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Votes at a glance: Forest Park Urban Design Review Board (June 20) — minutes accepted; multifamily concept approved; data center review tabled
Summary
The Urban Design Review Board approved the April 18 meeting minutes and granted conceptual design approval for a small multifamily duplex project; it tabled the conceptual review of a proposed two‑building data center pending additional studies.
The City of Forest Park Urban Design Review Board on June 20 took three formal actions: it approved minutes from the April 18 board meeting, approved a conceptual design for a proposed multifamily duplex on a 0.16‑acre parcel in Ward 2, and tabled consideration of a conceptual design for a proposed two‑building data center in the Fort Gillum industrial district pending additional materials.
The board first approved the minutes from the April 18 meeting by motion and voice vote. The board then considered a previously tabled item: a conceptual design review for a new multifamily duplex located in the multifamily residential district in Ward 2 on a 0.16‑acre parcel (parcel ID 13049AA031). Staff described the application as a conceptual‑design request; after a brief public comment on neighborhood notification and construction disruption, a motion to approve the conceptual design passed by voice vote.
Later in the meeting the board began review of the conceptual design for a proposed two‑building data center in Fort Gillum. Following extensive public comment and requests from board members for additional technical documentation, the board voted to table the data center item and requested that the applicant provide a detailed landscape plan (including buffering/berm specifications), a noise study or noise‑modeling demonstrating compliance with local decibel thresholds and proposed attenuation measures, and more detailed screening/fencing drawings. The board set the item to return to the Urban Design Review Board on July 18.
Summary of actions
• Approval of April 18, 2025 meeting minutes — Motion: accept minutes; outcome: approved by voice vote.
• Conceptual design approval — Multifamily duplex — Staff description: parcel in multifamily residential district, Ward 2, acreage 0.16, parcel ID 13049AA031. Motion: approve conceptual design; outcome: approved by voice vote. Public comment included concerns about notice to neighboring properties and construction disruption; staff responded that public notice for required variances had been provided through planning processes.
• Conceptual design review — Two‑building data center (Fort Gillum) — Motion: table pending additional materials (landscape plan, noise study, screening details); outcome: tabled; next hearing July 18, 2025.
The board recorded the votes by voice for the two approvals and for the tabling motion; the transcript records the outcomes as passed but does not list individual roll‑call vote tallies or named ayes for these motions.
