The St. Paul Planning Commission held its annual meeting on February 3, 2023, at 2:30 PM. The meeting included approval of minutes, election of officers and committee chairs, presentation of the 2022 annual report, and discussion of the 2023 work program. Commissioners also approved a conditional use permit for a supportive housing facility.
No public comments or testimony were recorded during the meeting.
Good morning, everyone. Um, welcome to the February 3rd, 2023 State Bulk Body Commission meeting. We're gonna start with approval of the minutes of January 20, 2023 prepared motion. And I believe Luis has a um yes, thanks, Chair. Good morning, uh commissioners. Um weren't 100% sure from the memory or from the record uh about who seconded the vote to close the um uh the public hearing and refer comments on the Mississippi River critical area. Uh we believe it was Commissioner Hackney. I don't know if anybody else happens to remember that detail. Sure, that's sound familiar. Yeah, he was right over there. Uh yeah, sorry. Okay. So that's the only question we had. How do we remember that? Yeah, yeah. We all have consensus now. There's a motion to approve by Commissioner Grill to second. Second. Second by Commissioner Hold. All open favor. Uh any apple points fine. That motion to approve the minutes is approved unanimously. The next item, um just the announcements uh with the new year, new commissioners coming in. Um, I believe our next episode. Um, and then also commissioners leaving because they've either turned out or have no spot. There's a lot of um vacancies left open at both the transportation and the nominations committee. If anybody wants to who currently sits, for example, on zoning and wants to try to move to transportations or nominations or car plan and transportation nominations. Um please let me know. We do need more people. Uh, if I voted the possibility that I would switch more. I don't know if that's a something that we'll need to do, but we do have two commissioners or three commissioners coming in the next time. And so I'll see if I can uh judge them in the direction of transportation and nominations. So that's just a thought on that. And then uh open about the next item, which is uh Luisa's announcements. Thanks, Chair. Um, this is our annual meeting today, so we're gonna spend more of our time talking about um kind of what we did last year and what we're gonna what we're planning on doing this year. We also have um our slate, which we might want to take that up at we want to take that up at communications nomination. That could be um something we do there. So um both the officers and the committee chairs, where we have a little bit of change happening, but that's done. So we'll go on to zoning committee, Commissioner Riley. Thank you, Chair. Oh, we had an item on old business at our meeting um last Thursday uh for our conditional use permit for supportive housing facilities serving 81 residents um at 135 geranium avenue east. Uh 135 geranium avenue east has been um a long-term care facility for since it's uh the construction of the building in the 60s, um, and the uh the conditional use permit for the supportive housing facility, which is a um uh residential treatment facility uh provided by uh a new organization to the Twin Cities Pyramid Health Care Inc. Um and they need a conditional use permit in order to serve 81 residents according to uh zoning code. Um and the uh it was an item of old business because we had enough time to refer it back to the neighborhood organization in order for the applicant to meet with the neighborhood, which they did. Um, and therefore there was no one at the public hearing, um, which was closed, and the recommendation of the committee is uh to approve the conditionals permit this facility. I'm happy to take any questions if anyone had the motion coming out of the committee is to approve the use permit at 135 geranium avenue east. Is there any discussion on the motion? All of them in favor say aye. Any apple flights are that motion is approved unanimously to approve the C U B at 135 uranium.