urbanMSP

Just to clarify, basically anyone in Hennepin County has access to Community Solar Gardens, and anyone with Xcel has access to their programs. The best part of CSGs (IMO) is that they're also available to renters, who can take their subscription with them if they move (within the allowed territories...

This is interesting. I don't think "don't like certain types of neighbors" is as widespread as people think. IME a lot of people's hesitancy/opposition actually comes from good-faith concerns (yes, there are exceptions). We probably disagree on what even counts as "good faith" i...

Yeah, lots to respond to from David's first reply back plus ensuing discussion. Meaningless clarification: It's actually true that (Minneapolis' current) zoning would prevent a detached single family home at 7th/Nicollet - the B4 districts allow 1-4 unit residential as part of a mixed-use building, ...

That's.... not true. If you're building BRT on an existing street, and you're willing to spend the political capital of giving it the dedicated right of way in the middle of the street (like we did the the Green Line), it's far less expensive. Stations will cost a similar amount, though perhaps a bi...

(this is a continuation of a reasonable discussion going on at streets.mn on this post , mostly replying in a better format to David than the other site allows (and, it's really long). David, I'd like to lay out why I have a hard time treating your takes in earnest/why I flat out disagree with them:...

I think you could cut down on the site clutter and walking paths by combining the porch stairs on the front and back, having only one sidewalk to the parking pad and one to the public sidewalk out front (as a side benefit, I think this would make the building look a little better too). A more direct...

I twittered about these, but I think it's pretty cool that this developer found a way to build the cheaper 2.5-story walkup form we see all around town from the 20s while also meeting ADA requirements by giving a dedicated ramped entrance on the side to the basement units. This could be replicated e...

Really gotta believe Wells Fargo is willing to part with those two parcels for the right price. Their new building across Humboldt is so over-parked, it's not like they need the overflow.

Okay so this is my first time using some 3D modeling software so go easy on me.

Yeah, the upshot for Lyndale is to be a safer street that people can actually cross and bike on, with all sorts of potential for some transit priority. The county could look at the street, even under their own broad goals of moving people across the county, with a multimodal lens and see that a 3-la...

I think it was discussed a long time ago, but another wrinkle in the redevelopment of this particular lot, even for PP, is that they don't own the parking lot along Lagoon, only the land under the building and back parking (right? county records show a different owner). I hope that whatever they're ...

What if instead of worrying first about where cars will go, we designed the streets to work best for peds/bikes/transit and then let people in SOVs who aren't using the freeways (ie, people going to/from downtown or nearby destinations) switch modes or departure times, and people who ARE using the f...

I see messaging and engagement with elected officials of small communities that is about improving the economy with durable, good-paying jobs while respecting the (local and global) environment ( here's an example! ). Forgive me, but that report has a lot of text so I just scanned it. I saw nothing...

This right here is key. Growing up in northern Minnesota with a lot of connections to the Iron Range, it was really just watching the very slow death of a region (which, of course, has been going on for some time). A lot of the attitude from metro DFL is, "Suck it up, buttercup, you're destroy...

The article didn't say, it only referred to the proposal as a "new" hospital. Though this section leads me to believe this is in addition to the existing hospital: Turnblad said the project has the potential to become an “east metro trauma center or regional health facility” serving Washin...

^Which also puts a hole in the claim that historic preservation of the North Loop as a whole is what made it valuable enough to spur redevelopment. People are paying for proximity (jobs, transit, cultural stuff downtown, regional centrality, the river, etc) and current or hoped-for local shopping/di...

Well, are they just to give a different looking green to bicyclists, or are they separately timed to provide a head start for cyclists to enter the intersection? I could also see separate signals having the future capacity to detect bikes and end the cycle early to give priority to people on bikes (...

http://www.startribune.com/burnsville-a ... 434618643/

Nicollet Plaza development at HoTC on hold now while the city faces a legal challenge led by.... the owner of the adjacent strip mall.

Maybe I'm reading the situation wrong, but are you implying that this didn't happen? That John (or someone) doctored *all* those screenshots, and you'll only accept live links to her posts as proof of what she's said?

Maybe, just maybe, you can take this one example to heart and re-think your position that John has spun things "so far out of reality so many times"? If you were interested in seeing more screenshots of Saralyn saying crazy/racist/awful things on Facebook, you could. These are the things p...