This plan lacks vision. Have the planners considered phased implementation? If so, phasing would likely demonstrate the folly of the plan. The plan expects a level of growth thatMinneapolis has not seen in recent times.
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Abdul Hasnudeen
8 years ago
I am one of the people who believes that there is not a single solution for all of Minneapolis with regards to planning. I believe that diversity in neighborhoods makes the city a much more interesting place to live and work. With high rises popping up all over the city, from lake street by the light rail to both sides of University Avenue in Prospect Park, to lower NE Minneapolis to south Minneapolis along the light rail line, the neighborhoods in the city are starting to look very much alike. The friendliness of small, street level neighborhoods are being replaced with unfriendly, non-street level neighborhoods that have an "institutional ambience. This is not what I want for Minneapolis.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
The city plan needs to be completely reworked. There is too much community opposition to it in it's present form.
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Taniesha Dvoskin
8 years ago
Please consider a re-write of Minneapolis 2040. I live in a south Minneapolis neighborhood and I hate to see beautiful single family homes swooped up by greedy developers in the guise of providing more affordable housing. The residents of Minneapolis should be able to vote on a topic like this, especially when it comes to the city being able to re-zone YOUR property
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Bob Harvey
8 years ago
City Council, please listen and respond. Our beautiful neighborhoods are at stake to be ruined to the point of never being the same again.
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Jackie Harvey
8 years ago
Please do not ruin our neighborhood.
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Kurt C Anderson
8 years ago
My sentiments, EXACTLY!!
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Kristin Benson
8 years ago
Affordable housing, racial equity and accessibility for all to the parks and green spaces in our city are laudable goals and values that I strongly support. However, Minneapolis 2040 Plan is over reaching and lacking in key details of how rezoning in a generic way throughout the city accomplishes these goals. What contact has been made with the Department of Education to determine the impact on community schools? Is there a plan to expand the physical size of schools and to pay for teachers? How does density in turn make housing affordale? Most developments in Minneapolis have been built to attract higher-end buyers and renters to maximize profits. Where is the legislation that will accompany this density to assure that we don’t just offer more housing that is less accessible to varied racial groups and scoioeconomic levels? Where will all of the cars go? How is funding for parking and public transport dovetailing with rezoning especially in transportation corridors? How does the blanket rezoning impact our lakes, parks and green spaces? What studies have been conducted or comparative data offered to account for the environmental impacts? Please rework this plan that threatens to diminish quality, accessibility and affordability. Allow local communities to determine where and how density will allow us to adapt to growth but also to preserve what makes us love living in Minneapolis.
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Richard Beckel
8 years ago
Collaboration with the citizens of Minneapolis is imperative to the future success of this wonderful city. A few individuals creating what they think should be the vision is not collaboration. Let’s back the bus up and start a dialog!
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JJ Nelson
8 years ago
As a 36 year resident, this "plan" is going in the wrong direction!
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Antonia Busby
8 years ago
We are buying the turn of the century home we have leased for the last 5 years and we do not want to see our neighborhood or those of others over developed with these large buildings.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Concerned about fourplexes in neighborhoods. Please rework this plan.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Rework to ensure equality and integrity.
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Matthew Paymar
8 years ago
My home has already been adversely affected by development next door that clearly did not fit the neighborhood. And developers seem to have been able to influence legislators for their project because it does not appear to adhere to existing zoning laws. -- Please do not force this ethos down the throat of more people.
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Bruce Dickinson
8 years ago
Stop by this insane plan and put some real thought into the people who live here
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Nancy Schaefer
8 years ago
Please reconsider this plan -- there is no guaranteed benefit to anyone but the developers. A "one-size-fits-all" approach to neighborhoods and fragile ecosystems like our lakes, not to mention the rest of the things that draw people here, is asking for disaster. Please be willing to work with people who live here, have for decades, and want the best for the city as a whole.
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Dan Avchen
8 years ago
I urge the authors of the 2040 Plan to read Tom Fisher’s July 21 article in the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. Tom is on the right track. The City of Minneapolis has lost significant population since the 1950’s and that trend must be reversed in a bigger way than has already happened to date. However, while we need to create significantly more housing, we need to do so without compromising the character of our Minneapolis neighborhoods. The best clue for how to do this is in our history - more housing, closer to the urban core, located in just the kinds of places Mr. Fisher talks about. We have plenty of locations in Minneapolis where four-plexes and larger housing buildings could occur - places that, over the years, have lost significant population, Lake Street being just one good example. But, why lose the character of our unique, multi-faceted existing neighborhoods when we could, instead, fill in the many “missing teeth” in the parts or town where past density and character have been lost? This would increase density and, at the same time, accomplish Fisher’s “fine grain”, or, as I like to call it, texture in our city. It would do so while maintaining the integrity of our existing neighborhoods and returning the vibrancy that has been lost in parts of our City. Minneapolis Planning should not be afraid to allow history to repeat itself - simply increase density where it has historically occurred!
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sarah caswell
8 years ago
Horrible plan.Start over with resident concerns.This effects a much greater area than just Minneapolis.Ensure this vibrant city from decay.Sack this terrible plan!
