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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING <br />Monday, March 8, 2021 <br />6:00 o’clock p.m. <br />_____________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Page 16 of 24 <br /> <br />26. LA21-000014 – MARK RAUSCH AND AZIZ SADDIQUI O/B/O UNIVERSITY OF ST. <br />THOMAS AND DAVID WEEKLY HOMES, NW CORNER OF WILLOW AND WAYZATA <br />BLVD., COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT, ZONE CHANGE, PRELIMINARY PLAT, <br />AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN APPROVAL – RESOLUTION NO. 7177 – Continued <br /> <br />Mr. Saddiqui suggested they go on with the application, vote on it, and then obviously everything is <br />contingent upon the Met Council approving the amendment change. Then they do not waste time, they <br />continue to work, and continue on. <br /> <br />Walsh agreed that makes total sense. <br /> <br />Johnson wants to do that but thought Barnhart had an issue with that. <br /> <br />Barnhart said no, they are fine, he just wanted to be up front with the Council as he noticed a discrepancy <br />that he had not identified earlier and wants to be sure they were aware of it. <br /> <br />Attorney Mattick again said they can do all four of those items in a single motion with the caveat that it is <br />subject to the Met Council’s review of this as proposed. <br /> <br />Johnson asked if there are five items. <br /> <br />Barnhart said there are four. The actions include Comprehensive Plan Amendment, zone change, <br />preliminary plat and Master Development. <br /> <br />Johnson moved, Crosby seconded, to approve Resolution No. 7177 - LA21-000014 –Comprehensive <br />Plan Amendment, Zone Change, Preliminary Plat, and Development Plan subject to the Met <br />Council’s review as proposed. VOTE: Ayes 5, Nays 0. <br /> <br />Seals asked Staff if they made any progress, as she believes they talked about changing those ranges so <br />they are smaller for density so it’s not such a wide swath. <br /> <br />Walsh said so they could adjust it to whatever they wanted to basically. <br /> <br />Johnson asked them to repeat that. <br /> <br />Walsh said instead of making it a 10-20, they make it 11-20, and instead of 5-10, make it 5-11. <br /> <br />Seals said yes, to shrink that ratio. <br /> <br />Barnhart apologized and said if that was direction given to him, he does not have a solution for the <br />Council in terms of an actual action. The Council is talking about introducing new land uses, which they <br />certainly can do, and create their own range for those. That is probably a pretty robust change just <br />because they now have to have zoning that ties to that – which again is not impossible, cities do it all the <br />time – but it is a pretty active, intense type of development. He noted this is relatively small as they are <br />talking about 37 units, and the Council is talking about a change that impacts the whole City. They <br />certainly can do that and schedule a work session to talk about what the goals would be for that. <br /> <br />Seals thinks that would be good, she noted it came up that they wanted to shrink that down.