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- March 7th, 2022, 8:49 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Uptown - LynLake - The Wedge - News & General
- Replies: 1501
- Views: 617577
Re: Uptown-LynLake-Wedge - News & General Topics
Replace them with hardware stores and everything will be fine.
- March 2nd, 2022, 11:28 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minnesota Governor Election 2022
- Replies: 39
- Views: 17045
Re: Minnesota Governor Election 2022
"Fiscally conservative" is a term that has no meaning.
- February 23rd, 2022, 1:44 pm
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Saint Paul - General Topics
- Replies: 694
- Views: 416495
Re: Saint Paul - General Topics
Then getting anywhere outside of my neighborhood would become much more of a hassle.
- February 23rd, 2022, 1:38 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 370
- Views: 155232
Re: Interstate 94
I lived in the Prospect Park area for about a decade, so in the shadow of 94. In a perfect world the highway wouldn't be there, but the build environment surrounding 94 has developed in weird ways that wouldn't be easy to reconnect. From a logistical standpoint, reconnecting south Minneapolis over 3...
- February 22nd, 2022, 10:23 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 370
- Views: 155232
Re: Interstate 94
I still contend that there are large swaths of 94 that wouldn't greatly benefit from being connected, especially for what it'd cost. It's really not until you get east of Lexington that you start to have neighborhoods on both sides of the highway.
- February 22nd, 2022, 12:51 pm
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Saint Paul - General Topics
- Replies: 694
- Views: 416495
Re: Saint Paul - General Topics
Not directly part of Town & Country, but there's a ton of room for improvement on Cretin. The road is really cramped now and doesn't even have a sidewalk on the west side. What'd I'd really like to see, though, is a parkway treatment with a median. For such a major entrance into the city (and al...
- February 20th, 2022, 8:56 pm
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Saint Paul - General Topics
- Replies: 694
- Views: 416495
Re: Saint Paul - General Topics
It's way more random than I anticipated. I was thinking the townhouses would be like two stories, so the main building was visible behind them. I can't imagine the appeal of these two buildings so close together. You could never open your window!
- February 11th, 2022, 9:26 pm
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Phoenix
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8741
Re: Phoenix
It's interesting to hear positive takes on Phoenix here. I'm not among the hardline urbanists on this forum, but I found Phoenix to be the definition of a car sewer and a city lacking of culture. Everywhere you look it's a six-lane road and a chain store.
- February 10th, 2022, 10:34 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Future of the forum
- Replies: 66
- Views: 52129
- February 8th, 2022, 2:06 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Future of the forum
- Replies: 66
- Views: 52129
Re: Future of the forum
It was way weirder than even that, though. There was an army of sock puppets on LinkedIn, weird renderings that looked like they came from a newspaper in a 1980s sci-fi film, claims of pitching local projects to Donald Trump. It had all the hallmarks of the weird online conspiracies that we have gro...
- February 8th, 2022, 12:25 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Future of the forum
- Replies: 66
- Views: 52129
- February 4th, 2022, 10:20 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: 800 Washington Av S (Guthrie ramp liner) - AECOM / City of Lakes Community Land Trust
- Replies: 125
- Views: 69273
Re: 800 Washington Av S (Guthrie ramp liner) - AECOM / City of Lakes Community Land Trust
Is there a reason buildings here don't do the thing where the first floor is raised like a half floor above the sidewalk level? That also creates the possibility for basement units, which in theory would be more affordable. There are so many first-floor units in Minneapolis where you could basically...
- February 3rd, 2022, 8:28 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Future of the forum
- Replies: 66
- Views: 52129
- January 25th, 2022, 9:36 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Civilian Shoveling Corps
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12694
Re: Civilian Shoveling Corps
That's not the point, though. There are plenty of people who are perfectly capable of either shoveling their sidewalks or contracting someone to help and simply don't do it. I'm looking for some teeth here!
- January 16th, 2022, 2:10 pm
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Saint Paul - General Topics
- Replies: 694
- Views: 416495
Re: Saint Paul - General Topics
Does anyone (aka seanrichardryan) know what the plan is for the new building going up at Marshall and Finn (the one across from Marshall at Finn)? It almost looks like there will be a separate line of row houses in front of the main building.
- January 7th, 2022, 4:52 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Civilian Shoveling Corps
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12694
Re: Civilian Shoveling Corps
Put two *city employees* in a truck two days after a snowfall, give them two shovels and there’s no way they don’t pay for themselves. But again, if the city doesn’t have the resources to do it themselves, setting up a marketplace for private contractors shouldn’t actually be that hard, and every jo...
- January 7th, 2022, 12:22 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Civilian Shoveling Corps
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12694
Re: Civilian Shoveling Corps
The idea of a central city shoveling service is obviously absurd. Let's take a system that works 95 percent of the time and replace it with an incredibly complex and expensive government program. No! (Assuming you were suggesting that tongue in cheek, but still) What I really don't understand is why...
- January 4th, 2022, 9:39 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Civilian Shoveling Corps
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12694
Re: Civilian Shoveling Corps
There's an (unoccupied?) duplex a block over from mine that hasn't been shoveled from the last snowfall. If the current system can't figure out how to handle single properties like that, I don't think getting the city *more* involved is going to help. The thing is, shoveling is actually really easy....
- December 30th, 2021, 3:16 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Civilian Shoveling Corps
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12694
Re: Civilian Shoveling Corps
In other words, what I'm saying is if anyone here is an app developer and/or a venture capitalist, let's go for it.
- December 30th, 2021, 3:13 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Civilian Shoveling Corps
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12694
Civilian Shoveling Corps
Here's my idea: The Civilian Shoveling Corps. Or, more specifically, a city program that pays people who go out and take care of unshoveled sidewalks. So, it snows. Two days later, anyone with the MPLS CSC™ app gets an alert: Go for it. You head out to your neighborhood. See an unshoveled sidewalk? ...