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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes August 18, 2020 Page 2 1 Motion by Commissioner Rude, seconded by Commissioner Payne, to approve the April 21, 2 2020, Regular Planning Commission Meeting Minutes. 3 4 Motion carried 7-0. 5 6 III. PUBLIC HEARING. 7 8 A. Consider a request for an Amendment to the Silver Lake Village Planned Unit 9 Development (PUD) at 3725 Stinson Blvd. 10 11 Chair Westrick reviewed how the public hearing will proceed this evening. This item will 12 come before Council on September 8, 2020. Chair Westrick indicated she could attend the 13 Council meeting for presentation of this item. 14 15 Chairperson Westrick opened the public hearing at 7:07 p.m. 16 17 City Planner Grittman reviewed the request for an amendment to the Silver Lake Village 18 Planned Unit Development at 3725 Stinson Blvd. 19 20 Commissioner Neumann asked what the actual demographic was going to be for this 21 “affordable housing” building that is going up. Mr. Grittman indicated he would let the 22 applicant address this question. He indicated the application packet suggested it would be a 23 general market tenant base with rents affordable to sixty percent of area median income. 24 25 Commissioner Neumann indicated the Comprehensive Plan was mentioned in the presentation 26 and she was actually part of the Planning Commission at the time this was being submitted 27 and part of the public comment, heavily so, from two of the bigger community organizations 28 in the City, and as far as constituents have commented about what equity looks like in the 29 Village and who needs to be also looked at from an equitable lens in order to reach equality. 30 She indicated everyone knows there are some pretty large racial disparities in St. Anthony 31 Village. What she has witnessed in these three years, and is glad the Mayor is actually in 32 attendance with it looks like the Superintendent of the schools Cornear, these places coming, 33 for example, Apache being one of the developers, is someone that had been through the 34 Village before and she had mentioned that this was super rushed, if looking back at meeting 35 minutes, there was not a lot of transparency as far as who these people were and how are we 36 ending programs that are affecting the individuals that the City is supposed to be actually 37 looking at through an equitable lens for. The demographic for this particular building, it is 38 sort of like, how are the developers building places that the people who live around cannot 39 afford. The people that live in Equinox cannot afford a one bedroom for $1,400 with three 40 children. There has been talk about how in this community a lot of families of color, 41 especially a lot of poorer families, let us talk about the disparities and remove the racial piece 42 of it and just talk about the economic disparities at face value. This seems to affect a lot more 43 the families of color and after being here and the family grows, there is not a lot three-44 bedroom apartments, for example, to accommodate families that did grow. Let us forget 45 about income or inflation. She is really having a problem understanding where the voice of 46