The Roof Depot and 2600 Minnehaha Ave are both within a block of the Midtown
Greenway.
Both locations are close behind the main shopping centers of East Lake Street.
The 2600 Minnehaha site is close to schools.
Anybody who thinks these are good locations should walk or bike through this
area and see how close these sites are to Cub, Target and ALDI.

Who is supporting this? The same people who think that everybody should should
do their grocery shopping without cars.

Ed Fesler <email obscured> Corcoran
neighborhood of Crazytown

I don't understand what relevance being near grocery stores (or The
Greenway) has to do with whether or not a building is an appropriate place
to house the homeless. I can grasp why being near a school may not be the
best choice, but these other things seem pretty irrelevant.

I do have suggestion, however. There's a very large ugly building downtown
that taxpayers largely financed. It cost $1b, but near as I can tell serves
no useful purpose. It's climate controlled, has restrooms, and food
preparation facilities. There's even a large flat surface where people
could erect tents. I propose we put the place to good use. After all, all
of us in Minneapolis are paying for the place whether we wish to or not.

Two more sites for housing large numbers of people from the encampment
have been proposed.
1. 2104 Cedar. A block and a half from the current encampment. Will the
authorties actually remove the current camp?

2. The new Hennepin Co Adult Education Center, which is still being finished.

From the Saturday Strib:

"Council Member Andrew Johnson said city staff are also looking into the
Hennepin County-owned Adult Education Center on E. Lake Street and Hiawatha.
Johnson said the building could be converted into temporary housing, with a
higher capacity than the other sites, and it’s adjacent to a county human
services center"
The Adult Education Center is right next to the YWCA, kitty corner from ALDI
and the Hi Lake shopping center and a block from South High. Its a quarter mile
from the the badly designed Hiiawatha and Lake intersection and the dangerous
overhead LRT station.
Concentrating hundreds of people with serious issues is a terrible idea. .

Ed Fesler <email obscured>
Corcoran neighborhood

On Thursday, September 20, 2018, 10:59:28 AM CDT, Jim McGuire
<<email obscured>> wrote:

I don't understand what relevance being near grocery stores (or The
Greenway) has to do with whether or not a building is an appropriate place
to house the homeless. I can grasp why being near a school may not be the
best choice, but these other things seem pretty irrelevant.

I do have suggestion, however. There's a very large ugly building downtown
that taxpayers largely financed. It cost $1b, but near as I can tell serves
no useful purpose. It's climate controlled, has restrooms, and food
preparation facilities. There's even a large flat surface where people
could erect tents. I propose we put the place to good use. After all, all
of us in Minneapolis are paying for the place whether we wish to or not.

Jim McGuire
SE Como, Minneapolis
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