Well it may not be as cool as San Francisco (trust me, I have been there several times, and one of my favorite city’s) but it is getting better.
Some friends and I (close to my age) joked last night when we were at the block party that it’s too bad Sioux Falls wasn’t this cool when we were in our 20’s (I still think it was). But yes, it is getting much more fun. Don’t tell Huether though, he may throw a press conference about how hip he is.
Another group of neighbors get a re-zoning surprise in their neighborhood;
Residents of a western Sioux Falls neighborhood are raising concerns about a zoning change planned in the Rocky Ridge housing development off West 12th Street.
Orange signs began popping up in the area earlier this week, notifying residents that an application has been submitted to rezone a lot in the neighborhood from a conservation district to low density apartments.
Nearly 80 homeowners have signed a petition against the change that could pave the way for multi-unit town homes in the neighborhood.
I guess as I have watched how the planning department (mostly), planning commission and city council treat neighbors of planned re-zones and development over the past several years, all I can say is ‘good luck’. Developers will always get the upper hand. First off, because they own their land, and secondly because something commercial will eventually have to be built next to you. Is it fair? Not sure. We live in a growing city, even things change in my neighborhood, and I live 1 mile from the core of downtown.
“I’m not going to pay taxes on it for the rest of my life, I’m not going to do that, so something is going to happen with that piece of property, and I think personally this is by far the most attractive value for the dollar, for our houses.”
The homeowners against the rezone say they plan to address the Planning and Zoning commission at the public hearing that is scheduled on Wednesday, September 2 at 6 p.m.
The landowner says it himself, he invested in the land, and he is going to do something with it. But I will defend the neighbors on one level, the process of how these re-zones happen is not good.
Wall Street Journal, “An Unfinished Riff: The New Orleans Economy Ten Years After Katrina,†by Leslie Eaton and Cameron McWhirter: “In the years since the storm forced out about half the metropolitan area’s residents, the population has rebounded to 1.25 million people, 90% of its pre-Katrina level…But as the $135 billion rebuilding winds down, federal employment data reveal a local economy increasingly skewed to low-wage jobs, especially restaurant work, one of the few sectors now employing more people than before Katrina. Those jobs drag down average incomes, analysts say, widening the economic divide between whites, who are generally richer than before, and blacks, who aren’t.â€
Our first introduction to Noemless
Apathy allowed Bush
The push for an EC begins, Heh-Heh!
A Wipf of Tchetter
A fitting movie review
Some things never change in the GOP
City of Sioux Falls Code Enforcement Flow Chart Fiasco, and the response
Remember the Knuppe Stash?
Sandy’s ‘just a scratch’ incident
What Ironic Johnny Thune-Bag really does in DC
Shoe salesperson Krebs
No KANT do, smoking for me and not for you, and two others
My Pavilion show, before my bike was stolen
Herseth should have ran for governor
Please Die
Turkey Jingles
Those were the embezzling days
The Daily Spin
Marion Cash
Real People Die in Floods, sometimes
What did that Suleman chick do anyway?
My interview with the drummer of the MC5
Councilor Jamison’s economic forum
The pockets of an officer
I love you to Joel
I kind of like the idea. The only reporter I like at Stormland-TV, Brady, did a great story about a fitness model that is not ‘gross’ but super smoking freaking hot! I used to work with Summer at a downtown restaurant, and besides the fact that she is in top notch shape (and has bigger biceps then me) she also has incredible tattoo work (it is very intricate) she is the sweetest girl you will ever meet. I used to call her ‘Summer Lovin’. It’s kind of funny, because I was super bummed when she quit (she had like 4-5 jobs at the time) I always looked forward to working with her, because she was always so positive, and it would rub off on you. She would usually laugh at my cheeseball jokes to.
Glad to see she is still smiling and sending a positive message.
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