RNC demonstration route
From:
Gloria Bogen
Date:
May 16 17:02 UTC
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I thought that the demonstration parades were being scheuduled by the city
between the hours of 10:00 am and 2:00pm (or something like that). It
didn't appear to me in my reading of any reports on this that there was
going to be a continual stream of people "marching" down the route and
clogging up Cedar Street or 7th Street or any streets feeding into them.
This limited time frame will obviously allow the folks downtown get in and
out of their buildings during rush hours and for a great majority of the
rest of the day. I think the police and Dave Thune did a fantastic job of
not disrupting the lives of downtown residents as much as they might have.
Plus - this is only 4 days AND this is what happens when you choose to live
in a large city or in a downtown area - street shutdowns occassionally for
parades/events (Winter Carnival for instance or Grand Old Days or the Twin
Cities Marathon). St. Paul has been given the opportunity for our city to
be showcased as the location for a once-every-four-years national political
convention - so there will be some inconvenience. If you'd rather live in
the boring 'burbs, be our guests.
Gloria Bogen
West Side = Best Side
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From: "Bob McLean" <<email obscured>>
Reply-To: "St. Paul Issues Forum" <<email obscured>>
To: "St. Paul Issues Forum" <<email obscured>>
Subject: Re: [SPIF] RNC demonstration route
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 04:39:02 +1200 (NZST)
Some Downtown residents are in for a big hassle from the protest marches,
for others it will not be too big a deal. Maybe a lot will skip town, like I
plan to.
I cannot imagine that where people lived Downtown was not taken into
consideration in selecting this route, but it is hard to believe that it
was. The Downtown residents that will be the hardest hit with security,
noise and human traffic will be on the blocks East of Cedar, North of 7th
St. to Hwy. 94 and West of St. Peter. Seven out of nine of the blocks in
this area contain one or more residential properties.
This morning I walked the neighborhood and talked to a Postman and a couple
of the building superintendents. The rest of my count is available on the
net and I got the census data from the Wilder Research Center. From South to
North and East to West here is a list of residences and number of units in
property:
Property Units
City Walk Condominiums 228
Naomi Family Center 70
The Point Condominiums 290
Central Presbyterian Rectory 1
St. Louis Church Rectory 1
Central Towers Presbyterian Home 197
Fitzgerald Condominiums 40
Viking Apartments 33
10 West Exchange Apartments 194
545 Wabasha Apartments 70
Gallery Towers Condominiums 182
That comes to a total of 1,306 units, or 145 units per block (1,306 / 9) and
two of the blocks have no residential properties on them. Looking at 2000
census data, there were 5,743 people that were living in 3,772 occupied
housing units and there was a 6.1% vacancy rate for all housing units. All
of the above properties were complete and occupied in 2000. Using that data,
that would mean that there were 1.523 occupants per housing unit in 2000, or
1.43 occupants adjusted for the vacancy rate ((5,743/3772) X (1 - .061)):
TOTAL = 1,868 residents in the effected area, or 208 souls for each of the
nine blocks. I am only guessing on this, but I venture that this is not only
the most densely populated nine blocks of Downtown, but of the entire city -
remember, these are smaller Downtown blocks, not Highland, or
Summit/Groveland blocks.
By way of comparison, take a look at the residential units on the entire
John Ireland Blvd. to Kellogg Blvd. route. It is probably does not have 10%
of the neighborhood chosen.
Way to fight for your constituents Dave!
G. Robert McLean
Downtown, Saint Paul
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