Door-to-door peddlers in Minneapolis will have to show an ID, and your cooking school will get a break on the cost of a license to serve wine with the meal you just learned to cook.
The Minneapolis City Council meeting was short and to the point today as members acted on several matters.
Property owners on Linden Hills Boulevard will not be assessed for a paving project taking place in their neighborhood this summer. Linden Hills Boulevard was paved in 1997 by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, which assessed those property owners at that time. The Park Board is no longer involved in paving projects.
Even though the boulevard is not being re-paved this summer, the property owners were to be assessed, as is city policy, because they are adjacent to the area’s new street surfaces and would therefore benefit from them.
Paying once was enough. Residents of Linden Hills Boulevard complained that they had already paid their fair share, and council members agreed. They will not be assessed by the city, even though their earlier payments went to the Park Board. The total assessment for the affected properties is $22,000.
More Linden Hills
The project known as Linden Corner, planned for 43rd and Upton, is scheduled for a public hearing March 1 at 9:30 a.m. before the Zoning and Planning Committee. That meeting will take place in Room 317 of City Hall.
The height and size of the residential/commercial building has been strongly opposed by some neighborhood residents.
Wine with your cooking lesson
When cooking school owners complained that they were being charged as much for a wine license as a restaurant, the city council decided to create a new lower-fee license exclusively for the schools.
Previously, the wine and beer license cost the cooking schools $2,438. The new fee is $500 and allows the schools to serve no more than 6 ounces of wine or 12 ounces of beer.
“This is an example of how we are over-regulating small, struggling business,” said Council Member Gary Schiff.
Peddlers with licenses
A change is being proposed to the Solicitors, Peddlers and Transient Merchants ordinance that would require them to display their city license when they knock at a door.
The details are still being worked out for a plan that will allow the city to issue bulk licenses to such groups as the Girl Scouts and the Boys and Girls Clubs, so the kids don’t have to come to City Hall for a license.