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Requested by Planninq & Economic Develooment
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RESOLUTTON ADOPTING THE SUMMARY OF THE
BREWERY/RAN-VCEWSMAI.L AREA P7.,AN
AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE SAINT PAUL COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul is authorized under Minnesota Statues, Section 462.353, to carry on
comprehensive municipal planning activities for guiding the future development and improvement ofthe city; and
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul, as a local government unit within the metropolitan area, is required under
Minnesota Statutes, Section 473.858, to prepare 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
WHEREAS, the Saint Paul City Council adopted, by Council File 98-1133 on March 3, 1999, the Land Use Plan
as a chapter of the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan; and
WI�IEREAS, the Land Use Plan provided for the adoption of summaries of area plans as addenda to the
comprehensive plan; and
WI�REAS, the Brewery/Ran-View Small Area Plan was prepared by a community-based task force convened
by the Saint Paul Planning Commission and including representatives drawn from among neighborhood residents,
business owners and community organizations; and
Form Approved by City Attorney
Council File # �O � gq
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Adopted by Council: Date ��-, c�S ?�cy�
By:
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Approved by Mayor: Date fV0{r ���
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44 WHEREAS, a summary of the Brewery/Ran-View Small Area Plan was presented to the Planning Commission
45 for its review; and
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47 WI�REAS, the Planning Commission, after a public hearing on June 23, 2000, and consideration of public
48 testunony, recommended, by its Resolution 00-44 approved on 7uly 14, 2000, adoption of the summary by the
49 City CouncIl;
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51 NOW,1`F�REFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the area plan summary of the Brewery/Ran-View Small Area
52 Plan is adopted as an area plan addendum to the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan contingent upon review by
53 the Metropolitan Council ofthe Twin Cities.
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ncriorr �iJESrEn: (1) Adopt resolution adopting the area plan summary of the Brewery/Ran-View Small Area Plan
as an addendum to The Saint Paul Compreherzsive Plcm.
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RECOMMENDATIONS: Approve (A) ot Reject (R) PERSONAL SERVICE CONTRACTS MUST ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
I. Has this persodfuxn ever worked under a con4xcl for Utis depattruent?
A PLANNINGCOMMISSION Yes No
CIBCOMMIII'EE 2. Hasthispeison/Srmeverbeeaacityemployee?
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Yes No
3. Dces this pe�son/fum possess a skill nat noimally possessedby any cmrenf ciry employce?
Yes No
Eapla� aIl yes answers on separate sheet and atfach to green sheet
It`IITIATING PROBLEM� ISSUE, OPPORTUMTY (Who� What, When, Where� Why):
DevelopmenUredevelopment opporlunities in the West 5eventh community led the Plamiing Commission to
inititate a small area planning process to guide public and private investment.
ADVANTAGESIFAPPROVED: •
Adoption of the plan will strengthen the process of priority setting, resource allocation, land use review and
partnership formation around the crirical issues in the area.
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DIE4DVANTAGESIFAPPROVED: OC I U CS L"wu�
None. ."�✓���( ,L��O����a
DISADVANTAGES IF NOT APPROVED:
City/HRA/Port Authority actions in the area would not have a rational basis.
TOTAL AMOUNT OF TRANSACTION: $ COST/REVENUE BUDGETED:
FUNDINGSOURCE: ACTIVITYNIJMBER: m• ��'�P` �'���`��
FINANCGIL INFORMATION: (EXPLAIN)
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CITY OF SAINT PALTL 39oc,Tyxau Telephone: 651-2 66 851 0
NormColemax,Mayor ISWestKel[oggBOUievard Facmm:1e:651-228-8513
Saint Paul, MN 55102
October i, 2000
Council President Aan Bostrom
and Members of the City Council
320B City Hall
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Dear Council President Bostrom and Members of the Councii:
It is my pleasure to transmit to you, for your review and final action, the Area Plan
Summary of the Brewery/Ran-I�iew Small Area Plan and the accompanying 40-Acre
Study.
As many of you know, this plan has been "in process" for several yeazs, hauing been
initiated by the Planning Commission in 1993. The time, however, has been well spent as
the Commission and its partners in the West 5eventh Community have worked hard on re-
creating the neighborhood's vision of itself. From an old industrial neighborhood with
close ties to the railroads, the neighborhood now understands itself as a riverfront
community. As such, they have made plans for hundreds of new housing units for
households of all incomes and a thriving pedestrian-friendly commercial corridor that links
the city's gateway to the south with its downtown.
