WM: Jordan, like Central and Phillips, put the biggest chunk of NRP dollars into housing, particularly vacant/boarded housing.Given its population size and concentration of youth, Jordan is woefully underserved by the park system. It is not an adequate response to say that Jordan should have spent its NRP dollars more wisely on tot lot equipment. Jordan complied with NRP housing expenditure requirements, when most Minneapolis neighborhoods did not. The correct response is to say that Jordan residents have the same right to basic park amenities as everybody else in Minneapolis, and the city will make it a top priority to provide the park facilities that Jordan residents deserve.
I would agree with every word Jay has said and add that Jordan is woefully underserved by banks, insurance companies, the city, the parks, the libraries, etc. Somewhere along the line nine neighborhoods were chosen for planned obsolescence and treated that way.
The NRP became the way to address some of the worst problems.
I really like the Foofytown Meadows idea.
WizardMarks, Central
Jay Clark
P.S. Here is my pet idea on how NRP could maintain compliance with the 52% housing guidelines while still giving neighborhoods complete flexibility over how to use its NRP dollars
Every neighborhood gets xxx NRP dollars. 52% of those dollars are allocated to housing, and 48% are unallocated.
Let's say the neighborhood of Foofyton Meadows has average housing
values of $400,000, The residents decide that housing rehab is not
their top priority. Instead, they want to use their NRP dollars to
build a merry-go-round and a gazebo in Double Latte Park. Foofyton
Meadows can trade its housing-allocated dollars at a discount, say 3 to
2 or 2 to 1, to Jordan for some of Jordan's unallocated dollars.
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