On 7/8/02 10:18 PM, Wizard Marks wrote: > My complaint is that this policy was instituted by the city council > without following the citizen participation requirements and receiving > input from ALL of Central Neighborhood, not just those few members of > the Heritage Home Owners Club. In effect, the city council allowed these > few people to decide city policy for my neighborhood.
My understanding is that the city is only enforcing statutes that are ALREADY on the books -- not instituting some NEW policy; The only thing Heritage Neighborhood Homeowners Association has "decided" has been to no longer stand for allowing the city to treat Central like a 2nd- (or 3rd-, or 4th-...) class neighborhood. > Are the drug dealers, prostitutes, and their customers going to be fined > for throwing their trash in my yard? I don't think so. Are the cars on > Lake Street and Oakland Ave. who fling Domino's pizza boxes and Colonel > Chicken boxes? No again. How around the johns who drape my hedge with > used condoms. Nope. > ... > The litter bugs, of course, will have no consequences. I can empathize; but I don't know if we can honestly expect the city to police every streetcorner for transient litterbugs when there are larger law-enforcement issues to consider. (I'd certainly interested in hearing other listmembers' ideas for alternative methods of tackling the problem, though...) -- John Goodman Central Neighborhood _______________________________________ 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
