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88-1540 WMITE �- CiTV CIERK PI�IK _ - FINANCE COURCII �//y C4NAi�Y -'L`�E'SARTMENT GITY OF SAINT PAUL /{ '��D BtUE� - MAVOR File �O. V ` Coun ' _,Resolution �� � _ , �� Presented By Referre o Committee: Date Out of Committee By Date WHEREAS , the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul applied for a building permit to construct a 200 space parking lot on the south side of Selby Avenue at Arundel Street, the proposed parking lot being located in the Historic Hill Heritage Preservation District; and WHEREAS , the Heritage Preservation Commission, following a public hearing, on July 14, 1988 pursuant to its Resolution No. 893 � denied the permit application made by the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the Ci�y of Saint Paul based on their finding that: (1 ) The proposed parking lot does not protect the unique architectural character of the Historic Hill District and is not compatible with the historic character or pattern of the area. (2) The proposed parking lot destroys the public space of the street and does not maintain a wall of enclosure for the public street. Landscaping does not respect 'che street as a public room. Boulevard trees are not main'cained. The separation between the automobile corridor and the rest of the streetscape is not maintained. ( 3) The proposed parking breaks the rhythm of building to open space. The directional emphasis of the proposed parking lot is monotonous and horizontal and does not relate to the directional emphasis or rhythm of adjacent structures. (4) The proposed parking lot does not maintain the rhythm and directional emphasis of the street and destroys the existing rhythm of building to open space. (5) The proposed parking lot introduces a scale that is COUNCIL MEMBERS Requested by Department of: Yeas Nays Dimond Long [n Favor Goswitz Rettman Scheibel _ A g8i n s t BY Sonnen Wilson Form Appro ed by City Attorney Adopted by Council: Date Certified Passed by Council Secretary BY r By t#pproved by Mavor: Date Appro ed Mayor for Submission to Council gy BY WNITE '- C�TY CLERK PANK � - FINANCE GITY OF SAINT PAUL Council ��J� CANARV -DEPARTMENT �jL(/ �lUE - �VOR File NO. � /�• � Council Resolution Presented By Referred To Committee: Date Out of Committee By Date larger and more suburban in character. WHEREAS , the Housing and Redevelopment Authority, acting pursuant to Section 73. 07(h) duly filed its appeal to the City Council from this decision of the Heritage Preservation Com- mission and the City Council having conducted a public hearing on August 30, 1988 where all interested parties were given an opportunity to be heard, the Council does now hereby RESOLVE , that the Council of the City of Saint Paul does hereby reverse the decision made by the Heritage Preservation Commission in this matter and does hereby grant the appeal made and filed on behalf of the Housing and Redevelopment Author- ity of the City of Saint Paul ; and WHEREAS , the Council of the City of Saint Paul in granting this appeal , does hereby request that the staff of the Housing and Redevelopment Authority, if feasible , make a good faith effort to relocate the trees and to improve the lighting so as to meet the Heritage Preservation Commission guidelines ; and, be it FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk shall mail a copy of this resolution to the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul , the Heritage Preservation Commission and the Zoning Administrator. 2. COUNCIL MEMBERS Yeas Nays Requested by Department of: Dimond �ng In Favor coswitz Rettman scneibe� A gai n s t BY Sonnen �Ison SEP 2 2 fgBg Form Appto ed by City orne Adopted by Council: Date ; Cerlified Pa s d Council � re BY gy. 6 -�, ' i A►ppr by Mavor: Dat L, SE� L c� �� Appro e�, by Mayor for Submission to Council B BY Pi3��.i�ri�l �- - ; _. � 1988 , � G�► oa ��`" ' � N° 012739 � DEPl�TbENT . - - - - - - CONTACT NA1�IE � < .: : : �, , PHONE _ ' DATE . ASSIGiQ NOliBER FOR ROOTING ORDER: (See reverse s3.de.) _ Depantment Director _ Mayor (or Assi�tant;) ` � _ Finance snd Management Services Director ' _ City Clerk _ Budget Director _ _ City Attorney _ � TOTAL NUMBER OF SIGNATURE PAGES: (Clip all locations for signature.) VHAT WILL BS ACHIEVED BY TARING ACTION ON THE A�?ACHED MATERIALS? (Purpose/Retionale) 1�w7�'u! tl�1� i�'� qI ��� � ���• v�w" �a�»��i�f �a/'�"� �n �,�,.