Note: The agenda and transcript indicate the meeting took place on August 22, 2025, but the provided metadata specifies August 15, 2025. This summary uses the metadata date per instruction.
The Saint Paul Planning Commission met on the above date to approve minutes, hear updates, and act on zoning and planning items. The meeting was chaired by Kristine Grill. Key actions included approving a conditional use permit for a bar, recommending approval of a master plan amendment and variances for Nova Classical Academy, and recommending approval of the Hamline Midway 2030 Neighborhood Plan.
Okay. I should probably have this. I figured you'd want to do something committee. Well, I can just a moment. So they're both. Okay. So yeah, we used to blah blah blah. I'm gonna call to order the July. No, not that one. Uh the August 22nd uh meeting of the St. Paul Planning Commission. Um our first order of business is approval of the minutes from July 25th, 2025. Um do I have a motion on the minutes? Motion by Commissioner Homus. Do I have a second? Seconded by Commissioner Hackney. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing no discussion, we'll move forward with a vote. All those in favor? Okay. All those opposed. Any abstentions? All right, uh the minutes passed. Um next up is the chair's announcements. Um I was out of the office backpacking and then I was pretty sick. So there were a couple of folks that I was emailing back and forth with and on a delay. So just want to say uh thank you to folks for your patience uh while I got uh letter and and thank you for that. Um next up is the planning director. Thank you, Chair. Um just wanted to give a little status update on the cyber attack. Um we have been uh working on recovering from the cyber attack since July 25th. Um we still are not really at a great point. We don't have access to our drives, we don't have internet phones. Um so we are not at 100%. Um so just wanted to let you know that uh if our communication is not as quick as normal, might be because emails aren't going through. Um and so we also a lot of our phones aren't working, so if you've called us, um we might not be answering. Um I think that the end is near. Um we've gone through a citywide laptop inacculation, so to speak, um, with some software. So hopefully in the next few weeks we'll be back up and running. So just wanted to give you the update and apologize for any uh any you know blackouts that we may have had. You were trying to contact us and we didn't get back to you. So you're more than covering to work by responding at eight and night. Uh yeah, and thank you to the director and thank you for the step. Um I can't imagine uh what this is like, so we're we're so so sorry. Um next up is zoning committee. Um commissioner Taggia is out um sick, but there are the staff um who were at zoning committee who can give us um a little bit of background because I was also absent. Okay. Um this uh zoning application uh uh 25-053-864 is a conditional use permit for cups and cheers and uh it's for a bar with more than 5,000 square feet of floor area at 1624-1626 White Bear Avenue North. Um so uh this conditional use permit is required for bars over 5,000 square feet in in the four traditional neighborhood and B2 community business districts, so that's why they are uh required to get this uh permit. Um cups and cheers is extending uh its hours to stay open until 2 a.m.