I also agree that reducing car uses on Lake and West Broadway is a bizarre idea. There really is NO alternative for that direction of travel in either case. And I really think it would be destructive to business. As for "pedestrian character", seems to me that ALL the stores sit behind big parking lots. If W. Broadway were "pedestrian", wouldnt the parking lots at LEAST behind? As it is, you have to wend your way thru parked cars to reach the stores.
Does MCDA have any small-business advisors?
As for taxing suburban visitors, lets put a price on everything but public safety. If you can show a city property tax statement, you get a big discount. It'll be Back to the Future for us U of M students who had to carry our fee statement with us everywhere.
David Wilson/Loring Park: My comments were a followup to people asking WHY suburbs got off so much cheaper. Well, what is there to pay for out there?
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