Heritage Park is being built in full accordance with Section 504 (basically
the Americans with Disability Act) which governs how many accessible units
must be built.
Section 504 is from the Rehabilitation Act, and older and far less comprehensive law than the ADA. The ADA requires that buildings be made accessible when that can be reasonably accomplished. As their is little or no additional cost to make new housing accessible, that means the ADA effectively requires that every unit in Heritage Park be accessible. Instead, Minneapolis will have to build additional housing at great cost to make up for the lack of accessible units at Heritage Park and other city subsidized projects.
I can't recall off the top of my head which units are
accessible and which aren't, but I do know they are distributed equitably
among bedroom sizes.
It appears that the model townhome isn't even accessible.
Again without hard numbers in front of me, I'm pretty
sure more units are being built that are handicapped accessible then were in
the old "projects."
The largest buildings that were torn down to make way for "Heritage Village" were accessible, so I suspect there has been a net loss of accessible as well total housing units.
Also, given the fact that all testing of the Heritage Park water, woodchips,
ponds, etc, at Heritage Park found NO unwarranted contaminants, I'm guessing
it will be a long time before we see the wrecking ball back on the Near
Northside.
So the petrochemical smell and the hastily thrown up fence along the ditch were just figments of my imagination?
Now, for todays update on my continued criminal possession of peeling paint- The rain held off so I put in a couple fence posts before my old body gave out on me. Hopefully by thursday morn the concrete will be set good and I'll string some fencing to finish enclosing the back yard. Fleet Farm has paint on sale, also picked up a little 12 volt fridge on closeout for $50. American made and energy efficent- draws only 60 watts max! With new technologies like this coming down in price I just might move into my fully accessible garage.
Might get a little paint on the trim I can reach next week, but I'll have to be on the backside where inspections can't see from their windshield inspection. It's a little quieter on Sluyter's Corner, but I still saw a couple drug deals go down and a block away the dealing was fast and furious.
Abandoned on Sluyter's Corner
Dyna Sluyter
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.)
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