HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 2018-140 Denying Comp Plan Amendment 7399, 7401 and 7505 Metro BlvdRESOLUTION NO. 2018-140
RESOLUTION DENYING A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT
TO REGUIDE 7399, 7401 AND 7505 METRO BOULEVARD FROM 0, OFFICT TO OR,
OFFICE RESIDENTIAL
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Edina, Minnesota, as follows:
Section 1. BACKGROUND.
1.01 Lakewest Development LLC is requesting an amendment to the Edina Comprehensive Plan to
re -guide 7399, 7401, and 7505 Metro Boulevard from 0, Office District to OR, Office
Residential District, with an overall density of 50 units per acre.
1.02 The purpose of the request is to allow multifamily residential land uses on these sites. The
first phase of the development would include the existing building at 7505 Metro Boulevard,
which has been the corporate headquarters for International Dairy Queen. Dairy Queen will
be vacating the building soon, and the applicant would like to remodel the existing building to
create 136 units of affordable housing apartments. Phase one would also include the
construction of a new 150 unit building to the north. Future phases could include remodeling
the existing office building into 135 units, and construction of two additional 110 and 157 unit
buildings (320 units total); ten to twenty percent of the future phases would be for affordable
housing to meet the city's affordable housing policy. Overall density would be 50 units per
acre, with 606 units on the 12.12 acre site; 27-33 percent of the units would be dedicated as
affordable housing beyond the City's Affordable Housing Policy of between 10-20 percent.
1.03 Because this request includes over 20% of the housing units to be for affordable housing, (the
entire project would be affordable housing) this would require a 3/5 vote of approval by the
City Council. Minnesota State Law mandates that if projects contain 20% of the units for
affordable housing to persons with incomes no greater than 60% of the area median income,
and with respect to rental units, the rents for affordable units do not exceed 30 percent of 60
percent of area median income, then the approving vote for a Comprehensive Plan
Amendment be done by a majority vote. A super majority vote (2/3) is typically required.
1.04 To accommodate the request, the following amendment to the Comprehensive Plan is
requested:
> Re -guiding of 7399, 7401, and 7505 Metro Boulevard from 0, Office District to OR, Office
Residential District, with an overall density of 50 units per acre.
1.05 On December 12, the Planning Commission recommended denial of the Comprehensive Plan
Amcndment. Vote: &Ayes and 0-Nays.
CITY OF EDINA
4801 West 50th Street • Edina, Minnesota 55424
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1.06 On October 16, 2018, the City Council held a public hearing and considered the request.
Section 2. DENIAL
NOW THEREFORE, it is hereby resolved that the City Council of the City of Edina, denies the
Comprehensive Plan Amendment to re -guide 7399, 7401, and 7505 Metro Boulevard from 0, Office
District to OR, Office Residential District, with an overall density of 50 units per acre. Denial is based
on the following findings:
I . The existing sanitary sewer system that would serve this site is at capacity, and may not
adequately support turning this site into a residential use. Residential units generate more
wastewater leading to the need for more sanitary sewer capacity compared to office uses.
2. The area has not been considered for residential development. Because this site has never
been considered for residential uses in any recent comprehensive planning efforts, the need to
upgrade the sewer system to support residential land use has never been identified.
3. The City will study the sewer capacity issue that serves this site in 2019.
4. The proposal is premature given the city's plan to study the area in further detail. As identified
in the Big Idea's workshop; this area is part of the future study area that would examine the
future of the City's office/industrial park. This area extends from 77th Street on the south to
70th Street on the north; and from Highway 100 on the east to Cahill Drive on the west.
During that study, the engineering study could determine the feasibility and cost to adequately
serve a change in land use in the area.
5. The Applicant's desire to construct and remodel a building that cannot be constructed
without a Comprehensive Plan Amendment is not a sufficient reason to amend the
Comprehensive Plan.
6. The Subject Property currently has reasonable uses and can be reasonably redeveloped
without the Comprehensive Plan Amendment.
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ATTEST:
haron Allison, City Clerk
STATE OF MINNESOTA
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN
CITY OF EDINA
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James B. Hovland, Mayor
CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I, the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of Edina do hereby certify that
the attached and foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the Edina City Council at its Regular
Meeting of December 18, 2018, and as recorded in the Minutes of said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this day of , 2018.
Sharon Allison, City Clerk