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Confirmed. https://www.startribune.com/yum-kitchen ... 600073462/

Response to my message urging MnDOT to leverage bridge repair subsidy to bring railroad to negotiating table for Greenway extension received from MnDOT commissioner Margaret Anderson Kelliher. I reverted with a detailed list of reasons why this response is an utter cop-out. *** Thank you for contact...

How about they put their old 200 Central tower at the Convention Center site. Honestly with how Eleven is apparently selling, I hope that the other condo towers can get some traction soon.

"Hidden Beach Station" would be an amusing name.

I would argue Alatus has hit some bad luck with its neighbors too, though. The snow pile site situation was historically crazy.

I saw what definitely appeared to be construction in the erstwhile O'Gara's retail space on Snelling today. I think the "yum!" ownership group is developing this. Seems like the right time to get going. This densifying area currently has a complete lack of watering holes except Augustine's...

Aren't truckers just using this lot for sleeping, storing, transferring, etc.?

I had a car shipped in from out of state recently and the trucker used this lot for taking delivery. I hope there's more going on, though.

I wonder if the legal challenge would require posting bond? I really hope the opponents regroup and put their efforts to other areas like inclusionary zoning or other affordability measures instead of dying on this hill.

What??? Need more details on this. Big if true.

^ I could see this, actually. I still think the main reason this was denied (obviously in bad faith) was to draw attention to the real issue of housing costs. Changing the game mid-process was just wrong. Reconsidering if legally possible is actually a bit of a win-win here.

Alatus hasn't had luck with NIMBY opposition, have they? Here the city leadership really messed up and flagrantly flouted the law to make a grand stand of sorts.

They mention why they decided to put up a fence?

Rochester should try to woo a college or larger UMN campus to help its vitality (maybe they did/are trying?). But I think it's mostly just a company town stuck in its old ways and the huge upper-middle class populations and good tax revenues paper over the massive car dependency and sprawl despite a...

Reduction of underground parking seems like a plus. Far more units as well. The parking ratio must have gone way, way down. Honestly, not a bad outcome even though the previous proposal had more architectural creativity.

Yep, and they're scheduled to take it up again April 7. In this case I don't think the developer is looking to move on, but the council in my opinion had all the information they needed to rule on this instead of laying it over. It's a site plan review in the end.

I am starting to get the feeling the Council is trying to kick this can as long as possible so they don't have to go on the record supporting/opposing (its site plan!). By the time they officially make up their minds the developer and its financing might have moved on. All kinds of problematic stuff...

St. Paul has extreme and consistent NIMBYs of all ages and demographics. Oddly both in favor and against housing. Change = bad! Too tall, too expensive, too cheap(?), neighborhood character!, too much traffic (it's already so bad!), blocks my view, blocks my sunlight, students ruin everything, I sup...

That surface lot was the most unpleasant place to park/hunt for parking. They might have been better off just relying on street parking at least from a convenience perspective. Not to mention the hole in the urban fabric it has created.

Access-controlled roads and urban grid streets are far too often lumped together as it relates to this discussion. They are totally different beasts. Even 30 is too fast on city streets and in my opinion (and based on design speed) 55 is too slow for many freeways and it shows. Heck, have you even n...

Zero need for DC fast charging in residential. DCFC is basically for highway trips and occasional use for those who don't have slower L1/L2 charging. IMO just getting circuits put in (not that expensive) and allowing for 110/220 plugs really won't add much cost at all. As usage bumps, the cost can b...