All right. Good evening, everybody. I am calling the Monday, April 27th, 2026 Planning Commission meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Tonight's meeting is being conducted both in person and online. Members of the public may attend in person or the public may watch this meeting online at burnsvillemn.gov/meings GV/meings or view us on Comcast channel 16 or 859. The public can join us on Zoom by going to zoom. us/join. More information is available on our meetings web page and in the agenda. Our first agenda topic of tonight's meeting is the adoption of the agenda. Commissioners, can I get a motion to adop adopt the agenda? Motion to adopt. >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Our next topic is approval of the minutes from our April 13, 2026 meeting. Have we had an opportunity to review? And can I get a motion to approve those minutes? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposing nay. Perfect. Motion carries. Moving on to our third topic of tonight, which is a public hearing. It is an application of Cornerstone Community Church for a conditional use permit amendment to re-evaluate parking requirements for a religious assembly use at 500 Travelers Trail East being presented by Mr. Connor Jeks, our senior planner. >> Hey, good evening, Madam Chair, members of the commission. Um, as Madam Chair mentioned, the application before you is um from Cornerstone Community Church for a conditional use permit amendment. Uh, the site is located at 500 East Travelers Trail, located at the corner of Travelers Trail and Portland Avenue South as shown on screen before you. The site is currently zoned B3 General Business and is guided B US or business office retail in the 2040 comprehensive plan. surrounding sites to the north, east, and um south are zoned and guided in accordance with the subject site. The site to the west is um known as the Meadow Village uh residential area, currently zoned R3A, medium density residential and guided medium density in the 2040 [clears throat] comprehensive plan. Terms of background, um original approvals for the site were granted in 1984. Um those approvals split a total site area of 135 acres into 12 different lots. With that application, there was a reszoning from R3B to B3, general business, which is the zoning um today, and a conditional use permit was issued for office and warehouse uses on the subject site. Following that, uh most recently in 2017, there was a conditional use permit issued for a religious assembly use, which was for Sovereign Grace Church, which is now Comm uh Cornerstone Community Church, which is the applicant before you um this evening. The 2017 CUP um had various conditions related to parking, but um the most prominent or um most kind of prevalent to our conversation this evening is the one that required a cross parking agreement and shared parking with the site at 12345 Portland Avenue South, which is currently owned and operated by the Hub Church, um which commission probably remembers we discussed two weeks ago. Um the owner at Portland Avenue um submitted a conditional use permit for religious assembly use and in order to meet their parking requirements actually had to terminate that um shared parking agreement. Um and as a result the applicant before you needs to re-evaluate their parking to meet requirements and review the conditional use permit um which is the application before this evening. As a reminder, a conditional use permit is required for religious assembly uses within the B3 zoning district. Primary considerations would include um parking demand, site circulation, and potential impacts to adjacent roadways. Um again, the site um in question this evening has been in operation for multiple years since 2017, so almost 10 years now. Um there's been no complaints um from the city side and um the applicant has noted they haven't used those cross parking or shared parking arrangements um since they opened in 2017. In terms of parking and loading for the site, um the code overall allows for two ways to calculate parking for religious assembly uses. One is based off of max maximum occupancy when there's no fixed seating proposed and one calculation is based off capacity which relates to fixed seating. So in 2017 um the parking that was contemplated required a total of 421 stalls. That was based off of maximum occupancy of the entire tenant space in use. Um so that includes um offices kind of like flex spaces, the sanctuary, the lobby, every space of that building was calculated into the parking for um the use at that time at a rate of one stall per three occupants. The proposal this evening is to calculate the air [clears throat] parking based off the areas of the building in use at peak operating times similar to what we've seen recently for the hub church, Eden Baptist Church, Good Shepard. Um, and so for the site before you, it's the sanctuary and then the lobby space, which is similar to those other sites we reviewed recently. The parking calculation would be one stall per three occupants for the lobby since there's no fixed seating in the lobby and then one stall per three seats in the sanctuary since there is fixed seating. Um, so the proposed stalls that would be required is 246 and the existing on-site is 350. The floor plan for the um tenant space is shown on screen before you. Um, this is the exact same plan