The Saint Paul Planning Commission met on March 22, 2024, to discuss a variety of items including zoning requests, a comprehensive plan amendment, and a drive-through zoning study. The meeting also included a resolution honoring outgoing Planning Director Luis Pereira and several committee reports.
Commissioner Rizberg. Yes. Chair, I'd like to add an item to the agenda. Item number four, perhaps. It's a resolution honoring upgoing director and Ms. Ferrero. All right. Vice Chair Rosberg has made a motion. So we have a second. Seconded by Commissioner Riley. All right. Do we have any discussion on the motion? All right. So we'll take a vote on the motion. The motion on the table is to add an additional item to the agenda as item number four, a resolution honoring Luis Ferrara. We'll now vote on the motion. All those in favor. All those opposed. All right, the motion passes. All right. Next order of business is approval of the minute from March 15th, 2024. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes? So we uh move motion made by Commissioner Presley. Do we have a second? Sorry. Seconded by Commissioner Humas. And any discussion on the motion. No discussion, we'll now vote. So we're gonna vote to approve the minutes from March 15th, 2024. All those in favor. And all those opposed. All right. Motion passive. The minutes are approved. Next up are the chair's announcements. I just want to let everyone know we've got quite a few things on the agenda today. We have an additional item added. And we know we have some commissioners that need to leave at about 10 o'clock. So folks can be mindful of the time as we're going through again today. That would appreciate it. And I will uh conclude my announcement and move on to the director, Dr. Ferrari. Okay, thank you. Good morning, everybody. Uh Luis. Um I uh first of all wanted to um mention that uh the um EV zoning ordinance uh was introduced first read uh at the council meeting this week. Um and so Bill was there to uh outline that for uh the council. Um and there's some some discussion about potential amendments uh to the draft uh ordinance uh to focus it maybe a little bit more on multifamily um uses as opposed to multifamily and sort of broader non-residential uses. Um so that that language is being um some some edits to that are being considered at the moment. Um and uh Bill is not entirely sure what direction they're gonna take with it, but um it would essentially um as I understand it potentially um reduce a little bit the uh EV capability requirement to a little bit lower percentage of uh the partner spaces, uh keep it higher for for multifamily uh and potentially uh focus the EV readiness more on just the multifamily.