Tag Archives: parking lots

Parking lot with empty spaces and kids riding bikes

Minimum Parking in St. Paul

• December 18, 2018

Why do we have parking minimums in the City of St. Paul? The current city ordinance is copied at the bottom of this post for reference, but it provides no justification. Parking Minimums = Control I once asked an employee from DSI (Department of Safety and Inspections) why a bar should have more parking space […]

Podcast #114: Painting Suburbia with Carolyn Swiszcz

• June 26, 2018

Carolyn Swiszcz is one of my favorite local artists, a painter, printmaker, and visual artist who works a lot in some of my favorite slash least favorite landscapes: post-war suburbia. I first came across Carolyn a short musical video she made about West Saint Paul Minnesota, a first-ring suburb near where I grew up. As […]