HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes CC 08.31.1976CITY OF ST. ANTHONY
PLANNING BOARD MINUTES
August 31, 1976
William Bowerman, Chairman, opened the Public Hearing at 7:35 P.M. on
the Planned Unit Development for Lots 9 thru 16, Block 6, Mounds View
Acres which,.would include a dental clinic, a beauty salon, a retirement
apartment building, a Country Kitchen restaurant along Silver Lake Road
and a row of single family residences on Penrod Lane.
Present for roll call: Cowan, Marks, Bowerman, Johnson and Rymarchick.
Absent: Hiebel
Also present Jim Fornell, Adm. Asst.
There were also approximately 35 interested residents in attendance.
Mr. Hedlund addressed the group announcing that he had learned just that
day that government funding would be awarded to a Columbia Heights re-
tirement home instead of to the First American Enterprises who had been
granted a conditional use permit to erect a retirement apartment building
on a portion of the property in the proposed P.U.D.
The developer then requested that another Public Hearing_ to scheduled to
consider rezoning the west 187 feet of Lot 10, Block 6, Mounds View Acres
to allow Jim Hughes to remodel the existing building on that lot for a
Gold Tiara beauty shop. He said Country Kitchen no longer planned to
build on his property.
Mr. Bowerman informed the developer that the Public Hearing had to be
confined to the consideration of the proposed P.U.D. and his request could
not be considered until after the hearing was officially closed.
Mr. Hedlund then withdrew his application for a P.U.D.
Several residents voiced their objections to the P.U.D. as had been pro-
posed. One wanted to know why City officials continued to entertain re-
quests for a Country Kitchen restaurant which they had previously rejected
for the same area because of possible traffic generation, noise and odor
pollution, opposition from the neighborhood and other undersirable charac-
teristics. Another, Mrs. Ruth Nelson, 3916 Macalaster Drive, expressed
he disappointment at the establishment of the Planned Unit Development
concept as a land development vehicle. Duane Standing, 3817 Macalaster
Drive, did not consider Mr. Hedlund's proposal a valid P.U.D., saying he
felt it stretched the concept of a P.U.D. as a unified project which is
allowed to give the developer flexibility for a creative use of his land.
He saw Hedlund's proposal as more of a strip development. He also question-
ed whether the proportion of commercial in the plan did not exceed the
ratio of 30% which had been established for a P.U.D. in the new zoning
ordinance.
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Mr. Cowan replied to some of these comments by saying that Mr. Hedlund
had a right under law to request a hearing on any project he proposes
for the use of his land as long as he meets all the requirements set by
law for requesting such a hearing. Mr. Rymarchick added that all ques-
tions of whether Mr. Heelund's proposal met the criteria for a P.U.D.
would have been decided if the proposal had continued to be discussed
during meetings of the Planning Board and the Council with input from
anyone who appeared tv voice an opinion. At these meetings it would also
have been determined whether the financial stability had been established
for each of the proposals included in the P.U.D.
Mrs. Nelson then inquired whether conditional uses will still be valid
instruments for land usage and Mr. Fornell told her they will be and
then explained the two commercial use classifications for service office
and commercial uses which have been established in the new zoning ordin-
ance. -He also discussed at length the purpose and workings of the P.U.D.
section of the zoning ordinance.
Mr. Hiebel arrived at 7:50 P.M. The Public Hearing was closed at 7:51 P.M.
and Mr. Bowerman announced a recess.
At 7:57 P.M. the Chairman opened a meeting of the Planning Board to con-
sider Mr. Hedlund's request for Public Hearing on the proposed Gold Tiara
beauty salon. Motion by Mr. Marks and seconded by Mr. Cowan to recommend
to the Council that a Public Hearing be set during the Board's September
21st meeting on Mr. Hedlund's request for rezoning of the west 187 feet
of Lot 10, Block 6, Mounds View Acres, to allow the existing structure on
that property to be remodeled to accomodate the Gold Tiara beauty salon.
Before voting on the motion, the following amendment was made:
Motion by Mr. Hiebel and seconded by Mr. Rymarchick to recommend the above
Public Hearing be set for the earliest possible Board meeting at which
all legal requirements established for such hearings have been met.
The amendment carried unanimously.
The amended motion carried unanimously.
Motion by Mr. Johnson and seconded by Mr. Rymarchick to adjourn the meet-
ing at 8:05 P.M.
Motion carried unanimously.
Helen J. Crowe, Secretary