Take Action!

Why your individual voice matters

The amendment process has several steps, and community voices matter at every one of them. Reaching out to city council members and planning staff now — before a formal application has even been reviewed — puts them on notice that Scenic Hills is engaged and unified.

Form petitions are valuable, but individual emails and phone calls to elected officials carry disproportionate weight.

You don't need to write much. A few sentences explaining that you live in Scenic Hills, that you oppose the HDR zoning, and that you want this property rezoned to low or medium density is enough. The contacts below are the people with actual decision-making authority.

Inver Grove Heights Mayor

Brenda Dietrich
651-450-2504
bdietrich@ighmn.gov

My name is [your name] and I am a resident of the Scenic Hills neighborhood at [your address] in Inver Grove Heights. I am writing to express my support for a re-zoning of the property at 1401 80th St E from its current High Density Residential designation to Low or Medium Density Residential.

I understand that this property was designated HDR in 2018 as part of the City's 2040 Comprehensive Plan, and that homes in Scenic Hills were subsequently built and sold adjacent to that designation. Many residents, myself included, were not aware of this designation at the time of purchase. The single-family character of Scenic Hills is what drew us here, and a high-density apartment complex at the center of our neighborhood would be fundamentally incompatible with the community that has developed here since 2018.

I also understand that the property's current owner has expressed a desire to develop the land as something other than an apartment building and is in the process of submitting a formal application to amend the 2040 Comprehensive Plan. I am asking the city to give that application full and fair consideration. There are multiple parcels of land surrounding Scenic Hills that are not embedded within existing single-family neighborhoods and would be far more appropriate for high-density development. A re-guiding of this property would allow the city to meet its housing development goals in a location that is better suited for it.

I respectfully ask that you support this amendment when it comes before the Planning Commission and City Council

Sincerely,
[Your name]