I recommend this plan for your adoption and commend the West Seventh Community and
the Planning Commission for their foresight and hard work.
incerely,
Norm C leman��
Mayor
Attachments
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Area Plan Suuvnary
Brewery/ Ran-View Small Area Plan
Addendum to The Comprehensive Plan for Saim Paul
Recommended by the Plamiiug Commission, July 14, 2000
Adopted by the City Council (date)
This summary appends to the Comprehensive Plan the communiry's vision for the redevelopment
and revitalization of the Brewery/Ran-Piew neighborhood of the city's West Seventh/Fort Road
community.
Location
BreweryJRan-View is bounded by the Mississippi River, West Seventh Street, I-35E and the
railroad tracks running just north of the St. Paul Boazd of Education offices at 360 Colborne.
Brewery/Ran-View
Vision
Brewery/Ran-View will be a safe and attractive m�ed-use and mixed-income community that
takes full advantage the scenic Mississippi River and the thriving pedestrian-scale Fort Road/West
Seventh Street commercial corridor. It will be home to hundreds of new households living on
reclaimed industrialland in the midst of one of Saint Paul's oldest and most cherished
neighborhoods.
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Specific Recommendations and Implementation Steps
%ch Mobil Site
The 65 acre site of the former fuel tank fazms owned and operated by Mobil Oil and Koch Fuels
should be redeveloped with a miY of residential and commerciaUoffice uses in a manner consistent
with a series of guidelines outlined in the plan. Those guidelines emphasize pedestrian scale
development, significant landscaping, and integration of the site with the surrounding
neighborhood, the Mississippi River valley and the balance of the region. Specific
recommendations include:
Most of the site should be devoted to the construction of approximatety 400-600 new housing
units designed to serve households of various sizes and incomes.
Neighborhood-scale commerciaUoffice uses should be constructed on West Seventh Street in
a pattern similar to that in the surrounding commercial area. Buildings should be built up to
the street, be two or three stories in height, and include spaces on the upper floors that may be
used for housing and/or office uses. The portion of the site to be devoted to the
commerciaUoffice space and its related parking landscaping and access should be in the range
of 100,000 to 150,000 square feet and be located in the area bounded by West Seventh Street,
Otto and Montreal Circle.
The community should continue to be involved in advising the Saint Paul IIRA and City
Council on key issues throughout the redevelopment process.
Randolph Industrial Site
The 25-acre site, bounded generally by Randolph, Drake and Shepard Road, is currently used by
the ADM grain elevators and various automobile parking and transfer operations. A Canadian
Pacific Railroad mainiine runs across the site and serves the Ford assembly plant in Highland Park.
The plan recommends that the site eventually should be redeveloped with a mix of residential and
commerciaUoffice uses, but acknowledges that soil contamination and current uses on the site
mean that redevelopment is unlikely to happen in the near term. As development pressure builds,
however, the plan recommends a site-specific neighborhood-based planning process be
undertaken. Pending the clean-up of the site, interim uses consistent with the current zoning of the
property will be pernutted.
Neighborhood Clean-up and Fix-up
As important as the redevelopment of the aging industrial sites in the area are the series of
strategies related to maintaining and improving the quality and character of e�sting residential
and commercial development. Block clubs, code enforcement, rehab loans and grants and the
purchase/rehab/resale of distressed properties aze all tools recommended in the plan.
West Seventh Street
The small retail businesses, restaurants and entertainment venues on West Seventh Street will all
be strengthened by a larger population base anticipated by the plan. To integrate those
businesses--and the commercial district as a whole--more tightly into the neighborhood, the plan
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recommends new uses for vacant pazcels, design guidelines to improve the aesthetic chazacter of
the street, loans and grants for facade improvements, and cazeful attention to the quality of the
public realm (street, sidewalks, street trees, lighting, fences and building facades).
Ran-Vew and Brewery Neighborhoods
The plan identifies a series of specific unprovements recommended for the e�sting residential
neighborhoods: street light installarions, traffic calming at specific intersections, landscaping for
key corners and neighborhood entrances, and work with the railroads to make addirional
provisions for right-of-way maintenance and the safety of drivers and pedestrians at each
neighborhood crossing.
Parks, Recreation and Open Space
Among the recommendations related to parks, recreation and open space in the plan are that the
City should develop a new passive riverfront park on land it owns across Shepazd Road from
where Randolph intersects with Shepard, ea�plore the feasibility of a bicycle/pedestrian link
between this area and Lilydale Regional Park on the river's west bank, and improve the triangle
park at Tuscarora and Bay as a neighborhood focal point and children's play area. Beyond that,
the plan recommends ea�tending recreation programming to children and youth throughout the
community through better mazketing, providing transportation to area community recreation
centers, offering programs at remote sites and partnering with private recreation providers.
