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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes February 15, 2022 Page 5 1 2 Commissioner Morita summarized the Commission has 3 options to approve or reject or table 3 action. The decision is what does the City want for that space to be. The Commission should 4 be doing what is right for the City. Mr. Grittman stated that would be the Planning 5 Commission’s normal approach. 6 7 Chair Socha stated if the Planning Commission denies this, the Applicant can still go ahead 8 with the project because it is non-conforming and a substantial change would be made to the 9 Comprehensive Plan. Her personal feeling is that there is no good reason to change the Comp 10 Plan. There are very few projects as a manufactured home that are affordable. She does not 11 see it being in the City’s best interest or in the Met Council’s goal. There are two land uses 12 and asked if there is a zoning that would accommodate two land uses. She would like to see it 13 zoned high-density. She asked if there could be a mixed zoning consisting of high-density 14 and medium-density. Mr. Grittman stated the R-4 District it would accommodate up to high- 15 density units. 16 17 Commissioner Morita asked if the Commission’s role is only to address the current 18 application. Chair Socha stated the Commission could deny the application and recommend 19 rezoning to R-4 District. 20 21 Commissioner Kuykendall asked if R-4 is considered the same as medium-density. Mr. 22 Grittman stated R-4 allows all uses permitted or conditional up to high-density multi-family, 23 including townhouses. Commissioner Kuykendall stated that would allow the current 24 development and expand as they see fit. 25 26 Chair Socha stated the topic of rezoning would be done adjacent to consider of the 27 application. 28 29 Commissioner Hendrickson stated she does not believe it is in the best interest of the City and 30 would cost a lot of money for the rezoning. 31 32 Chair Socha closed the public hearing at 7:44 p.m. 33 34 Motion by Commissioner Kuykendall, seconded by Commissioner Erickson, to recommend 35 denial of the application due to the Commission not finding it to be in the best interest of the 36 City due to the cost in proceeding with the Comprehensive Plan and no apparent benefit to the 37 City. It is contrary to the goals of the Met Council and the 2040 Comprehensive Plan. 38 39 Motion carried 6-0. 40 41 Motion by Commissioner Morita, seconded by Commissioner Erickson, to reject the 42 application with the caveat to further discuss rezoning of the property. 43 44 Motion carried 6-0. 45 46 Commissioner Rude joined the meeting at 7:50 p.m.