Re: [Mpls] Block E: An undone deal?

[Lisa McDonald]

Having been on the Planning Commission when we put the conditions on the plan for Block E I can tell you we meant business. The city can do several things. One is deny certificates of occupancy until things get straightened out. Another is to deny liquor licenses. A little harder to do but if you can back track on the Walker/Guthrie zoning decisions, despite the legal issues, you can do this too. Since the city is paying for most of the public amenities through TIF, and building and giving the parking garage to McCaffrey the city should also request a lump sum payment for the fact the public passage wasn't created through the building. That is major and clearly can't be physically rectified at this point. As to the skyways they were paid for with TIF money so that doesn't county as a McCaffrey contribution. He's a wily guy used to getting his way...but that doesn't mean the city should capitulate.   Lisa McDonald East Harriet   ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 8:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mpls] Block E: An undone deal?   The real challenge is up to R.T. Rybak and his administration.  He needs to draw a line in the sand and change business as usual at city hall.  That's exactly what R.T. campaigned on and a lot of us are counting on him to stop these developers and these city planners/bureaucrats from ripping off the taxpayers. Wade Russell longfellow _______________________________________ 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 Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com