Kingfield Neighborhood Association

FREE Workshop on Backyard Housing (ADU’s) in Minneapolis

Everything you want to know about building backyard cottages, basement and attic apartments in Minneapolis!

Register to attend–seating is limited: Seating Limited! https://minneapolisadu.eventbrite.com

More information also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/475491216370271/

Learn how to get started and much more! Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) are a great way for families to provide a home to a relative, earn rental income, or downsize in their own neighborhood. Join the Family Housing Fund at our workshop to hear from architects, builders, and lenders how to design, finance, permit, and build one of your own. Our speakers will share presentations on accessory apartments they’ve built across the region and then speak with you one-on-one at booths with even more examples of their work.

Hosted by the Kingfield Neighborhood Association Redevelopment committee and the Family Housing Fund. Family Housing Fund is a Twin Cities nonprofit with a 40-year track record of partnering throughout the region to build a strong housing system that allows people, communities, and the region to prosper.

BOO-merang Bags October Sewing Bee at Butter Bakery!

Kingfield Boomerang Bags, boldly working to stop plastic bag use, one shopper at a time!

Come join us at our monthly sewing bee at our new hub at 3700 Nicollet; Butter Bakery Cafe has also signed up as a Boomerang partner and we gave them our first 12 reusable tote bags for customers to use when they have large large to-go orders!

You are welcome to attend any or all of three fall sessions, which will meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at Butter Bakery Café, 3700 Nicollet: September 17th, October 15th, and November 19th. RSVP for this FREE sewing bee.

The format will be causal, so drop in for as much time as you have free. Bring your own machine if you are a sewer, or just show up and help iron, cut, and pin. There will be host each month to help you start the bag-making process and get oriented to a task.

All levels of participation are welcomed, and we look forward to connecting with each other and sharing conversations about how we can all leave a lighter footprint on this beautiful earth!

More info? Visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/BoomerangBagsMpls/.

Minneapolis’ Vision Zero Action Plan

City releases draft Vision Zero Action Plan focused on preventing traffic deaths, severe injuries on City streets 

The City of Minneapolis has released a draft of the Minneapolis Vision Zero Action Plan, which outlines key steps for the next three years to advance the City’s goal of ending traffic deaths and injuries on City streets by 2027. The City is taking public comment on the plan through Oct. 16.

The draft plan was developed by City staff from multiple departments with significant direction from community stakeholders, partner agencies and the public. The City of Minneapolis officially became a Vision Zero city in September 2017 when the City Council passed a resolution setting a goal of eliminating traffic deaths and injuries within 10 years. Minneapolis is one of more than 35 Vision Zero cities in the United States.

An average of 95 people suffered life-altering injuries or were killed in traffic crashes each year on streets in Minneapolis from 2007 to 2016. Traffic crashes disproportionately impact people in neighborhoods with lower incomes, Native American residents, and people walking and bicycling. Traffic deaths and severe injuries are unacceptable and preventable.

The draft Vision Zero Action Plan includes 16 strategies and 68 actions to be implemented between 2020 and 2022. [Read more…]

Kingfield Citizen Pruners

Note: the hands on training day is Saturday September 28, 9 AM – noon.

Interested in learning more about trees? Want to learn how to identify tree species in your neighborhood and implement proper pruning practices? Come attend the Citizen Pruner volunteer training led by the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Forestry Department. No prior experience or knowledge of pruning is necessary, and all pruning equipment will be provided for the training.

In a two-session training course, you’ll learn basic tree identification, restricted species, fundamentals of pruning, and receive hands-on field practice. Once you’ve completed the training, you’ll be able to sign up as part of the Kingfield Orchard Team and attend pruning events throughout Minneapolis, where you can apply your new skills and help our community’s trees.

The first training session (indoor), will be held on Thursday, September 26th, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Minneapolis Parks & Recreation Southside Operations Center, 3800 Bryant Ave. S. The second session (outdoor field work) meets Saturday, September 28th, from 9 a.m. to noon.

The cost of training is $25 (If financial assistance is needed, contact Calli at ). To register visit: http://www.mntca.umn.edu/citizen-pruner/minneapolis-citizen-pruner. Questions? Contact Calli at: .

Citizen Pruners are responsible for submitting 10 volunteer hours a year or attending 3 city-hosted events, and must recertify every 3 years by completing an updated recertification assessment.

Boomerang Bags, boldly working to stop plastic bag use, one shopper at a time!

RSVP here for this FREE sewing bee!

(Note: October and November dates also on the 3rd Tuesday!)

This fall a Kingfield chapter of Boomerang Bags is taking root, to be nurtured along by the Linden Hills group, and hosted by Butter Bakery Café. You are welcome to attend any or all of three fall sessions, which will meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 6 to 9 PM at Butter Bakery Café, 3700 Nicollet: September 17th, October 15th, and November 19th.

The format will be causal, so drop in for as much time as you have free. Bring your own machine if you are a sewer, or just show up and help iron, cut, and pin. There will be host each month to help you start the bag-making process and get oriented to a task. All levels of participation are welcomed, and we look forward to connecting with each other and sharing conversations about how we can all leave a lighter footprint on this beautiful earth! [Read more…]