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Green Sheet # 3028433
RESOLUTION
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
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2 Whereas, Ann Brownlee, d/b/a the Grand Avenue Veterinary Center at 1140 Crrand Avenue
3 desires to make an application to the City for variances and building permits necessary to
4 undertake the expansion of the building housing the said business on property legally described
5 as MANSON AND SIMONTON'S ADDTTION TO ST. PAUL, IN RAMSEY COUNTY,
6 MINNESOTA, LOT 10 BLK 4; and
8 Whereas, the proposed building expansion will not require variances as the expansion will
9 comply with existing height and setback limits. However, the expanded building will require
10 additional off-street pazking. The property does not have sufficient space for the additional off-
11 street parking. Therefore, in order to undertake the building expansion, a variance of the off-
12 street pazking requirements is necessary; and
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Whereas, the Council of the City of Saint Paul, in Council File No. OS-875 initiated the process
to adopt an interim ordinance imposing a moratorium on the issuance of variances and bui]ding
permits along a certain stretch of Grand Avenue including the said property described above; and
Whereas, Ann Brownlee had previously applied for an off-street pazking variance application for
the said property before the interim ordinance had been introduced. However, the moratorium
came into effect before the variance could be reviewed. Accordingly, the variance request was
denied because of the moratorium; and
Whereas, the said moratorium provides that the Council may amend the interim ordinance and
grant exceptions to the moratorium for the puipose of aliowing new, permitted uses within an
existing building; and
Whereas, the Grand Av,enue Veterinary Center is a use first permitted on the lot in question. The
lot has been used for a veterinary clinic for at least twenty yeazs. Constructing an addition to an
existing building housing an established and permitted use which do not require area or
dimensional variances is in keeping with the vision for the future of Grand Avenue as evidenced
by the recent endorsement of the proposed expansion by the District 16 Neighborhood Council.
Accordingly, it is reasonable that the City consider an application for an off-street parking
variance that is necessary in order to undertake the proposed expansion of the veterinary clinic
building; Now, Therefore,
Be It Resolved, that the Council of the City of Saint Paul intends to amend the interim ordinance
in Council File No. OS-8'75 in order to permit the applicarion for an off-street parking variance
for the said property described above; and
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2 Be It Finally Resolved, pursuant to this Resolution, that Ann Brownlee, or any other person with
3 an interest in the said property described above, may apply for an off-street pazking variance and
4 building pernvts for an expansion of the veterinary clinic on the said property and have the said
5 applications processed in accordance with the intent of this Resolution, pending the effective date
6 of an amendment to the said interim ordinance that permits the same.
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Action Requested:
Amending ordinance OS-875 (Grand Avenue moratorium) in order to permit the application for an off-street pazking variance by Grand
Avenue Veterinary Center, I140 Cnand Avenue.
Recommendations: Approve (A) or Reject (R): Personal Service Contracls Must Answer the Following Questions:
Planning Commission 1. Has this person/firm ever worked under a coMract for this departmeM?
CIB Committee Yes No
Civil Service Commission 2. Has this personlfirm ever been a cily employee?
Yes No
3. Dces this persoNfirm possess a skill nM normally possessed by any
eurteM city employee?
Yes No
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