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Heritage Preservation Commission forwards text amendment changes to city council after approving several edits
Summary
The Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission voted to recommend City Council approval of a text amendment to Chapter 599 (heritage preservation), with four specific amendments the commission adopted at the Sept. 30, 2025 meeting. The commission's recommendation will go to the Business, Inspections and Zoning committee and then to City Council.
The Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission recommended that City Council adopt an amended Chapter 599 governing heritage preservation, approving a set of staff-drafted changes plus four commission amendments on Sept. 30, 2025.
The text amendment had been continued from a Sept. 16 meeting. City planning staff presented a summary of changes, explained the rationale for administrative delegations (including clarified roles for the CPED director and staff) and outlined several points of public comment and commissioner concern. After discussion and proposed edits from commissioners, the commission voted to forward the amendment to the council with the commission’s recommended changes.
Rob Skolicki, Senior City Planner in CPED’s Historic Preservation Section, summarized the staff position and explained why certain administrative authorities — for example, routine determinations about potential historic resources and short-term demolition delays for nominated districts — were proposed for administrative handling rather than repeated referral to the commission. Skolicki said some proposed delegations are…
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