If you don't like the current ordinances dictating occupancy limits work to change them but a violation is a violation.
[Johnson]: Once again, occupancy limit ordinances are irrelevant here since the three students were not killed by overoccupancy. You are really trying hard to ignore this fundamental fact.
[Lickness]:
I expect the inspectors to enforce all of them not just pick and choose based on public outcry.
You also try to ignore the very serious overoccupancy in Riverside Plaza also in CM Zerby's ward - this was certainly mentioned in my first post on this subject.
[Lickness]:
While I am not attempting to speak for Council Member Zerby here I suspect that after the fire over there he received a great many calls complaining about the general substandard condition that many of the properties rented by students at the U of M were in. I know it has crossed my mind several times and I am just a passerby.
[Johnson]: The calls CM Zerby got were from PP and MH residents who realized that this was a golden opportunity to put the clamps on the students in a new and more official way, led by a crusading City Councilman.
[Lickness]:
It is common knowledge that the rental rates over in that area are skyhigh for properties that are very old and in substandard shape because of their proximity to the U. While I understand that the consumer dictates what the market will bear in terms of rental rates, I do expect the structures to be in qualify for an occupancy certificate according to the current housing ordinances.
[Johnson]:
Why don't you take an unguided tour of Riverside Plaza and then repeat that sermon. Don't just walk the hallways, be sure to get into some apartments, and don't miss the stairwells.
But then perhaps you are one of those who think that 'Cedar-Riverside West Bank always has been the place in the city for immigrant ghettos, and always will be. It's just the destiny of Cedar-Riverside.'
You are quite consistent in your exclusion politics. For you it is apparently acceptable to exclude students from neighborhood participation (as Prospect Parkers do on the basis that students are not PERMANENT residents) just as NRP process excludes the great majority of residents from decision-making on the expenditure of large sums of taxpayer dollars, allowing mainly the participation of activists.
Minneapolis, the city where everything is either banned or heavily regulated should be consistent and ban the term 'citizen participation'.
Minneapolis must stop pussyfooting around with the banning of leaf blowers, cigarette smoke, diesel fumes. Do something democratic for
a change - at least replace the mythical term 'citizen participation' with the accurate term 'activist participation'. The former is just code for the latter.
Guess I will have to start a nonprofit and be the executive director and apply to the Legislature for a grant to promote this.
Bob Johnson Cedar-Riverside West Bank W2/P10
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