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Do not fill this in! === Neighborhoods === {{main|Neighborhoods of Minneapolis}} [[File:Minneapolis Midtown Greenway.jpg|thumb|Cyclists on [[Midtown Greenway]] in [[Midtown Phillips, Minneapolis|Midtown Phillips]], one of the [[neighborhoods of Minneapolis|83 neighborhoods of Minneapolis]]]] Minneapolis has 83 neighborhoods and 70 neighborhood organizations.<ref>{{cite web |title = Community and neighborhoods |url = https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/resident-services/neighborhoods/ |access-date = February 5, 2023 |publisher = City of Minneapolis |archive-date = December 8, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221208034647/https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/resident-services/neighborhoods/ |url-status = live }}</ref> In some cases, two or more neighborhoods act together under one organization.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://apps.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cofm/Neighborhood-Organizations/ |title = Neighborhood Organizations |access-date = February 5, 2023 |publisher = City of Minneapolis |archive-date = February 6, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230206000128/http://apps.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cofm/Neighborhood-Organizations/ |url-status = live }}</ref> Around 1990, the city set up the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP), in which every one of the city's eighty-some neighborhoods participated.<ref name=NRPprimer /> Funded for 20 years through 2011, with $400 million [[tax increment financing]] (TIF),<ref name=NRPprimer>{{cite web|pages=2, 3|publisher=Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program|title=A Primer for the Neighborhood Revitalization Program|url=http://www.nrp.org/r2/AboutNRP/Basics/NRPPrimer.pdf|access-date=September 3, 2023|archive-date=August 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802154424/https://www.nrp.org/R2/AboutNRP/Basics/NRPPrimer.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> the program caught the eye of [[UN-Habitat]] who considered it an example of [[best practice]]s. Residents had a direct connection to government in NRP, whereby they proposed ideas appropriate for their area, and NRP reviewed the plans and provided implementation funds.<ref name=NRPprimer /><ref>{{cite web|title=Neighborhood and Community Relations: 2022β2027 Financial Plan|url=https://stories.opengov.com/gjIIKX8yy/published/undefined|publisher=City of Minneapolis|via=OpenGov|access-date=September 6, 2023|archive-date=September 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906161624/https://stories.opengov.com/gjIIKX8yy/published/undefined|url-status=live}}</ref> The city's Neighborhood and Community Relations department took NRP's place in 2011<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/saying-good-bye-nrp/|title=Saying good-bye to NRP|last=Yeoman|first=Shirley|date=February 9, 2012|access-date=September 3, 2023|newspaper=[[Twin Cities Daily Planet]]|archive-date=September 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230903201447/https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/saying-good-bye-nrp/|url-status=live}}</ref> and is funded only by city revenue.<ref name=DuNeighborhoods /> In 2023, two neighborhood organizations merged and others contemplated similar moves so they could combine reduced resources.<ref name=DuNeighborhoods >{{cite news|title=Two northeast Minneapolis neighborhood associations to merge amid diminished funding|url=https://www.startribune.com/two-northeast-minneapolis-neighborhood-associations-to-merge-funding-beltrami-northeast-park/600314966/|last=Du|first=Susan|date=October 26, 2023|access-date=November 28, 2023|newspaper=[[Star Tribune]]|archive-date=November 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103192622/https://www.startribune.com/two-northeast-minneapolis-neighborhood-associations-to-merge-funding-beltrami-northeast-park/600314966/|url-status=live}}</ref> In his 2024 proposed budget, the mayor suggested an increase in base funding for neighborhood organizations.<ref>{{cite news|title='Change isn't cheap' says Mayor Frey|url=https://www.longfellownokomismessenger.com/stories/change-isnt-cheap-says-mayor-frey,48780|newspaper=Longfellow Nokomis Messenger|date=August 30, 2023|last=Gordon|first=Cam|access-date=September 6, 2023|archive-date=September 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906154656/https://www.longfellownokomismessenger.com/stories/change-isnt-cheap-says-mayor-frey,48780|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2018, [[Minneapolis City Council]] approved the Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan, which resulted in a city-wide end to [[single-family zoning]].