Had an interesting discussion last summer with a city employee and a
neighborhood employee at the Twin City Neighborhood house tour about this.
About what makes a neighborhood, what are good boundries, etc. Some of the
discussion:
*Size--most people should be able to easily walk from one edge of a
neighorhood to another edge. *There was general agreement that a lot of
the current boundries and names that were established based on old
elementary school names and boundries make no sense now.
*Boundries--Seward was an example that seemed to make sense--hard physical
boundries (except for the disappearing railroad)
>I recently received a mailing from the city planning department (as I recall)
>about establishing a process for changing offical neighborhood boundaries.
>
>This strikes me as an important issue and one that probably reveals a real
>change from the pre NRP days.
>
>I hope that there will be plenty of neighborhood involvement in how this
>process
>gets defined.
>
>In the meantime I am curious about any behind the scenes plans or proposals
>floating around out there - - or any new ones that are being considered -
>- to
>alter neighborhood boundaries.
>
>This might offer a wonderful opportunity to insure that the official city
>maps
>and plans move more into sync with the way people and neighborhoods really
>are -
>-- or the way people think and feel they are.
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sheldon mains, seward neighborhood, minneapolis
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