Land Use and Zoning
Accompanying the small area plan is a 40-acre study recommending four azeas for rezoning:
In the blocks bounded by Butternut, Stewart, Otto and Sumac in addition to the lot on the
northwest comer of Sumac and Butternut, the plan proposes a rezoning from RM-2 to RT-1
to conform to the existing one- and two-family use of the area.
The townhouse site off of Otto between West Seventh and Victoria should be rezoned from
RM-1 to RT-2 to conform to the eacisting use.
The waterfront land owned by the City of Saint Paul Division of Parks and Recreation
between Shepard Road and the Mississippi River neaz the intersection of Randolph and
Shepard Road should be rezoned from I-2 to R-4 to be consistent with its planned use as a
park.
Pazcels contiguous to a new townhouse development in the Brewery neighborhood between
Duke and Colborne Streets should be rezoned as follows:
Land declared surplus by the railroad and acquired by the HRA on behalf of the
townhouse developer should be rezoned from I-2 to RT-2 so that the parcels can be linked
to the townhouse site and the land used and maintained by the townhouse association as
open space.
Three vacant lots adjacent to the current townhouse project (386, 388, 390 Duke Street)
should be rezoned from RT-1 to KT-2 to provide for the development of additional
townhouses.
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The plan also recommends that, as the land on the Koch Mobil site is cleaned up to meet State
standards, the Plamiing Commission should initiate a 40-acre study to rezone the property in such
a way as to facilitate its redevelopment with a mix of housing and neighborhood scale commercial
uses as detailed in the plan.
City Action
Priority City actions include:
• Work with developer(s) of the Koch Mobil site to facilitate development process.
• Provide technical assistance in the preparation and review of the application for a planned unit
development.
• Working with the West Seventh Federation and the West End Business and Revitalization
Corporation, review neighborhood needs for street paving, lighting and other streetscape
improvements and integrate them into the City's capital improvement program.
• Develop a passive riverfront park on City-owned land across Shepard Road.
• Improve the City-owned Tuscazora and Bay triangle as a neighborhood focal point and play
area for children.
• Support the Fort Road Federation's acquisition, rehabilitation and resale of vacant and/or
substandard properties. Similazly, support the West Seventh Business and Revitalization
Corporation's efforts to improve existing commercial properties and encourage infill
development.
• When appropriate, work with neighborhood residents to convene a planning process for the
Randolph industrial site.
Planning Commission Findings
The Planning Comxnission finds that the Brewery/Ran-View Small Area Plan is consistent with
The Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan and other adopted City policies.
Process
The Brewery RanlView J'mall Area L'lan and the torty-acre study were mitiated by the Jamt Yau1
Planning Commission on September 24, 1993. A draft plan was prepazed by a task force
convened jointly by the Commission and the West Seventh Federation and was the subject of a
public hearing before the Commission on November 17, 1995. During the Commission's review,
Koch Fuels and Mobil Oil announced plans to close their operations and vacate the site at West
Seventh and Otto. Because ofthe significance ofthe site, the Planning Commission and
community suspended consideration of the plan draft and began gathering information and
identifying possible alternatives for its redevelopment. The task force was reconvened in August
1999 and completed a major revision of the original plan in February 2000.
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The task force was broadly representative of community interests and was co-chaired by a
member of the Planning Commission. The process included a community-wide plam�ing charrette
and a special session with area business owners. The plan was adopted at the Annual Meeting of
the West Seventh Federation on April 1Q 2000.
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Presented By
Referred To
Requested by Planninq & Economic Develooment
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$Y� r
RESOLUTTON ADOPTING THE SUMMARY OF THE
BREWERY/RAN-VCEWSMAI.L AREA P7.,AN
AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE SAINT PAUL COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul is authorized under Minnesota Statues, Section 462.353, to carry on
comprehensive municipal planning activities for guiding the future development and improvement ofthe city; and
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul, as a local government unit within the metropolitan area, is required under
Minnesota Statutes, Section 473.858, to prepare 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
WHEREAS, the Saint Paul City Council adopted, by Council File 98-1133 on March 3, 1999, the Land Use Plan
as a chapter of the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan; and
WI�IEREAS, the Land Use Plan provided for the adoption of summaries of area plans as addenda to the
comprehensive plan; and
WI�REAS, the Brewery/Ran-View Small Area Plan was prepared by a community-based task force convened
by the Saint Paul Planning Commission and including representatives drawn from among neighborhood residents,
business owners and community organizations; and
Form Approved by City Attorney
Council File # �O � gq
Resolution #
�ommiLCee : llate
Adopted by Council: Date ��-, c�S ?�cy�
By:
Adoption Certified by Council Secretary
BY ' ��� � l- . ��
Approved by Mayor: Date fV0{r ���
By:
�� �l�M�o �Q(��O O
��ed by Mayor for Submission to Council
gY �(�/'�/VW
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44 WHEREAS, a summary of the Brewery/Ran-View Small Area Plan was presented to the Planning Commission
45 for its review; and
46
47 WI�REAS, the Planning Commission, after a public hearing on June 23, 2000, and consideration of public
48 testunony, recommended, by its Resolution 00-44 approved on 7uly 14, 2000, adoption of the summary by the
49 City CouncIl;
50
51 NOW,1`F�REFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the area plan summary of the Brewery/Ran-View Small Area
52 Plan is adopted as an area plan addendum to the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan contingent upon review by
53 the Metropolitan Council ofthe Twin Cities.