� a.w l��J�.l.�. d�tr�T"�t�u�t' ��?`+�f�► !�'e J,e r�r�.v �' �w�+� ;�+�J— �-td►�3� �t� �� ' �c�'6tt� ,�d� /�� � . CO,�TjBENEFI�. BUDGETARY. AND PERSONNEL IMPACTS �ICIPATED: FINANCING SOURCE AND BUDGET ACTIVITY NUMBER CHhRGED OR CitEDITED: (Mayor's signature not required if under $10,000.) Total Amount of Trans�ction: Activity Number: Funding Source: Council ���earch Cente� ATTACHMENTS: (List and number all attachments,� S E N 1 � 198� ADIrIINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES Yes _No Rules, Regulations, Proceduxes, or Budget Amenc�ment required? _Yes _No If yes, are they or timetable attached? DEPARTMENT REVIEW CITY ATTORNEY REVIEW _Yes �,No Council resolution required? Resolution required? _Yes _No ^Yes _No Insurance required? 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' • � � � ''���r'� � � /��'�C"�'/� , • GSTY OP c O�$ o 'd CITY OF SAINT PAUL � ���������� ' DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT � �o m +ee• GEORGE LATIMER KENNETH R.JOHNSON, DIRECTOR MAYOR 25 West Fourth Street,Saint Paul,Minnesota 55102 612-228-3200 ` �-� �`, RECEIVED July Zi, i9ss ; t ; Ir� , 1 �—�-' JUL 2 21988 James Scheibel, Council President C1TY CLERK Members of the City Council 719 City Hall Saint Paul, NIlV 55102 RE: Appeal of Heritage Preservation Commission's (HPC) Decision to Deny Building Permit for Proposed HRA Arundel Street Parking Lot Dear President Scheibel and Members of the City Council: On July 14, 1988, the HPC denied an HRA building permit application for a proposed 199 space parking lot on the south side of Selby Avenue at Arundel Street. The proposed parking lot is part of the February 17, 1987, Parking Agreement with the developers of Blair Arcade, Cathedral Hill, and Hill Plaza under which the HRA is to provide 225 parking spaces and make a reasonable good faith effort to acquire and construct 45 additional parking spaces. The proposed Arundel Street lot would provide the additior�al 45 parking spaces. HRA staff is requesting the Saint Paul City Council reverse the HPC denial and allow the issuance of a building permit for this project. The grounds for requesting this appeal are as follows: 1. Most of the testimony heard by the HPC against this building permit was either directly or indirectly related to the vacation of Arundel Street. Despite the fact that on July 5, 1988, the Saint Paul City Council approved the vacation of Arundel Street, there are some neighborhood individuals who are attempting to use the site plan review process as a way of negating the street vacation. 2. The HPC disregarded its own staff and Design Review Committee's recommendation for approval of the site plan. HPC staff and the Design Review Committee based their recommendation on the fact that there is only one Design District Guideline relating to the construction of parking lots. That guideline, Section C-2 Garages and Parking, states "Parking spaces should be adequately screened from the street and sidewalk by landscaping" . The HPC, however, went beyond that single guideline and inconsistently applied general guidelines that had no direct relationship to the proposed project. 3. The HPC is being inconsistent in its design review process. On January 6, 1988, the HPC approved the site plan for 147 parking space Virginia Street lot. That lot, which was also developed in a vacated street right of way, had less landscaping treatment than the Arundel Street lot. Nevertheless, the Arundel Street site plan was denied. HRA staff is asking the Saint Paul City Council to expedite this appeal as . � James Scheibel Members of the City Council July 21, 1988 Page 2 soon as possible. HRA staff would like to start construction on this parking lot this fall so that the parking spaces will be available for the holiday shopping season. If you have any further questions on this matter please don't hesitate to contact me or James Zdon on my staff at 228-3324. Sincerely � `� � � �-----__ -z-�-. : Kenneth Jo son Executive Director Housing and Redevelopment Authority KJ:JZ:nd cc: Robert Frame, HPC Chairman Allen Torstenson Chuck Towle James Zdon . i .