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February 12, 2026 Zoning Board of Adjustment
Minneapolis City CouncilFriday, February 13, 2026
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Good afternoon. This is the February 12th, 2026 zoning board of adjustment regular meeting. My name is Matt Perry and I am chair of the board. I will now call this meeting to order and ask the clerk to call the role so that we may verify the presence of quorum. >> Board member Callahan >> present. Board member Iikolds >> here. >> Board member Hutchkins is absent. Board member Ingram >> I. >> Board member Smeir Car Carva >> I. >> Vice Chair Wang is absent. And Chair Perry >> here. >> There are five members present. >> Thank you. With that, we do have quorum and we'll proceed to our agenda, a copy of which was posted for public access to the city's legislative information management system available at limbs.m minneapolis.gov. Is there a motion to approve this agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. >> It's moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none. All in favor of the motion indicate by saying I. I. Any against? Indicate by saying nay. Any abstensions? And with that, the motion passes and the agenda is approved. I believe all the board members have seen a copy of the minutes from the January 29th, 2026 zoning board of adjustment meeting. Is there a motion to approve? >> Some moved. >> Second. >> It's moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor of the motion indicate by saying I. >> I. >> And against say nay. >> Obscane. And there's one abstension. And that motion passes. The minutes of the zoning board of adjustment January 29th, 2026 meeting are approved. All right. A reminder to applicants and others that if you're going to speak at the public hearing, please sign in on the sheet available from the clerk and speak clearly into the microphone. If you've not signed in yet, you can do so on your way out. Also to applicants and others, please contact staff after the hearing with any questions regarding your projects. And what I'm going to do now is review the agenda. I'll read the agenda number and the address of the project and state whether it's slated for consent, continuence, withdrawal, return, or discussion. So agenda item number four is 1100 Irvin Irving Avenue North. Staff is recommending this item for consent. Is there anyone to speak against this item? I see no one. And agenda item number five is 120 37th Street. Staff is recommending this item for consent. Is there anyone to speak against this item? I hear no one. So let's go to the items for consent. They are four and five. Is there a motion to adopt these on consent? >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> It's moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor of the motion indicate by saying I. >> I. >> Any against? Indicate by saying nay. Any abstension? The motion passes. And if you are here for four or five, your land use requests are approved. Good luck with your projects and really appreciate you coming downtown for this. Okay. Uh we have updates. Are there any updates, Mr. Ellis? Chair Perry, members of the board. Um nothing to speak of. Uh we are still in the process of um trying to do appointments. um still do not have uh specific dates and times um and the recommendations back from council. We are still waiting. Um okay. But otherwise um we hope to have that maybe by the next time we meet. >> Oh, and one other I apologize. Um they will we'll also have um the second meeting in February is when the annual report is due. So we should have the annual report for you uh by the next meeting. >> Great. So, um just a clarification on that. We'll do the we'll we'll get the annual meeting um and then we'll have a cycle to review it and then approve it. >> Uh chair Perry, members of the board. Yes. Uh you I mean if you would like to do it that way, I mean you can approve it, but of course, you know, if you've noticed any mistakes or errors or anything like that, you know. Okay. >> Yeah, definitely do that, but you could go e either way. Um but we'll present it to you or, you know, gather that information for you. We won't do a full presentation on it, but the board will be able to, you know, see the outcomes of of last year. >> So, I'll just ask, how do you guys feel about do you do you want to get it when you get the packet and then approve it at the next meeting or do you want to have a cycle to think about it? >> I'm okay reviewing it as part of the packet as long as we have a chance to review it before approving it. >> Okay. I mean, we because we wouldn't wouldn't make any motions on errors or anything. >> Well, we we we would >> Yeah, I think getting it beforehand is fine >> and and if someone decides they want to bring something up, maybe we can >> Okay, let's do let's plan on doing that and if there's something really that needs to be changed, we of course can do it t take another cycle doing that. >> Yes, chair and chair. We'll we'll have it'll be released at the same time as the um like any reports and whatnot. So, there will be some time to review ahead of time. >> Great. All right. Uh we have completed all of our items on the agenda for this meeting. Our next meeting will be February 26, 2026. Is there a motion to adjourn? So moved. >> Second. >> It's moved and seconded. All in favor indicate by saying I. I. We are adjourned.