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Temporarily prohibiting any development permits within the District 9 Gateway Parcel which are inconsistent with the District 9 Area Plan's Job and Economic Development strategies and Housing Objectives.
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WHEREAS, on July 7, 2010, the City adopted a new District 9 Area Plan as an addendum to the City's Comprehensive Plan; and
WHEREAS, the District 9 Area Plan's Job and Economic Development Strategies calls for the preservation of businesses and jobs in the District while at the same time complementing the District's Housing Objectives; and
WHEREAS, the vacation of a long standing land use on a parcel of land in the District prompted this Council, under City of Saint Paul Ordinance No. 11-5, to initiate a zoning study as well as enact an interim ordinance to preserve the development status quo in the vicinity during the pendency of the zoning study as the Council found that the parcel of land recently vacated by the land use was significant as a "gateway parcel" to District 9 as the said parcel abutted lands to the North, which were zoned B5 Central Business Service and T2 Traditional Neighborhood, while the vacated parcel was zoned B3 General Business; and
WHEREAS, as noted in Ordinance 11-5, this Council determined that the zoning classification of the subject gateway parcel might not further the objectives contained in the District 9 Area Plan's Job and Economic Development Strategies or the Area Plan's Housing Objectives given the B5 and T2 zoning classifications of the parcels abutting the gateway parcel and because it was not anticipated at the time of the adoption of the Area Plan's Land Use Mix that the use of the gateway parcel would be vacated; and
WHEREAS, as the zoning study commenced pursuant to Ordinance 11-5 progresses, the Council now finds that the land use classification of those parcels of land beginning at the intersecting point of the centerlines of the northbound I-35E exit ramp/ Thompson Street/ Grand Avenue right...
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