Well, I haven't really seen the map yet and the one on David's site the pen
lines depicting the lines is wide and covers the boundaries is not exact
enough to see my house.. But the word is that my building and the street I
live on is being divided out of the 6th into the 9th. When I lived ov
The 5- 3 votes were, as I understand it, 3 Dems and 2 Independents against
2 Republicans and 1 Green
It continues to baffle me why anyone would think that it is a bad thing for
a neighborhood to be divided by a ward boundary. I should think people
would be happy that their neighborhood has tw
This is why it is illegal for neighborhood organizations to have open
elections under current Minnesota non-profit statutes.
Neighborhood groups are covered under Minnesota's non-profit law.
In a non-profit corporation, you must be a member with voting rights to
be eligible to vote at a meeting.
In a message dated 4/2/02 10:43:23 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<<
A single-family home next to a light rail station on Portland's east side
commands a 10 percent higher price than one 1,000 feet away from the station.
"This willingness to pay a premium for single-fami
I'm not going to add any more to this discussion
right now, but I thought anyone interested might want to see this:
http://twincities.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=4541&group=webcast
Jim McGuire
Como
So you want to see your political future, Minneapolis?
Thanks to, ahem, sources, the Redistricting Commission's tentative ward
map is now posted on the Redistricting Geek website:
http://members.tcq.net/david/index.htm
I have not absolutely confirmed the accuracy - however, this is a
discussion
Jim McGuire wrote:
> Regardless of how you feel about it this cannot be
> accomplished in a city sponsored legal ride.
Dean Lindberg wrote:
> It's all part of: I. Planning ahead II. Making a clear, concise point
> and III. Broadening your base of supporters.
This ongoing discussion has reminded
Tim
I for one won't call you inflammatory - just accurate. I am a little
surprised about the licenses being mandatory because it is such a hassle to
get one. When I bought my son a brand new Schwinn I decided to get a license
so he would have a leg up in case it got stolen. I had to go to the
timothy connolly wrote:
>
> Did the Mayor, when he was just an untitled publicity
> seeker with an eye to the future, apply for a permit
> to protest airplane noise in his pajamas?
Answering Timothy's question:
In fact, ROAR did check on whether any permits or permission were needed
to to do t
In a message dated 4/2/02 4:11:23 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I called the West Bank Community Development Corporation's offices. The
sale was a conveyance to the West Bank Community Housing Corporation by the
MCDA of land on which the WBCHC has a 100-year lease. R
While I don't agree that lawsuits are a preferred answer to neighborhood
orgs that fail to follow state law or NRP guidelines, I sympathize with
a growing number of people who feel that NRP has failed to engage a
broad range of residents and others. As part of a tenant working group
making rec
I just came out of the meeting the Mayor held with CM.
There are a couple things that need to be cleared up.
While it is true bicycles must be licensed in the City
of Minneapolis, we may be the only city in the state
that requires such licensing.
There is a state statute that enables cities to
Greetings,
First off, I want to be clear. I in no way
claim to represent Critical Mass. I am giving my own opinion and I will
attempt to explain some of what I believe would be their point of view, but
Critical Mass will have to speak for themselves.
I want to respond to the idea of mak
Phyllis Kahn wrote:
> To remove any controversy, Jean Wagenius will offer the amendment as an
> author's amendment. We are all in agreement that the bill with the
> amendment works for all neighborhood and we don't need to argue the
> issue of whether the initial bill did. The amended bill should
I called the West Bank Community Development Corporation's offices. The sale was a
conveyence to the West Bank Community Housing Corporation by the MCDA of land on which
the WBCHC has a 100-year lease. Riverside Homes is on this land. A Planned Use
Development is underway on the property. T
I want to thank Rep. Kahn and Rep Wagenius for staying with this issue when
I'm sure that that are many other calls on their time.
The amendment that Rep. Wagenius will offer resolves all problems that I had
with the bill and still gives the latitude that others need.
[Note to moderator: I hop
Steve and I agree: Rep. Kahn's amendment (which I know
has the support of the bill's author) will put the
finishing touches on S.F. 3238, which should be
supported as amended.
As for Steve's long-term activity on this bill, I
never meant to claim he was a newcomer to the issue.
It just would hav
Jay Clark wrote:
>
> According to current Minnesota state law, it is illegal for neighborhood
> organizations to do open
> elections, where the people who live in the neighborhood are allowed to
> come to the annual meeting and vote, the way you can go and vote for,
> say, president.
[RJ] Pleas
To remove any controversy, Jean Wagenius will offer the amendment as an
author's amendment. We are all in agreement that the bill with the
amendment works for all neighborhood and we don't need to argue the
issue of whether the initial bill did. The amended bill should pass
without opposition.
Ph
It should be no surprise that property values will increase near LRT
stations. As some have suggested, the ability for a family to eliminate an
automobile from the household budget represents significant annual savings,
given the cost of ownership/lease, operation and maintenance, parking,
licens
In response to Dana Bacon, I respect the position but I still think that
I'm right.
On whether or not the bill is optional, Dana and I will have to agree
to disagree on that. Rep. Kahn will offer an amendment that will remove all
possible argument that bill provisions are mandatory a
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, sj cracraft wrote:
> Sonja and everyone!
> I can tell you it is true. At least at my house.
> When I and my almost husband bought our house in
> December (only about 2-3 blocks from Sonja), light
> rail was a big factor.
