Lest you think that isn't actually mixed use, let me highlight the aspirational living on offer at Aspire at City Place, from which you can walk to that Whole Foods, I guess, technically. Here's the view from the front of the complex.
I remember a presentation (in planning school a decade ago) from a couple Woodbury planners who were very proud of this Whole Foods-anchored shopping plaza out there as an example of thoughtful suburban mixed use and walkable site design.
We were too polite to completely roast them to their faces.
I get steamed about this kind of crap. These bridges and sidewalks are bare minimum mobility for people screwed by freeway infrastructure. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...
... Why lead with this?
Ah, I see we're doing poorly informed discourse about Strong Towns again.
Oh hey, it's my neighborhood! Yes, this is our quirky hyper-local lore. 🦬
I have an early 20th century map that shows the neighborhood with a partially-completed street grid labeled as Frankson's Addition.
The old Frankson mansion mentioned in the thread is now a sober home for women in recovery.
Woodbury was the specific place that taught me, as a teen, that I hated suburbia. (A couple friends moved out there so I'd visit their houses sometimes.)
It hasn't changed much.
St. Paul's code is significantly better for small-scale infill than Minneapolis's, and that is showing in permitting numbers. Though some of the difference here surely has to do with the denominator, right?
St. Paul has permitted a lot fewer units overall, in part due to our rent control mess.