{"id":47907,"date":"2014-10-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47907"},"modified":"2014-10-05T20:43:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T01:43:55","slug":"it-isnt-very-pretty-what-a-town-full-of-nimbys-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47907","title":{"rendered":"It Isn&#8217;t Very Pretty What A Town Full Of NIMBYs Can Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irvine Park neighborhood, south of West Seventh Street and downhill from the XCel Energy Center, votes reliably DFL.<\/p>\n<p>And so they care a\u00a0ton\u00a0about the homeless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bringmethenews.com\/2014\/10\/05\/neighbors-concerned-about-dorothy-day-shelter-expansion-plans\/\">Provided they are walled away from them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Dorothy Day Center &#8211; across 7th Street from the X &#8211; wants to expand. \u00a0And that&#8217;s got Irvine Parkers up in arms:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/localnews\/ci_26665931\/dorothy-day-neighbors-want-more-say-shelters-expansion\" target=\"_blank\">St. Paul Pioneer Press<\/a>\u00a0reports that residents of the nearby Irvine Park neighborhood want more say into the plans for the expanded shelter and service center.<\/p>\n<p>Few will deny there\u2019s a real need for the expansion. But neighbors say they already see homeless people spill over into the nearby park and onto their properties while waiting for the shelter to open each evening. They say the proposed design of the upgraded facility won\u2019t do much to alleviate the situation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Either will sixty more years of DFL rule, complete with using the inner city as a warehouse for the poor and de-institutionalized.<\/p>\n<p>Who do we protest to about that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irvine Park neighborhood, south of West Seventh Street and downhill from the XCel Energy Center, votes reliably DFL. And so they care a\u00a0ton\u00a0about the homeless. Provided they are walled away from them. The Dorothy Day Center &#8211; across 7th Street from the X &#8211; wants to expand. \u00a0And that&#8217;s got Irvine Parkers up in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47908,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47907\/revisions\/47908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}