���GINAL
DEPARTMENf/OFFiCE/COUNCII.: DATE IIVITIATED GREEN SHEET NO.: lOISgO
PED: West Team Sept 28, 2000 6 0—'1�''(
CONTACl' PERSON & PHONE: ATE mnTTALDATE
Nancy Homans 6-6557 � 2 DErnxTngN�r nm. s crrr couxca.
MUST BE ON COUNCII, AGENDA BY A 3 CTTY ATTORNEY �,L a0 _ CITY CLERK
� T� ��� FINANCIALSERVDIIL FII3ANCIALSERV/ACCTG
FOR 4 MAYOR(ORASST.) ,CIVII.SERVICECAMI��IISSION
ROUTING 1 WF.ST TEAM (Haixeu)=�
ORDER
TOTAL # OF SIGNATiJRE PAGES 3(CLIP ALL IACATIONS FOR SIGNATiJRL� )
ncriorr �iJESrEn: (1) Adopt resolution adopting the area plan summary of the Brewery/Ran-View Small Area Plan
as an addendum to The Saint Paul Compreherzsive Plcm.
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RECOMMENDATIONS: Approve (A) ot Reject (R) PERSONAL SERVICE CONTRACTS MUST ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
I. Has this persodfuxn ever worked under a con4xcl for Utis depattruent?
A PLANNINGCOMMISSION Yes No
CIBCOMMIII'EE 2. Hasthispeison/Srmeverbeeaacityemployee?
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Yes No
3. Dces this pe�son/fum possess a skill nat noimally possessedby any cmrenf ciry employce?
Yes No
Eapla� aIl yes answers on separate sheet and atfach to green sheet
It`IITIATING PROBLEM� ISSUE, OPPORTUMTY (Who� What, When, Where� Why):
DevelopmenUredevelopment opporlunities in the West 5eventh community led the Plamiing Commission to
inititate a small area planning process to guide public and private investment.
ADVANTAGESIFAPPROVED: •
Adoption of the plan will strengthen the process of priority setting, resource allocation, land use review and
partnership formation around the crirical issues in the area.
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DIE4DVANTAGESIFAPPROVED: OC I U CS L"wu�
None. ."�✓���( ,L��O����a
DISADVANTAGES IF NOT APPROVED:
City/HRA/Port Authority actions in the area would not have a rational basis.
TOTAL AMOUNT OF TRANSACTION: $ COST/REVENUE BUDGETED:
FUNDINGSOURCE: ACTIVITYNIJMBER: m• ��'�P` �'���`��
FINANCGIL INFORMATION: (EXPLAIN)
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CITY OF SAINT PALTL 39oc,Tyxau Telephone: 651-2 66 851 0
NormColemax,Mayor ISWestKel[oggBOUievard Facmm:1e:651-228-8513
Saint Paul, MN 55102
October i, 2000
Council President Aan Bostrom
and Members of the City Council
320B City Hall
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Dear Council President Bostrom and Members of the Councii:
It is my pleasure to transmit to you, for your review and final action, the Area Plan
Summary of the Brewery/Ran-I�iew Small Area Plan and the accompanying 40-Acre
Study.
As many of you know, this plan has been "in process" for several yeazs, hauing been
initiated by the Planning Commission in 1993. The time, however, has been well spent as
the Commission and its partners in the West 5eventh Community have worked hard on re-
creating the neighborhood's vision of itself. From an old industrial neighborhood with
close ties to the railroads, the neighborhood now understands itself as a riverfront
community. As such, they have made plans for hundreds of new housing units for
households of all incomes and a thriving pedestrian-friendly commercial corridor that links
the city's gateway to the south with its downtown.
I recommend this plan for your adoption and commend the West Seventh Community and
the Planning Commission for their foresight and hard work.
incerely,
Norm C leman��
Mayor
Attachments
00 -°l6'�
Area Plan Suuvnary
Brewery/ Ran-View Small Area Plan
Addendum to The Comprehensive Plan for Saim Paul
Recommended by the Plamiiug Commission, July 14, 2000
Adopted by the City Council (date)
This summary appends to the Comprehensive Plan the communiry's vision for the redevelopment
and revitalization of the Brewery/Ran-Piew neighborhood of the city's West Seventh/Fort Road
community.
