Our fifth response to the Streets.mn Voter Guide is from John Quincy, candidate (incumbent) in Ward 11, representing far south Minneapolis on both sides of 35W. 1. What do you believe is the most significant land use and/or transportation issue facing Minneapolis in the next 5 years and how do you hope to address it […]
The fourth response for the Streets.mn Voter Guide is from Andrew Johnson, candidate in Ward 12, which includes south Minneapolis on either side of Hiawatha Avenue. 1. What do you believe is the most significant land use and/or transportation issue facing Minneapolis in the next 5 years and how do you hope to address it in […]
The third candidate response to the Streets.mn Voter guide for the city council candidates is from Kendal Killian, candidate in Ward 10, which includes the Uptown area of southwest Minneapolis. 1. What do you believe is the most significant land use and/or transportation issue facing Minneapolis in the next 5 years and how do you hope to […]
The second in our line of responses for the Streets.mn Voter Guide for city council candidates comes from Meg Tuthill, (incumbent) from Ward 10, which includes the Uptown area of southwest Minneapolis. 1. What do you believe is the most significant land use and/or transportation issue facing Minneapolis in the next 5 years and how do […]
No foolin’! The first candidate response to the Streets.mn Voter guide for the city council candidates has been received. The following is the response from Kevin Reich, (incumbent) candidate from Ward 1, which includes parts of northeast and southeast Minneapolis. 1. What do you believe is the most significant land use and/or transportation issue facing Minneapolis […]
If we get the streets right, good things will follow in downtown east. Much hand-wringing is occurring over whether or not there will be good development around the new Minnesota Vikings football stadium in downtown Minneapolis. When we look backwards 30 years at why development hasn’t happened since the current Metrodome stadium was built, we […]
Do cities have a “failure of frontage?” I credit Dan Parolek of Opticos Design for coining the term. When I was researching my post on form-based codes in the Bay Area, Dan explained he believes cities everywhere have a failure of frontage, that we focus so much on other elements of urbanism that we overlook […]
Several things jumped out at me as I read through yesterday’s Star Tribune article about Uptown and the tension of its recent level of development. I’ll address three here, and they have everything to do with what a colleague of mine calls a “failure of frontage.” First, with the somewhat controversial mixed-use project at 1800 […]
This week’s Streets.mn love-fest has produced good content. Curiously, none of its content involves any of us writers proclaiming love for the streets in our Twin Cities or suburbs. We talk about trails and parks, which Minnesota does very well. Brendon Slotterback loves trees that line our streets and Andrew Owen loves accessibility that comes […]
As a lifelong Minneapolitan I’ve lived a scant 1.5 years in St. Paul. They were wonderful, and nowadays I frequently visit St. Paul for shopping, dining, entertainment and just to get perspective on my own city. St. Paul has a wonderful opportunity to create a new neighborhood and catalyze that through preservation of a piece of […]