Category: Crime and Safety

Tonight during our Crime and Safety meeting we’ll be meeting with city staff regarding the Safe Routes to School funding that our community school, Lucy Craft Laney, is receiving to create some traffic calming measures that will make it easier and safer for students to get to school. If you have any questions about the changes please leave them below or come to the meeting tonight, 6:30pm at the CNA Offices (3333 Penn on the south end of the Lucy Laney school building). Hope to see you there!

We’re looking for neighbors to host a pop-up block party on their block this fall. It’s a great chance to connect with neighbors, have some fun and enjoy some hot chocolate or s’mores or whatever other fun you can think of. We have a limited number of $100 stipends available to interested residents to help put on the event. If you are interested in hosting please give us a call at 612-588-1155 and we’ll share more information about this great opportunity!

The City of Minneapolis is considering speed bumps on 34th Avenue N between Russell Ave and Penn Ave. This will improve safety for students at Lucy Laney School and others walking or biking to Cleveland Park. This is a part of a federally-funded Safe Routes to School Project serving North and Northeast Minneapolis Schools.

Things to Know:

• Speed bumps reduce the speed of automobiles by an average of 7 to 25 mph.
• Traffic accidents are reduced. In a study of speed bumps in Portland, OR, accidents went down by 48%. 
• If approached at a reasonable speed, speed bumps do not cause vehicle damage.  Signage and pavement markings will be used to alert motorists of approaching speed bumps.

Please share your thoughts on these potential speed bumps with Forrest Hardy, Minneapolis Public Works, 350 S 5th Street, Room 233, Minneapolis, 55415, 612-333-3410, forrest.hardy@minneapolismn.gov 

Monday, May 6^th, from 6-6:30pm Forrest Hardy will be available to answer questions and talk with residents out at 34^th Avenue North between Russell and Penn Avenue regarding the speed bumps being proposed there.

7:00-7:30pm Cleveland Neighborhood residents will meet at the CNA Office, 3333 Penn Ave (on the south end of the school building) to discuss the proposed speed bumps and whether the neighborhood should support the effort. (This will be the second half of the monthly Crime and Safety meeting)

If you have any questions regarding these gatherings please contact Ariah Fine
, 588-1155, cna@clevelandneighborhood.org