Location
BreweryJRan-View is bounded by the Mississippi River, West Seventh Street, I-35E and the
railroad tracks running just north of the St. Paul Boazd of Education offices at 360 Colborne.
Brewery/Ran-View
Vision
Brewery/Ran-View will be a safe and attractive m�ed-use and mixed-income community that
takes full advantage the scenic Mississippi River and the thriving pedestrian-scale Fort Road/West
Seventh Street commercial corridor. It will be home to hundreds of new households living on
reclaimed industrialland in the midst of one of Saint Paul's oldest and most cherished
neighborhoods.
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Specific Recommendations and Implementation Steps
%ch Mobil Site
The 65 acre site of the former fuel tank fazms owned and operated by Mobil Oil and Koch Fuels
should be redeveloped with a miY of residential and commerciaUoffice uses in a manner consistent
with a series of guidelines outlined in the plan. Those guidelines emphasize pedestrian scale
development, significant landscaping, and integration of the site with the surrounding
neighborhood, the Mississippi River valley and the balance of the region. Specific
recommendations include:
Most of the site should be devoted to the construction of approximatety 400-600 new housing
units designed to serve households of various sizes and incomes.
Neighborhood-scale commerciaUoffice uses should be constructed on West Seventh Street in
a pattern similar to that in the surrounding commercial area. Buildings should be built up to
the street, be two or three stories in height, and include spaces on the upper floors that may be
used for housing and/or office uses. The portion of the site to be devoted to the
commerciaUoffice space and its related parking landscaping and access should be in the range
of 100,000 to 150,000 square feet and be located in the area bounded by West Seventh Street,
Otto and Montreal Circle.
The community should continue to be involved in advising the Saint Paul IIRA and City
Council on key issues throughout the redevelopment process.
Randolph Industrial Site
The 25-acre site, bounded generally by Randolph, Drake and Shepard Road, is currently used by
the ADM grain elevators and various automobile parking and transfer operations. A Canadian
Pacific Railroad mainiine runs across the site and serves the Ford assembly plant in Highland Park.
The plan recommends that the site eventually should be redeveloped with a mix of residential and
commerciaUoffice uses, but acknowledges that soil contamination and current uses on the site
mean that redevelopment is unlikely to happen in the near term. As development pressure builds,
however, the plan recommends a site-specific neighborhood-based planning process be
undertaken. Pending the clean-up of the site, interim uses consistent with the current zoning of the
property will be pernutted.
Neighborhood Clean-up and Fix-up
As important as the redevelopment of the aging industrial sites in the area are the series of
strategies related to maintaining and improving the quality and character of e�sting residential
and commercial development. Block clubs, code enforcement, rehab loans and grants and the
purchase/rehab/resale of distressed properties aze all tools recommended in the plan.
West Seventh Street
The small retail businesses, restaurants and entertainment venues on West Seventh Street will all
be strengthened by a larger population base anticipated by the plan. To integrate those
businesses--and the commercial district as a whole--more tightly into the neighborhood, the plan
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recommends new uses for vacant pazcels, design guidelines to improve the aesthetic chazacter of
the street, loans and grants for facade improvements, and cazeful attention to the quality of the
public realm (street, sidewalks, street trees, lighting, fences and building facades).
Ran-Vew and Brewery Neighborhoods
The plan identifies a series of specific unprovements recommended for the e�sting residential
neighborhoods: street light installarions, traffic calming at specific intersections, landscaping for
key corners and neighborhood entrances, and work with the railroads to make addirional
provisions for right-of-way maintenance and the safety of drivers and pedestrians at each
neighborhood crossing.
Parks, Recreation and Open Space
Among the recommendations related to parks, recreation and open space in the plan are that the
City should develop a new passive riverfront park on land it owns across Shepazd Road from
where Randolph intersects with Shepard, ea�plore the feasibility of a bicycle/pedestrian link
between this area and Lilydale Regional Park on the river's west bank, and improve the triangle
park at Tuscarora and Bay as a neighborhood focal point and children's play area. Beyond that,
the plan recommends ea�tending recreation programming to children and youth throughout the
community through better mazketing, providing transportation to area community recreation
centers, offering programs at remote sites and partnering with private recreation providers.
Land Use and Zoning
Accompanying the small area plan is a 40-acre study recommending four azeas for rezoning:
In the blocks bounded by Butternut, Stewart, Otto and Sumac in addition to the lot on the
northwest comer of Sumac and Butternut, the plan proposes a rezoning from RM-2 to RT-1
to conform to the existing one- and two-family use of the area.
