Remember the loppet? For some reason, they feel the need to take the ski race from the lakes up hill through our residential neighborhood to finish near Hennepin. To do that, they haul man-made snow in and dump it all over the street. Then, when they are done with our neighborhood, they don’t remove the snow, they just pile it up all over, changing a normally nice open parkway in the city into an ugly series of blind intersections.
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That’s urban planning for you.
Gotta love city management.
It’s not the “City’s” doing. It’s the City of Lakes Loppet, a non-profit organization who put the event on each year. As someone who helps as a volunteer with this organization, I didn’t realize this was an issue. I wonder if this is a widespread concern in the neighborhood? I can raise this to the attention of the organization. I’m sure it would cost us more to move the snow around more, but perhaps it can be addressed.
Steve -
Thanks for looking into it, all my neighbors are unhappy about it. It’s a real mess around here. Can you tell me why they don’t just keep the race on the lake? Why do they need to bring it up the parkway? It used to go up 31st to Hennepin which made sense, so it was up in front of Calhoun Square, but now there seems to be no reason for leaving the lake.
- Mitchster