13th Ward News: June 2019
City of Minneapolis sent this bulletin at 06/12/2019 04:47 PM CDT
MPRB is nearing the end of its master planning process for all southwest Minneapolis parks. Revised concepts for each park property are now available for review online. Please access links to all plans here: https://www.minneapolisparks.org/project_updates/check-out-updated-design-concepts-for-all-southwest-minneapolis-neighborhood-parks/ These revised concepts were created and honed through more than a year of community engagement, which included attending more than 100 park and neighborhood events and collecting and analyzing thousands of comments on previous iterations of park designs. Get Ready for Routine Neighborhood InspectionsNow that the snow has melted, Minneapolis residents should make sure to clean up any nuisance conditions in their yards before routine neighborhood inspections. Housing Inspections Services staff look for nuisance violations throughout the year to help keep Minneapolis safe, clean and livable, but they are most common in the spring, summer and fall. Property owners with nuisance violations will get a letter and about a week to resolve the violations. If they don’t resolve violations by the due date, contractors will complete the work, and the property owner will be charged a fee. Anyone with questions about a letter regarding nuisance violations can call 311. Some of the most common nuisance violations that City staff looks out for:
Some resources exist to help seniors, veterans and disabled people. Visit www.minneapolismn.gov/inspections for more information. To report a property in violation or for additional questions, call 311. Protect Pollinators This Season
Public Input Wanted in Food Action PlanHomegrown Minneapolis invites community members to participate in any or all upcoming meetings or weigh in online to help develop a food policy action plan. City staff intend for the plan to guide the City toward a more equitable, climate resilient, just and sustainable local food system and local food economy. Access to healthy and local food is important for the health of people who eat it, for the local communities it helps support and for protecting the climate. These Food Council meetings will focus on specific Minneapolis food action plan topics. Anyone who can’t attend a meeting can still weigh in online. 2019
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The Minneapolis Food Action Plan will serve as an appendix to the City’s Climate Action Plan and a stand-alone framework with food systems data and recommended goals, strategies, tactics and measurable indicators for City of Minneapolis policy and investment and Food Council action. The planning process will include opportunities to engage and contribute ideas throughout. The plan will be developed with community input in partnership with University of Minnesota researchers and the Homegrown Minneapolis Food Council. Background In 2013, the City of Minneapolis adopted the Minneapolis Climate Action Plan, which is the City’s roadmap to reducing Citywide greenhouse gas emissions. In 2017, the City of Minneapolis signed on to the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact. Most recently, the City of Minneapolis adopted Minneapolis 2040, the City’s comprehensive plan. The Climate Action Plan defers to Homegrown Minneapolis for proposed climate change-related food systems actions, which this effort intends to advance through the framework of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact with research partnership from the University of Minnesota. Find the full meeting calendar and more information about the topics here. Recycle Smart – Know What Goes in Your Recycling CartRecycling has been in the news a lot lately because of shifts in markets and international policy changes. This has left many Minnesotans wondering what is happening to the recycling placed in their carts and what they can do now to support recycling. First, know that your recycling is getting recycled. Most recycling collected in Minnesota is processed through local and regional markets, and overall Minnesotans are good recyclers with relatively low amounts of nonrecyclables put in the recycling. Keep plastic bags out of your recycling cart Plastic bags and wrap get tangled in the equipment at recycling facilities, and workers spend hours each day removing them. You can recycle plastic bags and wrap by bringing them to drop-off locations including grocery stores, food co-ops, retail stores and Hennepin County drop-off facilities. Know what’s OK to put in your recycling cart.
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