Am I reading this right?
http://minneapolismn.gov/www/groups/pub ... 218497.pdf
Old plans are dead: 7 story, 7,600 SF retail, 44 residential units.
New plans are coming: 3 story, 18,000 SF retail (furniture store + more), no residential units.
Compared to the old plans, this is a total dud. It uses maybe 2500 square feet of the ground floor (30ish% of the entire site) for FOUR measly off-street parking spots. A net gain of two parking spots since the curb cut prevents two on-street parking spots.
Mpls2040 has this as Community Mixed Use / Corridor 6. Why are they worrying about FAR variances right now? Wait until Met Council approves the plan, then go ahead and build a bigger building here.