As sadly expected, our city attorney has moved swiftly to bring this
serial offender of the city's code of exterior decorating to justice. I
have been informed by letter that a warrant has been issued for my
arrest and am invited to stop by the jail and pay the fine and
surcharges or post
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:05:48 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (In Part)
Uncle Hugo: Is it easier for
Several days ago Shawne FitzGerald asked a number of questions regarding the buildings on the northeast corner of Chicago and Lake, where a new Footlocker store is going in, and it's taken me a while to find the time to respond. He asked:
"First, I am curious as to whether there are any public
Report: City housing policies create 'lethal agenda'
by Brandt Williams, Minnesota Public Radio
September 19, 2003
new report by an advocacy group blames poor planning
and housing policies for violent crime in Minneapolis. Lethal Agenda, the Politics of
Death
in Urban America, concludes that
Dyna says: On the other side of town 3 innocent lives were needlessly
lost in a tenement fire this weekend. The landlord has a long and
troubled history of housing code violations. But said landlord still has
rental licenses granted by our not so fair city.
Peter responds: When R.T. Rybak
I believe that when St. Paul got around to creating a uniform numbering
system for its streets, the bureaucrats took the easy way out, in a far less
mobile society, and just assigned to each house the number which had
previously been assigned to its water meter, and then filled in the gaps
when
--- Peter T Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter responds: When R.T. Rybak was candidate for mayor he proposed
relaxing codes for rental properties in order to expand the
affordable
housing market. I never warmed up to this idea, even when I had a
more
favorable impression of the
Terrell Brown says: I think there is often a difference between a code
violation and unsafe conditions. Take Dyna's peeling paint. Now I
haven't personally inspected Dyna's peeling paint, but I have seen
peeling paint that isn't really a hazard. Peeling paint may not be
pleasing to the eyes
A few months back, STRIDE (www.stride-mn.org) members
voiced concerns that the mostly low income and
minority home owners who will be displaced by the
so-called Access Project would not be likely to
receive fair market value for their homes. In
response, Smith Parker staff pitched arguments that
[Brauer cutting back in...]
So you see the problem. I asked Michael for ANY data to support
his claim that there was a problem with Minneapolis gifted
education. He responded with an anecdote and a web page about a
SEATTLE school that does things differently. No data, nothing
local.
Terrell Brown wrote:
CM Zerby was on the tube talking about over occupancy. I'm not
convinced that an extra U student or 2 necessarily creates a hazard
and likely isn't slum conditions. Are we going to apply the same
standards to recent immigrants that Zerby seems to want to apply to
The northeast co-op is making good progress getting ready to open--is that
20xx Central? the Holy Land Deli block--but
the sign on the construction fence is wrong. The auto parts shop is now
open for businesss at St. Anthony Plaza just off New Brighton Boulevard,
and it's in a new, clean
But for south-only avenue, is it officially Blaisdell Avenue or Blaisdell
Avenue South?
According to the Post Office, it should be only Blaisdell Ave, without the
South on it. If you, go to http://www.usps.com/zip4/ and enter such an
address, their corrected version will come back with the
Michael Atherton writes:
For
example, why do affordable housing advocates believe that we
need to subsidize individual family housing units rather than
multiple family units?
Do you mean more than one family living in housing, or multi-unit housing
such as apartments or condos?
In my days
Michael Atherton writes:
Are smoke detectors not required in rental housing? I don't understand
how people could die of smoke inhalation if the smoke detectors had
been working and the required exits were up to code.
Having just lived in a duplex in St. Anthony East with _absolutely_ no fire
Tim Bonham asks:
P.S. Why are you often publishing addresses? Most of the time, I
see/hear the media reporting something like this as in the 2700 block of
Blaisdell Ave rather than using the full street address.
As a community paper, we choose to be precise. We always print addresses for
I wonder how Russell knows this to be a fact.
As there has been only 1 Minneapolis officer shot and killed in the past 10
years, and she was shot by a crazed woman who was not in any gang, this
seems unlikely to be true.
Or have no gang members moved up in rank in the past 10 years in
Many thanks to Don Blyly for his report on the Sears Project. He
faithfully attends meetings of the Chicago-Lake Business Association
and has been a font of information about Sears for his many
customers. I hope he updates us regularly on this List. (BTW, for
those who might not know, Don owns
I have not read all of this thread so this may have been covered earlier. One parent
called into a talk radio station and said his son was living in a converted duplex
with 20 other students and the landlord was charging each students $350 per month! He
said he had pulled his daughter out of
Dennis Plante Responds:
More than likely, in the case of houses where there are 20 inhabitants each
paying $350/mo., some enterprising leasee (college student) is the one
charging the inhabitants, not the landlord.
Dennis Plante
Jordan
Bill Dooley Writes:
I have not read all of this thread
Can someone please tell me when the city dropped the requirement for
duplexes to have two exits? I grew up in a duplex, with alot of duplexes in
the neighborhood (NE Mpls) and we HAD to have a front and back exit by code.
I just heard on the news that the bldg at 825-27 SE 15th didn't have a rear
AMICUS, Federal Forum/Faith-based C.A.L.L., the Greater Minneapolis Council of
Churches and Redeemeer Lutheran Initiative
Invite you to join us for:
IN-DEPTH TRAINING TRANSITION MENTORING
to help Ex-Offenders Returning to the Community
To be held at the Jordan New Life New Life Church
Dyna titled her piece: City Attorney Threatens Life Imprisonment for Peeling Paint
While 3 Die in Tenement Fire
M. G.: Minneapolis doesn't have any tenements. It was a duplex, similar to dozens of
others in that area of town.
And before we burn the landlord at the stake, let's wait for the
You forgot to add that I am a Minneapolis Police Reserve officer and worked in the
department until the budget cuts...
I guess creative journalism works...
(Just in case... As a reserve officer with the Minneapolis Police reserve, our
uniforms are almost identical to that of the sworn
I have seen many questions about housing.
Smoke detectors are required in all Mpls housing (owner occupied too).
Ordinance 244.915 outlines the requirements. Look out Dyna. :)
As a landlord, I inspect every unit twice per year. I find many of the
smoke detectors are disabled. The battery is
Is anyone actually aware of either a landlord or an enterprising leasee
pulling a stunt like this beyond talk radio hearsay?
As a landlord in Dinkytown (fraternity housing board member), the only
houses I am aware of around the U that have 20 or more occupants are the
Greek houses, many of which
Bill Cullen wrote:
I have seen many questions about housing.
Smoke detectors are required in all Mpls housing (owner occupied too).
Ordinance 244.915 outlines the requirements. Look out Dyna. :)
As a landlord, I inspect every unit twice per year. I find many of the
smoke detectors are
I'm jealous- here I am facing life imprisonment for peeling paint
while 3 young folks die in an upstairs apartment fire possibly due to
lack of a code required fire escape and their landlords still walk our
streets. These same landlords had something like 600 some violations
and our not so
Natural Gas
The law of supply and demand isn't making any special demands on
Minneapolis. Several other states and cities have experienced it. The only
concern is when energy vendors play GAMES with supply and demand. That was
one of Enron's business tactics. If markets are fair, consumers
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