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New North Loop Six-Story Rises Up

By Conrad Zbikowski on March 20, 2019 in Development, Housing

Framing of the second story has begun on the new North Loop mixed-use development by Solaris Redevelopment Corp. and Weiss Builders. The project broke ground on a set of large surface parking lots in July 2018. When complete, the property will house 156 residential units and approximately 22,670 square feet of commercial space. For parking, the developer […]

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Brit Builds an ADU: Infill and Transportation

By Brit Anbacht on February 7, 2019 in 2040 Minneapolis Comprehensive Plan, Buses, Carfree, Housing, Transit, Transportation, Urban Design, Urbanism, Walking

So, as I mentioned in the first installment I sometimes take the bus for errands and to get to meetings. As part of the city’s desire to reduce congestion by encouraging public transit Accessory Dwelling Units are not required to have additional parking space of their own. We are likely to either replace our current two […]

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Brit Builds an ADU: the First $2,500

By Brit Anbacht on January 7, 2019 in Housing, Streets, Urbanism

Today, a little past Thanksgiving 2018, I wrote a check for $2,500. I have the money in a savings account and will transfer it to checking shortly. Yes, $2,500 is a lot of money! I could buy a really nice bicycle for that amount, maybe even one with electric assist. Instead we are spending this […]

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Brit Builds an ADU: Who Would Want an Accessory Dwelling Unit?

By Brit Anbacht on December 10, 2018 in Housing, Land use, Urban Design, Urbanism, zoning

Two years ago my family of three adults, a polyamorous family with my wife and husband, bought a three bedroom, two bathroom house in south Minneapolis. It’s charming and has fantastic 1940s details like coved ceilings, stucco exterior, and a smallish footprint at about 1600 sq ft. I work from home full-time and we have […]

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Chart of the Day: Urban Density in Minneapolis & Other US Cities, 1900-1960

By Bill Lindeke on November 27, 2018 in Chart, Transit

Here’s a fun chart (if blurry and too small) that shows historic trends around density and population growth in US cities, Minneapolis included. It’s from a 2001 paper by the Transportation Research Board that I found online about transit and land use, comparing the US and other countries around the world. Here’s the chart, with […]

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Everyone’s 2040 Plan Sucks

By Julie Kosbab on November 7, 2018 in 2040 Minneapolis Comprehensive Plan, Environment

There have been a lot of posts about the Minneapolis 2040 Comp Plan, including many, many public hearings in which YIMBYs and NIMBYs stand up and fight for more housing, or less housing, or neighborhood character. Every city in the Met Council is supposed to have a 2040 plan. Meanwhile, we are all frogs in […]

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Map Monday: Visualizing Twin Cities Sprawl, Density, and Change

By Eric Anondson on November 5, 2018 in Demographics, Development, Greater Minnesota, Maps, Trends

Like many of the maps I find I came across a webpage via Twitter, hat tip to @stateofthecity. The webpage takes data from the Global Human Settlement Layer and runs it onto Google Maps. This is the result, Human Terrain by Matt Daniels (@matthew_daniels). I immediately panned to tool over to Minnesota and geeked out. Something I […]

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Sunday Summary – June 24, 2018

By Betsey Buckheit on June 24, 2018 in Summary

Here’s last week on streets.mn: Minneapolis 2040, the conversation continues Chris Moseng continues his Arguments Against Minneapolis’s Draft Comprehensive Plan, Addressed (Part II) Part I addressed density arguments, this week the goal is to refute arguments that the Comp Plan guidance to build more densely won’t address housing affordability as well as concerns about aesthetics […]

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Are Cities Really Growing Faster Than Suburbs?

By Daniel Hartig on June 22, 2018 in Demographics, Urbanism

For those of us that are dedicated urbanists, it is something of an article of faith that density is good. Is it good? How do you measure ‘good’, anyways? One way to measure ‘good’ is to see if people want it. Are people moving to cities? Are denser areas growing as fast as less dense […]

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