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00-1176Council File # �� 7�. ORIGINAL RESOLUTION CITY OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA Green Sheet # 1 �� / 6 D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Presented By Referred To Resolution # �� Committee: Date RESOLUTION ADOPTING'I`HE SIJMMARY OF THE IIANILINE MIDWAY COMNIIINITYPLAN AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE SAINT PAUL COMPREHENSIVE PI f1N WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul is authorized under Minnesota Statues, Section 462.353, to cany on comprehensive municipal planning activities to guide the furixre development and improvement of the city; and WI�REAS, the City of Sa3nt Paul, as a local government unit within the metropolitan area, is required under Minnesota Statutes, Section 473 858, to prepaze a comprehensive plan; and WHEREAS, the Saint Paul City Council is authorized under Minnesota Statutes, Section 462.355, to adopt or amend a comprehensive plan or portion thereof after a recommendation by the Planning Commission; and WIIEREAS, the Saint Paul City Council adopted, by Council File 98-1133 on Mazch 3, 1499, the Land Use Plan as a chapter of the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan; and WIIEREAS, the Land Use Plan provided for the adoption of summaries of area plans as addenda to the comprehensive plan; and WHEREAS, The HamlineMidway CommunityPlan was prepazed by a community-based collaborative convened by the Hamline Midway Coalition, H-MARC, the Midway Chamber of Commerce, University LJIVITED and the Midway Family YMCA and including representatives drawn from among neighborhood residents, community organizations, City staff, and local institutions; and Requested by Planninp & Economic Development By: "'�� Y�' Form Approved by City Attorney B t��Sa , �, �,c��/ Adoption Certified by Council Secretary B �, : _(� ` ^ proved by Mayo r Submis io to Council —� � _ r-� C �l � G[�� Approved by Mayor: Date By: BY �� `� Adopted by Council: Date Q�_ �.a, 2�oo 45 ORIGIfVAL oo_�� 46 WHEREAS, a summary of The Hamline Midway Community Plan was presented to the Planning Comxnission 47 for its review; and 48 49 WIIEREAS, the Platming Commission, after a public hearing on November 3, 2000, and consideration of 50 public testimony, recommended, by its Resolution 00-71 approved on November 17, 2000, adoption of the 51 summary by the City Council; 52 53 NOW, T'F3EREFORE, BE TT RESOLVED, that the area plan summary of The HamZine Midway Communiry 54 Plan, is adopted as an area plan addendum to the Saint Paul Comprehenszve Plan contingent upon review by 55 the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities; and 56 57 BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the azea plan summary of The Hamline Midway Community Plan replaces 58 the District 11 Plan adopted by the Saint Paul City Council on October 4, 1979 as an element of the 59 comprehensive plan. DEPARTMENT/OFFICE/COUNCIL: DATE INTPIATED GREEN SAEET No.• 101910 OO —��I` PED: West Team Nov. 22, 2000 ' CONTACI' PERSON & PHONE: a TNi17ni/na1'E Nancy Homans 6-6557 � 2 DEPAR"PIdENT DIIt s crrr couxcu. MUST BE ON COiINCII, AGENIIA BY (DATE �IGN 3 CITY ATTORNEY _ CITY CLERK ) NUTqgEg FINANCIALSERVDIIL FINANCIALSERV/ACCTG FOR 4 MAYOR (OR ASST.) _ CIVII, SERVICE COMMISSION ROiITING 1 WF.ST TEAM (FIazren) //-X ORDER TOTAL # OF SIGNATURE PAGES 2(CLIP ALL LOCATIONS FOR SIGNATIJRE) ncrzox xEQuESTEn: Adopt area plan summary of the Eiamline Midway Community Plan as an addendum to the Comprehensive Plan. RECAM,'vfENDATIONS: Approve (A) or Rejec[ (R) PERSONAL SERVICE CONTRA.CfS MUST ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: - 1. Has this person/Srm ever worked under a conhnct for Uils department? A PLANNING COMMISSION Yes No CIB CAMMIITEE 2. Has this person/fvm ever been a city anployee? CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Yes No 3. Dces fhis person/5rm possess a skill not nom,ally possessed by any cu�rent ciTy employee? Yu No Eaptain all yes answers on separate sheet and atfach to green sheet INITLATING PROBLEM, ISSUE, OPPORTi7NITY (Whq WLaf, When, Where, Why): The Hamiine Midway community 'uutiated a planning process to replace the District 11 Plan adopted as part of the comprehensive plan in 1979. ADVANTAGESIFAPPROVED: A comprehensive policy plan is in place to guide land use and public investment decisions in the Hamline Midway community. DISADVANTAGES IF APPROVED: E .:. � `� t � None. ' ��5' �� N�)ll ; t, �^s�n DISADVANI'AGES IF NOT APPROVED: r� �'T �/ /{ �� ry ��, Public decisions will be guided by an out-of-date comprehensive plan element. �' � Y P �� ' � TOTAL AMOUNT OF TRANSACTION: $ COST/AEVENIJE BUDGETED: � FUNDING SOURCE: ACTIVTTY NUMBER: c�� Rp�� FIIVANCIAI. INFORMATION: (EXPLAI� bcfi� ��'�J�c��.�u.'c C.'�, " �S�'�� ",e K \Sliared�PaNiOMANSVw�grnsLeetwpd �`��%=SlL�3�J 00 -�\7�i \.,11 1 �r" SA�T PA�. 390GTyHa11 TeZephone: 651-266-85I0 NormCa�eman,Moyor [SWestKeZloggBoulevard Facsimi[e:651-228-8573 SamtPaul, MN 55102 November 29, 2000 Council President Dan Bostrom and Members of the City Council 320 B City Hall Saint Paul, MN 55102 Dear Council President Bostrom and Councilmembers, It is my pleasure to transmit to you the area plan summary of The Hamline Midway Community Plan and recommend its adoption as an addendum to the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan. Prepared by a community-based collaborative convened by the Hamline Midway Coalition, H-MARC, the Midway Chamber of Commerce, University IJNITED and the Midway Family YMCA, the plan includes a series of strategies organized around five themes: Public Life and Space, Housing for All, Community Enrictunent and Pride, Children and Youth and Economic Opportunity and Business Development. As you know, we now prepare summaries of azea plans of all kinds to be considered for inclusion in the comprehensive plan. While the entire document, The Hamline Midway Community Plan, will be available and will guide decisions at all leveis, adopting a shorter summary as part of the comprehensive plan makes that plan more accessible for all those who want to understand Saint Paul's development agenda. The Planning Commission has held a public hearing and reviewed this summary for its consistency with other elements of the comprehensive plan and City policy. They recommend its adoption. I concur with their recommendation. incerely, Y �--- ---- ' Norm Coleman Mayor Enclosure ao -1\96 city of saint paul ptanning commission resolution fite number o0-71 date 11-17-00 RESOLUTION RECOMNIENDING ADOPTION OF THE SUMNIARY OF THE HAMLINE MIDWAY COMMUNITY PLAN AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE SAINT PAUL COMPREHENSIVE PLAN • WHEREAS the Hamline Midway Community Plan was prepared by a collaborative of community based organizations including the Aamline Midway Coalition, A-MARC, the Midway