Welcome everyone to the regular meeting for the Minneapolis Planning Commission for March 16th, 2026. I'm Chris Meyer, chair of the commission. At this time, I'll ask the clerk to call the role. >> Commissioner Baxley >> here.
>> Chowry is absent. Connley absent. Garcia >> here. Gordon is absent. Jones here. >> Shepy is absent. Uh Shepard >> here.
>> Vice President Wagner is absent and President Meyer >> here. >> There are five members present. >> We have a quorum. Uh so first we'll go to the minutes for March 2nd, 2026. Is there a motion to adopt those minutes? >> There second. All right. Any discussion?
>> All in favor say I. I. >> I. opposed abstensions. The minutes are adopted. Next, we're going to organize the agenda. I'm going to read through each agenda item. If you came to oppose a staff recommendation, raise your hand when I go through the item. If you came to make neutral or supportive comments
about something, you'll have a chance to do that later. So, the ones who are here for the um the street dedication, that'll be um later on if if there's no one objecting to it. Uh so first item number four, 21st Avenue North between Penn Avenue North and Queen Avenue
North. Was anyone here to speak against the staff recommendation for item number four? All right, we'll have that on consent. Item number five, 911 Penn Avenue North. Was anyone here to speak against the staff recommendation on that? We have one. So we'll we will discuss item
number five. Item number six, 3452 Lindell Avenue South in W 10. Was anyone here to speak against the staff recommendation for item number six. So we'll have that on consent. And then number seven, 1109 West River
Parkway. Is anyone here to speak against the staff recommendation for item number seven? All right. So we'll have that on consent. And so to review, items four, six, and seven will be on consent, and
we will discuss item five. All right. So, I'm going to open uh the public hearing for the consent agenda. Would anyone like to speak to any of the items on here? How many wanted to speak uh to one of the items for the consent agenda? Just
two. >> Two. Okay. >> Three. I'm sorry. >> Three. Okay. Great. You can each have two minutes. Oh, okay. >> We just come here. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Introduce yourself and you can have two two minutes to speak to one of the
consent items. >> Okay. Uh my name is Alicia Beaks and I am here regarding an item item number four, the renaming of a street or the honorary street name. Uh good afternoon. My name is Alicia.
I'm the oldest daughter to Berdell Beaks whom we are here today to request an honorary street name for May 26. May 26 26 26 mark 10 years since our family lost our matriarch.
Excuse me. My mother held our family together. She held her immediate community together in North Minneapolis as well. Whether it was hosting a summer backyard barbecue or providing a safe place for a neighborhood child after school, she was
always there with open arms. Tragically, on May 20 May 16th, 2016, a gunman attempting to shoot someone else struck and killed our mother, grandmother, aunt, and friend instead. Belle succumbed to their injuries and
later passed away at the hospital. After her death, our family did everything we could to fight for justice, staying in the news, posting flyers, and organizing community events. We even went so far as writing the White House in anguish over the gun violence, not only in our communities, but
communities everywhere. We have received a letter from Barack Obama, which I have with me today. to this to this day, 21st in Penn Avenue North is where we gather to honor her. On May 26th, the anniversary of her
death, November 22nd, her birthday, and on Mother's Day, and other very special days, this corner has become our space to hold her up and ensure her name and legacy never fades. We are here today to respectfully ask that you approve this application to
honorary name the street after her. We also request that if approved, the sign be placed in time for her 10th anniversary honor passing May 26th. Thank you for your time today. >> Thank you.
And next we have Maria Williams. >> Hi there. Thank you for I'm Maria Williams. Thank you for allowing me to be able to come and speak on behalf of Mama Bird Beaks and the family. I am a close friend in the family and she meant a lot to all of us. Um, but her presence
made you feel like you had known her your whole life. Being around her felt like home. It was familiar, comforting, and it was full of love and hugs so many of us longed for. She had a presence that made you want to be seen and loved by her. You wanted her to like you, to
love you, because her love felt safe and steady. Her love reached her grandchildren too, giving them lessons and tools they may never have had God not decided to add a burdel beaks to the family. She shaped them, strengthened them, and left a goodness in them that
continues today. She was a beautiful blessing to all who knew her. Losing her in such a tragic way left a pain that words can't explain. But coming together today to ask that the street where her life was taken be named in her honor is our way of making sure her story, her
strength, her love is never forgotten. It is through the love that she gave all of us and shared with us is the reason why we're all here standing in honor of her. Speaking her name, still fighting for her legacy even 10 years later. This is our way of saying her life mattered,
that the city will remember her, speak her name, and honor the light she brought into this world. It ensures that the woman who made so many of us want to be seen and loved by her will continue to be seen, remembered, and honored by this community. Thank you. Thank you.
