Tom Berthiaume writes: The larger question to be addressed is, will Minneapolis look hard at the incremental decisions that have added up to a highly segregated community?
and Does PPL, or Minneapolis for that matter, have anything like a "desegregation plan"? [TB] Tom starts to get at one of the real issues here. Much of the problem lies in how we do government. We've got Minneapolis with somewhere around 15% of the metro area population and St. Paul with somewhere around another 10%. In these areas we pack somewhere on the order of 90% of the services that Jim, Tom and others complain that we pack into certain neighborhoods. If you move all of the services out of Whitter and surrounding neighborhoods that in theory, under existing ordinance, can't be packed within a given radius and keep them separated as the ordinance requires, we don't have room for the half or more of the services that currently exist in Minneapolis. We wouldn't have room even if we packed Kenwood, East Isles and the Southwest neighborhoods to the limit. We need to eliminate the attitude that you can escape society's problems by moving to the suburbs. I'm not sure how you get around that with a couple of hundred units of municipal government in the metro area. The municipal boundaries established a century ago don't make sense today. We need to establish a metropolitan govenment so that whole cities can't zone out the possibility of providing needed services. Unfortunately there isn't any leadership coming out of City Hall. Terrell Brown Loring Park __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ 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. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ 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
