Dorie Rae Gallagher wrote:
WM: You'd best get used to it. Minneapolis has nowhere to grow but up. It's the nature/drawback of capitalism that entities (like cities, businesses, transit systems...) must grow or die. Developers must have had a grand time with Troy (as in Helen of Troy). Archeologists have uncovered seven layers to date. It grew, in got replaced, grew again.... What a little money maker!I for one, am getting tired of seeing high density housing/buildings being built. We used to have a sky and open spaces.
Where are all the people coming from to fill all this housing?WM: This particular housing is announced to be for Somalis, though those coming to "fill" any spaces include people from the whole world who want to come to America where the streets are paved with gold, everybody's rich, and revolutions and uprisings that slaughter all your relatives do not happen. Either that or they're starving in their home countries. (Remember the confabulated "Irish potato famine" which brought most of Counties Limerick and Clare and a great deal of the rest of Ireland to these shores? Neither you nor I would be Americans had the Brits not been quite so greedy and stupid.
WM: Fair to whom? The city itself, in the person of CPED, has said bupkis so far. If the city attorney was willing to sign off on a 186 page document, ask yourself if you can present to a court of law a cogent case that the city did so dishonestly or unfairly.Is it fair..no. Is Sabri' project fair..NO! Is it honest..NO!
Does it override Whittier's expressed and documented wishes? Perhaps. Cities do that all the time, as do counties, states, and the feds. Politicians, however, are empowered by our votes. You can expect the current crop of city officials to override lots of neighborhood plans on the basis of "times change." Actually, the players change and each new group has a set of ideas he/she wants to implement, but we're the ones who elected them. If I recall from the million posts on the failing of SSB's regime and members of the previous city council, it was that they "gave away" too much money to developers (Target being the centerpiece of the complaint at the time, Ryan Companies being the evil developer.)
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