The townhouse site off of Otto between West Seventh and Victoria should be rezoned from
RM-1 to RT-2 to conform to the eacisting use.
The waterfront land owned by the City of Saint Paul Division of Parks and Recreation
between Shepard Road and the Mississippi River neaz the intersection of Randolph and
Shepard Road should be rezoned from I-2 to R-4 to be consistent with its planned use as a
park.
Pazcels contiguous to a new townhouse development in the Brewery neighborhood between
Duke and Colborne Streets should be rezoned as follows:
Land declared surplus by the railroad and acquired by the HRA on behalf of the
townhouse developer should be rezoned from I-2 to RT-2 so that the parcels can be linked
to the townhouse site and the land used and maintained by the townhouse association as
open space.
Three vacant lots adjacent to the current townhouse project (386, 388, 390 Duke Street)
should be rezoned from RT-1 to KT-2 to provide for the development of additional
townhouses.
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The plan also recommends that, as the land on the Koch Mobil site is cleaned up to meet State
standards, the Plamiing Commission should initiate a 40-acre study to rezone the property in such
a way as to facilitate its redevelopment with a mix of housing and neighborhood scale commercial
uses as detailed in the plan.
City Action
Priority City actions include:
• Work with developer(s) of the Koch Mobil site to facilitate development process.
• Provide technical assistance in the preparation and review of the application for a planned unit
development.
• Working with the West Seventh Federation and the West End Business and Revitalization
Corporation, review neighborhood needs for street paving, lighting and other streetscape
improvements and integrate them into the City's capital improvement program.
• Develop a passive riverfront park on City-owned land across Shepard Road.
• Improve the City-owned Tuscazora and Bay triangle as a neighborhood focal point and play
area for children.
• Support the Fort Road Federation's acquisition, rehabilitation and resale of vacant and/or
substandard properties. Similazly, support the West Seventh Business and Revitalization
Corporation's efforts to improve existing commercial properties and encourage infill
development.
• When appropriate, work with neighborhood residents to convene a planning process for the
Randolph industrial site.
Planning Commission Findings
The Planning Comxnission finds that the Brewery/Ran-View Small Area Plan is consistent with
The Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan and other adopted City policies.
Process
The Brewery RanlView J'mall Area L'lan and the torty-acre study were mitiated by the Jamt Yau1
Planning Commission on September 24, 1993. A draft plan was prepazed by a task force
convened jointly by the Commission and the West Seventh Federation and was the subject of a
public hearing before the Commission on November 17, 1995. During the Commission's review,
Koch Fuels and Mobil Oil announced plans to close their operations and vacate the site at West
Seventh and Otto. Because ofthe significance ofthe site, the Planning Commission and
community suspended consideration of the plan draft and began gathering information and
identifying possible alternatives for its redevelopment. The task force was reconvened in August
1999 and completed a major revision of the original plan in February 2000.
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The task force was broadly representative of community interests and was co-chaired by a
member of the Planning Commission. The process included a community-wide plam�ing charrette
and a special session with area business owners. The plan was adopted at the Annual Meeting of
the West Seventh Federation on April 1Q 2000.
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RESOLUTTON ADOPTING THE SUMMARY OF THE
BREWERY/RAN-VCEWSMAI.L AREA P7.,AN
AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE SAINT PAUL COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul is authorized under Minnesota Statues, Section 462.353, to carry on
comprehensive municipal planning activities for guiding the future development and improvement ofthe city; and
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul, as a local government unit within the metropolitan area, is required under
Minnesota Statutes, Section 473.858, to prepare 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
WHEREAS, the Saint Paul City Council adopted, by Council File 98-1133 on March 3, 1999, the Land Use Plan
as a chapter of the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan; and
WI�IEREAS, the Land Use Plan provided for the adoption of summaries of area plans as addenda to the
comprehensive plan; and
WI�REAS, the Brewery/Ran-View Small Area Plan was prepared by a community-based task force convened
by the Saint Paul Planning Commission and including representatives drawn from among neighborhood residents,
business owners and community organizations; and
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44 WHEREAS, a summary of the Brewery/Ran-View Small Area Plan was presented to the Planning Commission
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48 testunony, recommended, by its Resolution 00-44 approved on 7uly 14, 2000, adoption of the summary by the
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52 Plan is adopted as an area plan addendum to the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan contingent upon review by
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It`IITIATING PROBLEM� ISSUE, OPPORTUMTY (Who� What, When, Where� Why):
DevelopmenUredevelopment opporlunities in the West 5eventh community led the Plamiing Commission to
inititate a small area planning process to guide public and private investment.
