Planning Commission — Monday, December 8, 2025

Items on the record

1. Item 4ApprovedPassed 5-0

   Approval of the December 8, 2025 Planning Commission Agenda

   The Planning Commission approved the agenda for its December 8, 2025 meeting without changes, allowing the scheduled public hearing on the MICC project to proceed as planned.

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2. Item 5aApprovedPassed 5-0

   Approval of November 24, 2025 Planning Commission Meeting Minutes

   The Planning Commission formally approved the written minutes from its November 24, 2025 regular meeting, which included the 3-2 approval of a 3-year Interim Use Permit for temporary employee parking on a vacant lot next to Lakewinds Co-op.

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3. Item 7aOutcome pendingrecorded in the approved minutes — tally not yet extracted here

   Public Hearing on MICC Rezoning, Conditional Use Permit, Preliminary Plat, and Variances for New Learning Center on 76th Street West

   Minnesota Independence College & Community (MICC) requested land-use approvals to build a 27,978 square-foot, 2-story vocational school for autistic and neurodivergent adults at 2000, 2006, 2018 76th Street West and 7532 Morgan Avenue South, including rezoning from Low Density Residential (R) to Multifamily Residential (MR-2), a Conditional Use Permit, a Preliminary Plat splitting four lots into two, and five variances (three setback reductions, a lot coverage increase to 37%, and a 15-stall parking reduction to 38 spaces). Staff supported the full request, finding it consistent with the Comprehensive Plan's 2008 'Medium Density Residential' guiding for the area, and a traffic study projected fewer than 100 additional daily trips.

   Item history

   • Dec 8, 2025 · Planning Commission · This item
   • Jan 27, 2026 · City Council · Approved →

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