Note: The agenda and transcript clearly indicate this meeting occurred on May 2, 2025, but the provided instruction states to use the date April 18, 2025. This summary follows the instruction, with the discrepancy noted.
The St. Paul Planning Commission convened to approve previous minutes, consider three zoning items, and hold a public hearing on the Mississippi River Corridor Critical Area (MRCCA) zoning study. All zoning items were approved, and the MRCCA public hearing was closed with the record held open for additional written testimony.
All right, everyone. The May 2nd meeting of the St. Paul Planning Commission will now come to order. Our first order of business is approval of the minutes from April 18th, 2025. Do I have a motion on the minutes? I'll move. Okay, motion from Commissioner Sayed. Do I have a second? Second. Seconded from Commissioner Holtz. Is there any discussion on the minutes? Seeing no discussion, we'll move forward with a vote. All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed? Any abstentions? All right, the minutes pass. Next up are chairs announcements and planning director announcements. We have no real announcements today. Just to note that we're in a new meeting room today, obviously. Um, and everyone, you have mics in front of you. So there's a switch. Um, if you're wrestling papers doing lots of things like that, it will just get picked up in the mics in a way you're not used to in the other room. So just a quick note on that. Um announcements, so we're gonna move pretty quickly um onward to zoning committee. So zoning committee had three items ahead of us. The first one is 2501991 impound lot building C U P. Um, I believe we have staff member Bill Germany here to give a quick briefing. Morning, Chair Grill, Commissioners. Um here for Josh Williams, who was not able to make it this morning. Just want to report what uh happened with this case at zoning committee. Um this is uh 810 barge channel road is in the flood fringe, it's on the west side near the airport. Um the impound lots there already. They'd like to put in a small prefabricated office building on piers and to build really anything, and the flood fringe requires a conditional use permit. So this is uh uh one that um we we've seen these flood fringe cases before, they're highly technical, uh but usually not an issue, and this was another one of those cases. All of the findings were met and the estimation of the zoning committee. Uh nobody spoke and we had no letters, did not hear from the district council. So the zoning committee uh agreed with the staff recommendation to approve this conditional use permit subject to four boiling plate conditions. All right, uh thank you, Bill. Any questions for Bill? All right, so we have a motion coming out of committee. Um so the motion was for uh approval and the recommendation was for approval with those conditions. Um so we'll move forward because we have the motion. Um is there any discussion on this particular item? All right. Uh seeing no discussion, um, we can move forward with a vote. And we're gonna do a roll call for these items. Commissioner Hackney. Yay. Commissioner Holtz.