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The site is guided in our comprehensive plan for medium density residential... currently zoned pcd4 planned commercial District so the only uses allowed within a pcd4 district includes a car wash auto repair and a gas station.

Any building that's put on this site would require variances... because of the setback requirements to Vernon and Eden Prairie Road... the existing structure out there is not code compliant.

I can't think of one [other place in the city where there is one parcel and a small one at that that's neighborhood commercial and everything within a considerable distance is either R1 or multifamily].

This is the complete opposite of that [reducing VMT]... this is like you know food manufacturing basically right so they're producing a ton of food because they're just making food they're not serving people... it's all the land uses around it combined with with what this one our lone East West Route in Edina that could really support Transit.

The conflict you often get with bike Lanes is that... they're like they go they start to go and then a car and then you know because they're trying to beat the car they're not really looking and they see a cyclist and this is how pedestrians die right.

I would feel uncomfortable pulling my car into [certain parking spaces] because I would be pulling back into traffic... I wouldn't be able to kind of watch what's coming... from Vernon.

Is there something kind of pragmatic about it's or is there are there practical limitations associated with just the inherent conditions of it that are going to make building multi family whatever it's guided for right now in the comprehensive plan unlikely or impossible?

Wouldn't that fit here where we have uh a zoning classification which does not fit the comprehensive plan and has not and has been repeatedly brought up over the past couple years?

I don't I would rather be overparked than underparked... I didn't want to be in a situation where we were pushing people into the neighborhood or they were just you know making laps because there was nowhere to park.

I mean if we add if we had 80 cars added to Vernon in a night that would be a lot in my opinion for what what we anticipate flow wise... I mean we're talking about you know 300 pizzas it's it's 150 pizzas but a lot of those go out in multiples.

I commend you I mean I think this plan just one plan existing building was really easy to read and is the way the sketch plan is supposed to be that you're not supposed to been a ton of work on it.

I think there's like a small infrastructure piece of this that like with the plan I that I would support is like a hybrid version of this where yeah that's your business but there are some Provisions to allow people to hang out... if you push that fence back and the city's okay with planting trees on their right away instead of your property I think now you just Got 5 10 ft to work with.

I think there's going to be some tension because as soon as you have more people sitting then your earlier concern about parking spots comes back... but I mean assuming you could sort all that out and have some seating and be more of a Gathering Place it fits more in pcd1 in my opinion.

I think we should change the comprehensive plan when we think an alternative use better serves the goals of the city than the current plan prescribes and I don't see that here.

I really think we need to we need a bigger picture before we can really make an intelligent decision here and before we want to like rezone it and also do a change to the comprehensive plan... that's not planning that's that's just spur the moment stuff.

We've been meeting for months... we're done with the in-person meetings and now we are um uh building our deliverable which is a list of the areas... the plan is to present that to the Planning Commission at uh a July meeting and then assuming that gets passed then presenting it to the city council at their at an August meeting.

The meeting went great... we met at Wolf park I think there were about a hundred people there... we broke up into a bicycling group and a walking group... people gave a lot of feedback and they marked on the maps.