{"id":79520,"date":"2021-09-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79520"},"modified":"2021-09-15T22:41:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T03:41:39","slug":"urban-progressive-privilegesomebody-elses-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79520","title":{"rendered":"Urban Progressive Privilege:Somebody Else\u2019s Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saint Paul progressives are all about high density housing and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Midway. Or out on the East Side. Or all up and down University Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2021\/09\/15\/st-paul-city-council-opens-door-for-5-story-redevelopment-of-dixies-on-grand-rejects-appeal-from-neighbors\/\">Not, you know, where <em>they<\/em> live:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Neighbors who rallied together under the title \u201cFriends of A Better Way St. Paul\u201d had said the St. Paul Planning Commission had mishandled a series of zoning variances related to the height and density of the proposed structure, which would span 80 residential apartments and four restaurant-ready commercial spaces at ground level.<\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Fearless prediction: the development gets built, but only after the city spends enough on fighting the court case against the well-heeled neighborhood to have hired 200 cops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Paul progressives are all about high density housing and development. In the Midway. Or out on the East Side. Or all up and down University Avenue. Not, you know, where they live: Neighbors who rallied together under the title \u201cFriends of A Better Way St. Paul\u201d had said the St. Paul Planning Commission had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79520","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=79520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79521,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79520\/revisions\/79521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}