urbanMSP

There is a danger, however, of eventually losing too many starter homes (affordable housing) in the quest for bigger, fancier properties. There's also the danger of moving too quickly and ending up with a lot of empty lots as in North Minneapolis. What I really worry about is the impact on the neig...

Which superblock? The American-82nd/Penn-Knox block has already started to be broken up with two new east-west streets. Future plans also call for a break-up in the northern block with future redevelopment Southtown -- a new 79th St and a new Newton(?) Ave north-south: http://www.minnpost.com/sites/...

It's not all that often that I use that stretch, but when I do (typically EB) it does get bad and then break up almost immediately after Cedar (this experience is usually on weekends between 10 am - 4 pm). The worst traffic on 494 I've ever experienced on a regular basis is EB 494 from Normandale t...

Dear god, let's hope "Other" comes out with a huge win here. I think people will be reluctant to choose that option, even if they favor the current naming scheme, as voting for "other" potentially opens the door to something even worse. As a man forever in love with my own ideas...

The naming poll is now live on the Richfield Connect site: http://richfieldconnect.mindmixer.com/topics/21167/rename-77th-street. Note that you need to sign in first, before you can even see the poll. Log in at http://richfieldconnect.mindmixer.com (you can log in with Facebook). The current leader ...

I-494 typically becomes a traffic apocalypse around Cedar, so I can see traffic heading a few exits farther to get off early at 24th and go under Cedar. Building the underpass is a lot more likely than fixing I-494 properly. Probably true -- it would make it a more useful reliever, although I'm not...

I guess I'm not tracking you -- isn't that what 24th does? It does for cars, but it involves traversing a much longer distance, and basically unwalkable/unbikeable wasteland of American and 77th east of Cedar (assuming you want to reach the more likely destinations west of Cedar). For example, the ...

I don't think any of these changes would necessarily be part of the underpass project. I'm just saying, the stated long-term goal is access to the airport, not necessarily MOA. In the near term (if there is a near term with the underpass) it would run down 24th. If the goal were better access to/fro...

I agree that there's value into having these streets named continuously. I wonder if eventually, they'd extend the renaming down 24th Avenue South? I've wondered that as well. It would seem to make sense, as 24th Ave already turns into Old Shakopee Road just south of the Mall. As it is today, 24th ...

They are consistent with their location on the grid. The problem is that the major route shifts from one to the other so many times: 76th turns into 77th just east of 35W, for example. The only way for the route to be consistent is to give it a non-numbered name. Then again, W 7th Street really mak...

I agree that there's value into having these streets named continuously. I wonder if eventually, they'd extend the renaming down 24th Avenue South? The long-term vision is to build an underpass under the Cedar Fwy and extend the name. So yes, in the very long term it would be a route from 34th Ave ...

77th and 76th Streets run across the north edge of 494 from E Bush Lake Rd to 24th Ave, covering pretty much the same length as American Blvd on the south side of 494. Although it is a continuous route between Bush Lake Rd and Old Cedar Ave, the name switches from Edina Industrial Blvd to Parklawn A...

The Legion property was shortly considered for the city to build a community center on it. But the value is high even if LRT doesn't happen. I hope the city considers reducing 36th between the TH 100 ramp and Wooddale from 4/5 to 3 lanes. Last year a pedestrian was killed trying to cross right in f...

Another copy/paste vision for the site. I used the Northwest Family Service Center as something that might be a similar shape/footprint) future library and service center (3 floors). https://i.imgur.com/nmGztmS.jpg To be generous, I added on another 40% to fill out the 70th St frontage. https://i.im...

Twincitizen's point about just using the western half of the lot is interesting. But is it valuable to keep visible frontage on York? By ideal layout would be a wide (east-west) rectangle along 70th, hugging the corner of York and Xerxes, with service stuff on the south edge. This would allow for go...

I would not want to see it move to Southdale Center. As it stands today, this is located right on the border with Richfield. Both Edina and Richfield have another library (Edina branch and Augsburg Park branch), but this serves western Richfield and southern Edina pretty equitably. And as we've rece...

The wide shoulders are for bicycling and, occasionally, stalled cars. It's also substandard width for parking (but they could make it standard width by narrowing the center turn lane by 1' and distributing the 6" to the shoulders). Parking is allowed on Sundays, which Hennepin County was OK wit...

By the way, for comparison, check out Nicollet Ave in Windom vs Richfield. It's actually the exact same width of street, similar age, and similar crappy sidewalks. Both have a mix of alley-served and front driveways, too. Yet the Windom section feels a lot more intimate and slow. In part that's due ...

It's not really the width of the right-of-way, but the fact that they don't allow on-street parking whatsoever. They're doing a bunch of 4:3 road diets all over the inner burbs, and that is really great, but in some areas they really ought to be allowing on-street parking to promote future "ne...

Walgreens could develop incrementally. Though the skewed orientation of the HUB complex makes incrementalism difficult beyond that... basically half of the HUB building would need to be torn down (ideally the half east of Marshalls) in order to facilitate a human-scale redo. Wouldn't be that hard t...