> In fact, my almost husband made a map of the area
Brown, Terrell wrote:
>The metro area is one big dysfunctional family of communities. Until it learns that
>each of its parts are interdependent on each of the others we are going to continue
>to have these absurd battles that get us nowhere. The entire metro area would be
>better served b
-Original Message-
From: Craig Miller
Minneapolis Content. I am constantly amazed at how much time is consumed by
Mpls citizens, policy makers, in telling suburbanites how to build their
cities. What would happen if the numerically superior suburbs took an equal
interest in what Mpls is
>
> At the risk of being called just another "new urbanist", here are my
> responses for Craig:
> > For the Met Council to be serious about wanting to increase the supply
of
> > all housing and affordable housing, they would have to do a 180 degree
turn.
>
> I disagree that the onus is on Met C
Sonja and everyone!
I can tell you it is true. At least at my house.
When I and my almost husband bought our house in
December (only about 2-3 blocks from Sonja), light
rail was a big factor.
In fact, my almost husband made a map of the area he
wanted to look at. On this map he marked a line
I couldn't agree more, great suggestion Holle. Changing this to a legal event would be good for bikers, motorists, and the police. Thank again for the suggestion
Ken Bradley
Michael Hohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
GREAT IDEA! Such events, if well-planned and widely supported, cansuccessfull
This was posted on the MPD list.
>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:16:17 -
>Subject: Re: MPD: Pro Stadium Editorial.
>
>It's really funny to see this ball palace bill claim that the Twins
>will be committed to 30 years in the building.
>
>Selig claims that 3/4 of the teams lost money last year,
Glad to hear that Hiawatha light rail may be a "gold mine" for Sonja from Standish
Ericsson. Check out this link for information on the impact of light rail on property
values: http://www.tri-met.org/max/maxpage.htm#landuse
A single-family home next to a light rail station on Portland's east s
this is in capital letters for a reason, i am shouting, screeching,
beseeching all of you minneapolitans to listen.
I WOULD HAVE PAID $10,000-$20,000 PER LOT. THAT IS 2-4.2 MILLION YOU WOULD
HAVE GOTTEN. YOUR STATE AID CUT IS 15 MILLION. YOU WOULD ONLY BE OUT 11
MILLION BY NOW. SOME OF THOSE
I find Steves representation of S.F 3238 unfortunate
and hazardous to a full and fair discussion of this
bill. After having two months to examine this bill
and work with legislators to amend it (note Rep.
Kahn's post), he inaccurately criticizes its most
fundamental points.
I will point out one
I've read and heard that the Critical Massers are meeting, or trying to meet
with the Mayor at City Hall at 1:30 p.m. today. I just called the Mayor's
office, and I thought the Massers would like to know that the Mayor won't be
there - he has a speaking engagement at the Four Points Sheraton at 12
Yesterday my neighbor rang my doorbell to tell me that a car had stopped in
front of his house and a women offered him about $20,000 more than his house
was appraised, without even seeing the inside of the house. His house is
not on the market -- he just happened to be outside. She was looking t
I agree with Holle here. A great idea.
Council member Zimmerman and I talked about this idea yesterday morning and
plan to meet with Critical Mass members to go into this furtheras well
as talk about the issues of enforcement surrounding this.
David Fellman of my staff is trading calls wi
David-
Good articles for April first. Especially the ATM receipts. Almost as
ridiculous as building the world's biggest mall in the middle of North
America. Keep up the good work.
-Gary Thaden
LD 60A - still
WD 10 - for now & maybe the future
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So I was thinking, if critical mass is a forbidden organization isn't it
reasonable to expect that the MPD would publish that to it's website?
Heck, I'd like to know what other organizations in town are on the
blacklist. That'd sure help so I'd know h
GREAT IDEA! Such events, if well-planned and widely supported, can
successfully build awareness and support for transit options and
alternatives. I hope the Mayor and City Council will take this idea
seriously and actively support safe bicycling as a healthy, viable transit
option in Mpls.
Mich
Maybe it's time to make the Critical Mass ride a legal, city-sponsored event,
to build awareness of bike safety and support for alternative transportation.
I think a lot of people (myself included) would enjoy coming out once a month
for the ride, who right now are reluctant to risk injury or h
Some people have asked me why they didn't hear about the police
action against the Critical Mass last Friday. I tell them it fits a
pattern of corporate media bias towards their major advertisers, the
auto industry.
Today's news is a good example.
Our local media is reporting that there were
timothy connolly wrote:
> As I finished my errand and headed back to Minneapolis
> I was astonished to see the amount of pollution over
> the city.
>
> I mean this was a large visible yellowish brown cloud.
>
> I've known in theory for years that we are killing our
> environment but that day it
I'm wondering if any Mass participants have considered setting up a "sting"
to videotape the cops accomplishing their thuggish acts. Get a network of
recorders both within and outside of the ride. Brett?
Tom Donaldson
Ventura Village
___
Minneapolis Issue
Greetings,
There's a mention on the Critical Mass website (http://www.minnesotacriticalmass.org/)
that they have a meeting today with RT Rybak at 1:30. Unfortunately, there
isn't a mention of where exactly. Someone forwarded me an email message
saying that the plan is to meet "in the lobb
All:
Jay Clark's response has a lot of bad information in it. I'd like
to show how:
Jay says:
> it is illegal for neighborhood
> organizations to do open
> elections
>
Not true. It's "illegal" to claim anyone as a member who hasn't done
something to say "I want to be a member."
Jay says
"B. Shoe" wrote:
...It basically relates to the paranoia that has
been running through the
FBI and police departments across the country over "anarchists"
and
direct action ever since the WTO demonstrations in Seattle in 1999.
Much of this paranoid police response is unwilling or unable to
dist
According to current Minnesota state law, it is illegal for neighborhood
organizations to do open
elections, where the people who live in the neighborhood are allowed to
come to the annual meeting and vote, the way you can go and vote for,
say, president.
House File 3445 allows (but does not requ
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