Edina City Council — Transcript
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Story
Edina Planning Commission Advances Affordable Housing Review, Launches Area Study
Sewer Capacity and Inter-City Negotiations
Lincoln and Londonderry Small Area Plan
Votes (3)
Election of 2024 Planning Commission Officers
Dissent: None.
Moved by Miranda [7:15] · Seconded by Unknown [7:22]
Annual selection of leadership. Commissioner Jerry Strauss is rotating off after nine years of service.
Sketch Plan Review: 5780 Lincoln Drive
Dissent: Commissioner Day expressed the most significant conceptual opposition based on land-use balance.
Moved by N/A · Seconded by N/A
The applicant presented a lower-density, three-story model with townhomes. Commissioners debated the use of PUD vs. PRD-4 zoning and the urgency created by expiring MHFA funding. Resident Ingred Manai questioned potential conflicts of interest on the board.
Lincoln and Londonderry Small Area Plan Greenprint
Dissent: None.
Moved by Unknown [2:11:17] · Seconded by Unknown [2:11:21]
Approval of the timeline and solicitation process for a nine-member working group to study the area. The group will include three planning commissioners.
Notable Quotes (4)
Jerry was vice chair but he will have served three full terms meaning nine years on the Planning Commission... so we need to recommend a new Vice chair.
If the building is not occupied by the end of 2026 we lose our mhfa funding... there's no flexibility with the federal funds.
I struggle with this particular development on this particular site... making it basically a residential desert in terms of everybody has to now travel outside of Edina.
This is purely in response to you [residents] caring and sharing your feedback and getting involved... helping provide this sense of urgency.
Ordinances & Resolutions (4)
The city's 10-to-30-year vision guiding land use toward office and residential for the site.
The framework for establishing the Lincoln and Londonderry Small Area Plan working group.
Planned Residential District zoning standard for high-density residential.
Federal funding through the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency with strict 2026 occupancy deadlines.