Rework the Minneapolis 2040 Plan

The 2040 Plan does not work when one design has to fit all. We have an increasingly aging population who cannot walk to rapid transit, much less board and ride. They cannot bicycle. They cannot negotiate stairs in six-plexes. Yet seniors pay property and other city taxes; they are a necessary revenue resource! The plan is not workable for seniors and shows an unfeeling approach to them.

This plan would ruin what makes our neighborhoods unique and a vital part of Mpls.

I support affordable housing and fewer cars on the streets but I don't believe this is the correct solution.

As I read ithe plan, it does not introduce affordable housing but instead offers developers opportunities for replacing single family residences with multiunit residences without providing for adequate parking. I find that the reduction of off-street parking as well as reduction of car lanes on main thoroughfares may not only increase CO2 car exhaust into neighborhoods but also cause transportation difficulties for people unable to walk, bike, or take public transportation. I feel that the plan does not adequately take into account the needs of families and the elderly.

It is shameful that city planners want to ruin another wonderful community. Having lived in the Chicago and Seattle area, I have seen in detail, how over building can overwhelm neighborhoods causing more homelessness, horrific traffic and garbage. Please leave our neighborhood un-spoiled for future families. Stop being greedy . Your plan is not sustainable.

Minneapolis' neighborhood characters are unique in all the world and one of its greatest assets. We must protect them!

we strongly oppose your plan. It will destroy my neighborhood that I love. I still have the house my Mother purchased in 1949. Best neighborhood in the USA..

Uptown traffic is already bad. There are so many high end apartments in uptown. We don't need to see more high end apartments and buildings.

I agree 100% with this. I its not well thought out. /build the transit first. You have the cart before the horse

I am deeply concerned about developers buying single family houses and tearing them down to build 4plexes.

I am all for increased affordable housing and this will increase density, just as I am all for more bike lines which increases congestion. These new problems can be worked with by thoughtful, citizen informed City planning with a caring eye on our most vulnerable citizens. The current plan turns our gaze away from all citizens and hands a pass to developers. I am opposed. We need time, neighborhood involvement, creative space making and problem ‘being with’ rather than problem solving. Time for open hearted policy making and Minneapolis is a great place to practice it.

Please vote against the 2040 plan. Residents are already struggling with bike paths and increasing density on city streets.

I did not move here to see these buildings. I moved here to see the sky. I am offended and hurt with this bill.

I respect the goals of the 2040 plan but feel the proposed strategy will undermine a cherished Minneapolis asset: strong, unique neighborhoods. The plan needs to be reworked.

I agree. Plans need to be reworked.

I oppose the 2040 plan. Please slow down the process.

Seeking transparency for the 2040 Plan, this needs to be reworked and tax payers need to have a clear understanding and approve what is being done in their neighborhoods

Preserve Linden Hills. The reason people want to live there is because of the present zoning. Changing zoning will change the neighborhood. If the neighbourhood is not broken, do not try to fix it.

I am a Minneapolis resident. Thank you for putting this together. It very accurately describes my significant concerns with this plan.

Yes stop the 2040 plan in all its idiocracy this is the stupidity of a counsel that does not live everyday fighting tooth an nail for a parking spot already, nor have they had to live through a Minnesota winter where you must wait in 20 below for a bus because you don't have a place to park at all . Nor to mention all the useless bike lanes that will be even more useless come winter, and how many of the Minneapolis bikers also have cars, where do they park them . And all the family's who park their cars in uptown and unload their bikes ? And what about the shops?no parking=no customers and no place for the delivery truck to unload. so say goodbye to any local shop as they will go out of business and you will have to travel very far to impossible locations. It seems to me that they are attempting to make the infamous "no parking " uptown area have even less parking with even more occupants. It seems to me that ms. Worthington as well as others who should not hold the positions in city planning obviously are not economists nor do they have adequate parallel parking experience. Why not build these silly high rise styles just northwes of and 94 ? Why not give bikers a biking bridge and open up the lane for busses and emergency vehicles instead of the "protected bike lanes" that become more of a hindrance than a solution. For god sake even a bus overpass would be more bearable and bearable than rebuilding and dulling half of the neighborhood that is held on a pedestal for its uniqueness! But they do not care they don't givecasecond thought to thev initial residents .