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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes August 20, 2024 Page 6 1 Comprehensive Plan as policy. The Ruby meets the definition that Met Council applies to the 2 City’s count. The loss of this project to affordable housing does not affect the Met Council 3 issue. Commissioner Rude stated his understanding is there is not a lot of land available to 4 develop and the Met Council could restrict us in various ways if we don’t stick to their plan. 5 How will the City meet their requirements. Mr. Grittman stated other sites within the City 6 would have to be looked at for redevelopment. No other properties have been identified. 7 8 Commissioner Erickson stated it sounds like we have met the Met Council’s threshold. Mr. 9 Grittman stated we would report the number of multi-family housing units that were built 10 which qualify under the affordable housing requirement. 11 12 Vice Chair Morita noted at the last meeting Staff did not provide a recommendation but now 13 there is a recommendation. He asked for clarification as to why the switch. Mr. Grittman 14 stated the PUD District talked about multi-family housing. The applicant revised their 15 proposal with an opportunity to provide a youth center. This is moved to more of a religious 16 institution which is supported in R-4 zoning. 17 18 Commissioner Hark referred to the PUD and asked how binding that is. Mr. Grittman stated 19 there were development agreements that were being done. We are just dealing with the PUD. 20 Commissioner Hark asked about the specific conditions that apply to the revision. Mr. 21 Grittman stated the five listed along with any additional conditions the Planning Commission 22 wants. The City Council could also add conditions as they see fit. She stated generally there 23 are pages of conditions. She does not see it appropriate for the Planning Commission to add 24 more conditions. 25 26 Commissioner Erickson asked Commissioner Hark who she thinks should come up with 27 additional conditions and Commissioner Hark suggested Staff would add conditions. Mr. 28 Grittman stated Staff is used to more conditions also on PUD amendments. The applicants are 29 proposing not to change the building architecture. 30 31 Mr. Jaylani Hussein, Executive Director CAIR-Minnesota stated he is in support of the 32 Tibyan Center. He is a trained urban planner and provided support for other organizations. 33 Mr. Hussein presented a PowerPoint providing updates on the project. The Tibyan Center is a 34 world-renowned center for excellence. He reviewed some of the students’ accomplishments. 35 The center focuses on Excelling in Quranic Learning, Islamic Education, Youth Enrichment 36 Programing and Coding and Programing. The Center serves predominantly poor students in 37 the community. Mr. Hussein showed an article about one of the students from July 2018. The 38 building fits the center perfectly. Provided in the center will be classes for youth, an office for 39 the center, a mosque for prayer/multi-purpose space, and rental space to businesses to 40 generate a tax base. Mr. Hussein showed a proposed floor plan showing classrooms, 41 conference rooms, offices, storage, and the mosque/multi-purpose room. The mosque for 42 prayer and multipurpose space is 4,000 sf with 3,000 sf for the actual prayer area. There 43 would be 15 sf per worshipper with 200 worshippers. 80 parking stalls would be available and 44 most of the attendees will be at the center. The property now has 76 parking stalls identified 45 with the possibility of adding spaces. Phase 1 would use existing rooms as classrooms with 46 Phase 2 will be development of 17 classes with an estimate of 15 students in each class. The