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I heard that the City Charter specifically says ward boundaries are to be drawn from the corners inward I don't see this in the charter: https://library.municode.com/mn/minneapolis/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CH_ARTIIBO_S2.2WA Wards must "consist of a compact, contiguous area, not longer than t...

The tree removals are for parking bays, not the bike lanes. Cut the widening and you can save the trees.

I wouldn't give much stock to the fact that many of the retail spaces are leased. That was true on the 1400 and 1500 blocks of Nicollet too, and it didn't stop those developments. The fact that the whole row of buildings has been assembled by one investment group certainly suggests there was interes...

The church is part of the Washburn-Fair Oaks Historic District.

I thought for sure that these buildings were historically protected. But, nope!

Even more striking when it's lit up at night.

Temple Court

It is genuinely extremely difficult to find buildings suitable for conversion into shelter, especially this kind of long-term shelter. I strongly believe this is less a conspiracy to concentrate poverty and more the result of an availability that met Catholic Charities' needs (close to transit, clos...

It's unfortunate that there will really be no practical alternative for that truck traffic than Central to Lowry, both with unprotected on-street bike lanes. It would be better for nearly everyone if they could take 29th instead.

The 1/2 cent sales tax authority given to counties under Minn. Stat. 297A.993 can be used for both transit and other transportation projects, as long as those projects are generally specified. My understanding is that Hennepin faces a significant funding gap for their road/bridge projects, and that ...

I'm with MNdible on this one. That kind of naturally-occurring affordable(ish) commercial space is a limited resource, especially in this part of town.

Wonder if they'll remove some of that screening around the top of the tower too.

University LRT guideway is 12' at stations and 14' elsewhere, as in the Riverview dimensions above. Hennepin County will also at minimum require 2' of gutter for those travel lanes.

So aside from tunneling through the North Side, which honestly seems like an impossible endeavor, do you have other ideas? Just curious. I do hate that Broadway would go from being pretty hostile to staying pretty hostile if LRT did run down the center. But honestly, where else could it run, that i...

Put another way, "your main business corridor has to be an unpleasant street so that we can run limited stop transit service through your neighborhood" is not actually much better than "your main business corridor has to be an unpleasant street so we can run a highway through your neighborhood."

But the choice isn't LRT or existing conditions. Putting LRT down Broadway directly prevents a design that emphasizes pedestrian safety, business vitality, greenspace, etc.

We should be careful not to restrict our vision such that good transit is the only thing we care about.

Broadway is only 80' wide, so LRT down the middle would require some pretty serious compromises for every other mode. University is 120', only 26 of those extra 40' are spent on keeping it 4 lanes, and I don't know that anyone would pick University as their ideal street. You could bring it down to ...

Broadway is only 80' wide, so LRT down the middle would require some pretty serious compromises for every other mode. University is 120', only 26 of those extra 40' are spent on keeping it 4 lanes, and I don't know that anyone would pick University as their ideal street. (Setting aside the idea of m...

I think the AA proposed taking Lyndale to Broadway. I imagine that might require some ROW acquisition (strangely, only a 60' ROW right now), but you might be able to do it without demolitions. Penn is impossible without demolishing a lot of houses.

I would argue whether it's necessary or not, but either way, this is 100% not something that the Legislature should be micromanaging for only certain types of home rule cities. If the people of Minneapolis feel this is a problem, it is a problem that should be addressed in the city charter, not at a...