[Mpls] Council committee turns down Lagoon Project

[David Brauer]

My pithy view:

The difference between 10 stories and 13 is trivial. I favor density.

Traffic/environmental is the bigger problem. Fact is, we don't have a =20=

reliably funded transit system to make people believe we can be =20
denser without the attendant auto pollution and congestion spilling =20
into neighborhoods that don't deserve it.

Sadly, it's a chicken-and-egg thing...density boosts transit, but =20
without transit people can believe in, they can legitimately, IMHO, =20
oppose that density that may, someday, cause transit to flourish.

I think we need to control car use somehow =97 with carrots, not =20
sticks, hopefully =97 BEFORE we can ask neighbors to accept denser =20
projects in areas that, despite the presence of Uptown businesses, =20
are still quite residential.

Different opinions welcome; this is a gut reaction in advance of any =20
editorial I might write for the Journal or Skyway.

David Brauer
Kingfield