Minneapolis demands taxes in exchange for permits

[Wathen1955]

Don Blyly stood on the ruins of Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction & Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstores on S. Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
In Minneapolis, on a desolate lot where Don Blyly’s bookstore stood before being destroyed in the May riots, two men finish their cigarettes and then walk through a dangerous landscape filled with slippery debris and sharp objects. The city won’t let Blyly haul away his wreckage without a permit, and he can’t get a contractor to tell him how much it will cost to rebuild the store until that happens.

In St. Paul, where Jim Stage’s pharmacy burned down during the same disturbances, crews have already removed the bricks and scorched timbers. A steel fence keeps out trespassers. Stage expects construction of his new Lloyd’s Pharmacy to begin later this month.

The main reason for the different recoveries is simple: Minneapolis requires owners to prepay the second half of their 2020 property taxes in order to obtain a demolition permit. St. Paul does not.

“Minneapolis has not been particularly friendly toward business for some time,” said Blyly, who prepaid $8,847 in taxes last week but still hasn’t received his demolition permit. “They say they want to be helpful, but they certainly have not been.”

City officials say their hands are tied, pointing to a state law that prohibits the removal of any structures or standing timber until all of the taxes assessed against the building have been fully paid.

Then the idiots wonder why people leave, and the idiots who keep voting them in office. Liberal turds.
https://www.startribune.com/mpls-kee...mit/572091782/

[snide]

I would never live there.

[69camfrk]

All the businesses in those shitholes should not rebuild and bail. The ones that are there should shut their doors and tell the morons who vote libs in, and live there to kick rocks. Let it go away.

[Dan Dlabay]

If the people stopped voting in these left wing idiots they wouldn't have problem. Just look around when the left is in charge the place becomes a shit hole.

[Jeff '79]

Originally Posted by Dan Dlabay

If the people stopped voting in these left wing idiots they wouldn't have problem. Just look around when the left is in charge the place becomes a shit hole.

When will people get it?
City's are where low income people are corralled.
It's easier to control them.
Now that the cops have decided to let them run, this is what you get..
Why are the cops laying back?
There's the million $$ question.

Good to see that Trump got endorsed by the PBA today.
Maybe they'll get off their asses and end the destruction.

[BOTY]

I would say I'm surprised but I'm not.

[z06psi]

Shithole.

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