[Mpls] Lisa McDonald's Great Map!

[Denise Tolbert]

I, for one thought Lisa McDonald's "Vision Map of the City of Minneapolis" during the campaign was kick butt! 

I thought the map so impactful and so visionary I even took a few copies and distributed them to my friends and family, and have saved one to myself to serve as an example of a candidates having a good, solid vision of the future. 

I don't think it needed to identify every building in Minneapolis so as being representative of what Minneapolis should strive to be. I am sure many buildings were not included in the map, but that does not mean they were omitted from the future vision of Minneapolis.

In my view, Lisa's map set a new standard in the annals of politiking in that it was the singlemost creative piece of literature I have ever seen clearly communicating a vision for the City, and Lisa should be recognized for that.  Hear!  Hear!

Denise Tolbert, Ward 10, East Harriet Farmstead

  Fredric Markus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I didn�t say anything at the time, because I thought well of the mapping effort and the nifty visual appeal. For the record, however, none of our 40 public housing highrises made the map, not even Charles Horn, whose three 22-story towers dominate the skyline and the north end of the Lyndale neighborhood in what was then Lisa�s Tenth Ward. Minneapolis has one of the best-run Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) in the United States with a real estate value that MPHA Executive Secretary Cora McCorvey estimates to be in the range of 900 million dollars and we didn�t make Lisa�s map. Oh, well. De mortuis and all that. I know the Rybak administration has a good appreciation of the significance of MPHA�s assets and capacities. We residents pull our weight and have good working relationships with the world in our vicinity, so no harm done. Other than that omission � and of course lots of features couldn�t be included, not just our digs � a great campaign piece that richly deserves its award.

 

Fred Markus Horn Terrace Ward Ten      

 

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