How Can You Show Your Support For Bluff Street Park?
Attend the Park Board meeting Wednesday Sept. 7
What: presentation to the Minneapolis Park Board 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 Park Board that the will of the community will be heard in this matter.
The Minneapolis Park Board 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, appoximately 8 acres.
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 concensus 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