The Saint Paul Planning Commission met on May 16, 2025, from approximately 8:30 a.m. to about 10:15 a.m. to review several zoning and planning items, make recommendations to the City Council, and advance neighborhood plans. The meeting included approval of minutes, a conditional use permit for a farmers market, a large structure reuse permit, a complex rezoning for the historic Hamm's Brewery site, initiation of a minor text amendment zoning study, release of the Hamline-Midway Neighborhood Plan for public review, and a recommendation on a commercial development district for a liquor license extension. Key decisions included approval of most items, but denial of the T3 rezoning for parcels three and four of the Hamm's site due to spot zoning concerns.
Order. Our first order of business is approval of the minutes for May 16th, 2025. Do we have a motion for the minutes? Motion by Commissioner Sayah. Do you have a second? Second by Commissioner Hood. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Seeing no discussion. We'll order the vote. All those in favor? All those opposed. Any abstentions? All right. The minutes pass. Next up is chair's announcements. No big announcements. Just a reminder for planning commissioners who missed the previous meeting or the second half of the previous meeting meeting that Bill Dermady did a presentation. And I do think it's definitely worth watching if you didn't see it. You weren't here. So recommend catching the video for that. And if you've got any questions, I'm sure staff would happy to answer those. And that is all my announcements for this week. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. I'll just add a little bit to uh what Chair Grill just mentioned. You know, if you missed the training, we can also, you know, schedule a one-on-one time to give that to you in addition to what's you know available on the meeting recording. So I just wanted to offer that up if you had any, you know, if you watched it and then had some questions or anything to discuss. Okay. Thanks, everybody. Uh next up is zoning committee. Um, so I know Commissioner Taggyak isn't here currently. Um we can take these items in order. And I'm wondering uh if staff is comfortable coming up and giving just a quick summary. Um so we'll start with um 25029508, Rice Larpender Farmers Market. And we have Valerie uh quarrels here and just as a note for all the the commissioners. Uh this is Valerie's first time in front of the full planning commission. So we we met her at zoning last week. Thank you. I'm just gonna plug in real quick. We're not anyway. So at zoning committee, we talked about uh farmers market conditional use permit over at Rice Larpner. It's on the southwest corner. If you've been up there recently for the monument side is uh it's a conditional use permit for 15 stalls and it would run May through October seasonally. The zoning committee had a short discussion about it and approved it. The only thing to note specifically is that there's a quirk in the code that notes that there has to be an additional approval for selling anything other than crops essentially. So things like you know, wares and prepared foods, and the zoning committee did recommend giving that approval. So we give you approval, and that's the report. Awesome. Are there any questions on the staff report for this?