Chamber of Commerce, University UNITED and the Midway Family YMCA over a two year period between 1997 and 1999; and WHEREAS the plan details a 20-year community investment agenda for the area bounded by University Avenue, Lexington Parkway, Transfer Road and Pierce Butler Route, addressing issues related to public life and space, housing for the diversity of current and future residents, communiry enrichment and pride, children and youth and economic opportuniry and business development; and WHEREAS the Planning Commission is authozized under Minnesota Statutes Section 462.355t2) and Chapter 107 of the Saint Paul Administrative Code to recommend to the Mayor and City Council amendments to the comprehensive plan; and WHEREAS the Land Use Plan, adopted by the Ciry Council on March 3, 1999, provides for the adoption of summaries of area plans as addenda to The Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan upon findings by the Planning Commission that the plans are consistent with adopted City policies; and WHEREAS the Planning Commission, on November 3, 2000, held a public hearing on The Hamline Mid�vcry Community Plan, notice of which was published in the Saint Paul Legal Ledger on October 19 and 23, 2000; and moved by McCall seconded by in favor Unanimous �gainst 60 - ��'14 Hamtine Midway Community PZan Page Two of Resolution WHEREAS testimony received at the public hearing was uniformiy supportive of the plan; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Saint Paul Planning Commission fmds that The Hamline Midway Community Plan is consistent with The Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan and other relevant City policies and recommends the adoption of the plan summary by the City Council as an addendum to the comprehensive plan. 00 - \1'1 t� Area Plan Sununary Hamline Midway Community Plan Addendum to The Comprehensive Plan for Saint Paul Recommended by the Planning Commission - November 17, 2000 Adopted by the City Council (date) This summayy appends to the Comprehenszve Plan the vision and strategies of the Hamline �dway Community Plan and replaces the District 11 Plan, adopted in 1979. The plan maps oui a community agenda rooted in five core values: (I) embrace and celebrate diversity, (2) ensure access to and participation in all projects and programs regardless of race, income, age or ability, (3) promote actlon to support the needs of children and youth, (4) incorporate environmentally sensitive practices, and (S) incorporate public art and quality design. Copies of the full-length plan are available for review at the Saint Paul De�artment of Planning and Economic Development and the office of the Hamline Midway Coalition. The Hamline Midway community—also known as Citizen Participation District 11--is bounded on the north by the Burlington Northern railroad tracks that lie just north of Pierce Butler Route, on the east by Lexington Pukway, on the south by University Avenue and on the west by Tzans£er Road with an extension straight north to transect Pierce Butler. North Snelling Avenue runs through the center of the community. Hamline Midway Planning Commission Recammendarion 0 0 -�� Vision Ha.mline Midway will be chazacterized by its sense of place, with well used neighborhood centers and with attractive streets and paths that provide transportation options. It will be a neighborhood where housing options enhance the quality of life and encourage diversity in age, income, cuhure and mobility. The neighborhood will be a stable place where people will choose to live and want to stay. Hamline Midway will build a web of human interacrion with programs and activities that bring people together to express their creativity and honor their cultures and history. It will welcome families and ensure access to prenatal and child caze. The community will invest in education, recreation and youth employment, will organize intergenerational activities and will heaz the voices of young peopie. Finally, Hamline Midway will create a safe and attractive environment for living, working and shopping. Community-based organizations will work to improve people's ability to find and keep living-wage jobs, and their entrepreneurial endeavors. The community will operate in ways that are beneficial for both residents and businesses. Action Strateeies and Public Life and Space The plan recommends a series of actions—to include cazefully designing streets slated for repaving, connecting neighborhood spaces with improved bicycle routes, promoting sustainable landscaping in yards and boulevazds, making streetscape improvements to commercial streets especially Snelling Avenue and, as appropriate, University Avenue, and improving the quality of and access to community gathering spaces—designed to strengthen the character of the community's pubiic realm. On specific sites, priorities include the redesign and reconstruction of the Griggs Recreation Center and relocation of the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe intermodal hub facility as well as mitigation of current problems as long as the hub remains active. Housing for All The plan emphasizes the need for more life-cycle and affordabie housing, maintenance and preservation of the neighborhood's e�sting housing stock through proactive attention to and action on distressed properties, better access to housing maintenance assistance programs, technical assistance to homeowners and rental property owners, and involvement of tenants and multi-family property owners in community affairs. In addition, it recommends the development of alternatives to single-family housing throughout the neighborhood as opportunities arise. Community Errrichment and Pride Building various connections between neighborhood residents is the focus of a thizd series of recommendations. Specific suggestions include: building stronger block clubs, establishing a community garden, developing a neighborhood history, organizing a barter network and building a stronger relationship with Hamline University. Chzldren and Youth Creating places for children and youth represents a unique emphasis in this community plan. Establishing a youth center and a"skate park" and organizing parents and child care providers around a grass-roots effort to improve and expand neighborhood child care options aze key priorities. In addition, the plan recommends the establishment of a youth-focused conflict resolution program and a community trust fund for youth and their families. PZanning Commission Recommendarion 0 0 —��"1t' Economic Opportunity and Business Development Strengthening the variety of businesses that are a part of the Hamliue Midway community is the focus of the final series of plan recommendations. Gathering and sharing information with and providing technical assistance to owners of legally-established home-based businesses as well as e�sting and prospective businesses in the neighborhood's established commercial comdors will serve to build local ownership and increase neighborhood capital, increase the number and diversity of readily available goods and services and eacpand employment opportunities for residents. The community will also focus on strengthening the conte�t for business growth: reducing crime, improving perceptions, iznproving access to technology, strengthening and improving transportation alternatives, training the work force and resolving conflicts between business owners and residents related to parking. City Action To encourage implementation of this vision, the City of Saint Paul should include in its budget and program priorities the following activities. More detail about each proposed action is included in the full-length pian and should be reviewed by the appropriate City staff. 