Great post, thanks for the play-by-play. I strongly agree with S. Herridge's last paragraph. Let's face it folks, there isn't enough vacant lots and boarded up buildings in the City to come even close to meeting our affordable housing needs.
If we are really serious about increasing the City's affordable housing stock it's going to take redevelopments of underutilized parcels along major corridors. And its going to take mixed-income and mixed-use projects so that we aren't concentrating poor families in small geographic areas. The Boulevard is small potatoes compared with what the need is. However I fear little progress if every project has to go through what The Boulevard had to go through. Dean E. Carlson East Harriet, Ward 10 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:05 PM Subject: [Mpls] Coda on the Boulevard Project snip.. > If we put every developer who wants to forward mixed used housing with an > affordable housing component and every neighborhood group who supports such > efforts through this kind of mill in the future, then God help us - > Minneapolis will never get the 23,000 units that it needs to be built. > > Susan Herridge > Lynnhurst > _______________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
