[Mpls] public hearing notices

[FMKCricketOne]

David you make a fine point here regarding the fact that those little orange signs arent much in the way of neighborhood notifications. However... those orange official notices are all but impossible for passers-by to read because the trees are up a hill. Politicians would not restrict themselves to brightly-colored sheets of paper when running for office; why not institute readable-from-a-distance, lawn-sign-and-rebar signage for properties with potential neighborhood impacts? Guess we all need to do a better job getting the public info. Since you bring it up, those little orange placards are the planning commissions "official notice" - IE they are Minneapolis version of the way information about public hearings is sent out to the community. I can tell you (and you probably are aware) that all applicants are required to notify 1) the neighborhood group affected (by request of the Councilmember) and 2) the councilmember in the ward for any land use application. The neighborhood groups should be then passing this information on to the public in some way shape or form. I do think certain neighborhoods make more of a priority of this than others, based on my experience. Someone else, Jay Clark I think, mentioned that often times the narrow interests of some adjacent property owners can cloud the vision of a well intentioned project. I think your ace hardware example is a halfway decent case of this point. Someone else mentioned they own the land and control it. I do think that the planning commission and the board of adjustment do a pretty good job of finding the middle ground in situations like this...which is a good thing since that is what they are there to do...be objective. If anyone else is curious about the land Use application process used by the City send me an email at work, (so i can get paid by yall to respond). [EMAIL PROTECTED]