1. Set up pre-design meetings on street paving under the Residential Street Vitalitp Program. (Public Works) Z. Collaborate on the Streetscape Design Plan with an initial focus on Snelling Avenue from Umversity Avenue to the Pierce Butler Route and then allocate capital improvement funding for implementation. (Public Works, PED, CIB Committee) 3. Collaborate in design improvements and budgeting for community gathering places, such as parks, recreation facilities, and the branch library. (Parks and Recreation, Public Works, Libraries) 4. Designate and improve neighborhood bike routes and the connection from Hamline Midway to Como Park. (Public Works, Parks and Recreation) 5. At the BNSF Intermodal Hub, keep looking for ways to mitigate impacts and ultimately to redevelop the site. (LIEP, Port Authority, PED) 6. Redesign and reconstruct Griggs Recreation Center. (Parks and Recreation) 7. Working with the neighborhood, use City enforcement powers and financing to fix distressed properties. (LTEP, Public Heaith, Fire Marshall, PED) 9. Collaborate with others to improve access to housing maintenance assistance programs. (PED) 10. Work with community development partners to develop ahernatives to single family housing. (PED) 11. Collaborate with others to provide information and resources for maintaining the existing housing stock, especially low-income housing. (PEA, Libraries) 12. Continue and expand loan and grant programs to improve rental housing. (PBD) 13. Work to establish a community gazden at Mays Park (Parks and Recreation) 14. Continue to support the block club program. (Police) 15. Work to create a"skate park." (Parks and Recreation) 16. Collaborate as appropriate in the establishment of a teen center. (Parks and Recreation) 17. Work with the community to improve community safety and image. (Police, Public Works, PED) Planning Commission Recommendation 00 -t�'it, 18. Collaborate as appropriate to foster business development through sharing market data and best practices as well as grant and loan programs to assist start-up and e�sting businesses. (PED) 19. Plan and carry out improvements in transportation altematives. (Public Works, PED) 20. Coordinate workforce development efforts through the Greater Midway Work Resources Hub. (PED) 21. Provide staff input to neighborhood meetings on parking conflicts. (Public Works, PED) 23. Help supply infom7ation needed by home-based businessea (Libraries, PBD) 24. Help smooth the transitions between land uses where industrial, commercial or institutional uses are ad}acent to or abut residential property, especially along Sherburne, Fairview, Prior, Minnehaha and near Pierce Butler Route. (PED, LIEP, Planning Commission) Planning Commission Findings The Planning Comxnission finds that The Hamline Midway Community Plan is consistent with the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan and other adopted City policies. Plannin� Process The community planning process was co-sponsored by the Hamline Midway Coalition, the Hamline-Midway Area Rehabilitation Corporation (H-MARC), the Midway Chamber of Commerce, University iJNITED and the Midway Family YMCA. Beginning with a May 1997 town meeting, community members spent a year articulating a vision for community change, researching long-term trends and community needs and developing strategies designed to move the community toward its vision. This work was done through a combination of large community-wide meetings, five small strategy groups and less formal input from community members. A total of more than 325 people participated in the process. Financial support was provided by Saint Paul LISC, the Pew Charitable Trust and the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board. Planning Commission Recommendafion Council File # �� 7�. ORIGINAL RESOLUTION CITY OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA Green Sheet # 1 �� / 6 D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Presented By Referred To Resolution # �� Committee: Date RESOLUTION ADOPTING'I`HE SIJMMARY OF THE IIANILINE MIDWAY COMNIIINITYPLAN AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE SAINT PAUL COMPREHENSIVE PI f1N WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul is authorized under Minnesota Statues, Section 462.353, to cany on comprehensive municipal planning activities to guide the furixre development and improvement of the city; and WI�REAS, the City of Sa3nt Paul, as a local government unit within the metropolitan area, is required under Minnesota Statutes, Section 473 858, to prepaze a comprehensive plan; and WHEREAS, the Saint Paul City Council is authorized under Minnesota Statutes, Section 462.355, to adopt or amend a comprehensive plan or portion thereof after a recommendation by the Planning Commission; and WIIEREAS, the Saint Paul City Council adopted, by Council File 98-1133 on Mazch 3, 1499, the Land Use Plan as a chapter of the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan; and WIIEREAS, the Land Use Plan provided for the adoption of summaries of area plans as addenda to the comprehensive plan; and WHEREAS, The HamlineMidway CommunityPlan was prepazed by a community-based collaborative convened by the Hamline Midway Coalition, H-MARC, the Midway Chamber of Commerce, University LJIVITED and the Midway Family YMCA and including representatives drawn from among neighborhood residents, community organizations, City staff, and local institutions; and Requested by Planninp & Economic Development By: "'�� Y�' Form Approved by City Attorney B t��Sa , �, �,c��/ Adoption Certified by Council Secretary B �, : _(� ` ^ proved by Mayo r Submis io to Council —� � _ r-� C �l � G[�� Approved by Mayor: Date By: BY �� `� Adopted by Council: Date Q�_ �.a, 2�oo 45 ORIGIfVAL oo_�� 46 WHEREAS, a summary of The Hamline Midway Community Plan was presented to the Planning Comxnission 47 for its review; and 48 49 WIIEREAS, the Platming Commission, after a public hearing on November 3, 2000, and consideration of 50 public testimony, recommended, by its Resolution 00-71 approved on November 17, 2000, adoption of the 51 summary by the City Council; 52 53 NOW, T'F3EREFORE, BE TT RESOLVED, that the area plan summary of The HamZine Midway Communiry 54 Plan, is adopted as an area plan addendum to the Saint Paul Comprehenszve Plan contingent upon review by 55 the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities; and 56 57 BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the azea plan summary of The Hamline Midway Community Plan replaces 58 the District 11 Plan adopted by the Saint Paul City Council on October 4, 1979 as an element of the 59 comprehensive plan. DEPARTMENT/OFFICE/COUNCIL: DATE INTPIATED GREEN SAEET No.