urbanMSP

Right by their recent development.

The saga of low density affordable housing takes a new turn.

https://finance-commerce.com/2024/05/mi ... d-to-site/

Minnetonka city council approved this. But only because the church was forced to sell off the church playground to this development. Adding this extra land finally met the arbitrary low density math, so the 10 units were approved by the city council.

- Total units didn’t change.
- The church sold off its playground which will be demolished.
- By lumping the land of the playground into the 10 unit affordable housing proposal, the math now fits the performative fiction of low density. And everyone who was clutching pearls over traffic and character can sleep at night now.

Now the church gets to go out and ask for new funding and grants to rebuild a new church playground.

Money well spent out in Minnetonka?

This whole saga is so hilarious. I just saw the "Save historic minnetonka mills" signs for the first time last week and was curious, and discovering that they were complaining about "high density housing" (this isn't even that dense...) on an empty lot and calling it "historic" is just so, so funny yet at the same time depressing. NIMBYs opposing projects under the guise of environmental concerns or historic preservation are so frustrating and need to be stopped.

in case you want some rage-reading, this was the change.org petition. These comments on here... https://www.change.org/p/no-rezoning-of ... onka-mills

Obviously that church playground was generating an unacceptable amount of traffic - good riddance! /s