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The Blue Line Coalition has issued a response to the Golden Valley 2040 Draft Comprehensive Plan.

In part, BLC’s response reads, “While the Blue Line Coalition appreciates Golden Valley’s leadership in some key areas of concern such as affordable housing, we strongly condemn the lack of any explicit commitment to or analysis of equity in this draft comprehensive plan. A city’s responsibility is to provide a high quality of living for all residents, but this is impossible to do without a clear commitment to understanding and ending racial and economic disparities.

“Golden Valley should include in its community profile an analysis of income, housing cost burden, home ownership, and employment disparities by race. Policies and actions specifically designed to address these disparities should also be added to the final comprehensive plan.”

BLC’s full response, with specific policy recommendations, is available here.

Community advocates are encouraged to submit their feedback on the draft comprehensive plan to planning@goldenvalleymn.gov. Public comment closes on July 15.

The Blue Line Coalition has issued a response to the Minneapolis 2040 Draft Comprehensive Plan.

In part, BLC’s response reads, “The Blue Line Coalition (BLC) supports the Minneapolis 2040 Draft Comprehensive Plan’s stated goals including racial equity, increased affordable housing, living-wage jobs, and a healthy population. These goals are commendable and are critical to our city’s success. However, the policies in the draft plan fall short of the actions needed to reach those goals. Achieving equity and a high quality of life for all residents will not happen by accident and it will not happen through years of simply contemplating action. Bold, action-oriented leadership is needed now.

“BLC calls for the Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan to be more specific about the actions the city will undertake in pursuit of its goals, as well as how success will be measured.”

BLC’s full response, with specific policy recommendations, is available here.

Community advocates are encouraged to submit their feedback on the draft comprehensive plan at www.minneapolis2040.com. Public comment closes on July 22.

Our new video highlights the Blue Line Coalition’s role in the planning process of the Blue Line LRT Extension. This video was produced by Linebreak Media.

The Blue Line Coalition, Nexus Community Partners, and the Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota are featured in this story about leveraging resources to support community engagement work. This video was produced by Linebreak Media.

BLC members and partners are quoted this a recent MinnPost article: “With Bottineau Line, community advocates want to avoid repeating history”