Roseville rezones Highway 36 site to allow Minnesota State Patrol headquarters
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Summary
The Roseville City Council approved a comprehensive-plan amendment, rezoning and site-and-building plans for three parcels at 1500 Highway 36 W. so they can be redeveloped as a Minnesota State Patrol headquarters; the planning commission recommended approval 7-0 and the council approved all actions unanimously.
The Roseville City Council on March 23 approved a comprehensive-plan amendment, rezoning and site-and-building plans that clear the way for the Minnesota State Patrol to redevelop three parcels at 1500 Highway 36 W. as a patrol campus and headquarters.
Thomas Paschke, the city planner, told the council the project requires changing the guidance on the city’s comprehensive plan and rezoning the parcels from employment/core mixed use to an institutional (INST) district to allow a special, object-oriented building suited to the patrol’s needs. “This is a project that is for the state patrol for their first ever campus, if you will, so their headquarters building,” Paschke said, and staff recommended council support.
Paschke said the proposal includes measures to address security and limited public access, and that the redevelopment will improve on-site environmental conditions compared with the heavily paved surface there now. “They’ll be using some permeable surfaces,” a council member noted, and Paschke confirmed the state’s standards for the project require a higher level of environmental mitigation than many private developments.
The planning commission held a public hearing and voted 7–0 to support the comprehensive-plan amendment, rezoning and the special/object-oriented building classification. Council members then adopted the required resolution to amend the comp plan (meeting the supermajority threshold), passed the ordinance to change the zoning and, by motion, approved the site and building plans; each action passed unanimously.
Council and staff discussed next steps: the action package includes three separate approvals — the comp-plan resolution, the zoning ordinance and a motion to approve the detailed site plans — and staff flagged related items for upcoming meetings, including a public-improvement contract tied to the project on the April 13 EDA agenda.
The approvals formalize design and land-use allowances that accommodate security measures for the facility while requiring the redevelopment to meet the higher environmental standards tied to the state project. The council did not receive public comments at the hearing and council members said the property’s in-state ownership means the change should not affect local property-tax assessments.
What’s next: council-approved zoning and plans now allow the applicant to proceed with construction permitting and related public-improvement work; staff will bring any required contracts, permits and agreement items to future meetings for consideration.
