Nancy: I was one of the people who helped run the meeting last night.
This meeting was actually held earlier in the planning process than traditionally happens. Too often neighbors see plans when they are completed products, with no time or ability to modify their plans. And often these plans are full of huge problems - problems that could have been fixed had they only come to the neighbors for input first, instead of last. However, this time we got the plan - er, concept - to the neighbors early in the process, so the neighbor's ideas and preferences could be incorporated into any final plan they, or any other developer, may have. Last night the big message was that neighbors did not want a big box grocery store at 46th and Minnehaha. 230+ people said that absolutely loud and clear. I think that because of the voice of the people last night, you will never see a big box grocery store at that location. Jay Clark Cooper P.S. I expected maybe 30 people at the meeting. We were we so packed and had so many people flowing into other rooms that when question time came around we actually had to give the people standing in the kitchen special time to ask their questions. TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. You'll find all those typos only after you have already sent the posting 2. You will accidentally send a private posting to the entire list only when it is really, really embarrassing TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