• 101910 OO —��I` PED: West Team Nov. 22, 2000 ' CONTACI' PERSON & PHONE: a TNi17ni/na1'E Nancy Homans 6-6557 � 2 DEPAR"PIdENT DIIt s crrr couxcu. MUST BE ON COiINCII, AGENIIA BY (DATE �IGN 3 CITY ATTORNEY _ CITY CLERK ) NUTqgEg FINANCIALSERVDIIL FINANCIALSERV/ACCTG FOR 4 MAYOR (OR ASST.) _ CIVII, SERVICE COMMISSION ROiITING 1 WF.ST TEAM (FIazren) //-X ORDER TOTAL # OF SIGNATURE PAGES 2(CLIP ALL LOCATIONS FOR SIGNATIJRE) ncrzox xEQuESTEn: Adopt area plan summary of the Eiamline Midway Community Plan as an addendum to the Comprehensive Plan. RECAM,'vfENDATIONS: Approve (A) or Rejec[ (R) PERSONAL SERVICE CONTRA.CfS MUST ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: - 1. Has this person/Srm ever worked under a conhnct for Uils department? A PLANNING COMMISSION Yes No CIB CAMMIITEE 2. Has this person/fvm ever been a city anployee? CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Yes No 3. Dces fhis person/5rm possess a skill not nom,ally possessed by any cu�rent ciTy employee? Yu No Eaptain all yes answers on separate sheet and atfach to green sheet INITLATING PROBLEM, ISSUE, OPPORTi7NITY (Whq WLaf, When, Where, Why): The Hamiine Midway community 'uutiated a planning process to replace the District 11 Plan adopted as part of the comprehensive plan in 1979. ADVANTAGESIFAPPROVED: A comprehensive policy plan is in place to guide land use and public investment decisions in the Hamline Midway community. DISADVANTAGES IF APPROVED: E .:. � `� t � None. ' ��5' �� N�)ll ; t, �^s�n DISADVANI'AGES IF NOT APPROVED: r� �'T �/ /{ �� ry ��, Public decisions will be guided by an out-of-date comprehensive plan element. �' � Y P �� ' � TOTAL AMOUNT OF TRANSACTION: $ COST/AEVENIJE BUDGETED: � FUNDING SOURCE: ACTIVTTY NUMBER: c�� Rp�� FIIVANCIAI. INFORMATION: (EXPLAI� bcfi� ��'�J�c��.�u.'c C.'�, " �S�'�� ",e K \Sliared�PaNiOMANSVw�grnsLeetwpd �`��%=SlL�3�J 00 -�\7�i \.,11 1 �r" SA�T PA�. 390GTyHa11 TeZephone: 651-266-85I0 NormCa�eman,Moyor [SWestKeZloggBoulevard Facsimi[e:651-228-8573 SamtPaul, MN 55102 November 29, 2000 Council President Dan Bostrom and Members of the City Council 320 B City Hall Saint Paul, MN 55102 Dear Council President Bostrom and Councilmembers, It is my pleasure to transmit to you the area plan summary of The Hamline Midway Community Plan and recommend its adoption as an addendum to the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan. Prepared by a community-based collaborative convened by the Hamline Midway Coalition, H-MARC, the Midway Chamber of Commerce, University IJNITED and the Midway Family YMCA, the plan includes a series of strategies organized around five themes: Public Life and Space, Housing for All, Community Enrictunent and Pride, Children and Youth and Economic Opportunity and Business Development. As you know, we now prepare summaries of azea plans of all kinds to be considered for inclusion in the comprehensive plan. While the entire document, The Hamline Midway Community Plan, will be available and will guide decisions at all leveis, adopting a shorter summary as part of the comprehensive plan makes that plan more accessible for all those who want to understand Saint Paul's development agenda. The Planning Commission has held a public hearing and reviewed this summary for its consistency with other elements of the comprehensive plan and City policy. They recommend its adoption. I concur with their recommendation. incerely, Y �--- ---- ' Norm Coleman Mayor Enclosure ao -1\96 city of saint paul ptanning commission resolution fite number o0-71 date 11-17-00 RESOLUTION RECOMNIENDING ADOPTION OF THE SUMNIARY OF THE HAMLINE MIDWAY COMMUNITY PLAN AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE SAINT PAUL COMPREHENSIVE PLAN • WHEREAS the Hamline Midway Community Plan was prepared by a collaborative of community based organizations including the Aamline Midway Coalition, A-MARC, the Midway Chamber of Commerce, University UNITED and the Midway Family YMCA over a two year period between 1997 and 1999; and WHEREAS the plan details a 20-year community investment agenda for the area bounded by University Avenue, Lexington Parkway, Transfer Road and Pierce Butler Route, addressing issues related to public life and space, housing for the diversity of current and future residents, communiry enrichment and pride, children and youth and economic opportuniry and business development; and WHEREAS the Planning Commission is authozized under Minnesota Statutes Section 462.355t2) and Chapter 107 of the Saint Paul Administrative Code to recommend to the Mayor and City Council amendments to the comprehensive plan; and WHEREAS the Land Use Plan, adopted by the Ciry Council on March 3, 1999, provides for the adoption of summaries of area plans as addenda to The Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan upon findings by the Planning Commission that the plans are consistent with adopted City policies; and WHEREAS the Planning Commission, on November 3, 2000, held a public hearing on The Hamline Mid�vcry Community Plan, notice of which was published in the Saint Paul Legal Ledger on October 19 and 23, 2000; and moved by McCall seconded by in favor Unanimous �gainst 60 - ��'14 Hamtine Midway Community PZan Page Two of Resolution WHEREAS testimony received at the public hearing was uniformiy supportive of the plan; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Saint Paul Planning Commission fmds that The Hamline Midway Community Plan is consistent with The Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan and other relevant City policies and recommends the adoption of the plan summary by the City Council as an addendum to the comprehensive plan. 00 - \1'1 t� Area Plan Sununary Hamline Midway Community Plan Addendum to The Comprehensive Plan for Saint Paul Recommended by the Planning Commission - November 17, 2000 Adopted by the City Council (date) This summayy appends to the Comprehenszve Plan the vision and strategies of the Hamline �dway Community Plan and replaces the District 11 Plan, adopted in 1979. The plan maps oui a community agenda rooted in five core values: (I) embrace and celebrate diversity, (2) ensure access to and participation in all projects and programs