[Mpls] Park Board considering selling park land to developer (BluffStreet-Gasworks Park)

[Jim Bernstein]

The mission of the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board is to preserve
and protect our parks - not sell parcels off to developers!  This site
is an ideal park setting, far too valuable to Minneapolis for private
development!  

Another very good reason to support the reform candidates for Park Board
- all of whom put preserving protecting parks at the top their agendas!

At Large:  Annie Young, Rochelle Berry Graves, Tom Nordyke.  In
districts: LuAnn Wilcox, Scott Vreeland, Tracy Nordstrom, Jason Stone,
Jim Bernstein.

The people of Minneapolis deserve a park board that values parks and
people first, not developers!

Jim Bernstein
Fulton
Candidate, Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, Dist. 6

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From: mpls-bounces at mnforum.org [mailto:mpls-bounces at mnforum.org] On
Behalf Of ken bradley
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:23 AM
To: mpls at mnforum.org
Subject: [Mpls] Park Board considering selling park land to developer
(BuffStreet-Gasworks Park)

Minneapolis Ffolks,

The Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board (MPRB) 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, approximately 8 acres.



How can you show your support for Bluff Street Park?



Attend a presentation to the MPRB 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 MPRB that the will of the community will be
heard in this matter.



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 consensus
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

Ken Bradley

Kenny Neighborhood 

 

 


		
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