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August 20th, 2024 Page 9 1.The land use plan chapter of the 2040 Comprehensive Plan identifies the site for Commercial Uses. 2.The 2040 Comprehensive Plan includes a variety of mixed use opportunities on Commercial property. 3.The current Kenzie Terrace PUD District references the R-4 District for alternatives to the approved PUD plans. 4.The R-4 District includes religious assembly uses as an allowed use, and by extension, these uses are allowable in the Kenzie Terrace PUD District. 5.The proposed use is a reasonable adaptive re-use of an existing vacant building and property. 6.Religious Assembly uses are commonly found in residential areas of the City, similar to the mixed residential neighborhoods near the proposed site. 7.The site is located on major roadways supporting traffic volumes generated by the property. 8.The applicant’s proposal provides an important service to the community at large, and justifies the departure from the original PUD goals. To recommend denial, the Planning Commission should consider these and other findings: 1.The PUD approved for the site incorporated City property that anticipates a residential component for development on the subject property. 2.Opportunities for housing, and particularly affordable housing, are a key component of the City’s compliance with Metropolitan Council housing goals, and for the City’s compliance with those goals. 3.The proposed use retains the existing building and site conditions, the improvement and/or replacement of which was an aspect of the City’s approval of the original PUD. 4.The City entered into an agreement to remove the commercial use from this property in exchange for the ability to relocate affordable housing objectives to the this parcel. 5.The proposed amendment to the PUD do not achieve the goals of the PUD for creation of affordable housing as was anticipated. 6.The proposed site plan in the PUD amendment request reduces impervious surface slightly, but leaves other paved surfaces in place, retaining more impervious than the approved PUD. 7.The applicant has not provided adequate documentation to verify compliance with the goals of the PUD, or the narrative descriptions of the amendment application. 8.Market conditions that disrupted the original PUD completion are constantly changing, and may reasonably be expected to change again in ways that help make the previously approved residential use more feasible. Neither set of findings are intended to be complete, but instead, are intended to facilitate the Commission’s review and discussion of the policy implications of the amendment.