<ref>{{cite news |url = http://spokesman-recorder.com/2018/12/07/city-council-approves-minneapolis-2040-plan/ |title = City Council approves Minneapolis 2040 plan |work =[[Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder]]|date = December 7, 2018 |access-date = January 26, 2019 |archive-date = August 16, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210816133653/http://spokesman-recorder.com/2018/12/07/city-council-approves-minneapolis-2040-plan/ |url-status = live }}</ref> ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'' reported that Minneapolis was believed to be the first major city in the US to make citywide such a revision in housing possibilities.<ref>{{Cite news |url = https://slate.com/business/2018/12/minneapolis-single-family-zoning-housing-racism.html |title = Minneapolis Confronts Its History of Housing Segregation |last = Grabar |first = Henry |date = December 7, 2018 |work = [[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|access-date = January 26, 2019 |archive-date = August 16, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210816073124/https://slate.com/business/2018/12/minneapolis-single-family-zoning-housing-racism.html |url-status = live }}</ref> At the time, 70 percent of residential land was zoned for detached, single-family homes,<ref>{{cite report |url = https://tcf.org/content/report/minneapolis-ended-single-family-zoning/ |title = How Minneapolis Ended Single-Family Zoning |publisher = [[The Century Foundation]] |access-date = March 13, 2023 |last = Kahlenberg |first = Richard D. |date = October 24, 2019 |archive-date = March 13, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230313182649/https://tcf.org/content/report/minneapolis-ended-single-family-zoning/ |url-status = live }}</ref> though many of those areas had "nonconforming" buildings with more housing units.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://streets.mn/2018/02/07/low-density-zoning-threatens-neighborhood-character/ |title = Low-density Zoning Threatens Neighborhood Character |last = Shaffer |first = Scott |date = February 7, 2018 |access-date = March 13, 2023 |work = Streets.mn |archive-date = March 13, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230313183407/https://streets.mn/2018/02/07/low-density-zoning-threatens-neighborhood-character/ |url-status = live }}</ref> City leaders sought to increase the supply of housing so more neighborhoods would be affordable and to decrease the effects single-family zoning had caused on racial disparities and segregation.<ref>{{Cite news |url = https://politi.co/2Ld7TSN |title = How Minneapolis Freed Itself From the Stranglehold of Single-Family Homes |last = Trickey |first = Erick |work =[[Politico]]|access-date = December 16, 2020 |archive-date = February 10, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230210211124/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/11/housing-crisis-single-family-homes-policy-227265/ |url-status = live |date = July 11, 2019 }}</ref> The [[Brookings Institution]] called it "a relatively rare example of success for the [[YIMBY]] agenda".<ref>{{cite news |title = Minneapolis 2040: The most wonderful plan of the year |last1 = Schuetz |first1 = Jenny |date = December 12, 2018 |url = https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/12/12/minneapolis-2040-the-most-wonderful-plan-of-the-year/ |access-date = October 15, 2019 |work =[[Brookings Institution]]|archive-date = August 18, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210818033213/https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/12/12/minneapolis-2040-the-most-wonderful-plan-of-the-year/ |url-status = live }}</ref> In 2023, a district court judge ruled that the plan violated the Minnesota Environmental Rights Act and that the city must abandon it.<ref>{{cite news|title=Minneapolis cannot proceed with 2040 Plan, court rules|url=https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-cannot-proceed-with-2040-plan-court-rules/600302266/|last=Du|first=Susan|date=September 6, 2023|access-date=September 6, 2023|newspaper=[[Star Tribune]]|archive-date=September 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906135417/https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-cannot-proceed-with-2040-plan-court-rules/600302266/|url-status=live}}</ref> The city reverted to its previous decennial plan for 2030.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-developers-to-lose-millions-without-2040-plan-as-judges-order-goes-into-effect/600317445/|last=Du|first=Susan|date=November 6, 2023|access-date=November 6, 2023|title=Minneapolis, developers to lose millions without 2040 Plan as judge's order takes effect|newspaper=[[Star Tribune]]|archive-date=November 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106032305/https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-developers-to-lose-millions-without-2040-plan-as-judges-order-goes-into-effect/600317445/|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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