regardless of race, income, age or ability, (3) promote actlon to support the needs of children and youth, (4) incorporate environmentally sensitive practices, and (S) incorporate public art and quality design. Copies of the full-length plan are available for review at the Saint Paul De�artment of Planning and Economic Development and the office of the Hamline Midway Coalition. The Hamline Midway community—also known as Citizen Participation District 11--is bounded on the north by the Burlington Northern railroad tracks that lie just north of Pierce Butler Route, on the east by Lexington Pukway, on the south by University Avenue and on the west by Tzans£er Road with an extension straight north to transect Pierce Butler. North Snelling Avenue runs through the center of the community. Hamline Midway Planning Commission Recammendarion 0 0 -�� Vision Ha.mline Midway will be chazacterized by its sense of place, with well used neighborhood centers and with attractive streets and paths that provide transportation options. It will be a neighborhood where housing options enhance the quality of life and encourage diversity in age, income, cuhure and mobility. The neighborhood will be a stable place where people will choose to live and want to stay. Hamline Midway will build a web of human interacrion with programs and activities that bring people together to express their creativity and honor their cultures and history. It will welcome families and ensure access to prenatal and child caze. The community will invest in education, recreation and youth employment, will organize intergenerational activities and will heaz the voices of young peopie. Finally, Hamline Midway will create a safe and attractive environment for living, working and shopping. Community-based organizations will work to improve people's ability to find and keep living-wage jobs, and their entrepreneurial endeavors. The community will operate in ways that are beneficial for both residents and businesses. Action Strateeies and Public Life and Space The plan recommends a series of actions—to include cazefully designing streets slated for repaving, connecting neighborhood spaces with improved bicycle routes, promoting sustainable landscaping in yards and boulevazds, making streetscape improvements to commercial streets especially Snelling Avenue and, as appropriate, University Avenue, and improving the quality of and access to community gathering spaces—designed to strengthen the character of the community's pubiic realm. On specific sites, priorities include the redesign and reconstruction of the Griggs Recreation Center and relocation of the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe intermodal hub facility as well as mitigation of current problems as long as the hub remains active. Housing for All The plan emphasizes the need for more life-cycle and affordabie housing, maintenance and preservation of the neighborhood's e�sting housing stock through proactive attention to and action on distressed properties, better access to housing maintenance assistance programs, technical assistance to homeowners and rental property owners, and involvement of tenants and multi-family property owners in community affairs. In addition, it recommends the development of alternatives to single-family housing throughout the neighborhood as opportunities arise. Community Errrichment and Pride Building various connections between neighborhood residents is the focus of a thizd series of recommendations. Specific suggestions include: building stronger block clubs, establishing a community garden, developing a neighborhood history, organizing a barter network and building a stronger relationship with Hamline University. Chzldren and Youth Creating places for children and youth represents a unique emphasis in this community plan. Establishing a youth center and a"skate park" and organizing parents and child care providers around a grass-roots effort to improve and expand neighborhood child care options aze key priorities. In addition, the plan recommends the establishment of a youth-focused conflict resolution program and a community trust fund for youth and their families. PZanning Commission Recommendarion 0 0 —��"1t' Economic Opportunity and Business Development Strengthening the variety of businesses that are a part of the Hamliue Midway community is the focus of the final series of plan recommendations. Gathering and sharing information with and providing technical assistance to owners of legally-established home-based businesses as well as e�sting and prospective businesses in the neighborhood's established commercial comdors will serve to build local ownership and increase neighborhood capital, increase the number and diversity of readily available goods and services and eacpand employment opportunities for residents. The community will also focus on strengthening the conte�t for business growth: reducing crime, improving perceptions, iznproving access to technology, strengthening and improving transportation alternatives, training the work force and resolving conflicts between business owners and residents related to parking. City Action To encourage implementation of this vision, the City of Saint Paul should include in its budget and program priorities the following activities. More detail about each proposed action is included in the full-length pian and should be reviewed by the appropriate City staff. 1. Set up pre-design meetings on street paving under the Residential Street Vitalitp Program. (Public Works) Z. Collaborate on the Streetscape Design Plan with an initial focus on Snelling Avenue from Umversity Avenue to the Pierce Butler Route and then allocate capital improvement funding for implementation. (Public Works, PED, CIB Committee) 3. Collaborate in design improvements and budgeting for community gathering places, such as parks, recreation facilities, and the branch library. (Parks and Recreation, Public Works, Libraries) 4. Designate and improve neighborhood bike routes and the connection from Hamline Midway to Como Park. (Public Works, Parks and Recreation) 5. At the BNSF Intermodal Hub, keep looking for ways to mitigate impacts and ultimately to redevelop the site. (LIEP, Port Authority, PED) 6. Redesign and reconstruct Griggs Recreation Center. (Parks and Recreation) 7. Working with the neighborhood, use City enforcement powers and financing to fix distressed properties. (LTEP, Public Heaith, Fire Marshall, PED) 9. Collaborate with others to improve access to housing maintenance assistance programs. (PED) 10. Work with community development partners to develop ahernatives to single family housing. (PED) 11. Collaborate with others to provide information and resources for maintaining the existing housing stock, especially low-income housing. (PEA, Libraries) 12. Continue and expand loan and grant programs to improve rental