[Mpls] Re: Third Ward is Out of Shape

2003-07-24 Thread B. Shoe
I do not believe that an interpretation of length and width as being based on north-south and east-west coordinates has a chance of being accepted by a court or a jury. The charter is not vague--nothing in it mentions anything about using such coordinates when determining length and width. In the

Re: [Mpls] Re: Third Ward is Out of Shape

2003-07-24 Thread WizardMarks
Jackie Cherryhomes told me once that one Charter rule was that each ward had to have part of downtown and all parts of a ward must be one land mass. This, she said, was to keep the poor from being under-represented. We had this conversation in a pizzaria on Broadway at a cross street that

Re: [Mpls] Re: Third Ward is Out of Shape

2003-07-24 Thread ABerget
In a message dated 7/24/03 5:59:29 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jackie Cherryhomes told me once that one Charter rule was that each ward had to have part of downtown Well, I don't know if Jackie ever actually said that, but if she did, she must have been talking about