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Meeting Name: CITY PLAN COMMISSION Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 12/1/2025 1:30 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: 809 N.Broadway, 1st Floor Boardroom
This is also a virtual meeting.
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     Meeting convened at 1:30 p.m.    Roll call Video Video
     Also present:

Minutes note: Tanya Fonseca, DCD Planning Kristin Connelly, DCD Planning Sam Koziol, DCD Planning
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   1. Review and approval of the previous meeting minutes from November 10, 2025.

Minutes note: Meeting minutes from Novemer 10, 2025 were approved without objection.
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     Zoning - Public Hearing 1:30 PM    Not available
251188 12.OrdinanceA substitute ordinance relating to the 1st Amendment to the Detailed Planned Development known as Legacy Lofts Real Estate Development to add Social Service Facility as a permitted use within the first-floor commercial space of the mixed-use building located at 1536-1540 West North Avenue, on the north side of West North Avenue between North 15th Street and North 16th Street, in the 15th Aldermanic District.

Minutes note: Ms. Connelly presented. Staff recommended approval and said that Ald. Stamper was in support. Appearing: April Bentley, R.U.B.I.E.S. dba FAMILY Matters Terese Caro, Legacy Redevelopment Corp. This amendment proposes to add a Social Service Facility that meets certain conditions a permitted use within the first-floor commercial space of the mixed-use building located at 1536-1540 West North Avenue. The Social Service Facility use is not currently allowed per the DPD zoning, and an amendment to the DPD zoning is necessary in lieu of the BOZA approval to allow this use. A new tenant is proposing to occupy the space with a Social Service Facility use. FAMILY Matters, the prospective new tenant, provides counseling services (classified as a social service use) to parents of the youth that the organization already serves through Rubies, an agency working with youth who have experienced exploitation. The space was previously occupied by Legacy Redevelopment Corporation as an office use. Legacy recently relocated its office elsewhere. Should this tenant vacate the space at some point in the future, another Social Service Facility use meeting the parameters outlined in Exhibit A, which is part of the file, may be allowed, along with the uses allowed in the LB2 zoning district. There was discussion on allowable parameters for the social service use as outlined in Exhibit A, business operation for the prospective tenant, prospective social services offered, and collaboration between Legacy Redevelopment Corp. and FAMILY Matters. Ms. Bentley discussed their youth wrap-around programming and services addressing sex trafficking. Ms. Caro discussed Legacy Redevelopment Corp.'s collaboration with FAMILY Matters, moving of Legacy Redevelopment Corp. out of the space into a different building, and impact that FAMILY Matters would bring to the community and tenants there. No other public testimony. Vice-chair Nemec moved approval, seconded by commissioner Gonzalez. (Prevailed 6-0)
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     Meeting adjourned at 1:49 p.m. Chris Lee, Staff Assistant Council Records Section City Clerk's Office    Not available
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