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All the more reason to send a letter of support to the decision makers requesting that this N-S bike lane moves forward to counteract the Nextdoor detractors.

Hennepin County, Minneapolis, Edina, and St. Louis Park are all working as one to create bike lanes from Excelsior Ave to 49th St. This will be a connection of the following Bike Lanes: 38th St. 42nd St. 44th St. 47th St. 49th St. North Cedar Lake Regional Trail which becomes the Midtown Greenway. h...

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I felt like the yellow and green awning of the BP really classed up the area. RIP

Nice. For what it is worth, a UCC church in Saint Louis Park at 37th St. and Alabama Ave proposed affordable apartments on the parking lot. The Elmwood neighborhood had a lot of rage. But the city approved it. This could be a trend! Elmwood was just doing it's Elmwood thing. Gotta respect the consi...

N3xtdoor about to loose their stuff in 3, 2, 1... . Where will they park? Don't you know each unit will have at least two cars? Destroying affordable housing for what? These apartments will remain empty. These apartment aren't affordable. Totally out of scale for the neighborhood. There is already t...

Per the City of St. Louis Park: Minnetonka Boulevard reconstruction planned for 2024 Hennepin County Government is reevaluating the current use and design of Minnetonka Boulevard (County Road 5), between Highway 100 and France Avenue. The county and its partners, including the City of St. Louis Park...

St. Louis Park has finished the bike lane/bike sharrow project between 44th St. and Excelsior Blvd. It connects to the Edina Wooddale Ave. bikeway sharrow and Wolfe Park behind the Excelsior and Grand development to the Beltline Blvd bike lane which finally connects with the Cedar Lake Trail. The pr...

"Park Board members make $12,438 a year plus benefits" per the Star Tribune. https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-park-board-debates-raises-that-could-double-pay/491506101/ That may be one reason that we do not have representatives that take the job seriously? Bourn's behavior has been ...

Re: the question of yet-to-be-developed parcels, I'm really surprised that the Lynlake parking lot RFP (for the parking lot behind the former Fuji-Ya) was canceled and that this acre (!) of land still hasn't attracted any interested parties. I personally think LynLake has more of that lively, alter...

St. Louis Park is taken the action of legalizing cannabis dispensaries: https://www.hometownsource.com/sun_sailor/news/government/rep-winkler-renews-push-for-marijuana-legalization/article_47ea141e-6bf2-11eb-9dd5-337af05a293e.html The majority of suburbs in Illinois post state legalization banned th...

Shutting down the parkways around the lakes and the creek to car travel permanently with gates or jersey barriers would really improve the park system for pedestrians and bikers.

It was so cool to experience the parks without having to worry about drivers last year.

And it's a 10 year liability for condo developers verse a 1 year liability for new construction home builders. My guess is that the condo builder needs to carry insurance on each build which then needs to be factored into the sale price. Hence when you do see new condos, their prices are inflated ov...

New brewery opening up tomorrow in the old Harriet Brewing space (Minnehaha Ave. and Lake St.):

https://arbeiterbrewing.com/taproom/

For home energy improvements, a 2 hour consultation with this group will allow homeowners to get the most bang for their buck. They will perform a blower door test and use an infrared camera to figure out where air leaks are occurring. Replacing windows may not be the best bang for your buck when it...

If the landlord provided a couple AC units at the beginning of occupancy and didn't promise any additional AC units, you would be responsible for any others you would desire for your duplex. If an AC unit died during your occupancy, you could request a replacement. Here's an used one for $40 on the ...

Tuesday's police response to peaceful protests was the match that set off the riots. Chief Arradondo and/or Frey had all evening after the murder the the following day to plan how to manage the coming protests peacefully. From The Onion: Peaceful Protest Interrupted By Swarm Of Aggressive Black-Clad...

Little T's building right off of eat street and 26th is for sale. It's a two story building with 2 apartments above.

https://www.edinarealty.com/homes-for-s ... 04-5570153

Well the neighborhood NIMBY-Nextdoor coalition got the rent increased for the future tenants of this project (5 units removed for 8 second floor parking spaces). On the nextdoor app, they always bemoan the fact that rent is not affordable. When the project costs the same amount but there are 5 less ...

Interesting article on hwy sound barriers from 99percentinvisible.org: "According to metrics by the Department of Transportation, in order to achieve a 5 decibel reduction of noise, a barrier must be built at the line of sight (and hearing) of the average individual. Every additional meter abov...

A 6' privacy fence on the property line would do wonders in this situation. I highly recommend it (spoken from experience while sitting in a house on a 40' city lot).