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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
No Bike Path for 75th/76th Street Bike Trail = No Trail
So the scoop on the bike trail status after the last city meeting November 28th is - no bike trail. That is, there will be a bike path on 76th Street but not on 75th Street. Which means no bike trail at least connecting Minnetonka to the Mississippi River, which is what they are toteing [...]
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Extreme Bicycle Adventure!!!!!
Part one of a Richfield couple’s Bike Ride and their efforts to get to Uptown from Richfield. Found this on YouTube and thought it was quite funny given the anti-biking sentiment I felt at the last 76th Street Streetscape meeting November 28th and statements that biking just isn’t done in Richfield. Now we have video [...]
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Hampton Inn building addition and sale
Ok, this is off topic. It is between 77th Street and 494 but still it is about development that can impact the neighborhood. The Richfield city council approved a parking variance and addition for the Hampton Inn at 7745 Lyndale Avenue. What does this mean for 76th Street? Not much really. I don’t [...]
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Why no Richfield Sun-Current coverage?
So what gives? Why is the Richfield Sun-Current not covering this issue? It appears that the Sun-Current has once again limited its traditional coverage to the low hanging fruit of round-a-bouts and high school sports. Sadly, following an issue in depth is not done by most community newspapers as it demands to many resources newspaper [...]
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Work/live spaces
aka: Artist Housing
One of the issues of the 76th Street Developments is “What kind of affordable housing?” There are many kinds. At the meetings the developers and city staff quickly went to the old favorite, “more senior housing” option. While housing for seniors needed in the metro area, it appears to be unevenly distributed with [...]
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Lincoln Park
One block north of 76th Street on Pleasant Avenue is Lincoln Park or Lincoln Field Park. Many neighbors do not even know of its existence, those that do do not think much of it as it tops the list of parks in the worst state of repair in Richfield. In recent years the city has [...]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
I’m Thinking Round-A-Bout…
Really.
Given the controversy over the other two round-a-bouts on 66th Street and Portland and 17th Avenues, by a small yet vocal group of regulars, I think it would be great to put round-a-bouts on 76th Street and Lyndale, Nicollet, Portland, and 12th avenues just to get them going again. Otherwise, what would the Richfield Sun [...]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
76th Street Parkway and bike paths
In addition to the 76th and Pleasant/Lyndale developments, the city of Richfield will be redeveloping the 76th Street street-scape, downgrading it from a four lane to a two lane road because with the completion of 77th street as the main artery 76th no long carries as much traffic and does not need to be as [...]
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Affordable housing…..
At the public meetings/workshops held by the city of Richfield and the Corridor Housing Initiative the words “affordable housing” were stressed again and again, and those words were met with suspicion by neighbors attending. Unspoken were fears of subsidized housing “Section 8″ housing, prison and drug halfway houses, rental property packed with uncontrollable [...]
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
And now a blog…
I have taken down my forum and have replaced it with this blog. The numbers showed that people were going to this site and viewing the forum but not participating, which I am not really surprised at. I decided it would be better would to blog and I can just post information, links, resources, as [...]