March 15, 2021 at 1:45pm
With budget planning in full swing and tax season looming near, you may be wondering what Arlington County is paying for with your tax dollars.
County officials are currently hammering out the details for the next fiscal year’s budget, which the County Board is slated to adopt on Saturday, April 17 and which will go into effect on July 1. The proposed $1.36 billion budget, which County Manager Mark Schwartz calls a “transition” budget, includes a COVID-19 contingency fund and $16.4 million in cuts.
And while the pandemic forced some revisions to the current 2020-21 budget, the pandemic has not changed the different buckets of spending by the county from Arlington Public Schools to the Department of Parks and Recreation and what proportion of the general fund these sectors receive.
A proposed 28-story, mixed-use tower on the edge of downtown Minneapolis and the North Loop neighborhood is heading to the Minneapolis Planning Commission after clearing a potential roadblock earlier this year.
Chicago developers Harlem Irving Cos. and CA Ventures are leading the project, at 21 N. Washington Ave. and 20 Third St. N. Their plans involved demolishing a building that exists on the Washington Avenue North site, which was considered for historic designation earlier this year.
The proposed tower would serve as a bridge for downtown Minneapolis and the city’s North Loop neighborhood, according to a statement from Minneapolis-based ESG Architects included in planning documents filed with the city.
My Former Roommates and I Had No Idea Our Living Situation Was Technically Illegal
Until last month, it was unlawful for more than two unrelated people to reside in a single-family home in Denver even if the rule wasn t widely known. Will adjusting the ordinance change the character of the Mile High City?Shane Monaghan •
March 1, 2021
In September 2017, I moved into a small house in Denver’s Sloan’s Lake neighborhood with two of my friends. All three of us had recently either moved back to the city or were new to it, and none of us were making very much money. That meant the only way we could afford to live anywhere near downtown where all of us worked was to shack up together.
The changes regarding those facilities inspired the two no votes. My concerns with the residential-care side will be too numerous to support, Councilwoman Amanda Sawyer said before voting against the proposal. Councilman Kevin Flynn also opposed the measure.
Council finally voted on the proposal after a meeting that pushed past 1 a.m. and featured testimony from over 100 members of the public. Two-thirds of those expressed support for the measure, while the others had concerns about various provisions in it.
One resident worried that more communal-living situations like the 24/7 frat house next door to her home might pop up: There were four people on the lease, who had ten people living there and fifteen cars, and they turned their garage into a strip club that opened up after the bars closed. I heard that every single night, and no one would help me. No one.
There are numerous things to dislike about the Group Living Amendment now before the Denver City Council and scheduled for a vote on Feb. 8. One of the most glaring is the statement made by the cityâs Department of Community Planning and Development (CPD) in its presentation material when the Group Living Proposal was first submitted for public review. It read: âWe have exclusionary regulations with roots in classism and racism.â
That seemed to me to be a rather harsh and unreasonable statement being that, when I first took up residency in the neighborhood where Iâve lived for 45 years, I was not informed about the racist/classist nature of the neighborhood nor did I become aware of that state of affairs until the truth of the matter was revealed, thanks to CPD.