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City of Falcon Heights <br />Planning Commission Minutes <br />June 26, 2007 <br />PRESENT: Commissioners Rodich, Noble, Salzberg, Lukermann, Long, Council Member <br />Kuettel. Also present was Staff Liaison Deb Jones. <br />ABSENT: Commissioners Watkins and Mercer-Taylor, with notice. <br />The meeting was called to order by Chairman Rodich at 7:00 p.m. The minutes of the April <br />24, 2007, meeting were approved unanimously. <br />INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: <br />The annual Ice Cream Social will take place on July 26 in Community Park from 6 to 8 p.m. <br />A flyer with details went out today; information will also be available on the City website. <br />Staff Liaison Jones reminded viewers that the monthly flyer always has lots of good <br />information. If anyone does not receive the flyer, it is also posted on the website. <br />ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned at 7:05 p.m. to a workshop on the 2008 <br />Comprehensive Plan. <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />Deborah Jones, Staff Liaison <br />NOTES ON THE WORKSHOP: <br />The Commission was shown the slide presentation that was given to the Comprehensive Plan <br />Steering Committee earlier in the month on the topic of Falcon Heights' projected housing <br />needs to 2030 and ways for those needs to be met in view of the constraints faced by the City. <br />In summary: <br />• Projected housing needs will have to be met through redevelopment of private land <br />because there is no vacant land in the City, and there is little likelihood that UM or State <br />Fair lands will be made available. <br />• This redevelopment is most likely to take place along the Larpenteur Corridor, where <br />there is sufficient land presently used for business or multi-family housing to <br />accommodate more housing, if some of those properties are redeveloped. It is likely that <br />some redevelopment will be proposed by property owners between now and 2030.. <br />• The City will need to adjust land use plans to allow additional housing on the Larpenteur <br />Corridor, if and when private landowners desire to redevelop existing multi-family or <br />commercial properties. <br />• With the coming of the Bell Museum, the City will host a significant hub of cultural and <br />recreational resources around the intersection of Cleveland and Larpenteur. <br />City of Falcon Heights -Planning Commission Meeting of June 26, 2007 -Page 1 of 1 <br />