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RESOLUTION AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN - FUTURE LAND USE MAP FOR THE UPPER CENTRAL-EAST HILLSIDE LAND USE STUDY AREA, FROM EAST NINTH STREET TO EAST SKYLINE PARKWAY ALONG NORTH SIXTH AVENUE EAST.
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CITY PROPOSAL:
RESOLVED, that the city council makes the following findings:
(a) The city council adopted the Imagine Duluth 2035 Comprehensive Land Use Plan on June 25, 2018, via Resolution 18-0240R, which outlined the desired arrangement of land uses for the next 20 years; and
(b) The city planning division, which is implementing the Comprehensive Land Use Plan by implementing zoning regulations, has studied how, in some situations, amending the Comprehensive Land Use Plan to enable the eventual rezoning of an area will encourage new and appropriate development, encourage the reuse of previously developed lands and the adaptive reuse of existing infrastructure; and
(c) Based on a review of this area completed by the city planning division, staff recommended to the city planning commission that the Future Land Use map be amended for the study, as described below and shown in the map (Attachment 1):
1. In the western portion of the study area above East Eleventh Street and below East Skyline Parkway, north of North Fourth Avenue East and south of East Skyline Parkway Alley, from Traditional Neighborhood to Open Space, as shown in Area A.
2. Areas along North Sixth Avenue East west of East Ninth Street Alley, and east of East of the unimproved portion of Eleventh Street from Traditional Neighborhood and Urban Residential to Neighborhood Mixed Use, as shown in Area B.
(d) The city planning commission has reviewed this future land use amendment, conducted a public hearing on April 9, 2019, at their regular planning commission meeting, and recommends city council adoption of the proposed future land use map amendment; and
(e) The city council action shall be by resolution, with the affirmative votes of at least two-thirds of those members ...
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