Unrelated Tenants:
Wait a minute. You find you cannot enforce a nuisance ordinance, so then you pass a DIFFERENT ordinance? Ahem, and how do we know THAT ordinance can be enforced? In fact, how exactly does anyone HERE know it IS enforced? Who has enumerated the residents of the housing in Minneapolis and found that every house falls within this law? I�d say if a house breaks that law and doesn�t generate a lot of police calls, there will BE no enforcement. Non-enforcement is the default these days. Which brings me to a related matter. I drove down University in Prospect Park today. There was a HOUSE (not an apartment building) with a sign on the front saying �For rent: 1 bedroom, 2 bedrroom, 3 bedroom�. OK, I say they PRENTEND they are renting apartments. But in fact it IS a house. Which means that if, say, they have three �apartments�, they could conceivably have 6 people in the house, all unrelated, and via the fiction of �apartments�, they can claim they are within the law. I suppose it means three bathrooms and three kitchen areas, and voila, you have three �apartments�. Which is bizarre because 6 people hardly NEED three bathrooms. In fact, in the 1960s, I lived at 26th and Hennepin in Uptown and rented a two room apartment with my brother. The bathroom was simply a room behind a door at the end of the central corridor. There must have been at LEAST 6 people using that one bedroom. There was no �trouble� in that building. There were no police cars making regular visits. Ergo, it was NOT the setup causing the nuisance. If anything, I�d say all this stuff is caused by LANDLORDS who don�t really care who rents so long as the money is spendable. Because I�ve just had TOO MUCH experience with living in shared situations with unrelated people to ever accept the nonsense that this causes those situations. Its a shame I have to discuss this with people lacking similar experience.
Community Input
It doesn�t matter if Randy Staten represents NOBODY but himself. He is �community input�. The schoolboard meeting privately is NOT �community input�. And, in fact, the consulted NO ONE but themselves because as Judy Farmer said �We were in a panic�. That, and nothing else, was the mistake in this situation. And I think its funny and sad both that now people are trying to invent reasons it was SMART to ignore community sentiment. Let�s just hope we don�t have to pass an ORDINANCE as correspondent Berget likes to put it, to get a political body to feel obliged in a democracy to respect the population. That would be pathetic!
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Jim Mork
Cooper Neighborhood
"The most abject slave is allowed to wave the imperial flag and cry 'Hail Caesar' as the tyrant passes by." Anonymous
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