Kingfield Neighborhood Association

NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING Center Performing Arts (located at 3754 Pleasant)

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Monday, September 23, 4:30 PM

City Hall, 350 S. 5th St. Room #317

Stahl Construction and Hayes Properties have submitted the following applications to allow for site modifications and a building addition to the Center for Performing Arts Building at 3754 Pleasant Ave in the OR2/High Density Office Residence District:

  • Conditional use permit to allow a building to exceed 4 stories or 56 feet.
  • Rear yard setback variance for the proposed building.
  • Corner side yard setback variance for the proposed building addition, canopy and walkway.
  • Front and interior side yard setback variance for a proposed community garden.
  • Variance to reduce the required off-street parking.
  • Variance to allow loading and parking spaces in the rear yard setback.
  • Variance to reduce the width of a drive aisle.
  • Site plan review.

The City Planning Commission will meet on Monday, September 23, 2019, at 4:30 p.m., in Room 317 City Hall, 350 S. 5th St., Minneapolis, MN. Interested parties are invited to attend and be heard. Planning Department staff will issue a recommendation to the Planning Commission. After hearing from the public, the Planning Commission will make a determination based on required legal findings of fact. Please visit www.minneapolismn.gov/meetings/planningfor the agenda with staff reports (web page will be updated by the end of the day Wednesday prior to the meeting date).

In accordance with the Zoning Code, all property owners within 350 feet of the subject property are notified of this public hearing.  If you have questions about the project, please contact the City staff person listed below.  If you would like to submit comments, you may make them verbally at the meeting or submit them in writing to:

Aaron Hanauer, Senior Planner – 250 S 4th St Room 300, Minneapolis, MN 55415

Phone (612) 673-2494 E-mail: Aaron.Hanauer@minneapolismn.gov.

For reasonable accommodations or alternative formats please contact 612-673-3710. People who are deaf or hard of hearing can use a relay service to call 311 at 612-673-3000. TTY users call 612-673-2157 or 612-673-2626.

Volunteers Needed for Events in Kingfield!

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Nicollet Open Streets

Help bring the biggest annual party IN the neighborhood TO the neighborhood…by being a volunteer at the event.  We can’t do this event without you—from street closings to attendance tallies to compost and waste educating, sign up here!

https://bit.ly/2NTgUT5

 

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Building Bridges/Breaking Bread

Thank you so much for your interest in helping with the 2019 Building Bridges & Breaking Bread: E 38th St Bridge Pop Up Feast!  Please fill in the short survey so we can better understand how you would like to help with the event.  Council member Jenkins’ office will be reaching out to volunteers to coordinate final event details.

https://forms.gle/Qi3eAQzEoZShgCoZ7

Happy National Night Out!

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National Night Out is Like Christmas for KFNA!

We love this night for being able to come to your street and see a so many neighbors celebrating our community! Thank you for allowing us to visit your parties. We will be scooping free ice-cream from the back of bike trailers again, made and donated by our neighborhood confectionary, Sebastian Joe’s. We are going classic—with a nod to a different construction project than the 35W one we are currently living with—and we will be bringing back Nicollet Pothole, and a new vegan edition of Joe’s Oreo!

Nicollet Pothole was created one decade ago to protest the removal of Nicollet Avenue from the upcoming Minneapolis construction budget. It might have been the very first time that ice-cream was ever used as an organizing tool, but the tagline for the BEST ice-cream created for the WORST road in Minneapolis raised some eyebrows.

Joe’s worked with KFNA to create a dark base of chocolate ice-cream with a thick, slick of caramel, deep-dark holes of fudge, a heavy gravel of toffee chunks, and of course a dash of salt (sea salt, not road salt!) On National Night Out 2009 we celebrated the fact that Sebastian Joe’s was masterful at creating a smooth flavor—and lamented the fact that they weren’t also the one’s responsible for creating a smooth roadway. Needless to say, Nicollet Avenue was put back into the City budget within three months of unveiling the flavor.

This year, besides celebrating past accomplishments, the KFNA Board wants to talk with you about the future. For the first time in over 20 years we are short of Directors on our non-profit volunteer board; we want to find out how we can connect to neighbors more personally and address issues that are potentially more relevant. We hope that this will encourage more neighbors to participate with KFNA either on the Board of Directors, on various committees or work groups, or at events. If in the midst of the festivities you miss directly connecting with a KFNA representative and don’t receive the card with a short survey link on it, and you want to share your thoughts and opinions, just email info@kingfield.org, or follow the link here.

And again, happy National Night Out!

Free National Night Out Block Party Registration due Tuesday 7/23

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Register for NNO! Even if you Block Party is in a front yard, be sure to register it with the City. The City uses these numbers to justify community outreach staff in their department.

Kingfielders, KFNA uses the City’s list to create our bike map to deliver ice cream made, and donated by, our neighborhood confectionary, Sebastian Joe’s.  We have been working on a top secret new flavor with Sebastian Joe’s for this year…so make sure you register to get the first taste on August 6!  

Roadrunner’s Birthday Blast!

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Come celebrate 33 years of slinging old school wax at the corner of 43rd & Nicollet! John & Sarah Beggs took over the good ship RR in June of ’99, so to commemorate the last 20 years of fun we’re having a storewide 20% off sale* for one day only. Hundreds of recently acquired LPs, many uncirculated for decades. The bargain bins will be entirely fresh and spilling over onto the sidewalk sale out front.

ENJOY their seasonal Roadrunner Rock Festival & Junkyard Picnic out back. Music from 12:00 to 6:00, featuring no less than seven acts. Grill & chill with food, folks and frothy fun for everyone under the sun!

MUSIC SCHEDULE

12:00pm: John Magnuson (country skiffle rock)
12:30pm: The Lanes (AMC Gremlin-inspired rock)
1:00pm:   Brian Just  (psych pop or baroque folk opus rock)
2:00pm:   Kinda Kinky! (new bass player rock)
3:00pm:   The Silent Treatment (1st wave punk rock)
4:00pm:  The Carnegies (garage rawk rock)
5:00pm:  King Kustom & The Cruisers (early Batson rock)

*Excluding concert tickets.