What Can Charleston, South Carolina, Teach Minneapolis?
With an engaging streetscape, varied building stock and sensible zoning, charming Charleston, South Carolina, holds important urban design lessons for Minneapolis.
Category: Land Use
Discussions on the ‘Decline of the Midway’
A recent opinion piece about the development challenges in St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood misses a few key points, says one neighborhood resident.
What New Statewide Polling Teaches Us About Housing and Land Use Policy
A survey of registered voters shows that Minnesotans prioritize housing affordability — and support the state Legislature acting on housing and land use policy.
St. Paul Port Authority Announces ‘Ayd Mill Stroad’ Redevelopment Plan
What could be more convenient than big-box shopping in the heart of the city, easily accessible by car for suburban drivers?
Blue Line Extension Part 2: Land Use Problems
The Blue Line extension’s route through the northwestern suburbs is more or less settled. Let’s look at the existing and future land use on that corridor.
Zoning Constraints and Mixed-Use Corridors: A Conversation With Spencer Miller-Johnson
A St. Paul city planner helps us unpack the East Grand Avenue Overlay District Study!
Reimagining Lyndale Avenue’s Underutilized Space
Most of Lyndale Avenue’s right of way is devoted to cars. An upcoming reconstruction is the perfect time to reimagine this as a space for people.
How Engaging With Stories Can Help Us Reclaim Local Power
We used storytelling as an engagement tool to make sense of the decline of St. Paul’s fancy-schmanciest shopping street. Could it inform work in other places, too?
Neighbors Give Thumbs Down to I-94 Expansion
Union Park District Council gathered the neighbors who live closest to Interstate 94 and asked: What do you want for the freeway?
Mapping Minneapolis’ Post-2040 Plan Duplexes and Triplexes
A geographic visualization of new duplexes and triplexes since the Minneapolis 2040 Plan passed shows what can work — or not — with local regulatory policy.