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<br /> STAFF REPORT <br />DATE: 6/17/2025 <br /> REGULAR <br /> <br />TO: Lake Elmo City Council <br />FROM: Nathan Fuerst, AICP, Consulting Planner <br />AGENDA ITEM: Inwood 8th Addition – Preliminary Plat, PUD, and Comprehensive Plan <br />Amendment <br />REVIEWED BY: Jason Stopa, Community Development Director <br /> Sophia Jensen, Senior City Planner <br /> Jack Griffin, Senior Engineering Project Manager <br /> <br />CORE STRATEGIES: <br /> <br />☒ Vibrant, inclusive, connected community ☐ Efficient, reliable, innovative services <br />☐ Responsive, transparent, adaptive governance ☐ Balanced Finances now and future <br />☒ Managed Growth ☒ Resilient Infrastructure <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: <br />The City of Lake Elmo has received a request from M/I Homes, to develop several vacant outlots <br />of the Inwood development. Inwood is one of the City’s largest Master Planned Unit <br />Developments. When the initial Inwood Preliminary Plat was approved in December 2014, the <br />development was planned to contain 275 single family residential lots in the northeast side of the <br />development, 264 multi-family residential units in the southeast, and approximately 90,000 <br />square feet of commercial space on the west side of the development. A City Park, Ivywood <br />Park, was also created on land dedicated to the City just north of 5th St. N. <br /> <br />Since the initial approval of the Inwood PUD, all the planned single-family homes were <br />constructed in 5 consecutive phases, followed by one commercial project, the Kwik Trip at <br />Inwood Avenue and 5th Street North. This phase of the Inwood project would include a 123 unit <br />apartment and 148 attached townhomes for a total of 271 units. <br /> <br />The following applications were required for this project: <br />1. Preliminary Plat – This project requires a Preliminary and Final Plat. <br />2. PUD – Any flexibility required to the City’s standards must be granted through a new <br />PUD, no flexibilities were granted in the initial Inwood PUD. <br />3. Comprehensive Plan Amendment – This is required to consolidate the future land use <br />guidance on the subject parcels from three separate categories to one, maintaining the <br />site-wide limit of 15 units per acre. <br /> <br />ISSUE BEFORE COUNCIL: <br />The Council is asked to review the comprehensive plan amendment, preliminary plat, and PUD <br />and to take an action on the requests.