Community Development Committee Meeting

Regular Meeting
July 7, 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: Robert Street Council Chambers - Directions

Agenda

Dakota Land, Water, and People Acknowledgment

The Metropolitan Council acknowledges that the land we currently call Minnesota and specifically the seven-county region is the ancestral homeland of the Dakota Oyate who are present and active contributors to our thriving region. As part of the Metropolitan Council’s commitment to address the unresolved legacy of genocide, dispossession, and settler colonialism and the fact that government institutions, including the Metropolitan Council, benefitted economically, politically, and institutionally after the forceable removal of the Dakota Oyate, the Metropolitan Council is dedicated to instilling Land, Water, and People Commitments in regional policy. These commitments support the Dakota Oyate, the eleven federally recognized Tribes in Minnesota, Ho-Chunk Nation, and the American Indian Communities representing over 150 diverse Tribal Nations that call the seven-county region home.
 

Call to order

  1. Dakota Land, Water, and People Acknowledgment
  2. Approval of the agenda
  3. Approval of June 16, 2025, Community Development Committee minutes

Consent business

  1. 2025-158 City of Edina Lincoln and Londonderry Small Area Plan Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Review File 22400-3 (Amber Turnquest 651-602-1576)
  2. 2025-159 City of Minneapolis 1501 Johnson Street NE Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Review File 22166-18 (Amber Turnquest 651-602-1576)
  3. 2025-160 City of Forest Lake Land Use Tables Update Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Review File 222270-7 (Merritt Clapp-Smith 651-602-1567)
  4. 2025-162 Blakeley Bluffs Park Reserve, Park Acquisition Opportunity Fund Award (Riesgraf), Scott County (Jessica Lee 651-602-1621)
  5. 2025-163 Lake Rebecca Park Reserve, Park Acquisition Opportunity Fund Award (Van Horn), Three Rivers Park District (Kevin Phan 651-602-1333)

Non-consent business

  1. 2025-161 SW: Annual Metropolitan Regional Parks Operation & Maintenance Allocation (Nicole Clapp 651-602-1723)

Information

  1. Parks Research Update: Regional Parks System 2024 Annual Use Estimate & 2026 Visitor Study update (Ismael Ramirez 651-602-1831)
  2. Livable Communities Program Update: Alignment with Imagine 2050 (Hannah Gary 651-602-1633; Emily Seddon 651-602-1023)
Adjournment
Key:
JT:       Joint business item; presented at two or more committees prior to being presented at Council
SW:      Action taken by the Council and Committee the same week
*           Agenda item changed following initial publication
 

Committee information

Community Development Committee

Committee contact:

Michele Wenner
[email protected]
651-602-1456