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Walking All the Streets Of Fulton from Farmers to France

By on June 15, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

I confess, “from Farmers to France” is more alliterative than strictly accurate. I started immediately adjacent to the Fulton Farmers Market, but I devoted a few minutes to the environs before going into the market itself. And I returned there at the end of the walk, after France Avenue. The Fulton neighborhood in southwest Minneapolis extends […]

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Walking All the Streets in Northern Folwell

By on June 8, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

The day after I walked the southern half of Folwell neighborhood, I returned for the northern half. The following map shows my route, consisting of a main loop (shown in blue) starting and ending at Penn and 36th Avenues North, supplemented by some forward-and-back spurs (shown in red). Starting out eastbound on 36th Avenue North from […]

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Arguments Against Minneapolis’s Draft Comprehensive Plan, Addressed (Part I)

By on June 5, 2018 in 2040 Minneapolis Comprehensive Plan, Land use, Neighborhoods

It seems like it’s time to take stock of the arguments being levied against ideas in the Minneapolis Draft 2040 Comprehensive Plan. Here are some of the common themes that you might hear argued—or might be compelled to argue yourself!—and some point-by-point responses. Density Belongs Downtown (or Near the University, or…) The Draft Plan already […]

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Walking All the Streets in Southern Folwell

By on June 1, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

The Folwell neighborhood is named for Folwell Park in North Minneapolis, not Folwell School in South Minneapolis. (This means it is indirectly named for Folwell the park board president, not Folwell the University of Minnesota president—though they were one and the same person.) So the title “Southern Folwell” indicates not which Folwell I’m writing about, but rather which half of it […]

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What “Two and a Half Stories” Actually Looks Like

By on May 25, 2018 in 2040 Minneapolis Comprehensive Plan, Development, Neighborhoods, Smart Growth

The 2040 Minneapolis Comprehensive Plan has proposed that we open all single-family homes and duplexes to being bulldozed and replaced with fourplexes. This has, rightly, alarmed many people.  Some parts of the City would benefit from more density but indiscriminately bulldozing homes would destroy the fabric of many of our neighborhoods. Housing advocates have said […]

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Walking All the Streets in Southern Field

By on May 25, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

Having previously walked the northern part of the neighborhood, I set out the next day to walk everything from 48th Street to Minnehaha Creek. The start and end of my main loop were at 48th and Chicago. As usual, I also had to take some forward-and-back spurs, shown in red. Recall that Chicago Avenue in the vicinity […]

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Walking All the Streets in Northern Field

By on May 18, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

South Minneapolis’s Field neighborhood extends eastward from Interstate 35W to Chicago Avenue and northward from Minnehaha Creek to 46th Street, as shown by the blue tinting in the following map. My first day’s stroll through horticulture and history started and ended on 46th Street, from Clinton Avenue (A) to 3rd Avenue (B). The five spurs […]

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Walking All the Streets in Ericsson (Day 3)

By on May 11, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

Having walked the eastern, park-dominated part of the Ericsson neighborhood on day 1 and half of the west on day 2, I was ready to finish off the rest of the west. In the route map below, the light blue tint indicates the full neighborhood, the dark blue line indicates the circuitous main path between two stops on the […]

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Walking All the Streets in Ericsson (Day 2)

By on May 4, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

As on my first day in the Ericsson neighborhood, the blue tinted area on the route map shows the full neighborhood, whereas the heavier blue and red lines show where I walked this day. (The blue line shows the main loop, starting and ending on 42nd Street East at Nokomis Avenue South. The red lines show […]

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Walking All the Streets in Ericsson (Day 1)

By on April 27, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

The Ericsson neighborhood in south Minneapolis lies between Cedar and Hiawatha Avenues, with its southern border on Minnehaha Parkway and its northern border a mix of 42nd and 43rd Streets. In the route map, the full neighborhood is indicated by the blue tint, while the blue line shows my main path the first day and […]

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