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