urbanMSP

The Best Buy project was so outrageous with the number of people it forced from their homes under threat of eminent domain, and there was that whole Kelo v. New London thing and the resultant state law here in backlash, that I get the sense cities are becoming extremely timid about using it. Even fo...

Or if you can't afford to buy effing toothpaste, you can make the choice to go get a job so you can afford to buy toothpaste, instead of making the choice to become a criminal and steal the toothpaste. Right now we don't have enough police and our criminal justice system isn't harsh enough that stea...

I'm certainly not against the idea of throwing every last criminal in jail where they belong. And my experience with Minneapolis police even before the George Floyd fallout was they didn't want to do their jobs- in particular more than one person told me the Minneapolis police implied to them that a...

Even if you feel strongly about not buying them, Walgreens would rather the rather lose the $10 profit they'd make selling you the items than lose the $90 value of the items to criminals.

How many trolls will fill out "K-Mart" as a place they want to shop at?

What are they trying to do exactly? Add weird planters to leave less space for non-customers to loiter?

Does anyone like shop at malls any more? I think it's been 10 years since I've been inside of one.

Looks like someone didn't want to sell their house https://i.imgur.com/ixQU4sW.jpg Windows- with the recent crime explosion in the metro it would seem ground floor windows into a parking garage would be a security risk- criminals could get in that way to pull an auto burglary, carjacking, or catalyt...

It's crazy to me that 45% of people never come into the office even once per week. I've anecdotally heard of Target employees that come in 2-3 times a month. I wonder how they factor in to the Downtown Council's numbers. Not sure what's crazy about that. If I'm set up to be able to work remotely fo...

Isn't it basically that St. Paul wanted a real light rail connection instead of nothing but a bus from the Mall and Airport to their downtown too now that Minneapolis had one? So they applied political pressure to get it done? Back before COVID disrupted commute patterns and our light rail got an un...

"Oxboro Heights", 125 unit, 155 parking space senior affordable housing project proposed in Bloomington. replacing two vacant industrial zoned parcels and an affordable single family detached house behind Popeye's at 93rd and Lyndale. https://i.imgur.com/HY1Clhb.png Staff comments included...

Underground streetlights are commonly 240 or 480 volts, but if there's a neutral wire available you can get 240 from the 480 volt circuits, which is within the range of standard "world voltage" (100-240) switching power supplies like a bicycle or scooter charger. Or 120 volts if it's a 240...

Ill answer the question-- nothing. There is no special public safety benefit of rest stop bathrooms, they are provided for CONVENIENCE. Which is what we are talking about here, in the city. So, is that why we call them "safety" rest areas instead of say "convenience" rest areas?...

A plain parking lot wouldn't encourage people to stop the way a nicely landscaped area with restrooms does.

Rest areas on rural interstates provide a public safety function in that they provide a place for fatigued drivers to get off the road for a while. Are people traveling around the city so fatigued that they're driving (or walking or bicycling) into buildings because we're not providing rest areas th...

Maybe if frequent, fast buses aren't enough and we need to make the bus stops plusher, we can put in frozen yogurt machines.

I doubt you'd bet much support from the public and I'm not convinced this is going to improve things much. The revenue raised from pay toilets probably won't cover the costs of cleaning them and dealing with the issues of the homeless camping out and druggies shooting up. Meanwhile a lot of places t...

The tweaks don't seem to address the underlying constitutional issue though; if you take a picture of the motorist, the burden still shifts to the owner to prove that it wasn't them, and that's what was ruled unconstitutional so as the article hinted, the state would be sued if they enacted it. Chic...

A few years ago I recall a Strib article where they were saying they had a lot of candidates that passed the background, driving, and navigation tests, but failed the "customer service" test. If that's still the case, now that sitting near someone that's smoking weed, cursing, and smelling...

IRC not a specific law the that makes them illegal, but that since running a red lights is an offense committed by the driver of the vehicle, whereas a photo ticket was issued to the owner of the vehicle, the State supreme court ruled it created a due process violation because it unconstitutionally ...