Sean Ryan wrote: > Both historic designation and LRT could be beneficial to > the University/Prospect Park communities. I find it > unfortunate that people (fraternities) have lost respect > for the places that there 'brother's' worked hard to build > decades ago. Deferred maintenance and lack of basic values > has plagued many of these once symbolic homes surrounding the > U of M. Simple things like painting every 7-10 years and > keeping that ratty old velour cough off of the lawn would be > a start. Many 'Frats' were built to last a century and many > have but sadly basic measures were not taken to sustain the > structures. Now the HPC must get involved before these pieces > of the neighborhood history rot into the ground. Certainly a > clause could be worked in to allow for future LRT service > (a tremendously good idea) to link our sister cities. > > Perhaps this could be related to a change in our value system > from the turn of century to now. Party now, consequences later.
My post said nothing about the value of the proposal to make fraternity row a historic district. I was offended by the attitude of someone in a position of power within a neighborhood association who seems to think that they have as much right of ownership as a person who holds the title of a property. FYI, The Tower Hill section of Prospect Park has already applied for national historic status and one of the primary reasons stated for applying was to force LRT off of University Ave. They wanted to force it to take a more Northern route. I don't believe that Historic designation requires maintenance, it just limits the types of changes that can be made. If these properties are substandard, there's always the Housing Dept to issue violations; which was the subject of the thread to being with. The designation does require that a major project, such as LRT, do additional studies and make additional expenditures. Michael Atherton Prospect Park TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
