For no good reason, I watched 90 minutes of yesterday’s Edina Heritage Preservation Commission meeting. I am the kind of person who will occasionally put a municipal YouTube video on the TV and wait for something weird to happen.
Continue reading “Edina has a racist past. But is that racist?”Edina debates a comprehensive plan
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Edina’s City Council approved a draft comprehensive plan last Tuesday. While it’s not nearly as ambitious as the 2040 plan approved last year in Minneapolis, the Edina plan has still attracted some organized opposition.
Continue reading “Edina debates a comprehensive plan”Hope for Edina
[Below are the words of Edina resident Hope Melton, adapted into a Video Letter to the Editor — without her permission, because I am a news pirate.]
At Wednesday night’s Edina Planning Commission meeting — in the face of some of her neighbors’ complaints about unwanted population growth — Hope Melton spoke in favor of her city’s comprehensive plan. She began by pointing to a report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
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