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Cleves Village resident urges return of local police and stricter zoning enforcement
Summary
An unnamed Cleves Village resident told a meeting that restoring a local police presence and enforcing zoning rules are needed to curb ongoing problems in the neighborhood; the speaker said Hennepin County has been unlikely to act and cited long-term residence and comparisons to other states.
An unnamed Cleves Village resident told a meeting that restoring a local police presence and enforcing zoning rules are necessary to address ongoing problems in the neighborhood.
The resident said the neighborhood’s zoning and other rules are not being enforced and that bringing police back “is a big important part of this community” to make people follow the rules. The speaker added that Hennepin County is unlikely to change its actions without local enforcement and expressed a desire for the community to look more like other well-kept towns.
“So I would like to, get in with what you were talking about because I do deal with, you know, bringing the police back is a big important part of this community, because, you know, our zoning and a lot of other things need to be enforced a lot better than what they are,” the resident said. “And the only way you're ever gonna do that is to make people follow the rule.”
The speaker said they recently returned from Vermont and contrasted the appearance of communities there with Cleves Village: “When you drive through their communities, You don't see what you see here … I see this community being able to be very similar to that, but we have to make the effort to do that.” The resident also noted long-term ties to the neighborhood, saying, “I've been here 37 years already,” and warned that gains can be reversed if enforcement lapses.
The speaker referenced Hennepin County by name and said the county is unlikely to take certain local actions: “Unfortunately, you know, to get Hennepin County to do a lot of things, you're probably not gonna do. No matter what you pressure them about, you know, they're they're gonna do what they wanna do.” The resident urged that a local police officer could at least “make a statement” that officials would enforce rules: “Our own police officer will at least make a statement down here that, hey. We're not messing around with the statement.”
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