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Excited to see this taking shape. Why, I bet you could even say I'm RevelStoked.

They said the number one question (or hostile accusation) they got from residents and passers-by was if the building was 100% low-income housing. (It is not) This should come as a surprise to none of us, but in the minds of a lot of people there is a perfect 1:1 correlation between density/apartmen...

I'm sorry. What's sexist about arguing that women should support women?

Oh... so now biology is destiny.

Elliot Park ... Mill District ... EP ... MD ...

EPMD!

...Eden Prairie Must Die?!?

Edited to add one that notes the large portion of the area taken up by North Central's campus: Entrenched Proselytizers Minimize Development.

Not unrelated to this problem is that these cities failed to develop a rational arterial grid to get between neighboring cities and neighborhoods. They built up around on the assumption the highways would always be the useful arterial. This. So much this. The results include massive amounts of &quo...

The People's Station.

Co-sponsored by 89.9, KMOJ!

As long as the complex includes an animatronic Hall of Sasquatches, I'll be happy with this addition.

And on the hour, every hour, a body goes flying across Hennepin Ave.

This is what happens when you fail to yield... to your hunger pangs! Jack Link's(TM): Not An Everyday, Pedestrian Experience.

What's really amazing is that this nimbitude is manifesting itself in one of the most sprawled-out metropolises in the country. There are literally almost two hundred distinct suburban jurisdictions, of varying densities and distances from the core, that one could choose if one were really so easily...

LOL @ the notion that Arden Hills was "stretching" (in mindset) to accommodate even the lower of the two densities. If you're going to have to maintain a given amount of infrastructure, why wouldn't you want a larger well of taxpayers to aid you in the process? Have these people never even...

PleasepleasepleaseGod, let their marketing department choose the tagline "Motiv Means Opportunity".

Hate to break it to you guys, but transportation has pretty much always been motivated by land development. That includes transit and railroads as well as highways. The TCRT company never made a profit on fares alone, Thomas Lowry was a real estate magnate who profited from opening up and connectin...

If we do add / re-prioritize officers toward traffic enforcement, we'll also have to ensure that they truly focus on people driving dangerously... rather than using their newfound ubiquity to selectively harass racial minorities over minor violations.

Re: the Dan Patch bridge, another area of concern would involve how the crossing would dump out into Savage. Vernon Avenue (the approach road for the south end of the bridge) currently hits Highway 13 at a T-intersection just east of the railroad overpass. Not only would this generate visibility iss...

Lhena, in the parlor, with the historic designation.

Sometimes, when post-workout hunger gnaws at me, I go to Arby's because it's quicker than getting all turned-out for something downtown...

Perhaps the factual distinction underlying Anondson's exception is the physical irreplaceability (within current human lifetimes, anyway) of large, truly aged trees? If we mistakenly knock out beautiful and/or functional older buildings, their styles and functions can at least be imitated when we re...

Jesus H. Christ. "Several at the sparsely attended meeting objected to the way the towers would dwarf pedestrians, arguing that it would create an unpleasant sidewalk environment." In a metro with over 200 independent suburbs at varying levels of density, how and why do people with this s...

The traffic volumes at 17 and 42 do raise eyebrows why they built an interchange there I'm an office temp by day with a Shakopee delivery gig as my evening/weekend "insurance policy", and I definitely concur with regard to low traffic volume. This one owes to a combination of the county's...

Nicollet Mall's problems is mostly having to endure some lame insults, such as gay slurs

This is why one should always travel with a Bear or two. Paws on parade are a powerful deterrent to problem humans.

I also see “blacks are more likely to make a ruckus; there pretty clearly is a behavior issue; a bit of it is mental illness, but most of it's not” and “a mild fight-or-flight response kicked in.” And yet the argument still seems to be that Betty Burnsville is the one who’s nervous and narrow-minde...