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I've longed thought that historic preservationists should start walking the walk when it comes to their beliefs. They've been allowed to sit on the sidelines and micromanage little details to owners and developers who actually take the risk and use their own money to try bring new life to old space...

Gosh I feel like I've typed this before. There's, like, a range of options we can take from a policy perspective. The outcomes, with my personal ranking of most-bad to least-bad: I basically agree with your argument, but it doesn't really address the counter argument of re-directing those funds to ...

Bike and crime sewer!

That's redundant. All criminals ride bikes when they are not riding the bus.

I guess that works. Seeing as how it's a small flexible mailer I could just fit it in a mailbox if I had one. And that still doesn't help if I want to mail a letter or something like that. I also live in a house with a mail slot instead of a mailbox. You can leave the letter hanging out of the mail...

Also - vegan butcher shop opening next to Red Stag. I have no problem with the business model. I also eat a fair bit of vegetarian food, though I am not a vegetarian. That said, I find the term "vegan butcher shop" to be preposterous and slightly offensive. I would purposefully avoid a bu...

Also - vegan butcher shop opening next to Red Stag. I have no problem with the business model. I also eat a fair bit of vegetarian food, though I am not a vegetarian. That said, I find the term "vegan butcher shop" to be preposterous and slightly offensive. I would purposefully avoid a bu...

Those drawings seem to show only the Amp House and not the separate multi-unit building that was being proposed. It looks like they're proposing to renovate the substation and add a 3-car garage. I struggle to see a scenario in which that wouldn't meet unanimous approval. I'd be far less concerned ...

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Was there ever any clarity for why Lindbergh Terminal is dropping Surdyks Flights? Having breakfast at the Humphrey version this morning I was reminded how great of an airport restaurant it is. They applied for a larger space instead of the one they are in, but didn't win. They were betting on movi...

Are these rentals?

I think so, but I don't think it was stated for certain in the larger group presentation.

Ventura Village Market expansion is denied by Minneapolis ZPC because area residents complain about increased traffic and parking. Karmel Square expansion is only approved after agreeing to build structured parking. To me, this is a pretty clear example of how our transportation choices hurt small ...

What were some reasons given by those opposing the project? Basically parking was the biggest issue. 17 units, but only three parking spaces. Some feared that the developer's lack of experience could lead to the project stalling after the zoning changes, leaving the new higher OR1 zoning open to an...

This is going before the neighborhood on Wednesday, November 4, from 6:30 to 8 at the Lyndale Community Center (36th/Nicollet). Because this is Minneapolis, it's likely to be controversial so we need as much support as possible for what is really a pretty modest project. Bring your friends! Btw, th...

[Trigger warning -- above post contains incidences of Guy Fieri.]

I appreciate this more than you could possibly imagine.

Beacon Housing project for men rendering. Got approval of site clean up funding from Community Development today http://www.beaconinterfaith.org/sites/default/files/kberggren/housing/images/GRL%20rendering.jpg I know that the happy people inserted into rendered images are usually more ethnically di...

There's already far less Bakken oil being shipped than 2-3 years ago, since OPEC dumped supply in an effort to destroy the Bakken boom.

This is the equivalent of saying that there is no such thing as global warming because it is cold today.

This discussion just makes me wish that grade separation were a politically viable option. Even a short section through this area of tight ROW would be expensive enough that our planning structure would eliminate the option. I happen to agree that removal of the car lanes at 54th and Minnehaha in th...

I sort of see their point regarding balconies, but if these two parcels are zoned differently it seems like a failure of zoning to have one property have to bear the cost of reduced usable land because of setbacks and not the neighbouring one. If they're zoned the same my mind is blown. Would the h...

[quote="David Greene"The question is, how do we do better? It's absolutely true that there's an old boys network that is nearly impossible to break into. It's the same in many other specialized industries. How do we more effectively open opportunity to new players? In the end we do want a ...

Downtown Lakeville to the Valvoline at Lyndale and 58th is 21 minutes without traffic according to Google maps. Well Lyndale & 58th isn't even downtown Windom, much less downtown Minneapolis. To be fair she did say "downtown Minneapolis or Saint Paul" and downtown St. Paul is only 30 ...