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On Sunday 07 July 2002 10:43, List Manager wrote:
> Speaking of zoning and planning, there's a fascinating story in the
> Strib today about Block E. Seems the finished product is different from
> what developers agreed to with the city (no public restrooms, no
> ground-floor connection between Hennepin and 1st Ave. N., no outdoor
> escalator and differently configured bus shelters).
>
> The question is, what can/should the city do now? Apparently, there is a
> Planning Commission meeting on the matter Monday...welcome back from
> holiday!
Why am I not surprised that 14 years later this fiasco is still fiasco-ing?
Given the limited information I have from this article, if I made the
rules, the McCaffrey personnel who made the changes would lose their jobs.
I'm sorry, but we made a deal and they did not keep to it. I understand
about the escalators and the state building guys, but the rest of this was
completely under McCaffrey's control and they don't appear to have figured
getting our input on changes was important.
More important to me is that there is an apparently complete lack of any
communication back to the City while all this re-planning is going on.
Were we asked if we wanted an enclosed escalator if an outdoor one was not
feasible? Were we allowed to negotiate trade-offs with the tenants?
What sort of options does the City even have at this point? Can we pull
some sort of rug out from under someone, or will McCaffrey just pull a
Brookfield on us?
I am probably going to have to avoid the place to keep from feeling dirty.
If that's my tax money hard at work, I think I would have preferred simply
hiring a few more cops to work the *old* block E.
- -michael libby (Cleveland neighborhood of north Minneapolis)
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