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No. R-98-17
CITY OF FALCON HEIGHTS
COUNCIL RESOLUTION
Date: July 1, 1998
RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF MINNESOTA TO REMOVE THE PROPOSED CLEVELAND AVE. SITE AS A
LOCATION FOR THE WOMEN'S INTERCOLLEGIATE SOCCER STADIUM AND
TO FOLLOW THE MASTER PLAN IN ITS LAND USE DECISIONS
WHEREAS, the City of Falcon Heights (City) supports and promotes
opportunities for women including government and athletics;
WHEREAS, the City is responsible for assuring the quality of life in its
neighborhoods and for providing affordable public services for its citizens by
• planning for and promoting compatible land uses throughout the community
whether or not these land uses are within its governmental control because
maintaining a healthy community requires working in cooperation with rather
than in isolation from different governmental jurisdictions;
WHEREAS, the City promotes sound community planning by regularly
informing its citizens, its businesses, its institutions and its neighbors of
upcoming long range and specific project planning activities and by inviting
its citizens, its businesses, its institutions and its neighbors to be involved in
all stages of the planning process;
WHEREAS, in 1993 the City accepted the University of Minnesota's
(University) invitation to participate in the Master Planning process with
enthusiasm, commitment and good faith;
WHEREAS, the University, using public funds, prepared, presented for
public review and adopted the Master Plan entitled "A Livable Campus" in
September, 1996 with a strong commitment from the Board of Regents to
follow the master plan;
WHEREAS, the Master Plan reflects a thoughtful handling of future
• land uses on the Twin Cities Campus and their relationship with the
surrounding community;
• WHEREAS, city officials participated in the University planning process
and the city planning commission and city council reviewed the Master Plan
for its consistency with the city's comprehensive planning goals prior to the
plan's adoption by the Board of Regents;
WHEREAS, the Master Plan, as presented for public review and
approved by the Regents, identifies a continued use for the soccer fields and
open space on the southwest quadrant of Cleveland and Larpenteur Avenues
(Cleveland site);
WHEREAS, the 1998 University proposal to build a women's soccer
stadium on the Cleveland site to replace the temporary women's soccer
facilities conflicts in several ways with the Master Plan, in specific it conflicts
because soccer fields are not defined as the same land use as athletic
facilities or soccer stadiums either in general planning terms or in the Master
Plan as noted in the text and illustrated in the diagrams for future
development of the Cleveland site;
WHEREAS, upon selecting the Cleveland site for a women's soccer
stadium in 1998, the University failed to follow its procedures for amending
the Master Plan which include a review of all building projects for their
• consistency with the Master Plan and a detailed series of additional steps
prior to approving projects that do not conform to the Master Plan, like the
women's soccer stadium;
WHEREAS, under any circumstances, siting active recreational
facilities like a soccer stadium requires a careful analysis of the use and its
relationship to the site and surrounding properties;
WHEREAS, the proposed women's soccer stadium on the Cleveland
site is inconsistent with national and local community land use planning
principles for locating active recreational uses because of its proximity to
residential property;
WHEREAS, the proposed women's soccer stadium on the Cleveland
site provides no room for expansion, inadequate parking facilities, and no
developed plans for access and noise control;
WHEREAS, the City believes that supporting and promoting women's
intercollegiate athletic facilities requires locating these women's facilities
where they maximize the opportunities for the program's growth and
minimize the opportunities for conflicts and constraints on the program due
• to conflicting land uses;
• WHEREAS, the University failed to involve the City and the greater
community in the selection of the Cleveland site or in the review of
alternatives sites for the women's soccer stadium;
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WHEREAS, the City welcomes the opportunity to work with the
University and neighboring communities to find a suitable location for the
women's soccer stadium;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City requests that the
Board of Regents respect the Master Plan and accepted community land use
planning standards and remove the Cleveland site as a location for the
women's intercollegiate soccer stadium;
AND that the Board of Regents follow the thoughtfully prepared,
publicly reviewed, community sensitive Master Plan, including its detailed
amendment process, in all University land use decisions.
• Moved by: Kuettel
GEHRZ 5
GIBBON TALBOT
HUSTAD 0
JACOBS
KUETTEL
In Favor
Approved by: ~.
Mayor
July 1, 1998
Date
Against Attested by: ~' ~ Q ~y~
City Clerk
July 1, 1998
Date
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