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City planning -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Ann Lynch Don't Expand SA Records

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0415
Description of Contents

Correspondence, notes, flyers, signs, newspaper clippings, print photographs, and other materials created and compiled by Ann Lynch in opposition to the expansion of a SuperAmerica gas station at 4000 Lyndale Ave. S.

Dates: 1997 - 2023

Barbara Flanagan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0015
Description of Contents The Barbara Flanagan Papers contain a wide array of materials on the professional and personal life of Star Tribune columnist, author, and socialite Barbara Flanagan. The collection holds personal papers, documents, records, scrapbooks, notes, drafts, interview transcripts, extensive personal correspondence and reader letters, photocopies of Flanagan’s columns, research materials, club and organization materials, press releases and event invitations, awards and plaques, honors, magazine and...
Dates: 1886 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1947 - 1993

Camden Area Community Concerns Council Records

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0220
Description of Contents This collection reflects Camden neighborhood's activities during the 1970s. The years 1977 and 1978 are most closely documented. The collection includes: CACCC meeting minutes (regular and annual) and correspondence, several versions of the neighborhood's history, the organization's by-laws and constitution, event descriptions, publicity flyers, and supporting information from CACCC. Other materials include maps, print photographs, communications between the board of directors, petitions,...
Dates: 1970 - 1981

Central Neighborhood Improvement Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0288
Description of Contents This collection documents the activities of the Central Neighborhood Improvement Association (CNIA) from 1979-2004. Records include board meeting minutes, annual reports, correspondence, legal and financial documents. Additional files in this collection detail the Minneapolis Community Development Association partnership as well as programs, projects, and studies conducted by CNIA. A series of photographs from 1991-2003 document a range of CNIA activities. Materials are divided...
Dates: 1981 - 2004

Collection on the Minneapolis Model City Program

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0226
Description of Contents The collection consists of 14 boxes and 9 binders of material from the Minneapolis Model City Program. It contains studies, surveys, reports, and organizational materials that document the condition of south-central Minneapolis in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as the future that planners envisioned for it.Boxes 1-2 and 8 contain drafts and final reports from the program's many committees, meeting minutes of the Policy and Planning Committee, and organizational...
Dates: 1966 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1971

Collection on the Nicollet Mall

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0308
Description of Contents

The Nicollet Mall Collection consists of four boxes. Included in the collection are newspaper clippings, newsletters, fact sheets, reports & studies, project plans & proposals, and promotional material. Memoranda and meeting minutes from the Nicollet Mall Implementation Board are also included. Most of the collection centers around two main mall designs/re-designs, one in the late 1960s and the other the late 1980s.

Dates: 1960 - 2001

E.L.E.C.T. Records

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0388
Description of Contents

Newspaper clipping copies, correspondence, a few photographs, and press releases documenting the efforts of Emergency Lakes Environmental Coalition Task Force (ELECT) to prevent hi-rise development on Lake Calhoun (now Bde Maka Ska) from 1987 to 1990. Records are arranged by date. Materials from later dates relate to other planned hi-rises near the lakes.

These records were originally compiled by Arlene Fried.

Dates: 1987 - 2018

Jeanette May Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0257
Description of Contents This collection documents Jeanette May and her community activism through meeting minutes, proposals, by-laws, correspondence, brochures, government documents, memos, etc. associated with the following organizations:St. Anthony East Neighborhood Association (SAENA) Project NEAT Northeast Community Organization (NECO) Project Area Committee (PAC) Capital Long-Range Improvements Committee (CLIC) I-335 Concerned Citizens Committee (I-335 CCC) Alternate to I-355 Land Use...
Dates: 1965 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1985

Lawrence Irvin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0019
Description of Contents This collection documents the career of Minneapolis city planner Lawrence Irvin. While the whole of the collection dates from 1957-1984, the bulk of the material reflects the later years of Irvin’s career, dating from the mid-1970s through 1981. Although much of the material was created by Irvin when he served as Planning Director Emeritus, the subject contents heavily reflect work done early in his career. Collection materials include newspaper clippings; major project presentations,...
Dates: 1957 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1981

Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0140
Description of Contents The Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association (MHNA) records contain general and board of directors meeting minutes, notes, memorandas, fliers, membership information, administrative and financial documents, correspondence, project and subject files, print photographs, VHS cassettes, and publications created or compiled by the MHNA.Records are divided into General Series, Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP), Projects and Subject Files, and Media. Records contain extensive...
Dates: 1892 - 2013

Minneapolis City Planning Department Records

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0314
Description of Contents The collection contains memos, staff notes, correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, news releases, grant and financial documents, data gathered for studies, and formal staff papers and studies from the City of Minneapolis' Planning Department from the 1920s through the early 1970s. The bulk of the records date from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s, especially during Lawrence Irvin's time in the department.The bulk of the collection consists of material related to studies...
Dates: 1959 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1970

Neighborhood Revitalization Program Records

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0268
Description of Contents Collection consists of five separate series:1. Director's Files: Contains the files of the NRP Program Director and the Administrative Assistant to the Director.2. Planning, Evaluations and Audits: Early planning and state audits.3. NRP Policy Board Meetings: Contains meeting minutes, agendas and supporting documents related to the meetings of the Policy Board for the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program from 1990 through 2011.4....
Dates: 1990 - 2012

Phill Lindsay City of Minneapolis Television Programs

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0373
Description of Contents

Video recordings and production notes for the ARTIFACTS, Inside Minneapolis, and On CUE television programs produced by the City of Minneapolis from 1991 to 2004. Production notes include log sheets, scripts, research and reference materials on guests and topics, and correspondence. Video recordings were digitized from VHS and all recordings are available in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections. Note that cassettes A06, A34, A42-A47, and A55 do not exist.

Dates: 1990s-2000s

Prospect Park Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0311
Description of Contents

The collection consists of materials from the various iterations of the Prospect Park Association, including organizational records, subject files, financial records, and media. Due to a house fire in the 1970s, many of the early records were lost. The bulk of the material dates from the 1960s to the early 2000s. The Newsletters and Agendas, Minutes, Etc. series are good entries to the collection.

Dates: 1929 - 2012

Riverfront Development Coordination Board Records

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0231
Description of Contents

One box. Collection consists of minutes from Board meetings, a comprehensive list of goals and objectives for the RDCB dated May 5, 1977 and a copy of the Master Plan for the RDCB dated November 2, 1978.

Dates: 1976 - 1978

Robert Moffitt Slides

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0345
Abstract

The collection consists of color slide transparencies of Minneapolis scenes, especially buildings and downtown land use, taken by Minneapolis City Planning Department employee Robert Moffitt from the 1960s to 1990s. Most images are unlabelled.

Dates: 1960s-1990s

Weiming Lu Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M/A 0407
Description of Contents

Writings, planning documents, and 35mm slides from Weiming Lu's work in the Minneapolisl City Planning Department during the 1960s and 1970s. The bulk of the collection is draft articles reflecting on the Metro Center '85 project.

Dates: 1967 - 2010