Six years on, City of Minneapolis’ Green Zones not adequately funded, supported
East Phillips Urban Farm proposal is a prime example
Via Healing Minnesota Stories by Scott Russell
The city of Minneapolis presented an evaluation of its “Green Zone” Initiative July 12 before the City Council’s Public Health and Safety Committee. Unsurprisingly, it failed to explain why the city didn’t follow its Green Zone priorities by pushing a Public Works yard expansion in East Phillips, a Green Zone neighborhood that opposed the project.
The Public Works plan would have brought more diesel and car exhaust into a low-income, diverse neighborhood already suffering from bad air and high levels of asthma, the exact opposite of Green Zone priorities.
The city created the Northside and Southside Green Zones more than six years ago, on April 28, 2017. It describes the zones as an “initiative aimed at improving health and supporting economic development using environmentally conscious efforts in communities that face the cumulative effects of environmental pollution, as well as social, political and economic vulnerability.”