On Tuesday, October 5, seventy hardy souls, most of them residents or business owners in the Kenny, Tangletown, Windom or Lynnhurst neighborhoods attended the first of the South Lyndale Development Workshops. On a night where the competition was the Springsteen concert, the VP debates and the Twins playoff game, we were delighted with the count! After a welcome by Mayor Rybak, we heard Richard Milgrom from the Metropolitan Design Center of the University of Minnesota talk about what makes a livable city, and then broke into small groups to discuss and prioritize our vision for the development of the South Lyndale Corridor. The web site, _www.southlyndale.org_ (http://www.southlyndale.org) , includes a link to Milgrom's presentation. Another new feature on the site is the discussion board. Continue the discussion that was started at this meeting, raise new issues, ask questions, get into a dialogue. If you cannot make the meetings, its a way to still participate in the process. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, October 26, from 7 to 9 PM at Richfield United Methodist Church, 5835 Lyndale Avenue South. We will hear follow-up to questions raised in the first meeting, and participate in an interactive workshop to create feasible development scenarios along South Lyndale. Local business owners have volunteered the use of their sites for this "what if", theoretical activity. The final meeting is on Tuesday, November 9, same time and place. There we hear from development experts and designers about how the process works from their end and will learn more about the city's master planning process for the area, which will kick off in 2005. Please plan on joining us, and spread the word to your neighbors in Kenny, Lynnhurst, Tangletown and Windom. Susan Herridge formerly Lynnhurst, currently Windom, and enjoying the new neighborhood a lot. Susan Herridge ----------------------------------------- I said to my children, "I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be." - Martin Luther King Jr., 1.7.68 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.
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