Date Note: The agenda and raw transcription indicate this meeting occurred on November 15, 2024; however, the user-provided date is October 17, 2024. This summary uses the assigned date and notes the discrepancy.
The Planning Commission convened to approve previous minutes, act on two zoning items from the Zoning Committee, receive status updates from committees and staff, and conduct a discussion on training topics for 2025.
97 Oxford Street North – Conditional Use Permit (24-084-295)
Proposal to increase the number of residents at a sober house from 24 to 34. The Zoning Committee voted 3‑1 to recommend approval. The full Planning Commission approved without further discussion.
10 River Park Plaza – Master Plan Amendment (24-082-486)
Amendment to the West Side Flats Comprehensive Plan addendum, changing the land use designation on 2.9 acres from mixed residential to office/light industrial.
286 Marshall Avenue – Conditional Use Permit
A proposal for 35 units of supportive/sober housing was laid over to the next Zoning Committee meeting to allow continued dialog between the applicant and neighbors. The committee heard public testimony at its previous meeting.
Planning Director Yasmine Robinson led an open discussion to identify topics for commissioner training in 2025. Commissioners suggested the following:
Note on Dates: All timeline references in committee reports stem from the November 15, 2024 agenda/transcript. The meeting date assigned for this summary is October 17, 2024.
I'm gonna call to order the November 15th meeting of the St. Paul Planning Commission. Our first order of business is approval of the minutes from September 27th. Do I have a motion? Motion by Commissioner Thomas. Do you have a second? Second. Second by Commissioner Holtz. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Seeing no discussion, we'll move to a vote. All those in favor? All right. All those opposed. All right. So the minutes pass. Next up is chair's announcements. I have no real announcements today. Just thank you for coming on a slightly different schedule. The Friday where we're not always prepared to share. And with that, I'll wrap up chairs announcements because I know the director has uh quite a few today. So moving over to planning director announcements. Okay. Good morning, everybody. A few updates on two rezonings and then one item that uh I've been working on for a while that I'm excited to talk about. So let's uh first I'll start with the drive-throughs zoning text amendment. Uh this was at City Council on Wednesday. Um the city council laid over the decision until uh September of 2025, uh, so that we could also look at the uh the zoning text in conjunction with the T district study. So just wanted to let you know that that uh was pretty significant layover. Um, but you know, uh staff wise will be fine. And I think um, you know, we'll be able to bring that larger package of zoning text amendments related to the commercial uses and all of the things in the T district. So just an FYI on that. Um the uh 470 White Bear Avenue rezoning was also laid over to December 4th. Uh so uh that's another FYI. Uh and then finally we have uh two kind of like updated web pages, uh which I'm very excited about. Uh so we have a new planning commission uh web page and a new zoning committee web page. Um most of the same information is there, it's just reorganized in a more logical fashion and has some FAQs and some other helpful uh items for the public um and for people who received a postcard from us. So other committee pages will also be updated soon, but wanted to give you a heads up on that, and I can send you a link uh later today with that. That's all I've got. All right, thank you. Um I'm very excited about that page. Um next up is zoning committee. Um I believe Commissioner Tegov might be out sick. And so we are looking to see if uh Mr. Darmody and or Commissioner Sayed um are comfortable giving an update on those items. Anyway, sir. Go ahead. Good morning. Uh uh thank you, Chair. Um we uh our committee met on last week on week uh before on Thursday.