Next, we have Anthan Beak, Senior. Good afternoon, everyone. Uh, obviously I um only got two minutes. And I feel like I need about 20 years to be able to express uh exactly what my
aunt meant. I am her oldest nephew and um not only what she meant to uh the family, but just kind of echoing what she has meant, you know, to this community. Uh the Beak's legacy as far
as being a former police officer. We have family here that's been 911 dispatchers and other things that we have held uh within the city of Minneapolis. Um this would be, you know, not only an honor, if you will, to the
family, but also to the community because they also uh uh was traumatized, you know, by this whole ordeal. But as my cousin said earlier, this is a location to where we gather uh annually and in other uh parts of the year to be
able to honor her and also just continue to pay respect, you know, to this community as well. And um this is something that's um well overdue if you ask me um but also a privilege and we're asking you to be able to um complete
this today. Thank you. >> Thank you. Would anyone else like to speak to any of the consent items? All right, not seeing anyone else. So, we'll close the hearing. Commissioners, is there any discussion about our consent agenda?
>> Um, Garcia. >> Yeah, I would just like to uh say a few words to the people who are here today. Um, thank you for coming and spending your time. It's certainly never an easy thing
to kind of revisit the trauma and pain of losing a dear loved one. Um, but thank you for sharing the obvious love not only for your lost relative, but that you still hold for each other and
the community and I will be so excited to uh support this for you. Thank you. >> Thank you, Commissioner Gracia. Commissioner Jones. Yeah, I just want to echo that sentiment. Thank you for coming out community and I'm looking
forward to supporting this. >> Would anyone like to move adopting the staff recommendations for the consent consent agenda? >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed absentions. That is adopted. Uh
good luck with your projects and congratulations on the commemorative name. Next, we'll move to item number five, 911 Pen Avenue North, and staff is Lindsay Silus. >> Hello. Thank you, council members, and good afternoon. Uh, my name is Julie
Hooker, and I am the owner and CEO of Parody Wellness, and I'm here today in regards to a proposal. >> Sorry, >> we were going to hear from the staff report first. I'm sorry. I thought I heard you say number five. Sorry.
>> And it looks like >> Do we have >> Okay. And they think I think they think that you're opposed to it, but you're in support of it. >> I'm the one who submitted. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Uh Chair Meer, uh planning commissioners. Um I believe there's been
a con uh just a slight mixup and the uh person who was speaking is uh the applicant and here to support um item number five. So I don't know if we would want to remove this and put this back on the consent agenda or if you would like a presentation.
>> I don't need a presentation but we can just move it as an individual item I think. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Would anyone like to move adoption of the staff recommendation for item number five? >> Second. Second. >> All right. Is there any discussion?
Right. All in favor say I. I. I. >> Opposed. Absentions. That is adopted and concludes our business. U. Our next uh planning commission meeting will be April 6th and there's no committee of the whole this week. We've got Eid on
Thursday. Um we did have the annual report for the planning commission. There was some good news in it. Um, we had three times as many units approved last year as we did in 2024. Still way down from where we were in in 2022 and
2021, but it's still um some progress. So, that was good to hear. Are there any other updates from staff or commissioners? >> Uh, just a quick update on the bath house appeal, which I've talked about, I think, twice. It was uh scheduled to be in front of the city council committee
of the whole last week. or the week before I was on vacation. So anyway, it was it was withdrawn at the last minute. So it sounds like the applicant intends to comply with the planning commission's uh action on that item and meet the window requirements.
>> Did we get any indication of why they withdrew their appeal? >> I think just they intend to meet the window requirements. I haven't had a full uh debrief with the staff member assigned to that one since I got back from vacation, but good outcome.
Anyone else? All right, seeing no one else, we are joined.