that was approved in 2017. The applicant hasn't made any changes to the floor plan and there haven't been any u permits related to remodeling or anything of the like since 2017. The only thing I'll note is that the applicants only installed about half the seats within the sanctuary. So, the sanctuary on screen proposes a total of 477 seats. There's about half that installed um currently. The area shown in yellow is the sanctuary. Um, again that's calculated at one stall per three seats for a total of 159 stalls. The area outlined in orange on screen is the lobby or northx and calculated one stall [clears throat] per three occupants. So 87 stalls with a total of 260 occupants. Terms of planning consideration um again religious assembly uses are allowed with the conditional use permit. The site has been in operation um since 2017, has been in compliance um until that um shared parking agreement was terminated recently and [snorts] no complaints have been received. Um there is amping ample parking available on the subject site during peak use and throughout the week and the application does align with the comprehensive plan and um the proposal meets the intent of the zoning ordinance as well. Um the recommendation is shown on screen. Um there are three conditions proposed with the application. The first is that the conditions of approval for the conditional use permit approved by the city council on March 5th, 1984 shall remain in full force in effect. Second condition, parking shall continue to be striped to include 92 parking stalls adjacent to the common lot line consistent with the 1984 approved plan for the Burnsville Corporate Center. Condition three, the declaration of easements providing cross access and shared parking between lot [clears throat] one and lot two, block one, Burnsville corporate center, first edition, recorded as document number 3238546 with the Dakota County Recorders Office shall continue to remain in full force and effect. With that, the recommendations on screen and the applicant is in attendance as well for any questions. >> Thank you, Mr. Jakes. All right, commissioners. Um, if you have any questions for staff at this time, can take those. >> Commissioner Anderson, >> one and two, that's the building in front of this or north of it. >> Uh, Commissioner, that's correct. It'd be um lot one and two are these two buildings that were developed simultaneously. >> All right. Um, if the applicant would like to approach and uh state your name and address for the record, um, >> home address or church address? >> Yeah, whatever. Which one? >> Um, my name is Rick Kamash. I live at uh 213 Burnest Court in Burnsville. The church is 500 East Travelers Trail. >> Awesome. Commissioners, do we have any questions for the applicant? All right. Then with that, I will open the public hearing at 6:38 p.m. and we'll see if we have any questions. Anyone on the line? Okay. All right. We'll give it a couple seconds here. All right, we'll close the public hearing at 6:38 p.m. All right, commissioners, do we have any discussion or um would like would someone like to make a motion? All right, commissioner, >> does the city have any concerns at all with this cup besides the three identified? >> Uh, Commissioner Hamilton, not at this time. Um, the site's been operating in compliance and there's no concerns from a staff perspective. If I can [clears throat] add commissioner too, um this is a different approach that the current staff's taking compared to the previous staff. The previous staff looked at occupancy of the entire site. Uh current staff, myself, Connor, Kevin, um Kira, that's current staff. It's just kind of like an organizational change. We're looking at the peak use, not the whole capacity of the entire site. We're looking at the peak use, peak time, peak demand instead of the toll site because when a service is held or event, the whole space is being is not going to be occupied at 400 and some people. So, we're looking at the seating and kind of changing it that way to address it. >> Commissioner, >> um I think it seems pretty straightforward. I'd be happy to make the motion unless anyone else has a comment. Okay. So, I uh move that we recommend to the city council approval of the conditional use permit amendment to reeval reevaluate parking requirements for a religious assembly use at 500 travelers trail east subject to the three conditions that were listed. >> We have a motion. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I post say nay. All right. The motion carries. >> Um yeah, congratulations. that will be on the city council consent agenda on May 19th. >> Okay. >> All right. >> Great. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. And just a public shout out to Connor. He uh he has been amazing to work with. This scared me. I didn't know what to expect and uh he calmed my nerves immediately and has helped me every step of the way and we love Burnsville. Love being in Burnsville. So, thank you very much. >> Yeah. