[Mpls] Park Board considering selling park land to developer (Buff Street-Gasworks Park)
Minneapolis Ffolks, The Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board (MPRB) is considering selling a Mississippi River bluff, Bluff Street Park - also known as Gasworks Bluff, to high-rise condominium developers. This is the bluff on the west bank of the river, on the bend in the river between downtown and the university, between the 35W bridge and the railroad pedestrian bridge, approximately 8 acres. How can you show your support for Bluff Street Park? Attend a presentation to the MPRB by the WBCC Bluff Street park task force! When: Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 6pm, during the Park Board meeting open forum Where: MPRB administrative offices, 2117 West River Rd, board room suite 255 (just north of Broadway Pizza) Why: We need your support! There is strength in numbers! Please come to this meeting to show the MPRB that the will of the community will be heard in this matter. The neighborhood association for Cedar/Riverside, the West Bank community coalition, has a task force that has been working for over a year to create a plan to preserve this precious open space. The U of M Metropolitan Design Center has created a design for the park based on results of a stake holder survey they conducted at the WBCC annual meeting in October, 2004. The virtually unanimous neighborhood consensus is to preserve this bluff as a natural, native habitat for wildlife, with paths for walking, biking, etc. What is, after all, the mission of the Park Board? Questions? 612-332-4706 Ken Bradley Kenny Neighborhood - Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@mnforum.org Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
Re: [Mpls] Park Board considering selling park land to developer (Buff Street-Gasworks Park)
OK Ken I'll Bite.. What is, after all, the mission of the Park Board? From what I have observed over the past 2 years the mission of Bob Fine, Walt Dziedzic, Jon Olson and their entourage... Marie ( I'm just here for the stepping stone to the city council) Hauser and Carol ( the silent commissioner) Kummer is to get into bed with any developer that offers them money for their beloved plans to build playing field after playing field for the kids. Meanwhile the Kids get their pool fees raised, their wading pools and summer park supervisors threatened, their rec centers understaffed and closed more and more often and teams that will give them the chance to come up with the money to play at better leagues provided by private and suburban sports organizations. This board has spent so much money on building edifices to themselves and their cronies that the kids they claim to support are the ones suffering the most. I for one as the mother of a Minneapolis Kid am sick and tired of their baseless claims that it is all for the kids. I hope the citizens of the City of Minneapolis take a look at what is really going on and if doing it for the kids is the reason you vote, make sure you are voting to support the kids and not stick it to them. Liz Wielinski Columbia Park www.mplsparkwatch.org REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@mnforum.org Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
Re: [Mpls] Park Board considering selling park land to developer (Buff Street-Gasworks Park)
Elizabeth Wielinski wrote: From what I have observed over the past 2 years the mission of Bob Fine, Walt Dziedzic, Jon Olson and their entourage... Marie ( I'm just here for the stepping stone to the city council) Hauser and Carol ( the silent commissioner) Kummer is to get into bed with any developer that offers them money for their beloved plans to build playing field after playing field for the kids. Meanwhile the Kids get their pool fees raised, their wading pools and summer park supervisors threatened, their rec centers understaffed and closed more and more often and teams that will give them the chance to come up with the money to play at better leagues provided by private and suburban sports organizations.This board has spent so much money on building edifices to themselves and their cronies that the kids they claim to support are the ones suffering the most. I for one as the mother of a Minneapolis Kid am sick and tired of their baseless claims that it is all for the kids. I hope the citizens of the City of Minneapolis take a look at what is really going on and if doing it for the kids is the reason you vote, make sure you are voting to support the kids and not stick it to them. Well said, Liz. It is precisely because of the majority's ridiculous decisions in 2003 to close swimming beaches and wading pools that my son uses (along with the infamous removal of porta-potties) that I got involved with keeping an eye on the Park Board. Only massive public outcry forced a reconsideration of those proposed closures. And in reality, some beaches were closed and have never re-opened. Again in 2004, the majority five tried to close the east Lake Calhoun beach adjacent to the tot lot which the ECCO neighborhood association worked many years to build and paid for, and only after ECCO neighbors screamed loudly, and ECCO resident Lara Norkus-Crampton came to public Open Time and read the riot act to the commissioners for considering it, did Bob Fine and company back down and find the money to keep it open. Likewise with the summer playgrounds program in 2005, which would have gotten the ax if Liz Wielinski and her neighbors in northeast and north Minneapolis had not show up en masse to complain loudly during Open Time. The majority five continue to wrap themselves in the cloak of for the kids when in reality, they've wasted millions sucking up to private enterprises and building edifices to themselves -- all the while cutting basic maintenance and key services for Minneapolis children. As a parent, I'm sick and tired of this nonsense. I want my son to be able to walk to the neighborhood park, and have the facilities be open, in good repair and safe. I want all the kids in the neighborhood to have access to good youth programs during adequate hours. I could care less if the superintendent's office is 400 square feet large and paneled in walnut, or if the wall color in the board room flatters commissioner Carol Kummer on cable TV. Chris Johnson Fulton -- http://MplsParkWatch.org/ http://ParkBoardReform.org/ REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@mnforum.org Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
