Up this week at (or related to) City Hall:
City Council Meeting: I’m not counting on going to bed early Monday night with the meatiness of the agenda. The highlights:
On the consent agenda: a motion to approve phasing of the Transit Hub project. The good part about this prroject is that it is being built [...]
Archive for May, 2009
A new month, a busy week
Posted in Council agendas, Land use, Parks on May 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Skateparks, not just for skaters
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having become a skatepark and skateboard advocate rather accidentally, I’m now trying to learn about the sport, about skateparks, and how to make a Northfield skatepark a success. Check out possible progamming for a city skatepark
Even more about skateboards
Posted in Council agendas, Land use, Parks on May 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I argued for the Council voting on the Park and Recreation Advisory Board recommendation (the second one) to locate the skatepark in Ames Park at our June 1 meeting. I see the Council’s action – whatever it is – as the beginning, not the end of the road.
Yes, I’ll be supporting Ames Park as the [...]
1st 2nd Ward Meeting – Saturday, June 6 @ the Safety Center
Posted in CIP, Council agendas, Ward 2 on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday, June 6th I’ll be holding my first Ward Meeting for my 2nd Ward constituents – but it’s a joint 1st Ward (that’s Jim Pokorney’s ward) and 2nd Ward ward meeting. The meeting is at the Safety Center, from 9-10 am or a bit later. Police and fire department personnel will attend plus Joel [...]
Draft of new land development regualtions is now available
Posted in Land use, Policy problems on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you who have been anxious to get your hands and/or eyes on the latest draft of the land development regulations, the draft is available on the Planning Commission page (and it’s on their agenda, too). It now weighs in at 291 pages and you’ll be reading more about it here as the [...]
Safe Routes to School update
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In this week’s Friday Memo (it’s available on the City website’s News and Announcements section each week) there’s an item announcing a public open house at the NCRC on June 10, 6-8 pm to present the preliminary findings and recommendations on pedestrian and bike safety near our schools which has been funded by a [...]
Another week
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Up this week on the Council’s agenda for Monday, May 18: the only regular agenda item is a resolution regulating parking in Babcock Park.
In addition to a regular meeting, we also have a worksession with some interesting disucssion items including one on city process (flowcharts are promised) and an update on the fiber optic project [...]
Skateboards yet again
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The latest news in the Northfield Skateboard Plaza is that rather than having the Council vote on the Ames Park location, the Park Board has asked to revisit the relative priority of the skateboard plaza in its list of projects and how it would like to allocate the very few park dollars in the near [...]
Community expectations policy?
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At its April 27 worksession, the Council discussed the NDDC’s Community Expectations policy (read the last page of the Council packet) and it’s still being duscussed over on Locally Grown. I was generally in favor of this policy at the worksession because I want to create the impression that I can be nice sometimes and [...]
Dreaming of zoning
Posted in Land use, Policy problems, Uncategorized on May 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
‘Tis true, I have been dreaming about zoning regulations. My dream was about a development of new buildings and whether each one fit the regulations. There were hideous structures which clearly met the requirements of the code and there were thoughtfully designed and intelligently sited structures which didn’t including one which did not meet the [...]
