Minneapolis Zoning Board of Adjustment approves consent land‑use item; staff says April 16 meeting will be canceled

The Minneapolis Zoning Board of Adjustment on March 26 approved a staff‑recommended consent land‑use request and heard staff say the board will likely not meet on April 16 due to a lack of complete applications.

Chair Matt Perry called the meeting to order and confirmed a quorum before the board took up routine business, including adoption of the agenda and approval of minutes from the March 12 meeting. Chair Perry then introduced the consent agenda; staff had recommended agenda item number 4, recorded in the proceedings as "44 15th Zenith Avenue South," for approval without discussion.

The board moved and seconded a motion to adopt the consent items. The transcript records a voice vote in which Chair Perry vocalized "Aye" and later said, "I abstain," after which he stated that the motion passes and that the land‑use requests for agenda item 4 were approved. The transcript does not include a full roll‑call vote tally for the consent motion.

Campbell, who provided staff updates, said, "We do not have any complete applications for the next cycle of this meeting, so that, April 16 meeting will be canceled for, this body." Campbell also told the board that board appointments and reappointments are scheduled to go to the Council Committee of the Whole on April 7 and that the cancellation of April 16 gives the board "a pretty long runway" to onboard new members in advance of a likely April 30 meeting.

Chair Perry closed the meeting after a motion to adjourn was moved and seconded and the board voted in favor. The board did not record further substantive debate or public testimony on the consent item in the provided transcript.

The transcript lists the consent item address as "44 15th Zenith Avenue South" as read into the record; the address is presented verbatim from the agenda as captured during the meeting and may be a typographical rendering in the record. The transcript also does not identify Campbell's formal title or departmental affiliation in the audio record provided.