If you live near White Bear Avenue, Rice Street, Robert Street, West 7th Street, Maryland Avenue, or Selby Avenue, the view from your block could look very different in a few years.
Saint Paul is moving to rezone stretches of all six corridors to a denser, more flexible zoning category—one designed to bring compact, mixed-use development, more housing, and walkable streetscapes to land along the city’s expanding bus rapid transit network.
According to the city’s T District Map Amendments page, the City Council formally launched the study last November under Resolution 25-113, directing planning staff to evaluate applying Traditional Neighborhood (T) District zoning along the city’s next set of BRT corridors.
What is T District zoning, and why does it matter?
Traditional Neighborhood zoning has been part of Saint Paul’s planning toolkit since 2004. The idea is to recreate the kind of compact, walkable, mixed-use development that defined the city before cars took over—think storefronts with apartments above them, buildings close to the sidewalk, and a range of uses on the same block…