We have a quorum. First, I will turn to the minutes of June 8, 2026. Is a motion to adopt those minutes? Any discussion? All in favor say AYE. The minutes are adopted.

The largest change that has been made since May 18 is to reconfigure the southeast corner of the site to provide additional maneuvering area and to widen the proposed dead-end alley segment to allow for larger commercial vehicles serving the adjacent property at 3010 Minnehaha to travel between Minnehaha Avenue and Snelling Avenue.

When we had private meetings with them, they shared they had a big event the night before we met with them and at that event, they had a 50-foot R.V. , so we reran all of the maneuvering modeling and had a civil engineer do that and a 50-foot R.V. is what we have now modeled.

Not here today but I have had communications with Barbara O'Brien who has said there will be considerations for a parking use agreement for after hours and hours the Democracy Center is not meeting that parking that will take place. Like for example, during an election day, that would be a difficult time for shared use parking.

The old standard of 30-foot boxtrucks is no longer the reality we live with. 50-foot tree limbs less trackers are what liver beverages to commercial businesses today.

We are the last remaining performing arts venue from Highway 35 to the River. I think we deserve to stick around more than a new parking spot for an R.V.

I have suffered through 27 years of the city disregarding me as a property owner and as a person. This is more of the same. I am not happy.

If it was not the city next door to me, if it was just another property owner and this issue was coming up, there is no way the city of Minneapolis would permit another property owner to impinge that much on an already established business. Because it is the city, here we all are. And I am not happy.

The Minnesota Supreme Court has stated repeatedly that ensuring reasonable access to a building or eliminating reasonable access to a building based on a public works project results in a compensable taking.

This proposal will put a death knell on a valued cultural institution in South Minneapolis.

Until we have a signed agreement on parking, that is not something we can take to the bank.

In the spirit of reparation, this plan should try to fix that and not further penalize the Hook.

To develop and continue to develop an entertainment district in the downtown Longfellow neighborhood, to revive that neighborhood and put in restaurants and other stages and whatever it might be, we are going to need parking.

I did not see an economic study done, what would it be to have this building come. The way it is set up, it is an impact study for economics. But I have not seen one.

We continue to be disappointed in the lack of consideration the city has given to the impact of its proposed changes to the site on this formerly thriving creative partial know that has seen so much trauma in recent years.