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Council amends site-plan notice rule to notify councilmembers instead of mandated mailings; public hearing deferred
Summary
Councilmember Huffman’s substitute to require planners to notify district council members (rather than developers mailing notices to neighbors) passed as a substitute; the item was then deferred to allow the planning commission and public hearing process to run. Members debated who pays for mailings and whether downtown areas should be excluded.
The Metropolitan Council amended a proposed change to require notice of final site plan filings to go to district council members rather than mandating mailed notice to nearby addresses.
Councilmember Huffman, sponsor of the ordinance, explained the substitute aims to give district council members an automatic heads-up when a final site plan is filed so they can decide whether to notify constituents. “The intent of the substitute is for the council member to make the judgment call on how they wanna notify their constituents,” Huffman said. Council staff clarified that the substitute…
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