housing. (PBD) 13. Work to establish a community gazden at Mays Park (Parks and Recreation) 14. Continue to support the block club program. (Police) 15. Work to create a"skate park." (Parks and Recreation) 16. Collaborate as appropriate in the establishment of a teen center. (Parks and Recreation) 17. Work with the community to improve community safety and image. (Police, Public Works, PED) Planning Commission Recommendation 00 -t�'it, 18. Collaborate as appropriate to foster business development through sharing market data and best practices as well as grant and loan programs to assist start-up and e�sting businesses. (PED) 19. Plan and carry out improvements in transportation altematives. (Public Works, PED) 20. Coordinate workforce development efforts through the Greater Midway Work Resources Hub. (PED) 21. Provide staff input to neighborhood meetings on parking conflicts. (Public Works, PED) 23. Help supply infom7ation needed by home-based businessea (Libraries, PBD) 24. Help smooth the transitions between land uses where industrial, commercial or institutional uses are ad}acent to or abut residential property, especially along Sherburne, Fairview, Prior, Minnehaha and near Pierce Butler Route. (PED, LIEP, Planning Commission) Planning Commission Findings The Planning Comxnission finds that The Hamline Midway Community Plan is consistent with the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan and other adopted City policies. Plannin� Process The community planning process was co-sponsored by the Hamline Midway Coalition, the Hamline-Midway Area Rehabilitation Corporation (H-MARC), the Midway Chamber of Commerce, University iJNITED and the Midway Family YMCA. Beginning with a May 1997 town meeting, community members spent a year articulating a vision for community change, researching long-term trends and community needs and developing strategies designed to move the community toward its vision. This work was done through a combination of large community-wide meetings, five small strategy groups and less formal input from community members. A total of more than 325 people participated in the process. Financial support was provided by Saint Paul LISC, the Pew Charitable Trust and the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board. Planning Commission Recommendafion Council File # �� 7�. ORIGINAL RESOLUTION CITY OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA Green Sheet # 1 �� / 6 D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Presented By Referred To Resolution # �� Committee: Date RESOLUTION ADOPTING'I`HE SIJMMARY OF THE IIANILINE MIDWAY COMNIIINITYPLAN AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE SAINT PAUL COMPREHENSIVE PI f1N WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul is authorized under Minnesota Statues, Section 462.353, to cany on comprehensive municipal planning activities to guide the furixre development and improvement of the city; and WI�REAS, the City of Sa3nt Paul, as a local government unit within the metropolitan area, is required under Minnesota Statutes, Section 473 858, to prepaze a comprehensive plan; and WHEREAS, the Saint Paul City Council is authorized under Minnesota Statutes, Section 462.355, to adopt or amend a comprehensive plan or portion thereof after a recommendation by the Planning Commission; and WIIEREAS, the Saint Paul City Council adopted, by Council File 98-1133 on Mazch 3, 1499, the Land Use Plan as a chapter of the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan; and WIIEREAS, the Land Use Plan provided for the adoption of summaries of area plans as addenda to the comprehensive plan; and WHEREAS, The HamlineMidway CommunityPlan was prepazed by a community-based collaborative convened by the Hamline Midway Coalition, H-MARC, the Midway Chamber of Commerce, University LJIVITED and the Midway Family YMCA and including representatives drawn from among neighborhood residents, community organizations, City staff, and local institutions; and Requested by Planninp & Economic Development By: "'�� Y�' Form Approved by City Attorney B t��Sa , �, �,c��/ Adoption Certified by Council Secretary B �, : _(� ` ^ proved by Mayo r Submis io to Council —� � _ r-� C �l � G[�� Approved by Mayor: Date By: BY �� `� Adopted by Council: Date Q�_ �.a, 2�oo 45 ORIGIfVAL oo_�� 46 WHEREAS, a summary of The Hamline Midway Community Plan was presented to the Planning Comxnission 47 for its review; and 48 49 WIIEREAS, the Platming Commission, after a public hearing on November 3, 2000, and consideration of 50 public testimony, recommended, by its Resolution 00-71 approved on November 17, 2000, adoption of the 51 summary by the City Council; 52 53 NOW, T'F3EREFORE, BE TT RESOLVED, that the area plan summary of The HamZine Midway Communiry 54 Plan, is adopted as an area plan addendum to the Saint Paul Comprehenszve Plan contingent upon review by 55 the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities; and 56 57 BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the azea plan summary of The Hamline Midway Community Plan replaces 58 the District 11 Plan adopted by the Saint Paul City Council on October 4, 1979 as an element of the 59 comprehensive plan. DEPARTMENT/OFFICE/COUNCIL: DATE INTPIATED GREEN SAEET No.• 101910 OO —��I` PED: West Team Nov. 22, 2000 ' CONTACI' PERSON & PHONE: a TNi17ni/na1'E Nancy Homans 6-6557 � 2 DEPAR"PIdENT DIIt s crrr couxcu. MUST BE ON COiINCII, AGENIIA BY (DATE �IGN 3 CITY ATTORNEY _ CITY CLERK ) NUTqgEg FINANCIALSERVDIIL FINANCIALSERV/ACCTG FOR 4 MAYOR (OR ASST.) _ CIVII, SERVICE COMMISSION ROiITING 1 WF.ST TEAM (FIazren) //-X ORDER TOTAL # OF SIGNATURE PAGES 2(CLIP ALL LOCATIONS FOR SIGNATIJRE) ncrzox xEQuESTEn: Adopt area plan summary of the Eiamline Midway Community Plan as an addendum to the Comprehensive Plan. RECAM,'vfENDATIONS: Approve (A) or Rejec[ (R) PERSONAL SERVICE CONTRA.CfS MUST ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: - 1. Has this person/Srm ever worked under a conhnct for Uils department? A PLANNING COMMISSION Yes No CIB CAMMIITEE 2. Has this person/fvm ever been a city anployee? CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Yes No 3. Dces fhis person/5rm possess a skill not nom,ally possessed by any cu�rent ciTy employee? Yu No Eaptain all yes answers on separate sheet and atfach to green sheet INITLATING PROBLEM, ISSUE, OPPORTi7NITY (Whq WLaf, When, Where, Why): The Hamiine Midway community 'uutiated a planning process to replace the District 11 Plan adopted as part of the comprehensive plan in 1979. ADVANTAGESIFAPPROVED: A comprehensive policy plan is in place to guide land use and public investment decisions in the Hamline Midway community. DISADVANTAGES IF APPROVED: E .:. � `� t � None. ' ��5' �� N�)ll ; t, �^s�n DISADVANI'AGES IF NOT APPROVED: r� �'T �/ /{ �� ry ��, Public decisions will be guided by an out-of-date comprehensive plan element. �' � Y P �� ' � TOTAL AMOUNT OF TRANSACTION: $ COST/AEVENIJE BUDGETED: � FUNDING SOURCE: ACTIVTTY NUMBER: c�� Rp�� FIIVANCIAI. INFORMATION: (EXPLAI� bcfi� ��'�J�c��.