Minneapolis Park Watch

HEADS-UP FOR THE OCTOBER 20, 2010 PARK BOARD MEETING

5:00 P.M. REGULAR BOARD MEETING. Committee meetings to follow. The meetings will be held in the boardroom at Park Board headquarters, 2117 West River Road, just north of Broadway Pizza.

5:30 P.M. OPEN TIME. Speakers need to sign up before 3:00 p.m. the day of the meeting.

This meeting is the last meeting that David Fisher will be attending as Superintendent. His four month stint as interim superintendent ends on October 31. We are grateful that he accepted the invitation to come to Minneapolis to fill this position.

Posted by Arlene Fried on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 3:37am. | Permalink | Login to post comments | Read more

The following article by reporter Steve Brandt appeared in the September 5th, 2008, edition of the Star Tribune

PARK BOARD APPROVES LAST PARKWAY SYSTEM LINK

A proposal to complete the missing East Side link of the Minneapolis parkway system has been approved by the Park Board, marking a historic point after decades of failed proposals.

Posted by Arlene Fried on Sat, 09/13/2008 - 9:43pm. | Permalink | Login to post comments | Read more

Kudos to East Isles resident Harvey Ettinger whose letters and phone calls, as well as an Open Time speech to the Park Board, brought attention to the severity of the deterioration of Lake of the Isles Parkway. The following Park Watch post is excerpted from a longer article by Council Member Lisa Goodman that appeared in the April 19, 2008, issue of the Hill & Lake Press.

Posted by Arlene Fried on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 2:05am. | Permalink | Login to post comments | Read more | 1 attachment

The following article is from the April 7, 2008, issue of the Southwest Journal:

Pothole Parkway Dylan Thomas

EAST ISLES

When pothole season rolls around each spring, it doesn’t just come to one street; it arrives everywhere in Minneapolis at once.

Posted by Arlene Fried on Mon, 04/07/2008 - 11:54pm. | Permalink | Login to post comments | Read more

Posted by Liz Wielinski on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 11:51pm. | Permalink | Login to post comments

By Anna Pratt , Special to the TC Daily Planet from 11/14/2007

Controversial Como route eliminated, but a new route proposal resurrects similar fears among residents

On Nov. 1, the citizen advisory committee (CAC) to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) rejected a controversial route proposed for the Como neighborhood that would have taken out dozens of homes to complete a segment of the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway. A new route proposal, unveiled at that meeting, calls for tearing down around 30 homes plus some businesses on Hennepin Avenue East, between 26th and 27th Avenues Southeast, causing a new stir among some Como residents.

Posted by Liz Wielinski on Wed, 11/14/2007 - 11:33pm. | Permalink | Login to post comments | Read more

Ken Avidor has blogged about the Grand Rounds project through Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis, and has put together a pair of videos featuring Tom Johnson (yes, the infamous Tom Johnson) leading public meetings in Como about the project.

See Ken's post and videos here: http://strideblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/videos-of-tom-johnson.html

Posted by News junky on Sat, 10/20/2007 - 6:28am. | Permalink | Login to post comments | Read more