HomeMy WebLinkAbout26-156 Approving an Amendment to Chapter 6, Park & Trail System Plan, of the City of Prior Lake
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Prior Lake, MN 55372
RESOLUTION 26-156
A RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CITY OF PRIOR LAKE 2040
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO AMEND CHAPTER 6, PARK & TRAIL SYSTEM PLAN
Motion By: Braid Second By: Hellier
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Minnesota Statutes section 473.864 requires each local governmental unit to review
and, if necessary, amend its entire comprehensive plan and its fiscal devices and
official controls at least once every ten years to ensure its comprehensive plan
conforms to metropolitan system plans and ensure its fiscal devices and official
controls do not conflict with the comprehensive plan or permit activities that conflict
with metropolitan system plans; and
the Prior Lake City Council adopted the 2040 Comprehensive Plan on June 1, 2020,
which includes chapters related to goals & policies; land use; housing; transportation;
parks and trails; surface water; wastewater; water supply; economic
competitiveness; resilience; and implementation; and
on June 11, 2024, the Prior Lake City Council approved Resolution No. 24-059
amending the 2040 Comprehensive Plan to replace Chapter 6, Parks and Trails, with
a revised Chapter 6, Park & Trail System Plan; and
the City of Prior Lake (the “City”)acquired several parcels which were previously
forfeited to the State of Minnesota for the nonpayment of taxes via Conveyance of
Forfeited Lands in 1994, including an unaddressed parcel located north of Manitou
Road NE, Prior Lake, MN 55372, PID 259260250 (the “Subject Parcel”); and
pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 282.01, Subd. 1a, the City applied to the
Commissioner of Revenue for the conveyance of the Subject Parcel to be used for
public park purposes; and
the Subject Parcel was transferred to the City in September 1994 and the
Conveyance of Forfeited Lands was recorded in the office of the Scott County
Recorder on November 28, 1994 as Document Nos. 345833 & 345834 ; and
when the Subject Parcel was conveyed to the City from the Department of Revenue,
the conditional use deed included use restriction and reverter language requiring the
City to use the land for a public purpose along with a condition that if such use shall
cease, the land shall revert to the State of Minnesota; and
in 2010, Minnesota Statutes 282.01, Subd. 1d.(d) was amended to include language
stating a conditional use deed is released from the use restriction and reverter 30
years from the date the deed was acknowledged ; and
on September 22, 2026, the Prior Lake City Council held a public hearing and
approved a resolution approving a public property use change to remove the park
public purpose criteria from the Subject Parcel, directed staff to prepare a
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WHEREAS,
WHEREAS,
comprehensive plan amendment for consideration by the planning commission to
remove the Subject Parcel from the Park & Trail System Plan, and authorized the
disposal of the Subject Parcel; and
the Prior Lake Planning Commission conducted a public hearing on October 19,
2026 and recommended City Council approval of amendments to Chapter 6, Park
and Trail System Plan of the 2040 Comprehensive Plan to remove the Subject Parcel
from the Raspberry Woods Park area. and
on October 27, 2026, the Prior Lake City Council reviewed and approved the
proposed Comprehensive Plan amendment.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF PRIOR LAKE,
MINNESOTA as follows:
1. The recitals set forth above are incorporated herein.
2. The City Council approves an amendment to the City of Prior Lake 2040 Comprehensive Plan to
amend Chapter 6, Park & Trail System Plan to remove the Subject Parcel from the Raspberry
Woods Park area.
3. The City Manager is directed to distribute said Comprehensive Plan Amendment to the Metropolitan
Council for review pursuant to Minnesota Statutes section 473.864.
Passed and adopted by the Prior Lake City Council this 27th day of October 2026.
VOTE Briggs Braid Churchill Lake Hellier
Aye ☒ ☒ ☒ ☒ ☒
Nay ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
Abstain ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
Absent ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
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Jason Wedel, City Manager