Vindicating the system?!?!

The Minneapolis zoning code may be byzantine, but it has checks and balances built into it. What the Mayor, CM Ostrow and the Northeast Community Development Council have engineered is an end-run around a carefully designed system that was created to stop innappropriate land uses in sensitive areas. What our elected officials and a rogue development agency (created by said elected officials and effectively closed to neighborhood input) have done is insulting to the dedicated neighborhood volunteers who have worked tirelessly for years to support the Central Avenue rennaissance. This project is a classic example of elected officials supporting a developer and ignoring the opinion of their constituents.

Had the author of this article done his/her homework, he would see that the cities' own plan for the Central Avenue Mainstreet Project (CAMP) does not support this kind of development.