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Rondo Community Land Trust plans affordable mixed-use building; rezoning sent for public hearing
Summary
A proposed rezoning at 642 Selby Avenue would allow a mixed-use building with commercial space and 20 residential units; the applicant told council the project would be affordable, using a leasehold cooperative model targeting households at or below 80% of area median income. The council sent the rezoning to public hearing Feb. 12.
The St. Paul City Council on Feb. 5 laid over a rezoning request for 642 Selby Avenue to allow a mixed-use building with ground-floor commercial space and roughly 20 housing units.
Planning staff reported the property in the Summit-University neighborhood was a vacant commercial building (a former dry cleaner) and that the application would rezone the parcel from B2 (community business) to T3 (traditional neighborhood). The planning commission and the district council both recommended approval.
When council members asked about affordability, the applicant, Alan Arthur representing the Rondo Community Land Trust, said the project is intended to be affordable. “We’re headed toward what we might call a leasehold cooperative type of structure for folks at or below 80% of area median income,” Arthur told the council.
Why it matters: The rezoning would allow new housing and street-level commercial space in a transit-rich neighborhood; staff emphasized that a rezoning does not obligate the applicant to build the project, only that the map change would permit the proposed development type.
The council laid the ordinance over to Feb. 12 for second reading and a public hearing.
