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Hodges Bend now has their license to serve alcohol on the their patio and it appears to be dog friendly.

So the bike parking reduction seems very short sighted to me if it is for whole plan. The assisted care and memory units will not just have residents, they will need a fair amount of employees. The day care - will have employees and parents dropping off kids via bikes, as well as the residents and s...

When it says Midwest Climbing is "Currently Underway", what does that mean?

iDK what they mean, but it went out to bid sometime ago so I think it has to be close to building time.

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The time to regulate AVs is now. The political will will only be harder to muster once people incorporate them into their daily routines, and tech companies are not going to wait for governments to get their acts together before turning these things loose. We should have city ordinances on the book...

Melo's article mentions it as two parks, but its just one piece of land, the main rectangular park in the middle of the site and the curved old RR spur part that goes south and east of the main park land, that will be the trail land. There is also small triangle of land at sout, east end of the curv...

At it's done, dead.

https://www.twincities.com/2018/05/02/s ... ing-plant/

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If ride-sharing apps, increased transit and computer-driven cars could reduce the number of vehicles on the road maybe we could make convert more of our streets to those proposals with Northside Greenway or etc. It'll be great to get back some of that acreage. (As you mention in your article.) I pe...

The only thing I don't like about beside 17 stories being a bit much, is the setback white building with only one? floor at street level. I would have out a few floors right up to street there and then setback. IDK why, but several story buildings - like 3-4-5 right close to sidewalk and street seem...

I guess I put the analogy poorly. I think there is a bit of a status quo bias in the idea circulating that one shouldn't detract from the view of the tower, or take something away from it by being taller. If the high point there existed without the tower, and someone proposed a tower on the natural...

The owner of the Baker School building at Raymond and Territorial has applied to rezone the two lots making up the site to T3. The application says that no changes to the property are planned at this time. Hmm. Just trying to increase the future value of the property, understandable. But wonder if ...

It's zoned I-1.

Apparently the developer and American Engineering we're asked to try to work out their issues before final ruling on this, decision pushed to May. I think the residential in the area can be fine with nearby industrial uses.

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Will kids and pretty much anyone who currently isn't allowed to operate a vehicle be able to use an AV on their own? This assumes the vehicle is fully autonomous and the rider doesn't need to take control at all. sure - parents use Uber to ferry their older kids a lot already - I'm sure kids of a c...

Also, where is best way to go with bike? Residents will know this stuff but for people using retail, some wayfinding, signage would be very good idea for safety and flow.

The senior living project now has a name: The Pillars of Prospect Park
http://oppidan.com/properties/senior-ho ... spect-park

That seventh floor roof deck area should be very nice.


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Do you think "The Commons" -- the park in front of the Vikings stadium will get much day-to-day (non-event) use? Its sort of nice, but the location is a big weird, you would need to choose that park over the river. I actually sort of think Downtown east is sort of over-parked, at least in...

Again, I was told there wasn't developer interest to make it higher density. Apparently the neighborhood was desperate for a drive-thru coffee shop and didn't want to wait for something better. Also, many in the neighborhood probably like strip malls. The other commercial area for D2 is White Bear ...

I believe it was in Burnsville's Comprehensive Plan it was mentioned traffic lights would no longer be needed with AVs. Everyone wants to use AVs instead of driving, biking, or walking right? The no traffic light thing seems way further out than AVs becoming vast majority of trips/miles. Even the v...

Huh? There would be outrage about any private (and most public) development in any neighborhood park, and rightly so. The analogy doesn't hold at all. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk so you think the tower should never have been built? No, I'm saying the analogy is flawed because: We're talkin...

When I visited the store this weekend, I found it confusing with what I think are 3 entrances? I also noticed people jumping off the rail platform and cutting across the tracks to get to the entrance near the LRT. They may want to put a fence up there. Thats bad. Makes sense that with all the new d...

Is there a "back" entrance from the light rail? Or do you have to walk around the block? If you get off the light rail and face the Link, there is a staircase in the middle of the block on 29th. Walk up this and you end up essentially in an unfinished drop-off zone that is attached to the...