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Mary Madryga
8 years ago
Please allow neighborhoods to work on improving the plan.
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Anne Haslerud
8 years ago
My husband Jason and I are very much against 2040 as it stands, more buses and duplexes/quads/more does not work for us. I can't support this plan until it is reworked to take that out of my street.
This plan lacks vision. Have the planners considered phased implementation? If so, phasing would likely demonstrate the folly of the plan. The plan expects a level of growth thatMinneapolis has not seen in recent times.
I am one of the people who believes that there is not a single solution for all of Minneapolis with regards to planning. I believe that diversity in neighborhoods makes the city a much more interesting place to live and work. With high rises popping up all over the city, from lake street by the light rail to both sides of University Avenue in Prospect Park, to lower NE Minneapolis to south Minneapolis along the light rail line, the neighborhoods in the city are starting to look very much alike. The friendliness of small, street level neighborhoods are being replaced with unfriendly, non-street level neighborhoods that have an "institutional ambience. This is not what I want for Minneapolis.
The city plan needs to be completely reworked. There is too much community opposition to it in it's present form.
Please consider a re-write of Minneapolis 2040. I live in a south Minneapolis neighborhood and I hate to see beautiful single family homes swooped up by greedy developers in the guise of providing more affordable housing. The residents of Minneapolis should be able to vote on a topic like this, especially when it comes to the city being able to re-zone YOUR property
City Council, please listen and respond. Our beautiful neighborhoods are at stake to be ruined to the point of never being the same again.
Please do not ruin our neighborhood.
My sentiments, EXACTLY!!
Affordable housing, racial equity and accessibility for all to the parks and green spaces in our city are laudable goals and values that I strongly support. However, Minneapolis 2040 Plan is over reaching and lacking in key details of how rezoning in a generic way throughout the city accomplishes these goals. What contact has been made with the Department of Education to determine the impact on community schools? Is there a plan to expand the physical size of schools and to pay for teachers? How does density in turn make housing affordale? Most developments in Minneapolis have been built to attract higher-end buyers and renters to maximize profits. Where is the legislation that will accompany this density to assure that we don’t just offer more housing that is less accessible to varied racial groups and scoioeconomic levels? Where will all of the cars go? How is funding for parking and public transport dovetailing with rezoning especially in transportation corridors? How does the blanket rezoning impact our lakes, parks and green spaces? What studies have been conducted or comparative data offered to account for the environmental impacts? Please rework this plan that threatens to diminish quality, accessibility and affordability. Allow local communities to determine where and how density will allow us to adapt to growth but also to preserve what makes us love living in Minneapolis.
Collaboration with the citizens of Minneapolis is imperative to the future success of this wonderful city. A few individuals creating what they think should be the vision is not collaboration. Let’s back the bus up and start a dialog!
As a 36 year resident, this "plan" is going in the wrong direction!
We are buying the turn of the century home we have leased for the last 5 years and we do not want to see our neighborhood or those of others over developed with these large buildings.
Concerned about fourplexes in neighborhoods. Please rework this plan.
Rework to ensure equality and integrity.
My home has already been adversely affected by development next door that clearly did not fit the neighborhood. And developers seem to have been able to influence legislators for their project because it does not appear to adhere to existing zoning laws. -- Please do not force this ethos down the throat of more people.
Stop by this insane plan and put some real thought into the people who live here
Please reconsider this plan -- there is no guaranteed benefit to anyone but the developers. A "one-size-fits-all" approach to neighborhoods and fragile ecosystems like our lakes, not to mention the rest of the things that draw people here, is asking for disaster. Please be willing to work with people who live here, have for decades, and want the best for the city as a whole.
I urge the authors of the 2040 Plan to read Tom Fisher’s July 21 article in the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. Tom is on the right track. The City of Minneapolis has lost significant population since the 1950’s and that trend must be reversed in a bigger way than has already happened to date. However, while we need to create significantly more housing, we need to do so without compromising the character of our Minneapolis neighborhoods. The best clue for how to do this is in our history - more housing, closer to the urban core, located in just the kinds of places Mr. Fisher talks about. We have plenty of locations in Minneapolis where four-plexes and larger housing buildings could occur - places that, over the years, have lost significant population, Lake Street being just one good example. But, why lose the character of our unique, multi-faceted existing neighborhoods when we could, instead, fill in the many “missing teeth” in the parts or town where past density and character have been lost? This would increase density and, at the same time, accomplish Fisher’s “fine grain”, or, as I like to call it, texture in our city. It would do so while maintaining the integrity of our existing neighborhoods and returning the vibrancy that has been lost in parts of our City. Minneapolis Planning should not be afraid to allow history to repeat itself - simply increase density where it has historically occurred!
Horrible plan.Start over with resident concerns.This effects a much greater area than just Minneapolis.Ensure this vibrant city from decay.Sack this terrible plan!
Please allow neighborhoods to work on improving the plan.
My husband Jason and I are very much against 2040 as it stands, more buses and duplexes/quads/more does not work for us. I can't support this plan until it is reworked to take that out of my street.