“I share Lauren's story with all of you today to highlight the importance of prioritizing pedestrian safety in our city's planning and development. Her death must serve as a catalyst for tangible safety improvements. I believe that sharing the human impact of such tragedies is a powerful reminder of our collective need for safer infrastructure and policies.”

“As a Minnesota Housing Finance Agency funded project, this um this project is geared towards low-income families looking for safe and affordable housing. Affordability levels would range from 30 to 60% of area median income.”

“collectively our vision is to deliver 42 homes of affordable housing in this community... our interest in terms of partnering with this great city is to pick this blighted land that has not been um used in its um um fullness and be able to deliver something that's going to be a part of this community. Adding value, right? and bring in one, two, three, and fourbedroom units uh to this community for families, folks that are making lower incomes...”

“we live on a street that is extremely narrow that currently has no sidewalk on either side whether it's 65th Street Oliver or between Oliver and Penn there's no sidewalks and we're inviting a building that's going to have 42 apartments some with multiple full bedrooms, three, four bedrooms and there at the current time is not planned to have, in my opinion, sufficient parking on site.”

“For this project um the city has required us to extend sidewalk on 65th. Uh you'll see that in our civil drawings. Um we are extending that all the way down to Oliver as part of this project. So we are including sidewalk.”

“I do struggle to see a connection of adding this housing to worsening or affecting that traffic in a a meaningful way on 66th and Penn. Like, that's those are county roads that are trafficked by thousands every day. And so adding 44 pieces of of of of homes for people, I just don't see a strong correlation of that dramatically changing that.”

“The city would now like to sell that land to the adjacent property owner, which is Professional Dental Properties LLC. The property is irregularly shaped and is not developable as a standalone parcel.”

“So, in the perfect reality, if we had all the proper setbacks and parking and stuff, we'd have like a 20 by 20 building that has one stall underneath it kind of thing. Yeah. You'd have a shed. Okay, cool. Just making sure I understand that.”