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Category: Advocacy
The Cedar-Isles Master Plan Needs Your Voice!
As Minneapolis Parks & Recreation works on the Cedar-Isles Master Plan, it’s important to get engagement from a broader group of park users.
Wanted: Your Full-Time Input for this Part-Time Role
Streets.mn is excited to announce that Amy Gage is joining us in a new role as managing editor, having volunteered as a writer and editor for Streets.mn since 2017. Her background as a newspaper and magazine journalist, personal blogger, and community relations and communications director in higher education — as well as a multimodal and transportation advocate — should serve us well.
Early Engagement on St. Paul’s 1-4 Unit Housing Study Looks Pretty Good
St. Paul staff ran a first round of public engagement about ending single-family zoning. The results are promising.
Who Controls Minneapolis Streets?
Cyclists and the City Council want bus lanes on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis. The “strong” mayor and some business interests say otherwise.
Four Years of Fighting for the Future of Hennepin Avenue
Show up for transit riders and a street for people. We get what we fight for! Join us!
Pre-register to Speak: PWI Committee Meeting on Hennepin Ave S
Pre-register to speak at Public Works & Infrastructure (PWI) Committee’s Hennepin Avenue public hearing.
How Housing Development Creates a Collective-Action Problem, in St. Paul and Beyond
Here’s one reason we have a housing shortage: New development creates diffuse benefits, but has concentrated costs. Local control over land use ensures we’ll undercount the benefits.
Waking Up from the Car Cult
When you hear anyone say that the Twin Cities Boulevard vision isn’t possible as part of Rethinking I-94 — when we face a climate emergency and the literal loss of a stable, civilization-supporting habitat — remember that you live in a car cult.
Some Mental Health Cartoons
Sometimes it’s tough being out there on two wheels, and you need to visit your Cycologist.