this license code definition was no longer useful because the City’s licensing authority to regulate hotels has been assumed by the State of Minnesota; and
WHEREAS, in light of the findings noted above, the Council further found that the range of zoning districts in which a hotel was classified as a permitted use, the zoning code’s lack of a definition or any standards applicable to a hotel, the City’s lack of licensing authority over a hotel, and recent amendments to the zoning code which have resulted in the expansion of permitted commercial lodging uses in the City, necessitated a reexamination of the regulation of hotels under the zoning code; and
WHEREAS, Minn. Stat. § 462.357, Subd.4 authorizes the Council to initiate a zoning code amendment and refer the amendment to the planning commission for a study of the amendment, to obtain from the commission a report on the proposed amendment, and to not act upon the amendment proposal until sixty (60) days have elapsed from the date of the referral without a report from the commission; and
WHEREAS, Council Resolution No. 19-41 requested the planning commission to study the zoning code’s present regulation of hotels and to prepare a report and a recommendation whether to amend the City’s zoning code regulations for hotels based upon that study; and
WHEREAS, the planning co...
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