Posted on 12/24/2018 3:15:38 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Seattle is on the verge of making some controversial land-use changes that advocates say will make this increasingly expensive city more livable for people who aren’t wealthy.
The city may soon allow taller buildings in the cores of many neighborhoods and ease restrictions on mother-in-law apartments and backyard cottages. But change is hard: Those moves have encountered legal challenges.
Minneapolis this month took a much more dramatic step on density meant to ease its real-estate crunch and address its history of racial segregation: The City Council there voted to end single-family zoning altogether. Moving ahead, the Midwest city will allow duplexes and triplexes on every block.
The Seattle Times talked with Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender about the headline-grabbing change that she championed. The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
What just happened in Minneapolis?
We just adopted our Minneapolis 2040 plan. We’re required to adopt a land-use and infrastructure plan every 10 years, and this time our goals included eliminating racial disparities and taking action to fight climate change.
As part of that, the new plan says you can build up to three units on every lot. We’ll no longer have neighborhoods set aside for single-family homes.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
Rather they will slowly force our single family homes until they have agenda 21 stack N pack in place.
After that no cars, all subways. Get people off the rural land and into the cities and bingo.
As I have reported before, Iowa as done this state wide. promoted by homos/perverts and real estate agents.
Let me restate this , we still have the zoning, but it means nothing any more.........................
Do it! Get out of the control of the Met Council, that’s the hotbed of socialism.
I moved 50 miles out, commuted my last three years, before retirement.
It was the best move I’ve ever made!
Maybe a gofundme to build a low-income apartment next door to the Mayor?
The Met Council just started the new leg of the Somali Trolley. It comes within a half mile of my house. I want to be gone by the time it gets built.
Right out of the UN’s Agenda 21.
I will post this again:
“Most American’s have no clue of how much of their lives and way of living are now already regulated per the UN.
If this was fully understood the UN building would be a smoking ruin and our political leaders responsible for bringing it upon us would be decorating lamp post.
Property values will plummet which brings in trouble. Mixed housing is not a win-win scenario. And ypu can bet ypur bottom dollar that the affluent have already departed.
Pardon my blissful ignorance in advance.
Looks like the colorado symphony has added metal detectors. That was really the only reason to even go downtown. It was always safer in the concert hall than to and from on light rail. I will attend county symphony concerts instead.
> “And the middle class will flee the city.”
They already have. And so has the rich. You don’t realize how small Minneapolis actually it. The “Twin Cities” is much, MUCH bigger than Minneapolis.
“And the middle class will flee the city.”
Yes, that’s exactly the idea.
Sing it! ... in the ghetto...
Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Minneapolis
Bump
“I know the muslim invasion of the northern states has been going on for a while, but I’ve always wondered if it was from Obama’s bringing them in by the planeload, or are they coming in from Canada? “
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Neither!
Somalia has been having a civil war for years——they have been coming here as refugees-——and we are now stuck with them.
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Somali refugees in Minnesota started in 1991 (Bush 1). The feds paid Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services and World Relief to settle them in Minnesota. I was there.
Presumably, those organizations in other states declined.
Come on down to the Missouri Ozarks.
We did.
The Twin Cities is the 7 county metro.
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