[Mpls] Flour mills, idling trucks, Nimby and urban sprawl.

[Allen]

Hello,

Sorry to take a chunk out of Earl's nice email.  I wanted to help 
shorten things.  And while I would be more than happy to take issue with 
some of the precise causes of "white flight", that's not my reason for 
replying to it.  I think his email serves as an excellent reminder that 
with the elections coming up, part of the discourse should be about 
where we'd like to see our city be 30 years from now. 

Allen Graetz
Lowry Hill

Earl Netwal wrote:

>I've touched on this topic before.  I think it is an often overlooked aspect
>of evolutionary urban life.  Depending upon one's perspective, the conflict
>and its resolution serve as grounds for a tribute to or a diatribe against
>the "natural" forces of democracy.  Flour mills are dusty, and idling trucks
>can be a nuisance.  Eventually democratic forces will expell the nuisances
>from our back yards. Flour mills and idling trucks per se do not vote, their
>neighbors do. 
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** SNIP **

>I feel a book coming on, so I will stop here with a point or two. Cities
>created suburbs by banning industries. People left cities to be close to
>jobs in the suburbs. Suburbs flourished. Decayed portions of cities become
>rediscovered. New urban housing attracts empty nesters.  People live in
>cities for their cultural and other amenities rather than their original
>economic base. There are hundreds of implications.
> 
>Musing in Nokomis East,
>Earl Netwal
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