Aerial, renderings, and site plan from the project’s land use application.

"ONA" by Olga Ziemska. Ortenstone Gardens & Sculpture Park. Detroit Lakes, MN.

Coincidentally, a few days ago I saw this publication available to purchase at Quimby’s in Chicago.

This sign is still up at the @metrotransitmn.bsky.social E Line station at France & 50th but the bus picked us up there. And Transit app is still showing detour that’s not actually in effect.

Example from the worksheet document.

This contribution to the discussion, about zoning implementation, is what really prompted my response and subsequent thread. 👇

We haven't even discussed ADUs yet! Here is a summary of how Minneapolis has reformed its ADU regulations since they were legalized citywide in 2014. They are expensive to build, which is now the biggest barrier.

I can't find a newer map at the moment, but here is a map of building permits for duplexes and triplexes (new construction and conversions) from 2020-2023. It's not impossible, apparently. Map key in alt text.

OMG, you can build townhomes in Mpls on land that would have formerly allowed no more than a duplex? How about that!

Nearing completion, 47 units on land previously limited to single-family homes and duplexes.

Fifteen-unit building with for-sale housing that is currently under construction on land previously limited to single-family homes and duplexes.

Twelve-unit building on land that was previously restricted to single-family homes and duplexes.

Twelve-unit building on land that was previously restricted to single-family homes and duplexes.

Twelve-unit building on land that was formerly limited to single-family homes and duplexes.

This project has 32 units and is nearing completion on land that was previously limited to single-family homes. Passive house certified. No automobile parking, which is the case with many of the examples I'll show in this thread.

Quote from the MPHA.

Let's look at just a small sample of outcomes, starting with MPHA building a bunch of 4-6 unit buildings throughout the city, including on former single-family zoned lots. These are providing opportunities for people to live in neighborhoods where they would have historically been shut out of.

The zoning code was overhauled. Really, it was! While compromises were made, the plan that the City adopted and committed to is the plan that was implemented in zoning. People on both "sides" of 2040 plan were way too obsessed with triplexes. A summary of SOME of what was accomplished re: housing:

A thread about some of the issues addressed in the zoning code & map overhaul adopted to implement Minneapolis 2040. Some people who have actually built a ton of housing in our city (both small-scale & large-scale) have concluded that Mpls has the best zoning in the country. Exhibit A:

Eddie Feigner. From his obit:

The Silent Treatment. Open Streets Lyndale.

I still have my t-shirt.

Obscure streets of Minneapolis. N 1-1/2 Ave #obscurestreetsofmpls

Shoutout to the guy at the Cloudland with the Plywood Minnesota jacket.

4-15-25

Lake Nokomis

Someone left their copy of Project Hail Mary at an E Line stop. The movie happens to be playing at the theater around the corner from this stop.