Ordinance update

If you have a window neighbors can look in?

They still sell blinds and curtains I suspect.

Is it easier for the mailman to deposit mail if all house doors face the street..In an emergency with need of an aid car do you want the EMTs running around the house looking for a door? If your home is on fire and a passerby wants to warn you must he/she run around the house trying to find a door?

Common sense tells you houses should face the street. I didn't realize people needed to have that zoned in for them.

So folks don't want a "front" door anymore they want a side door? And if the window on the side allows the neighbor to see in what will the door on the side do?

I agree the city needs to stay out of peoples business but really some common sense is in order.

Build a cul-de-sac and all front doors are behind the house? Maybe the new era.... You drive in the cul de sac and see the bathroom windows and that's it? Where do you put your house number? Out back?

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Sundevil, sorry I assumed that you have seen a rodeo at some point in your life. It's not worth the time to explain, there are plenty that know what I mean.

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Earlybird, I have no idea what your metaphor is intended to mean. haha.

Development up to now has been extremely hodge-podge and I think everyone can agree that the mix of land uses as well as the "feel free to plop anything anywhere" mentality has to be curbed without negatively impacting landowner's rights. I have a master's in urban and environmental planning and hope that at least some of the zoning updates get passed. The free market is great, but without adequate control those who take advantage of it can really wreak havoc. With the development Minot is seeing, those issues the new zoning is trying to fix could affect the city for decades, if not centuries.

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73 hockey,So,Highway 83 runs north and south right,? Then menards faces west and not east, dennys entrance does face south.Just saying,I get your point.

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73hockey.. another great point and laugh!! thank you!

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Sundevil, the rodeo started a few years ago around here. The only way to score a perfect ride on a saddle bronc is to open the shute gate and when all heck breaks loose you gain control and finish on top. The opportunities that arise from disaster or a rapid growing economy are the saddle broncs and they have to be turned out and rode before anybody can score big. Some rides look easy and some are upside down, the one and only thing that makes the riders celebrate the buzzer and the end of the ride is hanging on and never letting go.

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I find it hard to believe that the same people that gave us Minot, south of the 2&52 by-pass are trying to tell me how to build. I mean look at south Minot, Menards faces east, Denny's faces south, Staples faces north, etc. and this is all in a couple block area. Now they want to tell ME which direction MY house should face? Minot wouldn't look so bad if Minot wouldn't let anybody build anything anywhere they want with a quick change of zoning plans. Why is there an apartment building beside Jerome's Auto body, why are we SURROUNDED by industrial? I could go on but...

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So by the looks of most of the comments regarding the zoning changes, Minot residents are perfectly happy with the corrugated steel buildings going up everywhere facing every direction. Your also happy with acres of pavement with no landscaping or breaks in it, as well as rows and rows of houses where the only difference is the unit number.

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Ivy, if the right pockets are not lined and filled with cash it will stay looking like a wasteland, the mayor needs to become a manager not a damager. From the outside it looks like most of the monies have been thrown together to draw interest and give the person who administrates the spending a percentage of a larger amount. A couple years ago when the money started coming in there were several people who were in the position to be the administrator and I blame the delays of most of the repair issues on their individual battle to control the money.

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The alternative is Minot turns into a ghetto with leftover building supplies, unfinished remodels and washed out siding left indefinately. A few, well thought-out standards are necessary.

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I am so thankful for two things; that Minot Daily wrote the editorial last Monday, and for the builder's association speaking out at that meeting.

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I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in!

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i agree with early bird. Every dime has been blown on either "Committees" or "study groups"

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This is almost two years after the disaster, I'll be surprised if there is any money left to give the victims after all theses professionals get their take. I cannot believe this stuff is still being decided.

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Amen, builder's association!

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