The Park and Fly and Park and Go surface lots near the airport are no longer temporary. The City Council has approved changes that make the 2 remote airport parking operations permanent for up to 30 years, the city administrator said in an update at a recent council meeting. The condition is that roughly 25% of the sites must be set aside for development.
City of Bloomington@CityofBloomingtonMNAdministrator update revealed City Council recently approved changes converting the Park and Fly/Park and Go surface parking lots from temporary to permanent status for up to 30 years, with roughly 25% of the sites required to be set aside for development by around 2030 (though no groundbreaking deadline).07/21
Getting there took 2 steps. The first was a citywide rule change. Rosa Development Company, LLLP filed a privately initiated application asking the city to allow existing airport parking facilities as a conditional use in the CX-2 zoning district and to drop remote airport parking as an interim use in the HX-R district. The request was delayed once at the applicant's own request. The city then held a public hearing on March 23, 2026, and published the resulting ordinance on April 2, 2026.
The second step dealt with the 2 properties themselves: Park and Fly on American Boulevard East and Park and Go on International Drive. The application for Park and Fly was entered March 26, 2026. It asked the city to reguide the land from South Loop Mixed Use to High Intensity Mixed Use, rezone it from HX-R(PD) to CX-2(PD), and grant a conditional use permit for remote airport parking. Park and Go, at 7901 International Drive, went through the same set of reguiding, rezoning and permit requests.
On June 15, the council moved to reclassify both sites. It later approved conditional use permits that allow continued surface parking only if each property reserves a 2.75-acre development pad and meets landscaping and floor-area expectations. Not everyone on the dais was sold. Council member Kamal Nelson argued that the approvals would effectively lock in more than 9 acres of surface parking in the South Loop, which clashes with the district plan's redevelopment goals.
Other operators want into the airport parking business too. On Oct. 1, 2026, the Planning Commission held a public hearing on a request from Bloomington QOZ Ramp LLC for a conditional use permit to run remote airport parking inside an existing parking structure at 3601 American Blvd. E.
The difference is legal: the operators now have decades of certainty instead of a string of interim permits. In return, the city keeps a slice of each property reserved for whatever eventually gets built there.
From the meeting: Port Authority Meeting, July 21, 2026.
