RE: Park Ave. as historic district

2000-11-19 Thread Russell Wayne Peterson
First of all, I love the Grand Boulevards idea. What a hoot. And what a way to attract development and interest to long forgotten thoroughfares. And I agree that perhaps just identifying what's important to remain is enough. I have been involved in work in historic districts in this city before

Re: Park Ave. as historic district

2000-11-19 Thread wizardmarks
It is my understanding, from watching the infamous Healy block come back together that the requirements for historic districts happen when and if you have to change the outside of the house. For example, if you have to reconstruct your porch then it has to be reconstructed back to the original pl

re: Park Ave. as historic district

2000-11-19 Thread Barbara Nelson
Per Russell's remarks -- why stop there? why not create 1) some type of "district" for all the 2) "grand" boulevards? 1) My understanding is that "historic district" means certain things and makes upkeep very expensive. So perhaps some other designation and historic street lamps or something t

Re: Park Avenue Historic District

2000-11-19 Thread DeWayne Townsend
M. Hohmann > What do local neighborhood people/organizations think about this? I think it is well underway. The Longfellow Community Council (LCC) has use NRP $$ to: Close all Saunas, revitalize the corner of 38 St. & 42nd Ave, develop a master plan for the revitalization of Minnehaha Ave as we

Park Avenue

2000-11-19 Thread Barbara Lickness
NRP did not specifically address the historic area issue. However, the new Phillips Park project certainly keeps the mansion theme in perspective in it's construction. Even though Honeywell has been merged, bought out, or whatever it's end destiny doesn't mean that the work they started won't

Re: Transit downtown / So long everybody.

2000-11-19 Thread HolleB
In a message dated 11/18/00 12:53:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I need to get out of politics, for the health of my soul. (And I say that as a secular humanist.) Maybe if I want to save the world in future I'll focus on delivering meals to people with AIDS or something where I'll at leas