HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 069-24 - Resolution - Mayo Clinic Bold Forward Unbound Alternative Urban Areawide Review (AUAR)
RESOLUTION
Adopting a Final Order and Record of Decision for an Alternative Urban Areawide
Review (AUAR) Scoping Document for the Mayo Clinic Bold. Forward. Unbound
AUAR, for the expansion of the Mayo Clinic Rochester Campus.
WHEREAS, in accordance with the laws of the State of Minnesota, namely Minnesota Rules
4410.3610 Subpart 1, a local unit of government may use the Alternative Urban Areawide
Review (AUAR) instead of the Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW) or
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to review anticipated residential, commercial,
warehousing, and light industrial development and associated infrastructure in a particular
geographic area within its jurisdiction; and
WHEREAS, the Mayo Clinic Bold. Forward. Unbound (“Project”) is within the City of
Rochester (“City”) and meets the criteria established for the preparation of the AUAR; and
WHEREAS, the Project is required to provide a Scoping Document as an additional
procedure to the review process in accordance with Minnesota Rules 4410.3610 Subpart
5a; and
WHEREAS, an AUAR Scoping Document was prepared for the Project and reviewed by the
City’s Development Review Team and the document was circulated for comments to the
required state and federal agencies, as provided by law; and
WHEREAS, a notice of the availability of the AUAR Scoping Document was published in
the EQB Monitor on February 13, 2024, and the thirty-day comment period expired on March
14, 2024, and during such period two written comments were received; and
WHEREAS, the Common Council is required by law to make a finding on the adequacy of
the AUAR Scoping Document and to adopt the Final Order and a Record of Decision; and
WHEREAS, the Common Council met at a regularly scheduled meeting on April 8, 2024,
and considered the AUAR Scoping Document, the reports of City staff, and the comments
received from the parties as noted above.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of Rochester,
Minnesota, that the Common Council makes the following findings regarding the scope
of the proposed AUAR for the Project:
1. The scope of the review, as provided in the AUAR Scoping Document, is adequate
and covers the cumulative impacts of anticipated development scenarios and
relevant environmental issues of the Project in the specified geographic area.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that based on the findings above, the Common Council
has determined that the AUAR process may continue and an order for review in
preparation for the AUAR for the Project be adopted; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that nothing in this determination that the scope of the AUAR
is adequate should be interpreted in any way to suggest that the City approves of the
proposed development.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, THIS __________ DAY OF _______________, 2024.
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PRESIDENT OF SAID COMMON COUNCIL
ATTEST: __________________________
CITY CLERK
APPROVED THIS _____ DAY OF ______________________, 2024.
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MAYOR OF SAID CITY
(Seal of the City of
Rochester, Minnesota)