Needs confirmation this authentic, but looks like a Hennepin County judge just invalidated Minneapolis’s 2040 plan. I have not checked to see if it’s entered into the court doc system (but came from a trusted source). Gigantic if true. Here are the 1st 4 pages …
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I think the bottom line of Judge Klein halting Minneapolis 2040 is that the city has 2 months to file an actual environmental response, not just Mary Bujold’s real estate study. It’s astounding (but not really) that City Attorney did not adequetely contest facts. #notalawyer
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It’s shocking but I think the worst part (aside from uncertainty my source got the final opinion) is the city’s grossly inadequate defense on the environmental merits after losing a Supreme Court case …
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Uh, the environmental benefits of increased urban density, when properly assessed beyond the political boundaries of a municipality, are beyond dispute.
This opinion reads like an upscale Facebook rant.
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I’m not even a caveman lawyer but maybe city should’ve put up a factual defense?
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A Hennepin County judge has denied a group's motion seeking to halt implementation of the Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan, finding that a group called “Smart Growth Minneapolis” failed to demonstrate irreparable harm. PDF: documentcloud.org/documents/2101
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Authenticating it is made somewhat more difficult by the weird cropping of the cover page, which among other things hides the last digit of the case number, 27-CV-18-19587.
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Seems like this really opens up the door for the city to go bankrupt from lawsuits on both sides of the issue. Welcome back to Twitter.
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I return to lurking anon. Only here to break news or some other actual impact.
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