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Planning Commission recommends City Council approve Groveland Cemetery cremation garden and columbarium plan
Summary
The commission voted to recommend that the City Council adopt an amended conditional‑use permit allowing a cremation garden and initial columbarium structures at the Groveland Cemetery properties on Woodlawn Avenue; the cemetery association expects roughly 100 cremation niches in the first phase and projects existing space could be filled in about 10–12 years at current rates.
The Minnetonka Planning Commission on Aug. 21 recommended the City Council approve an amendment to the conditional‑use permit for Groveland Cemetery to add a cremation garden and columbarium structures at the cemetery properties on Woodlawn Avenue.
Planner Ms. Raines said the two‑parcel site (3228 Woodlawn and 3300 Woodlawn Avenue) has cemetery use dating to the 1880s and that prior approvals (2008, 2011, 2023) established staging and tree-preservation conditions. The current request would add above‑ground cremation options…
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