All of your points may or may not be valid, so will ask staff for an answer to those concerns. But my first response is WHY NOT?
For the moment,
Annie Young
citywide Park Commissioner
At 05:57 PM 6/25/03 -0500, Karen Cooper wrote:
Does anyone have any information on the new parkway signs I'm seeing along Minnehaha Parkway between the Falls and Portland Ave.?
It looks like the Park Board is replacing the old signs with a new design. Perhaps the old signs were structurally unsound and replacing them in this era of budget shortfalls is necessary. Or perhaps the money for this was already allocated, or came from some non-budget source.
But I have two comments. First, East Minnehaha Parkway and West Minnehaha Parkway are different roads, according to addresses along them. The house numbers count up in each direction from Nicollet and you can find the same house number on East Minnehaha and on West Minnehaha and these will be different places. The old signs told you which you were on, which had to have been helpful. Sure, the street signs are correct, but these decorative parkway signs are less helpful than the old ones. I consider that a mistake.
Secondly, the signs all say: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. Whatever is the reason for that? Why not have the signs say, "National Scenic Byway", (which this is)? Why not have the signs say "Grand Rounds"? Or both?
I just don't see the point of having the Park Board's name on there.
Karen Cooper, Tangletown
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