{"id":83510,"date":"2022-10-03T07:01:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83510"},"modified":"2022-10-03T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T15:56:11","slug":"does-this-empty-building-make-my-city-look-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83510","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDoes This Empty Building Make My City Look Fat?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When the cities of Minneapolis or St. Paul, or  the Met Council, ask for public input, you can be certain of three things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>They have long since decided what they want to do<\/li><li>It is going to reflect the revealed egos of the decision makers involved, and how they want to manifest \u201cmoving their city\/area forward\u201c in physical form<\/li><li>See the first bullet. And the post title, for that matter.Nobody cares about your input.  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With that in mind \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/bringmethenews.com\/minnesota-lifestyle\/what-to-do-with-the-kmart-site-minneapolis-wants-your-ideas?fbclid=IwAR2JQWtclWzT4EsSj5NtfiyWERhgx_rbHpcELTaOzxiCrGy1idm2OVqfMLA\">city of Minneapolis is \u201cseeking input\u201c<\/a> on what to do with the old Kmart property at Lake and Nicollet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>The City of Minneapolis wants the public&#8217;s ideas on how it will redevelop the former site of Kmart at Nicollet Avenue and Lake Street\u2026In order to gather public feedback for the project, the city has opened a <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.minneapolismn.gov\/government\/programs-initiatives\/new-nicollet\/new-nicollet-redevelopment-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a><\/strong>through Nov. 30. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>The survey asks residents about how they currently get to the area, for what reasons, and what their future goals for the area. <\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The city is \u201cseeking input\u201c so they can check \u201cseeking input\u201c off the statutory list of things to do, before doing exactly what whoever controls most of the city council wants done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s how the Green Line got built down the middle of University even though the &#8220;public hearings&#8221; excoriated the idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s why the SW light rail got built through a hill and under a condo even though publc hearings said &#8220;put it where people are\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s why they built a soccer stadium at the most congested intersection in the state, and tore down the retail that was the anchor of the Midway neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fearless prediction: the Kmart site will be turned into four blocks of \u201cmixed use\u201c multi story apartments, with first floor office and business space that will mostly be filled by \u201ccommunity\u201c nonprofits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Public input&#8221; on public projects in MN are always a sham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the cities of Minneapolis or St. Paul, or the Met Council, ask for public input, you can be certain of three things: They have long since decided what they want to do It is going to reflect the revealed egos of the decision makers involved, and how they want to manifest \u201cmoving their city\/area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83510","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=83510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83523,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83510\/revisions\/83523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}