Single family homes keep us not Detroit, says guy.
Carol Becker is here and if she tries to have a beer with me I'm grabbing this baby and fleeing this church like a dad in distress.
Meeting has turned into a low key how to use a PC tutorial. 
You can draw lines on the map and leave comments.
Met council planner guy assures us he has an understanding of the issues. "Prospect Park is a mosaic and it works." Doesn't want duplexes and 4plexes to go just anywhere because that's bad "for those of us who have invested in our homes."
Single family homes are the foundation of everything that's good about Minneapolis is the gist of this.
Heather Worthington says we're not banning single family homes.
Cam has asked met council planner guy not to talk for a while because he has used up his quota.
I urge you, if you are a person who exists outside this room I'm in right now: make yourself very loud and visible to your council member and city planners about where you stand on ending exclusionary zoning.
Heather Worthington says housing chapter is least complete in this draft. They are "working on it concurrently."
Lady asks if anyone has been to a planning commission meeting. Lots of yeses. "I found it very frustrating."
"I have a 4plex next to me. No problem with it. But it has 4 parking spaces."
Seward guy says he likes 4plexes! He lives along the river and he sees value in allowing people to downsize and stay in the neighborhood. I like this guy.
Next lady not so much. "We're being inundated by students." Says all neighborhoods are different. "We see what's happened to Como and Marcy Holmes and some extent to us, and we don't like it."
Carol Becker plugging her Star Tribune letter. She's off to the races! "Did anyone see it???" Yes Carol.
I need a fit young planner to come to my rescue. "We're gonna see electric cars in the future... Unless you're gonna come to the city and start over again..." this plan won't work.
Her neighborhood doesn't have triplexes.
"We don't wanna demolish every home... Some parts of the city it makes sense."
Scott the young dad is speaking. He lives in a 4plex near transit. Looking to become a homeowner, but ownership options are expensive. Holding housing supply down is recipe for displacement. Teardowns are creating giant expensive single family homes.
Sarah mentions climate change and that this plan is about Minneapolis evolving over the next two decades, when Scott's baby is 20. Then whispers "I stole all your ideas." Sarah is my mouthpiece.
More supportive comments from @SerafinaScheel and @BikeAlex who are smart people you should follow.
Alex says the house he bought very recently would be unaffordable to him right now. That's how much home prices have gone up. We need more homes in Minneapolis.
"if yimbys and nimbys and maybe some social justice people came together that would be a slam dunk" says cam. Lol.
Ethan says he bought his house in 2015 and he couldn't afford it today. The starter home "window has closed." Time to expand our definition of starter homes.
Lady chimes in with another data point. Bought home 3 years ago, just sold it. Made $40k.
Analysis: Profiteer.
Analysis: Profiteer.
I see a divide in this room between
1. people who own homes
2. people who own homes but also realize there are other people who don't own homes.
1. people who own homes
2. people who own homes but also realize there are other people who don't own homes.
Lady values opinions of the youth here in the room. She likes bikes and hates climate change and is for social justice. She wants to bridge the divide, but she wants us to know about slumlords. That's why she can't support 4plexes, even though she likes the idea. Developers.
Analysis: I have had nice landlords. Slumlords are not the extent of our non owner occupied housing supply. More inspectors? This is not an insurmountable problem.
