> JIM GRAHAM > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 5:34 PM > > Terrell where did you get the information for your opinions on > NRP? I always suspect people wanting to consolidate NRP > with power Downtown could be a shill for downtown interests.
The number I used was half the development dollars reported by McKinsey. I should have used NRP dollars or $100 million in the last 5 years, nearly half of which went toward housing. We still only got 52 housing units for nearly $50 million in housing money which is rather expensive housing. >I have had some concern about rumors that have circulated that > on the basis of the McKenzie report NRP will be consolidated > "Downtown" with Planning. NRP is not broken, it is doing fine > so don't let its enemies try to "Fix" it. Planning has problems so > I would say, "FIX IT". The neighborhoods already do a much > better job of planning, and have actual resident involvement in it > on a comprehensive basis. My comment was more that we should merge some of the neighborhood groups. I think one group for every 4,000 people causes people forget about parts of the city away from their immediate locale. This is part of the reason that Whittier has such a high percentage of the city's supportive housing facilities, everyone focuses primarily on themselves. Coordination is sorely lacking. Communication other than with the immediate neighboring neighborhood isn't good. I wouldn't kill NRP, I'd tweak the boundaries. Terrell Brown Loring Park _______________________________________ 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
