The NAACP should join with the Impacted Neighborhoods to force the City, County, Met Council, and HUD to immediately build those "Hollman" units. The NAACP should also join with the "Impacted Neighborhoods" to go to Federal Court to stop further concentrations of Supportive Housing and poverty in "Impacted Neighborhoods". This was required by the Hollman Decree but all but ignored by the City.
City Zoning Planners claim they are not even aware of what the Hollman Decree requires or that they do not even know what "Impacted Area" or "Impacted Neighborhood" means. These are the "authoritative" staff people supposedly advising the City on zoning law and changes? One of the Zoning people working for the City, who routinely makes such recommendation about concentrations, says she does not even know what the Hollman Decree calls for and never uses it for planning and zoning recommendations. This from a City employee who is said to be a zoning "authority". I am not sure which is worse. Knowingly violating the Decree and lying about it, or making such recommendations through ignorance. Which is worse? The City has made a joke out of the "Decree" by skirting it in every way but the very strictest interpretation of "Public Housing". Amazing! Another suit in the making. The City officials of Minneapolis are required by State Law to enforce State, and Federal Law. We all know about the differential enforcement of drug laws, but apparently it runs even deeper since the budget cut and cutting police numbers. There is a State of Minnesota Law against "Hit & Run" yet just today I was informed by a Minneapolis Police Officer in the City Hall that due to budget restraints the City is no longer investigating or enforcing hit and run cases. Remember more than just"criminals break the law. City officials violating law through ignorance, not caring, or budget excuses are also committing "Crime". Jim Graham, Ventura Village >"The rarest of gems, with the greatest clarity, and >with the greatest brilliance, is not the diamond. >The rarest of all gems is the truth. >Yet as scarce as truth is, the supply has always far >exceeded any demand for it. In fact it may well be >the lest desirable commodity in the Universe. >Ask any politician. REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. ________________________________ 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
