>From the Strib, today over at the Legislature. We learn that the House Transportation Finance Committee is expected to approve a bill today that does some rather unpleasant things: > bill also would cancel a $19 million appropriation > authorized last year for a dedicated busway running > from St. Paul to the Minneapolis-St. Paul > International Airport > The governor asked for $30 million in additional > funding for transit in the metro area. The House > bill provides $8 million. "We have severely cut > metro transit," said Rep. Alice Hausman, DFL-St. Paul [TB] The Governor�s budget was rather bare bones. To chop out mass transit is a poor idea. But it gets worse �.. > The bill also would: Forbid Minneapolis from > adopting any zoning ordinance that would force the > closing or relocation of commercial and industrial > activities along the upper harbor of the Mississippi > River, an area the city has marked for housing > development. [TB] Geezzz don�t we have local government to decide local zoning issues? I�ll be the first to agree that we have more units of local government than we need or is anywhere near efficent, but Minneapolis is the largest municipality in the state. I don�t think the City of Roseau would like the state coming in and doing local zoning, I see no justification for the Legislature doing it here either. Terrell Brown Loring Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
