St. Anthony Park is a multifaceted community of residents, businesses, large institutions, homeowners, renters, employees, visitors, buildings, parks, educational institutions and natural areas. The community has a long and cherished place within the context of regional, natural history, and economic and political leadership. The community recognizes the importance of anticipating and guiding change in order to maintain vitality as well as ensure measured continuity with the past. This plan is intended to guide public and private activity and investment to benefit the long-term quality of our neighborhood. This document is a policy document for guiding the decision-making of the St. Anthony Park Community Council. Upon adoption by the St. Paul City Council it will provide policy direction to the City on actions affecting St. Anthony Park.
Specific purposes of this plan include:
- To support the city’s Comprehensive Plan themes providing for growth, enhancing the quality of place, protecting our natural resources, strengthening the tax base and supporting community well being.
- To identify the major redevelopment and revitalization opportunities within District 12 and establish criteria for evaluating them.
- To encourage and guide developers making investments in District 12 with regard to initiating, preparing and finalizing land development or land use requests and applications to the city.
- To increase our knowledge of ecosystem functions in order to make environmentally sound decisions and thereby take environmentally sound actions.
- To better integrate the disparate and separated parts of District 12 and to better integrate and connect District 12 to adjacent communities in both St. Paul and Minneapolis.
- To preserve and restore historic environmental assets both to improve ecological functioning and for improved connections and new amenities.
- To guide St. Anthony Park Community Council/District 12 responses to city of St. Paul referrals of rezoning applications, site plan reviews, variance reviews, new land use and development regulations, and any funding programs that may affect the neighborhood.
- To provide the basis for initiating changes in city codes required to implement this plan.
- To assist other community groups and organizations such as University United, St. Anthony Park Community Foundation, the Midway Chamber of Commerce, the University of Minnesota, Luther Seminary, etc. in their decision-making.
