urbanMSP

Better yet, we should figure out a way to get someone (or multiple people from MNDOT) to be on this forum! They probably do read this forum. From my communication with them they're aware of people like myself and Froggie and take an interest in transportation related forums. Because they read the f...

How many affordable single family homes will Richfield tear down to build the signs?

The beginnings of the expressway conversion from Mankato to Nicollet
IMG_7679 by North Star Highways, on Flickr

Sure, plus a bath!- http://j.mp/1VLNMrG Yeah. I have a suspicion that supply of these kinds of houses is low not because demand doesn't exist but because builders are stuck in a 1950's mode of thinking. We've visited some of these homes on the Minneapolis/St. Paul Home Tour and while they're not my...

I know this is getting way off topic, but are buyers really wanting "open concept" or is that a trope of home remodeling shows so they get to show a bunch of walls being busted down. I like having a "closed concept" where I can't see all the clutter in the kitchen while watching ...

The original 3 bedroom, 1 bath Levittown House payment was $67 a month (about $1000 today). Is that possible today, given that construction inflation seems to go up faster than general inflation?

Where did I say I wanted large lots. That requirement, driven by city zoning, is part of the problem that makes them unaffordable.

People of modest income like myself didn't always have to settle for either multi-family housing or used single family houses, of which there's a fixed supply and thus a lot of demand. I see this as a problem even if others don't.

What's the point of building new $120k homes when there are piles and piles and piles of existing homes in that price range? Even in metropolitan areas? Because there's not enough for everyone that wants to live in them now plus everyone that will want one, given the projected growth of the area. I...

Red line is a bus that doesn't go downtown, as opposed to rail that will.

Brainerd has selected 3 lanes for 6th St south of Quince, and 5 lanes north of Quince.
http://www.dot.state.mn.us/d3/brd/

Even I admit a 5 lane section is not needed and a dumb idea here.

So is New Ulm proof that Walmart and Menards can get along with traditional downtowns?

Picture of the bridge from last weekend
IMG_7631 by North Star Highways, on Flickr

Isn't "row housing" a townhome and not a house? If you look at what the original Levittown house cost, it was around $120,000 in today's dollars. Nowadays just try to buy a new construction single family house for that. There's enough blame to go around, though. Cities with their zoning, b...

If not the exurbs where are we going to build new houses? Como Park? Or do we tell all the new people they have to live in stack&packs? If we stop building new single family houses eventually we're not going to have enough. Already we don't have enough affordable (less than $150,000) single fami...

Personally I'm hoping for a lot more exurban growth, but if that's really undesirable we could pass a law that no one can move to the metro since we don't want to built houses for them.

Why do they need structured parking at Hopkins? If you have a car you can drive to any other station. I'd rather have them build the Town Center station (although my thought is that's likely to be added back in at some point). People hate driving into (and parking) downtown, not driving a couple of ...

1) The "Minnesota Valley Railroad" is down for the rest of the season because the engine blew. 2) Cedar Fair is trying to move more towards permanent haunt structures. A new permanent home for Chateau Du Damne is being built behind Mad Mouse. Last year was notable as the debut of "Ske...

If its a house flipper, that explains it. If you want to flip it rather than live their style rather than substance adds to the immediate value. A buyer is going to see the new garage, the nice granite, and all the space, not a 50 year old foundation.

Or if they're grown up an still want to ride, but won't ride in the road and there's no multi-use path or cycletrack around. I didn't get my car until I was in my early 20s so I rode a bicycle around until then. Official Bloomington policy is "we're never going to built bicycle infrastructure i...

Have they considered building any of these as multi-use paths instead?