�u.'c C.'�, " �S�'�� ",e K \Sliared�PaNiOMANSVw�grnsLeetwpd �`��%=SlL�3�J 00 -�\7�i \.,11 1 �r" SA�T PA�. 390GTyHa11 TeZephone: 651-266-85I0 NormCa�eman,Moyor [SWestKeZloggBoulevard Facsimi[e:651-228-8573 SamtPaul, MN 55102 November 29, 2000 Council President Dan Bostrom and Members of the City Council 320 B City Hall Saint Paul, MN 55102 Dear Council President Bostrom and Councilmembers, It is my pleasure to transmit to you the area plan summary of The Hamline Midway Community Plan and recommend its adoption as an addendum to the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan. Prepared by a community-based collaborative convened by the Hamline Midway Coalition, H-MARC, the Midway Chamber of Commerce, University IJNITED and the Midway Family YMCA, the plan includes a series of strategies organized around five themes: Public Life and Space, Housing for All, Community Enrictunent and Pride, Children and Youth and Economic Opportunity and Business Development. As you know, we now prepare summaries of azea plans of all kinds to be considered for inclusion in the comprehensive plan. While the entire document, The Hamline Midway Community Plan, will be available and will guide decisions at all leveis, adopting a shorter summary as part of the comprehensive plan makes that plan more accessible for all those who want to understand Saint Paul's development agenda. The Planning Commission has held a public hearing and reviewed this summary for its consistency with other elements of the comprehensive plan and City policy. They recommend its adoption. I concur with their recommendation. incerely, Y �--- ---- ' Norm Coleman Mayor Enclosure ao -1\96 city of saint paul ptanning commission resolution fite number o0-71 date 11-17-00 RESOLUTION RECOMNIENDING ADOPTION OF THE SUMNIARY OF THE HAMLINE MIDWAY COMMUNITY PLAN AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE SAINT PAUL COMPREHENSIVE PLAN • WHEREAS the Hamline Midway Community Plan was prepared by a collaborative of community based organizations including the Aamline Midway Coalition, A-MARC, the Midway Chamber of Commerce, University UNITED and the Midway Family YMCA over a two year period between 1997 and 1999; and WHEREAS the plan details a 20-year community investment agenda for the area bounded by University Avenue, Lexington Parkway, Transfer Road and Pierce Butler Route, addressing issues related to public life and space, housing for the diversity of current and future residents, communiry enrichment and pride, children and youth and economic opportuniry and business development; and WHEREAS the Planning Commission is authozized under Minnesota Statutes Section 462.355t2) and Chapter 107 of the Saint Paul Administrative Code to recommend to the Mayor and City Council amendments to the comprehensive plan; and WHEREAS the Land Use Plan, adopted by the Ciry Council on March 3, 1999, provides for the adoption of summaries of area plans as addenda to The Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan upon findings by the Planning Commission that the plans are consistent with adopted City policies; and WHEREAS the Planning Commission, on November 3, 2000, held a public hearing on The Hamline Mid�vcry Community Plan, notice of which was published in the Saint Paul Legal Ledger on October 19 and 23, 2000; and moved by McCall seconded by in favor Unanimous �gainst 60 - ��'14 Hamtine Midway Community PZan Page Two of Resolution WHEREAS testimony received at the public hearing was uniformiy supportive of the plan; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Saint Paul Planning Commission fmds that The Hamline Midway Community Plan is consistent with The Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan and other relevant City policies and recommends the adoption of the plan summary by the City Council as an addendum to the comprehensive plan. 00 - \1'1 t� Area Plan Sununary Hamline Midway Community Plan Addendum to The Comprehensive Plan for Saint Paul Recommended by the Planning Commission - November 17, 2000 Adopted by the City Council (date) This summayy appends to the Comprehenszve Plan the vision and strategies of the Hamline �dway Community Plan and replaces the District 11 Plan, adopted in 1979. The plan maps oui a community agenda rooted in five core values: (I) embrace and celebrate diversity, (2) ensure access to and participation in all projects and programs regardless of race, income, age or ability, (3) promote actlon to support the needs of children and youth, (4) incorporate environmentally sensitive practices, and (S) incorporate public art and quality design. Copies of the full-length plan are available for review at the Saint Paul De�artment of Planning and Economic Development and the office of the Hamline Midway Coalition. The Hamline Midway community—also known as Citizen Participation District 11--is bounded on the north by the Burlington Northern railroad tracks that lie just north of Pierce Butler Route, on the east by Lexington Pukway, on the south by University Avenue and on the west by Tzans£er Road with an extension straight north to transect Pierce Butler. North Snelling Avenue runs through the center of the community. Hamline Midway Planning Commission Recammendarion 0 0 -�� Vision Ha.mline Midway will be chazacterized by its sense of place, with well used neighborhood centers and with attractive streets and paths that provide transportation options. It will be a neighborhood where housing options enhance the quality of life and encourage diversity in age, income, cuhure and mobility. The neighborhood will be a stable place where people will choose to live and want to stay. Hamline Midway will build a web of human interacrion with programs and activities that bring people together to express their creativity and honor their cultures and history. It will welcome families and ensure access to prenatal and child caze. The community will invest in education, recreation and youth employment, will organize intergenerational activities and will heaz the voices of young peopie. Finally, Hamline Midway will create a safe and attractive environment for living, working and shopping. Community-based organizations will work to improve people's ability to find and keep living-wage jobs, and their entrepreneurial endeavors. The community will operate in ways that are beneficial for both residents and businesses. Action Strateeies and Public Life and Space The plan recommends a series of actions—to include cazefully designing streets slated for repaving, connecting neighborhood spaces with improved bicycle routes, promoting sustainable landscaping in yards and boulevazds, making streetscape improvements to commercial streets especially