City Committee Overturns Porky's Denial
Through a condition laden motion, the Zoning and Planning Committee on the Minneapolis City Council voted to overturn Minneapolis staff recommendations and the Zoning Commissions repeated denials of Porky's application for a fast food drive-thru on Central Avenue.
CM Don Samuels made two motions supporting the rezoning of the 1851 Central (Porky's site) and the conditional use permit and land use plan. The rezoning passed 4-2 with Samuels, Goodman, Colvin Roy, and Remington in support; Schiff and Gordon voted against the rezoning. The second vote regarding the conditional use permit and land use plan passed 5-1 with only CM Schiff voting against the motion.
The full council will consider the matter on Friday at 9:30 am.
--Neighbors Against Porky's--neighborsagainstporkys@gmail.com
posted by Neighbors Against Porky's @ 9:13 PM
4 Comments:
Here's an opportunity from the Southwest Journal (see details below). I suggest NAP send in a "thank you/shout out" to southwest Mpls resident RT Rybak for using northeast Minneapolis as the dumping grounds for a development he and his neighbors would never want in their own communities. Something like:
"We the residents of Northeast Minneapolis would like to thank southwest Minneapolis resident RT Rybak for bringing an auto-oriented, artery-clogging, smog-inducing, foul-smelling, grease-laden, street-clogging, litter-causing, Minneapolis Plan-thwarting, community-insulting, backwards-looking, logic-defying, slap in the face to our neighborhood in the form of a cheap fast-food drive-thru business."
You need to send it with a photo of RT. I am sure there are about a bazillion of those around.
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> From: Sarah McKenzie
> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:33:04 +1300 (NZDT)
> To: mpls@forums.e-democracy.org
> Subject: [Mpls] Thank Your Southwest Neighbors
>
>
> The Southwest Journal is soliciting "thank you" tributes for its annual
> special "Thank You" issue, which will appear in the Jan. 1, 2007 edition of
> the SWJ. If you know of someone in Southwest who deserves a shout-out, please
> let us know. We want to spotlight the kind acts of individuals that make
> Southwest such a great place to live.
>
> Here are the rules:
> 1. The "thankee" must live, work or do their good in Southwest -- the area
> between France Avenue South and I-35W, the Crosstown Highway and I-94 and
> I-394 (plus the northern half of the Bryn Mawr neighborhood).
> 2. The "good works" you're grateful for don't have to be extraordinary, just
> good.
> 3. The nomination must be a maximum of 250 words.
> 4. Please include your name, address and neighborhood in the message.
> 5. Entries must be submitted by Dec. 15.
> 6. Photos of those you are honoring are welcome.
>
> You can send "thank you" tributes by e-mail to smckenzie@mnpubs.com, fax them
> to 825-0929, or send a letter to: Thank Yous, Southwest Journal, 1115 Hennepin
> Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55403.
Isn't it odd, that politicians are working so hard on this?
They are over-ruling the planning department recommendations, strong neighborhood recommendations, previous planning visions for Central, and zoning rules.
It is kind of like there is a grudge against neighborhood associations and it is being worked out here. Hardened hearts looking for conflict.
As a resident a block away, I wish we could do better. The hard hearts may be right, Porky's is not the end of Central Avenue, but I wish we could do better than more fast food, more cars, more loud pipes on Central.
I think we can do better.
I wish our politicians did too.
Actually, you can download a photo of the mayor at
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/mayor/newscenter/about.asp
Warning: it's freakishly large!
This whole process is really discouraging. Why put in the hours every week to be involved if you're going to be played, abused, ignored?
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