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A Villager on a sunny patio. [Basically the problem is that the best source of Saint Paul streets & sidewalks news is the Highland Villager, a very fine and historical newspaper. This wouldn't be a problem, except that its not available online. You basically have to live in or frequent Saint Paul to read it. Until this newspaper goes online, sidewalk information must be set free. See also:  Three Reasons Why I Re-Blog the Highland Villager .] Headline: City thinks liquor may be a quicker way to revive University's streetscape Author: Jane McClure Short short version: The city is thinking of creating new "commercial development districts" along University Avenue, which currently has a lot of vacant storefronts and businesses. Currently the number of liquor licenses in the city are limited by ward. Commercial development districts are exempt from those limits, which would effectively increase the number of available licenses. [This is a weird article to me. The war

[The pink shorted professional troll retreats into his dark garage.]   Last week, following another dumb Soucheray column -- "Save us from the scooter hippies, bureaucrats. Seriously." -- a brave and noble Saint Paulite took the liberty of dropping a Bird scooter off at Joe's house. The resulting encounter was elegantly captured on video , and the results set my heart racing with excitement. You can watch the whole thing, and you should, but here are the highlights: #5. The shorts The pink shorts and boat shoes, at this point a synecdoche for privileged bro (no offense Nate), were on full display. Keep in mind there was no advance notice for the encounter. This is what Joe wears around the house. The guy who, In one of his many anti-bicycle columns, once disdainfully described bicyclists as "hypocrites who have a car or two in the driveway at home will now put on the Italian racing suits with jerseys that look like the labels on olive jars," wears his pink short

I'm am excited for a new tour I will be leading this Sunday at 2pm. It's called "Secret Lake of Saint Paul," and is the follow up to the successful and exhilarating "Overlooked Lakes of Minneapolis" bike tour from 2016 . [An old Saint Paul lake map from over a century ago.] The key idea is that certain charismatic lakes often receive all the attention and glory, garnering laud in proportion to their typically massive sizes or amenities. Think of your Comos or Minnetonkas or Lakes of the Isles... And yet, the hydrological and limnological landscape is far more complex than this simple "chain of lakes" or "grand rounds" landscape. There are all kinds of small, obscure, overlooked, or even secret lakes hidden about. Just as with Minneapolis, this will be a bike ride to visit and explore the overlooked and secretive lakes that exist (or once existed) in Saint Paul. It'll be a relatively lengthy bike ride, to visit as many of the secret we

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[Worse than scooters.] In just a one-mile walk down Snelling Avenue the other day, I found four different shopping carts on the sidewalk. How are these different from scooters? They both are owned and "operated" by private for-profit businesses. They both serve a functional transportation purpose for people. They both clutter the right-of-way. The big difference is that the Bird scooter company comes and picks up their scooters every night. Meanwhile, Cub, Target, Walmart, and a dozen other negligent shopping cart suppliers just let these mechanical dockless for-profit devices onto the streets and hardly ever clean them up. On the scale of "posing a menace to sidewalks", I'd rank scooters somewhere below shopping carts and "men working" construction signs, and just above plastic newspaper boxes and slightly-too-large sidewalk cafes.

[One of my photos visiting and observing the Starbucks in 2017.] The Snelling / Marshall Starbucks is up for review at the Planning Commission after two years of being in operation. At the time it was first approved, I remembered being upset about the inclusion of the drive-thru and I remember voting against it. But I don't really remember how adamantly or reluctantly I spoke about the plans for the drive-thru and building. In my memory, I predicted traffic and safety problems, and expressed concerns about the proposal. But was that really true? What was really said about this coffee shop design back in 2015, when all anyone had to work from were some basic diagrams and renderings? Because Planning Commission meetings are recorded, there is evidence! I requested the audio of the discussion at the September 18th, 2015 Planning Commission meeting where the group approved the Starbucks. At the time, I was not on the Zoning Committee, which is where the more fine-grained vetting of sit

It's all coming together for another visit to some obscure museums , these located in Minneapolis, Minn. (I might have some Obscure Museums of Saint Paul coming up soon.) You might recall some previous obscure museums visited: the Flem museum the Stephen Frenz ten-years-ago Minneapolis influencers portrait gallery the Cycling Museum of Minnesota the (lost) site of the Minnesota Raquetball Hall of Fame the Minnesota Streetcar Museum the Hennepin History Museum and more! Well on July 21st, we will visit three more. They are each delightfully arranged within a five (5) mile bicycle ride in South Minneapolis. We'll be going to the Somali Museum of Minnesota, the Vintage Music 78 record collection, and the famous House of Balls. The date is Saturday July 21st, from noon to about 3pm. Bring a bicycle. Click Here for Tickets!  The ticket price includes admission to the Somali Museum of Minnesota, a worthy endeavor is ever there was... As always, Patreon patrons get a discounted pric

Last minute opportunity! Did you know that, in under a mile of sidewalk, you can find five (5) different unique hummus establishments in Saint Paul? Similarly did you know that these same areas of town boast some strange alleys and quasi-alleys worth exploring? For years I have fantasized about having a tour where people walk around an interesting Snelling Avenue-proximate area of Saint Paul and explore some of the hummuses hummi (?), weird nooks, an quasi-alleys that exist in the middle of the city. My sister and brother-in-law are coming to town this weekend and it seems like a great time to get this going. On the tour, there will hummus or baba ganoush purveyors from Jordan, Palestine, Turkey, Greece, and the United States, along with strange alleys, short blabs about Middle Eastern urban design practices and Saint Paul history, and some miscellaneous local history highlights. *** NOTE: This is a ticketed event and there is limited space available! ***  Link is here.   What: This

[Basically the problem is that the best source of Saint Paul streets & sidewalks news is the Highland Villager, a very fine and historical newspaper. This wouldn't be a problem, except that its not available online. You basically have to live in or frequent Saint Paul to read it. Until this newspaper goes online, sidewalk information must be set free. See also:   Three Reasons Why I Re-Blog the Highland Villager .] Headline: Ryan Cox. Revs up for redevelopment of old Ford Plant Author: Jane McClure Short short version: A developer was chosen by Ford Mo. Co. to redevelop the site of the old factory. They are the same people that developed other buildings in the area. Article includes details about zoning and planning for the site. Article includes quotes from CM Tolbert and Mayor Carter. [Having a developer with local experience seems like a good thing.] Headline: Candidates for Ward 4 lay out priorities Author: Jane McClure Short short version: Different people are running for