Snelling Avenue and, as appropriate, University Avenue, and improving the quality of and access to community gathering spaces—designed to strengthen the character of the community's pubiic realm. On specific sites, priorities include the redesign and reconstruction of the Griggs Recreation Center and relocation of the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe intermodal hub facility as well as mitigation of current problems as long as the hub remains active. Housing for All The plan emphasizes the need for more life-cycle and affordabie housing, maintenance and preservation of the neighborhood's e�sting housing stock through proactive attention to and action on distressed properties, better access to housing maintenance assistance programs, technical assistance to homeowners and rental property owners, and involvement of tenants and multi-family property owners in community affairs. In addition, it recommends the development of alternatives to single-family housing throughout the neighborhood as opportunities arise. Community Errrichment and Pride Building various connections between neighborhood residents is the focus of a thizd series of recommendations. Specific suggestions include: building stronger block clubs, establishing a community garden, developing a neighborhood history, organizing a barter network and building a stronger relationship with Hamline University. Chzldren and Youth Creating places for children and youth represents a unique emphasis in this community plan. Establishing a youth center and a"skate park" and organizing parents and child care providers around a grass-roots effort to improve and expand neighborhood child care options aze key priorities. In addition, the plan recommends the establishment of a youth-focused conflict resolution program and a community trust fund for youth and their families. PZanning Commission Recommendarion 0 0 —��"1t' Economic Opportunity and Business Development Strengthening the variety of businesses that are a part of the Hamliue Midway community is the focus of the final series of plan recommendations. Gathering and sharing information with and providing technical assistance to owners of legally-established home-based businesses as well as e�sting and prospective businesses in the neighborhood's established commercial comdors will serve to build local ownership and increase neighborhood capital, increase the number and diversity of readily available goods and services and eacpand employment opportunities for residents. The community will also focus on strengthening the conte�t for business growth: reducing crime, improving perceptions, iznproving access to technology, strengthening and improving transportation alternatives, training the work force and resolving conflicts between business owners and residents related to parking. City Action To encourage implementation of this vision, the City of Saint Paul should include in its budget and program priorities the following activities. More detail about each proposed action is included in the full-length pian and should be reviewed by the appropriate City staff. 1. Set up pre-design meetings on street paving under the Residential Street Vitalitp Program. (Public Works) Z. Collaborate on the Streetscape Design Plan with an initial focus on Snelling Avenue from Umversity Avenue to the Pierce Butler Route and then allocate capital improvement funding for implementation. (Public Works, PED, CIB Committee) 3. Collaborate in design improvements and budgeting for community gathering places, such as parks, recreation facilities, and the branch library. (Parks and Recreation, Public Works, Libraries) 4. Designate and improve neighborhood bike routes and the connection from Hamline Midway to Como Park. (Public Works, Parks and Recreation) 5. At the BNSF Intermodal Hub, keep looking for ways to mitigate impacts and ultimately to redevelop the site. (LIEP, Port Authority, PED) 6. Redesign and reconstruct Griggs Recreation Center. (Parks and Recreation) 7. Working with the neighborhood, use City enforcement powers and financing to fix distressed properties. (LTEP, Public Heaith, Fire Marshall, PED) 9. Collaborate with others to improve access to housing maintenance assistance programs. (PED) 10. Work with community development partners to develop ahernatives to single family housing. (PED) 11. Collaborate with others to provide information and resources for maintaining the existing housing stock, especially low-income housing. (PEA, Libraries) 12. Continue and expand loan and grant programs to improve rental housing. (PBD) 13. Work to establish a community gazden at Mays Park (Parks and Recreation) 14. Continue to support the block club program. (Police) 15. Work to create a"skate park." (Parks and Recreation) 16. Collaborate as appropriate in the establishment of a teen center. (Parks and Recreation) 17. Work with the community to improve community safety and image. (Police, Public Works, PED) Planning Commission Recommendation 00 -t�'it, 18. Collaborate as appropriate to foster business development through sharing market data and best practices as well as grant and loan programs to assist start-up and e�sting businesses. (PED) 19. Plan and carry out improvements in transportation altematives. (Public Works, PED) 20. Coordinate workforce development efforts through the Greater Midway Work Resources Hub. (PED) 21. Provide staff input to neighborhood meetings on parking conflicts. (Public Works, PED) 23. Help supply infom7ation needed by home-based businessea (Libraries, PBD) 24. Help smooth the transitions between land uses where industrial, commercial or institutional uses are ad}acent to or abut residential property, especially along Sherburne, Fairview, Prior, Minnehaha and near Pierce Butler Route. (PED, LIEP, Planning Commission) Planning Commission Findings The Planning Comxnission finds that The Hamline Midway Community Plan is consistent with the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan and other adopted City policies. Plannin� Process The community planning process was co-sponsored by the Hamline Midway Coalition, the Hamline-Midway Area Rehabilitation Corporation (H-MARC), the Midway Chamber of Commerce, University iJNITED and the Midway Family YMCA. Beginning with a May 1997 town meeting, community members spent a year articulating a vision for community change, researching long-term trends and community needs and developing strategies designed to move the community toward its vision. This work was done through a combination of large community-wide meetings, five small strategy groups and less formal input from community members. A total of more than 325 people participated in the process. Financial support was provided by Saint Paul LISC, the Pew Charitable Trust and the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board. Planning Commission Recommendafion