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Great. [clears throat] >> All right. Agenda topic number four tonight um is the zoning code reorganization update session number six being presented by Mr. Mike Morosula. >> Good evening [clears throat] chair and commissioners. Um this is the last one. This is our sixth time going through it different sections. So tonight um one's up. I'm going to switch this. One second. >> [clears throat] >> So tonight we are going to talk about a couple different sections. Uh the first one is up the admin and administrative and um code compliance. Overall here we didn't do too much changes. Um we really want to make it more user friendly and update the terms and terminology. So we did update to the current um formatting standards. We reorganized improve usability um as like the next one here. We created standalone sections for general um information. Public hearings originally was buried within the conditional use permit section. So we put in a standalone section so easy for applicants to find it. And then same with appeals. Peels was buried in our section. We put it into its own. Then we created a new section um dealing the concept plan review process. Um so now it's in code. Then we updated the variance language to current standards. Um the current language does not have the um practical difficulties listed in there. So we want to list it in there so it's easier for applicants to see the practical difficulty standards as in listed in state statute. Then um we added a general statement to the zoning and text amend amendment section explained what the intent of that is. Then we remove the planning commission's ability to initiate zoning amendments and authorize staff. So if you guys see something, tell us. we initiate. So that's the way it would work. The last city codes have that in there now. Council has that authority given to them by state statute. But here you would see if you want something changed, you talk to us and then we would initiate. Um very common these days. So it's just a new um update in the process there. Definitions. Uh as we went through this, the whole code was not to do any substantive changes. So we took the approach of taking these districts that have multiple uses and trying to catch them catch them all in one category. So we add definitions for those. Like the last meeting we talked about light industrial or light manufacturing, excuse me, and heavy manufacturing. It's a perfect example how we categorize the uses instead of having specific uses listed out for all these different uses. So we add definitions for that. Um, we also took the opportunity to update definitions for assisted living, health club, school, and tavern. Um, the school definition was very wide open. Um, very open for interpretation. So, we tightened that up. Health club had a flaw in there um that we had to correct. Um, it was allowing health and um, personal services to happen by right. the way way you read the definition. They kind of made it feel like if you were in this district and you could use that definition to get a personal service like haircut salon or something tanning by utilizing that definition. So, we cleaned up the making sure that it's combined. You have to have a health club and that's an um that is in um a use that goes with it. You can't just have the standalone personal service. you have to have a health club that has a gym and this is another use that will accompany it and assisted living was just an update terminology the current standards. [clears throat] Um and then tavern was um updated to better clarify that it's not an event center that we have a separate language now for event centers a separate definitions we kind of cleaned it up for that. Then we also deleted outdated one um sections and ones that were replaced by the new definitions. So a couple miscellaneous housekeeping. Uh one section we did not cover was um currently the plan unit development or PUD. Um that one was just updated for clean language and current standards. Um right and it's now in section 1011 within your packets. The red line again nothing really substantive in there. just updated language. Then upon review, we did miss two sections as we're going through the 41 of them. Um, so we added in the multif family residential minimum requirements. No, nothing changed exact language as you see in the code today and section 1026, excuse me, 10:15. Um, we just updated the formatting to like everything else we've done. And then the same thing for 106 residential business requirements that um we updated to new formatting and um placed it within 10106. We actually changed the name to home occupations. That's the only thing that changed instead of residential business requirements home occupations. Otherwise, everything else is the same there. Nothing no other changes, no substantive changes. So that's it for the updates. Um, now it's the the last part, so I don't know how we want to do this. Chair, if you want to announce this next agenda item and then we kind of jump into it. >> Um, yeah. Where are we at here? >> Think about that before the meeting till now. >> So now we're opening up a public hearing, right? >> Correct. I have a presentation for this too. So I guess if there's any questions from the commissioners on these these amendments, otherwise we can jump into the next agenda item. >> Okay. So, >> um, any questions, commissioners? Commissioner, >> I have a question. >> Yeah. >> Um, so every city has its own zoning code. Everyone is different. Um, is ours modeled after any of our neighbors or is, and if so, which neighbors? Just out of curiosity. >> It's a good question. So, we are a statutory city. So, we are heavily heavily um required to follow state statute. >> There's