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...
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.
Another great housing affordability hack for the 90th #txlege session ⤵️
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.
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.
... Why lead with this?
In the US, what we do is even sillier than this: every business you patronize, from the hardware store to the hair salon to the bar, is required by law to provide you with a place to keep your cow or refrigerator.
Ah, I see we're doing poorly informed discourse about Strong Towns again.
Agencies and governments turn to fencing instead of actual solutions for problems related to people experiencing homelessness.
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.
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.
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Remember, don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth
Prediction: having closed the 24th St bridge some of the homeless people will move down to the Sabo bridge, which is an even more important link (I'll be happy to be wrong, and there's no easy answers to this problem)
Revolving loan funds are among housing's most cost-effective production tools: fill the financing gap on stalled projects, collect repayment, repeat. Montgomery County, MD pioneered the model in 2021 — five states have since launched their own.
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