ADVANTAGESIFAPPROVED: •
Adoption of the plan will strengthen the process of priority setting, resource allocation, land use review and
partnership formation around the crirical issues in the area.
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CITY OF SAINT PALTL 39oc,Tyxau Telephone: 651-2 66 851 0
NormColemax,Mayor ISWestKel[oggBOUievard Facmm:1e:651-228-8513
Saint Paul, MN 55102
October i, 2000
Council President Aan Bostrom
and Members of the City Council
320B City Hall
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Dear Council President Bostrom and Members of the Councii:
It is my pleasure to transmit to you, for your review and final action, the Area Plan
Summary of the Brewery/Ran-I�iew Small Area Plan and the accompanying 40-Acre
Study.
As many of you know, this plan has been "in process" for several yeazs, hauing been
initiated by the Planning Commission in 1993. The time, however, has been well spent as
the Commission and its partners in the West 5eventh Community have worked hard on re-
creating the neighborhood's vision of itself. From an old industrial neighborhood with
close ties to the railroads, the neighborhood now understands itself as a riverfront
community. As such, they have made plans for hundreds of new housing units for
households of all incomes and a thriving pedestrian-friendly commercial corridor that links
the city's gateway to the south with its downtown.
I recommend this plan for your adoption and commend the West Seventh Community and
the Planning Commission for their foresight and hard work.
incerely,
Norm C leman��
Mayor
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Area Plan Suuvnary
Brewery/ Ran-View Small Area Plan
Addendum to The Comprehensive Plan for Saim Paul
Recommended by the Plamiiug Commission, July 14, 2000
Adopted by the City Council (date)
This summary appends to the Comprehensive Plan the communiry's vision for the redevelopment
and revitalization of the Brewery/Ran-Piew neighborhood of the city's West Seventh/Fort Road
community.
Location
BreweryJRan-View is bounded by the Mississippi River, West Seventh Street, I-35E and the
railroad tracks running just north of the St. Paul Boazd of Education offices at 360 Colborne.
Brewery/Ran-View
Vision
Brewery/Ran-View will be a safe and attractive m�ed-use and mixed-income community that
takes full advantage the scenic Mississippi River and the thriving pedestrian-scale Fort Road/West
Seventh Street commercial corridor. It will be home to hundreds of new households living on
reclaimed industrialland in the midst of one of Saint Paul's oldest and most cherished
neighborhoods.
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Specific Recommendations and Implementation Steps
%ch Mobil Site
The 65 acre site of the former fuel tank fazms owned and operated by Mobil Oil and Koch Fuels
should be redeveloped with a miY of residential and commerciaUoffice uses in a manner consistent
with a series of guidelines outlined in the plan. Those guidelines emphasize pedestrian scale
development, significant landscaping, and integration of the site with the surrounding
neighborhood, the Mississippi River valley and the balance of the region. Specific
recommendations include:
Most of the site should be devoted to the construction of approximatety 400-600 new housing
units designed to serve households of various sizes and incomes.
Neighborhood-scale commerciaUoffice uses should be constructed on West Seventh Street in
a pattern similar to that in the surrounding commercial area. Buildings should be built up to
the street, be two or three stories in height, and include spaces on the upper floors that may be
used for housing and/or office uses. The portion of the site to be devoted to the
commerciaUoffice space and its related parking landscaping and access should be in the range
of 100,000 to 150,000 square feet and be located in the area bounded by West Seventh Street,
Otto and Montreal Circle.
The community should continue to be involved in advising the Saint Paul IIRA and City
Council on key issues throughout the redevelopment process.
Randolph Industrial Site
The 25-acre site, bounded generally by Randolph, Drake and Shepard Road, is currently used by
the ADM grain elevators and various automobile parking and transfer operations. A Canadian
Pacific Railroad mainiine runs across the site and serves the Ford assembly plant in Highland Park.
The plan recommends that the site eventually should be redeveloped with a mix of residential and
commerciaUoffice uses, but acknowledges that soil contamination and current uses on the site
mean that redevelopment is unlikely to happen in the near term. As development pressure builds,
however, the plan recommends a site-specific neighborhood-based planning process be
undertaken. Pending the clean-up of the site, interim uses consistent with the current zoning of the
property will be pernutted.
Neighborhood Clean-up and Fix-up
As important as the redevelopment of the aging industrial sites in the area are the series of
strategies related to maintaining and improving the quality and character of e�sting residential
and commercial development. Block clubs, code enforcement, rehab loans and grants and the
purchase/rehab/resale of distressed properties aze all tools recommended in the plan.
