City staff concluded a municipal sidewalk-shoveling program that would only cover certain streets would cost $27 million its first year alone, enough to gobble up new property tax revenue.
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For a normally transparent Public Works department to make up plans on the fly represents a big departure for Minneapolis’ approach to transportation.