Excellent post from Fredric Markus on the Riverview Supper Club riverfront development (JADT project) and the whole river planning mess. Candy Sartell, David Hartwell, Dean Zimmerman, Annie Young and others have also taken a good whack at the project and how it evolved. Too bad it didn't budge, even with all that whacking.
Trying to beat the crap out of the system gets to be a full-time job. I think we let CM Paul Ostrow off too easy when we say he was backed into a corner and had to vote for the project. Had to? Ostrow wants to be City Council Prez. Who needs this kind of "new leadership" when we could have gotten that from the old leadership? You wanna be a leader, then stand up for what you claim you believe in. Ostrow also voted not to take the Kondirator deal to the state Supreme Court. So what is Ostrow's vision for the upper river corridor, and how does he plan to achieve it? When the city turns down more than $1 million to buy riverfront property for a park, there is only one word to describe it and it's incompetence. The response from Third Ward CM Joe Biernat is predictable. Our expectations are low, and we are never disappointed. But Ostrow is positioning himself as part of the new "clean sweep" team. It ain't lookin so differnt to me yet. Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3 _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