West Seventh Street
The small retail businesses, restaurants and entertainment venues on West Seventh Street will all
be strengthened by a larger population base anticipated by the plan. To integrate those
businesses--and the commercial district as a whole--more tightly into the neighborhood, the plan
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recommends new uses for vacant pazcels, design guidelines to improve the aesthetic chazacter of
the street, loans and grants for facade improvements, and cazeful attention to the quality of the
public realm (street, sidewalks, street trees, lighting, fences and building facades).
Ran-Vew and Brewery Neighborhoods
The plan identifies a series of specific unprovements recommended for the e�sting residential
neighborhoods: street light installarions, traffic calming at specific intersections, landscaping for
key corners and neighborhood entrances, and work with the railroads to make addirional
provisions for right-of-way maintenance and the safety of drivers and pedestrians at each
neighborhood crossing.
Parks, Recreation and Open Space
Among the recommendations related to parks, recreation and open space in the plan are that the
City should develop a new passive riverfront park on land it owns across Shepazd Road from
where Randolph intersects with Shepard, ea�plore the feasibility of a bicycle/pedestrian link
between this area and Lilydale Regional Park on the river's west bank, and improve the triangle
park at Tuscarora and Bay as a neighborhood focal point and children's play area. Beyond that,
the plan recommends ea�tending recreation programming to children and youth throughout the
community through better mazketing, providing transportation to area community recreation
centers, offering programs at remote sites and partnering with private recreation providers.
Land Use and Zoning
Accompanying the small area plan is a 40-acre study recommending four azeas for rezoning:
In the blocks bounded by Butternut, Stewart, Otto and Sumac in addition to the lot on the
northwest comer of Sumac and Butternut, the plan proposes a rezoning from RM-2 to RT-1
to conform to the existing one- and two-family use of the area.
The townhouse site off of Otto between West Seventh and Victoria should be rezoned from
RM-1 to RT-2 to conform to the eacisting use.
The waterfront land owned by the City of Saint Paul Division of Parks and Recreation
between Shepard Road and the Mississippi River neaz the intersection of Randolph and
Shepard Road should be rezoned from I-2 to R-4 to be consistent with its planned use as a
park.
Pazcels contiguous to a new townhouse development in the Brewery neighborhood between
Duke and Colborne Streets should be rezoned as follows:
Land declared surplus by the railroad and acquired by the HRA on behalf of the
townhouse developer should be rezoned from I-2 to RT-2 so that the parcels can be linked
to the townhouse site and the land used and maintained by the townhouse association as
open space.
Three vacant lots adjacent to the current townhouse project (386, 388, 390 Duke Street)
should be rezoned from RT-1 to KT-2 to provide for the development of additional
townhouses.
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The plan also recommends that, as the land on the Koch Mobil site is cleaned up to meet State
standards, the Plamiing Commission should initiate a 40-acre study to rezone the property in such
a way as to facilitate its redevelopment with a mix of housing and neighborhood scale commercial
uses as detailed in the plan.
City Action
Priority City actions include:
• Work with developer(s) of the Koch Mobil site to facilitate development process.
• Provide technical assistance in the preparation and review of the application for a planned unit
development.
• Working with the West Seventh Federation and the West End Business and Revitalization
Corporation, review neighborhood needs for street paving, lighting and other streetscape
improvements and integrate them into the City's capital improvement program.
• Develop a passive riverfront park on City-owned land across Shepard Road.
• Improve the City-owned Tuscazora and Bay triangle as a neighborhood focal point and play
area for children.
• Support the Fort Road Federation's acquisition, rehabilitation and resale of vacant and/or
substandard properties. Similazly, support the West Seventh Business and Revitalization
Corporation's efforts to improve existing commercial properties and encourage infill
development.
• When appropriate, work with neighborhood residents to convene a planning process for the
Randolph industrial site.
Planning Commission Findings
The Planning Comxnission finds that the Brewery/Ran-View Small Area Plan is consistent with
The Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan and other adopted City policies.
Process
The Brewery RanlView J'mall Area L'lan and the torty-acre study were mitiated by the Jamt Yau1
Planning Commission on September 24, 1993. A draft plan was prepazed by a task force
convened jointly by the Commission and the West Seventh Federation and was the subject of a
public hearing before the Commission on November 17, 1995. During the Commission's review,
Koch Fuels and Mobil Oil announced plans to close their operations and vacate the site at West
Seventh and Otto. Because ofthe significance ofthe site, the Planning Commission and
community suspended consideration of the plan draft and began gathering information and
identifying possible alternatives for its redevelopment. The task force was reconvened in August
1999 and completed a major revision of the original plan in February 2000.
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The task force was broadly representative of community interests and was co-chaired by a
member of the Planning Commission. The process included a community-wide plam�ing charrette
and a special session with area business owners. The plan was adopted at the Annual Meeting of
the West Seventh Federation on April 1Q 2000.
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