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Jul 4, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
If this charter amendment gets on the ballot I want the new department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention to have a division of Shutting Down Lyndale. Led by someone with #BanCars experience.
I've thought this for a long time. Every car is a potential getaway car. The only person in your life you can really trust is a pedestrian.
The last thing we need is someone from Andover coming into the city with a trunk full of space for who knows what. I hear it on the news all the time and I still don't know where Andover is.

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Apr 14
Nice to see Lisa Bender again today. Can't believe I'm old enough to say it was 10 yrs ago I got my start covering local politics watching brand new Council Member Bender endure n'hood meetings full of people very disgruntled that she had different priorities from her predecessor
Bender's session was called: "Beyond Lawn Sign Battles: Building Support for Change" because every fight worth having, every change worth making, means overcoming stacks and stacks of poorly designed yard signs.
It started with a question posed to an audience of planners: "Have you ever felt you were taking a personal or professional risk when working on a project?" This was a theme of a couple of today's sessions covering the politics of planning. Image
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Feb 28
"Why legislators want to end Minneapolis 2040 lawsuit" minnpost.com/state-governme…
In 2018, the 2040 plan passed by a 12-1 council vote. Since that time, there's been much public praise for the plan. Mainstream city candidates generally do not run their campaigns pledging to abolish the 2040 plan. There is no viable political movement to reverse it. Consensus.
After losing the political debate, a relatively small number of 2040 opponents had the wealth & endurance to get the courts to offer a new interpretation of state law. Up until this case, comprehensive plans were widely understood to not be subject to environmental review
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Feb 16
NOT ENOUGH PARKING: Here's a fascinating study of suburban zoning codes across the Twin Cities. In 7 of the 10 suburbs surveyed, 272 parking stalls would be insufficient for a 211 unit apartment building. One municipality requires over 500 parking spots.

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Here are the participating suburbs and the hypothetical 5 story apartment proposal.
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Instead of all 1 bedroom units, assume it's half 1 bed, half 2 bed: only one city among the ten has a zoning code that allows such a project in any of their zoning districts. Image
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Jan 31
Happening now: City of Minneapolis COO Margaret Anderson Kelliher giving a homelessness update to the City Council following yesterday's eviction of Camp Nenookaasi.
So far the presentation is mostly a rehash of yesterday's press conference.
Slide describing yesterday's camp eviction. Image
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Dec 19, 2023
🚨In addition to all the other stuff on the 2024 ballot, Minneapolis voters may be voting on another government structure amendment, which could include stripping the City Council of power to confirm certain mayoral appointees.
The current status of the charter is on the left. City attorney proposal in the middle. Charter Commission recommendation is yet to come. But this Charter Commission tends to err on the side of concentrating power in the executive branch, so watch out.
lims.minneapolismn.gov/File/CH2023-00…
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If the commission were to put the city attorney's proposal on the ballot without changes, that would mean no confirmation hearing or council vote for the mayor's nominees to lead public works, CPED (community planning), regulatory services, civil rights and health commissioner.
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Nov 5, 2023
Dachis "contends bicyclists and pedestrians are dying at record rates because they are breaking the law. He opposes bike lanes because he does not believe the investment is worth it, considering the number of people who bike."
spokesman-recorder.com/2023/11/01/cit…
Sorry Ward 10, your only alternatives to the incumbent this year are candidates born from the radioactive ooze of resentments produced by the comment section on a crime-themed Facebook page.
Can't keep his crime stats straight: Dachis claimed incorrectly that MPD's 5th Precinct had 1800 carjackings so far in 2023, which is more carjackings than have taken place in the entire city in the 3 years since MPD started keeping the stat in Sept 2020.
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