two different cities. There's charters and statutory. So, we are a statuto city, so we're covered by state statute. So, we don't have a whole lot of room to go outside the state statute. So, um the one thing about zoning codes, um there's a lot of don't create the wheel, don't recreate the wheel. So, a lot of times you see exact same language in other communities. So, for us, we see a lot of comparisons to like Apple Valley's code, um Egan, there's some Egan in there, Lakeville. We kind of copy all of our neighbors a little bit and that's kind of drafted to our needs and intent. Um, our proposal outline that we're using, the new formatting is very similar to what we implemented in Cottage Grove during my time there. Um, grouping it together, which is kind of like Plymouths and Woodberries as well. So I in my experience those codes are very easy to you to navigate is everything's grouped together in certain sections but it's a very much um you know complement by borrowing other people's language or ideas. >> So and this and many to our current to our city's needs. >> Um it's a big job. Thank you for grinding through it. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. All right, then we're going to roll right into our next agenda topic, um, which is the application of the city of Burnsville for an amendment to Title 10 zoning to reorganize and update the zoning code for consistency and clarity. Is that correct? >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you, chair. So, now that we've gone through these six little workshop sessions, excuse me, now we'll um move this forward to the city council for formal approval. So kind of a update. Our goals all along were to improve organization and consolidate related re related provisions, enhance usability through formatting structure and modernize modernization of the language and then also ensure consistency of current state statutes and legal requirements. Uh we did not want to make a lot of substantive changes as we're about to go into the comprehensive plan cycle here. We're currently out for RFP and be kicking that off here in the next couple months. So after the comprehensive plan is adopted, that's the time you make those bigger changes to make sure that your code is in compliance of your comprehensive plan. So this here was more of an update the formatting. So when we get to the actual major update after comprehensive plan, it's already formatted the way we like it and then you can do more of the substitive changes at that time. So we went from 41 chapters to 12 as part of this. Um, we streamline cross referencing, reduce redundancy. We improved numbering, formatting, and layout to support easier navigation. Again, that was the key thing is ease of navigation. With that, we do have a zoning map update. Um, we did reclassif or redo the abbreviations for three um, residential districts. These were proposed by previous staff back in the 2021 when they started looking at this. We implemented them as part of this. So for the R3A, medium density residential is all going to be R3 dropping the A. Then R3B highdensity residential is now going to be the R4. And then R3D, which is the manufactured housing district, which is now R5. So we did not we decide not to do the um R1A at this time. Wait till later as we do a deeper dive into that district. I don't want to make any changes without kind of knowing more about that area of the community um since it is unique. But these ones here were proposed by staff previously and we thought it'd be a good time to implement them since it's very minor. Um so that's why as part of the recommendation on the screen, we do have the zoning map part on there because we updated the code and now the zoning map is part of this. So the recommendation does have um that on there. So, the recommendation is staff recommends the plan commission to recommend to the city council approval of the reorganized and updated title 10 zoning code and the city of Burnsville zoning map to reflect the new residential district abbreviations. And that's it. I stand for any questions. >> Beautiful. All right, you guys know the deal. Any questions? >> There's no conditions here, so that's nice. [laughter] >> I asked the attorney about that earlier today. All right, then I can open the public hearing at 6:51 p.m. And I will close the public hearing at 6:52 p.m. All right, commissioners. Any discussion required or does someone want to make a motion? >> I'll make a motion. >> All right. Uh, make a motion to recommend that the city council approval of the reorganized and updated Title 10 zoning and the city of Burnsville zoning map to reflect the new residential district abbreviations. >> All right, we have a motion. Can I get a second? >> I'll second that. >> All right. All those in favor say I. >> I. Oppose say nay. >> And the motion carries. Good work team. All right. Moving on in our agenda updates. Any updates from commissioners? Seeing none, updates from staff. >> Um, none as well. All of our items we discussed at the last meeting um will be at the on the May 5th agenda and then the city council um review of the city zoning code amendment will be on the May 19th agenda. >> All right. With that, I will take a motion for adjournment. Someone would like to >> I move to adjourn. >> Beautiful. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. That's a wrap.