St. Cloud Approves Large Development, Camera Systems During Council Meeting

(KNSI) — The Klein Landscaping Planned Unit Development near the new Tech High School was approved during Monday’s city council meeting.

The development will include 287 apartments, green space, a 90,000 square foot fitness center, a 60,000 square feet of retail space, a 45,000 square foot assisted living facility and a 40,000 square foot office building. Plans include a coffee shop with a drive-thru, a bank and a restaurant.

The city council also voted to rezone 77 acres of land off County Road 136 and 255th Street from agricultural to a commercial planned unit development. Developers plan to build a 17-acre landscaping company and six 10-acre single-family lots for homes.

The council approved spending $997,936.39 of federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act on upgrading 487 surveillance cameras across nine systems. The cameras are all over the downtown area and other parts of the city. Some date back to the 1990s and were operated by obsolete software.

The council also voted to spend $69,648.00 on a new trailer camera surveillance system for the St. Cloud Police Department. This will be the second trailer camera in the department’s inventory. The police department says the current police trailer camera system has been deployed 24 hours a day, seven days a week for almost a year. Police say the trailer camera has assisted in numerous investigations and has been generally accepted by community members when deployed in their neighborhood. The police department says it constantly receives requests to deploy the system throughout the city.

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