It is not good that a business was hurt, and, for legal reasons, McNair Ave. N. probably should not have been blocked. And there may or may not have been 'highhandedness' in the action. However, speaking only about traffic safety, it does not appear unreasonable to me to block the street. McNair enters at an odd angle into one of the busiest intersections in the City. Penn Ave. and West Broadway form four legs; McNair makes it a 5-way intersection.
Dave Stack Harrison David Brauer wrote: > Street barricades unfairly harmed business; Supreme Court rejects city's appeal; Cherryhomes pushed through the policy over staff objections; damages may be in hundreds of thousands of dollars... http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3319702.html > Craig Miller wrote: > This case is quintessential in describing what most business operators hate about Mpls. 1. If this doesn't define highhandedness, unabashed naked abuse of power. Chose your clever phrase. 2. One party rule, boss of the council. 3. If the lawyers at city hall were any good they would work for Fagre and Benson. If they had any class they would have refused to argue the case. They would have resigned. They could have sued the city for "forced misrepresentation". 4. Anyone who takes the city's side on this one does not have the sense god gave a doughnut. Jackie Cherryhomes was out to destroy a business and it's human being owner. She didn't care how much she abused her office, the constitution, the taxpayers purse. None of that mattered. And she held what most considered the most important job in town. Thank the heavens for Natalie Johnson-Lee. 5. If the barriers are still up at noon today, the city needs to lose 10 million. Thank someone for paying the lawyers who won this case, and the one for American Iron. The city has lost it's willpower to do good. Doing wrong pays more. 6. The sad thing about all of this is this: Before 12:00 noon today it will have happened again to another small business owner who doesn't have the muscle to fight back. > _______________________________________ 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
