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.
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.
Ah, I see we're doing poorly informed discourse about Strong Towns again.
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.
Another great housing affordability hack for the 90th #txlege session ⤵️
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?
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.
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.