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After Lennar review, St. Paul Park planning commission recommends major rewrite of subdivision rules
Summary
The Planning Commission voted to forward a broad rewrite of the city’s subdivision ordinance intended to strengthen concept/preliminary-plat submission requirements, align engineering standards and reduce final-plat public hearings, following lessons from the Lennar subdivision review.
The Planning Commission on Dec. 8 recommended that the City Council adopt a comprehensive rewrite of the subdivision ordinance to bring the code into alignment with contemporary practice and state statute.
City Planner Nate Sparks said the city’s existing code treated preliminary plat and final plat in ways that no longer match state law and court precedent. ‘‘When our ordinance talks about preliminary plat like it's a glorified concept plan and then…
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