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Approving the Interim Use Permit for the reuse of large structures for temporary emergency housing at Boys Totem Town, 398 Totem Road.
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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; 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, on March 25, 2020 Governor Walz issued Executive Order 20-20 ordering all persons living in Minnesota to stay in their place of residence from 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2020 until 5:00 p.m. April 10, subject to certain conditions and including possible extension of the effect of Executive Order 20-20 through additional Executive Orders; and
WHEREAS, on April 8, 2020 Governor Walz issued Executive Order 20-33 which extended the requirement for all persons living in Minnesota to stay in their place of residence to 11:59 p.m., May 3, 2020; and
WHEREAS, while Executive Order 20-20 Paragraph 5(g) exempts persons without a place of residence (the “unsheltered”) from the restrictions of the Executive Order, the unsheltered are vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19 and unsheltered persons with COVID-19, or exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, and lacking a place of residence contemplated by the Executive Order, are particularly vulnerable thereby creating a housing emergency for the unsheltered; and
WHEREAS, reuse of large structures is a conditional use permitted in a R1 zoning district under Leg. Code § 66.221; and
WHEREAS, the Ramsey County Department of Health desires to use a site commonly known as Boys Totem Town, 398 Totem Road, legally described as SECTION 11 TOWN 28 RANGE 22 SELY PART OF NW 1/4 O...
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