urbanMSP

The lot northwest of the Days Hotel is UMN owned land. They plan something for it with no parking. This was something I learned from a woman in the capital planning office when there was a tour of the SEMI area a year ago.

It's somewhat painful listening to nostalgia and incoherence dressed up as argument, but it's worth showing up to these meetings, and to your local Como or Marcy Holmes or Prospect Park (or wherever) neighborhood association meetings. My experience at Prospect Park is that NIMBYs start the conversat...

4 story, 40 unit building planned for corner of 7th and University to open in fall 2014. Arvonne Fraser (Marcy Holmes Neighborhood Association) given extensive space in the Daily to ramble on about how she doesn't like undergraduates: http://www.mndaily.com/news/campus/2013/03/27/grad-students-targe...

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/03/19/daily-circuit-housing-policy Not as much discussion as I'd like about supply and construction. A lot of it was about financing and subsidies, though one of the discussants mentioned "well-intentioned restrictions on construction" or s...

Pretty amazing that a ten part series on Dinkytown doesn't manage to interview anyone under age 50 (as far as I could work out)

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2013/ ... -easy-mess

Over a lifetime financing local infrastructure via assessments or via general property taxes should be about the same for any one person who spends their life in the city. But it does create these weird dynamics and resentments where people can vote down stuff for the general good. $8,000 is a lot o...