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Minneapolis City Planning Department Report Text Amendment The Minneapolis Plan is filled with numerous policies regarding housing. When reviewing a land use application, the Planning Department is asked to make a finding regarding the application's compatibility with the policies of the comprehensive plan. Some of the applicable policies relating to land use are as follows: 1. Design new scattered site or multi-unit housing to match the characteristics and housing types of the community in which it is located. 2. Emphasize recycling of existing housing stock through renovation and rehabilitation. 3. Encourage infill housing. 4. Reduce the number of boarded buildings. 5. Infill development standards must reflect the setbacks, orientation, pattern, materials, height and scale of surrounding one and two family dwellings. Based on discussions with other communities that have implemented an accessory dwelling unit ordinance, it was reported that this housing concept was studied for a period of two to five years. The analysis conducted by other communities included a trial study area and status reports. In 2001, Planning Commission and City Council accepted this type of action suggested by the Planning staff. Staff delivered a status update within six months of the adoption of the NP Overlay. The update was simply that no applications had been submitted. Planning staff again suggests that status reports be presented to Planning Commission on a six to twelve month basis. Planning staff is working on criteria to assess the success of the AD overlay. The assessment of this amendment's success may determine if and where other neighborhoods in the city should be mapped with the overlay and may suggest amended policies to the text. Citywide Eligibility: Due the increased interest by other stakeholders in the city, Planning staff believes it is critical to establish the text of this overlay in a manner that could be applied citywide if, in the future, additional neighborhoods come forward requesting a change to the established boundaries of this overlay. Since the introduction of this change to the North Phillips Overlay, Planning staff has received comments from stakeholders indicating that the provision for owner-occupancy should remain in the Accessory Dwelling Overlay. The stakeholders included individuals that belong to the Corcoran Neighborhood, Powderhorn Park and Northside Residents Council. In addition, S.E. Como, Prospect Park and Marcy- Holmes have raised concerns to their Council Members. Are there conseQuences in denvin2 this amendment? Citizens and stakeholders associated with Ventura Village have spent a number of years analyzing this specific development and have been working hard to try to accomplish their goal. These stakeholders believe they are addressing the issues of their neighborhood by utilizing accessory dwellings as part of the solution. According to public testimony, there are a number of people that will build these accessory dwellings. The group has targeted $640,000 of NRP money for this type of development, granting Page 9