2025 Mapping Housekeeping Amendment
2025 Mapping Housekeeping Amendment
On September 11, 2025, the City Council adopted comprehensive plan and zoning map amendments that address errors and inconsistencies catalogued after adoption of Minneapolis 2040, and after the completion of the Built Form and Land Use rezoning studies. These housekeeping amendments do not create or reinterpret comprehensive plan policy, but ensure that adopted policy was applied correctly and consistently. The amendments to Minneapolis 2040 maps required review by affected jurisdictions as well as the Metropolitan Council, which was completed July 30, 2025.
AMENDMENT TYPES
With adoption of Minneapolis 2040 (2020), the Built Form Overlay districts (2021), and the Land Use Rezoning Study (2023), every parcel in the city has been designated with new policy direction and new zoning districts. Due to the constantly evolving nature of the built environment in the city, several categories of policy and zoning map conflicts arose as these new districts were implemented. This project addressed those unique situations and remedied conflicts and errors made in creating those maps. This effort was not intended to be an opportunity to reinterpret policy or to develop new policy. The changes were intended to more accurately reflect already adopted policy intentions and address conflicting direction inadvertently created by unique on the ground circumstances. These changes fall into a small number of common situations outlined below.
Existing commercial uses with Urban Neighborhood future land use guidance
Parcel combinations that created split zoning
Sites where zoning does not match comprehensive plan guidance
Staff identified unique situations
PROPOSED MAP CHANGES
MEETINGS
March 14, 2025 - City Planning Commission Committee of the Whole
April 14, 2025 - City Planning Commission (Public Hearing)
May 6, 2025 - Business, Housing and Zoning committee of the City Council
June 5, 2025 - City Council authorized staff to submit comprehensive plan map changes to the Metropolitan Council
July 30,2025 - Metropolitan Council Reviewed
September 11, 2025 - City Council Adopted