The mission of the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board is to preserve and protect our parks - not sell parcels off to developers! This site is an ideal park setting, far too valuable to Minneapolis for private development!
Another very good reason to support the reform candidates for Park Board - all of whom put preserving protecting parks at the top their agendas! At Large: Annie Young, Rochelle Berry Graves, Tom Nordyke. In districts: LuAnn Wilcox, Scott Vreeland, Tracy Nordstrom, Jason Stone, Jim Bernstein. The people of Minneapolis deserve a park board that values parks and people first, not developers! Jim Bernstein Fulton Candidate, Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, Dist. 6 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ken bradley Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Mpls] Park Board considering selling park land to developer (BuffStreet-Gasworks Park) Minneapolis Ffolks, The Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board (MPRB) is considering selling a Mississippi River bluff, Bluff Street Park - also known as Gasworks Bluff, to high-rise condominium developers. This is the bluff on the west bank of the river, on the bend in the river between downtown and the university, between the 35W bridge and the railroad pedestrian bridge, approximately 8 acres. How can you show your support for Bluff Street Park? Attend a presentation to the MPRB by the WBCC Bluff Street park task force! When: Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 6pm, during the Park Board meeting open forum Where: MPRB administrative offices, 2117 West River Rd, board room suite 255 (just north of Broadway Pizza) Why: We need your support! There is strength in numbers! Please come to this meeting to show the MPRB that the will of the community will be heard in this matter. The neighborhood association for Cedar/Riverside, the West Bank community coalition, has a task force that has been working for over a year to create a plan to preserve this precious open space. The U of M Metropolitan Design Center has created a design for the park based on results of a stake holder survey they conducted at the WBCC annual meeting in October, 2004. The virtually unanimous neighborhood consensus is to preserve this bluff as a natural, native habitat for wildlife, with paths for walking, biking, etc. What is, after all, the mission of the Park Board? Questions? 612-332-4706 Ken Bradley Kenny Neighborhood --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact 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 Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.17/84 - Release Date: 8/29/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.17/84 - Release Date: 8/29/2005 REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact 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 Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