� , . � � ��- �,��v CITY OF SAINT PAUL HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISStON RESOLUTION FILE NUMBER s93 DATE J��y �a, i9ss WHEREAS, the Saint Paul Heritag� Preservation Commission is authorized by Chapter 73 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code to review building permit ar�lications for exterior alterations, new construction or demolition on or within designated Heritage Preservation Sitcs or Heritage Prescrvation Districts; and WHEREAS, the Saint Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority has applied for a building permit to construct a 200 space parking lot on the south side of Selby Avenue at Arundel Street; and VVHEREAS, the proposed parking lot is located in the Historic Hill Heritag� Preservation District; and i WHEREAS, the Design Guidelincs for the Historic Hill Heritage Preservation District �' include thc foliowing: , l. Section D. Restoration states, "All work should be of a character and quality that '� maintains the distinguishing features of... the environment" � 2. Section C. New Construction states, "What is essential for new construction in the � Historic Hill area is the maintenance of the scale and quality of design" 3. Section C. IX. Landscaping statcs, "Typically open space on the Hill is divided into public, semi-public and private spaco. The public space of the street and sidewalk is often distinguished from the semi-public space of the front yard by a change in grade, a low hedge or visually open fence. The buildings, landscaping elemcnts in front yards, and boulevard trees together provide a "wall of enclosure" for the public street "room." Gencrally, landscaping which respects the street as a public room is cncouraged" 4. Section C. IX. Landscaping also states, "The city should maintain boulevard trees when at all possible. The boulevard trees mark a separation between the automobile corridor and the rest of the streetscape." S. Section C. IX. Rhythm and Directioaal Emphasis states, "The existencc of uniform narrow lots in the Historic Hill naturally sets up a strong rhythm of buildings to open - space. Historically any structure built on more than one lot used vertical facade elements to maintain and vary the overall rhythm of thc street rather than interrupting the rhythm with a long monotonous facade. The directional expression of new construction should relate to that of existing ad jacent structures." WHEREAS, thc Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, based upon evidence presented at their July 14, 1988, public hearing on said permit application, made the following findings of fact: � 1� r � . ► � ' . �. ' � • File #893 Pagc i wo 1. The proposed parking lot does not protect the unique architectural character of the Historic Hill District and is not compatibie with the historic character or pattern of the area. 2. The proposed parking lot destroys the public spacc of ihe street and does not maintain a wall of enelosure for the public street. Landscaping does not respect the street as a nublic room. Boulevar� t*ees are not maintained. The separation between the '����'�-���•���'��,' ^��� � ��►�'�' ��� ` ''.. :cst of the streetscape ia not maintained. 3. The proposed park�ng breaks thc rhythm of building to open space. 'Th� directional emphasis of the proposcd parking lot is monotonous and horizontal and does not relate to the dir�ctional emphasis or rhythm of adjacent structures. 4. The proposed parking lot does not maintain the rhythm and directional emphasis of the street and destroys the existing rhythm of building to open space. 5. The proposed parking lot introduces a scale that is larger and more suburban in character. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that based upon the above findings the Heritage Preservation Commission denies the application for a building permit to construct the proposed parking lot on the south side of Sclby Avenue at Arundel Street; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Heritage Preservation Commission recommends the following changes before any new design proposal is submitted to the Heritage Preservation Commission for review: l. The existing boulevard trees should be preserved; 2. The appearance of th� scparation between the automobile corridor and the streetscape should be preserved; and 3. The lighting design be revised to reflect the historic character of the district; and BE IT ALSO RESOLVED, that the Hcritage Prescrvation Commission recommends that the city work with neighborhood organizations and individuals in order to meet thc district guidelines and address their concerns. 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