After riding my bicycle 540 miles and raising $3100 for Habitat for Humanity a week ago I was thinking about how much money the Park Board wants to spend to "build its' own house". The MPRB plans to spend about $4 Million to give itself a new "home" on the riverfront. For $46,500 Habitat for Humanity can build a home for a family! $4 Million would build how many homes? A plan to spend $1.2 Million to "renovate" the shelter building in Loring Park would build how many homes? Give me a break! The MPRB has lived on it's own fat for too many years. I love the park system and Citizens for a Loring Park Community (CLPC) gave the MPRB $1.3 Million in NRP funds to fix up Loring Park but enough is enough. We need to get real where our priorities are and housing is way more important than spending money on a shelter building that has little use for the Loring neighborhood. Richard Anderson Loring park
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