Citizen participation: blessing turned curse? Lately, we’ve seen a succession of community groups shoot down developments — or modify them into infeasibility. In February, the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood association prodded the Minneapolis City Council to veto developer Kelly Doran’s bid to raze an old one-story building in Dinkytown because it might be historic. The decision killed his project — a $25 million five-story boutique hotel. In ...
April 22, 2014 - MinnPost