The City has posted Draft 2 of the plan. It was supposed to reflect citizen input from public meetings and online comments (an estimated 85 percent of which were critical). But it’s not substantively better. In important ways it is worse. Find out what has and hasn’t changed.

In an 8/1/18 email, Heather Worthington, the City’s chief of long-range planning denied that the City contracted with a PR firm to work on M2040. Then we found the contract. Dated 7/11/18, the contract with Goff Public, of Saint Paul, is for $80,000. Among other things, the firm recommends withholding information about the plan from … Continue reading City secretly hires Saint Paul PR firm to promote M2040

On September 18, Minneapolis For Everyone (M4E) held a press conference in the Loring Park neighborhood demanding that City Hall restart the planning process, this time partnering in good faith with citizens and neighborhood organizations. Lisa McDonald represented M4E; Jana Metge of Citizens for a Loring Park Community joined her. Join us on Facebook to … Continue reading Minneapolis For Everyone holds press conference