Author: Karen Kurt

By Assistant City Manager Karen Kurt and City Manager Intern Ari Klugman After 313 days, 24 meetings and 35 different versions of maps, the Neighborhood Identification Steering Committee (NISC) presented its report and recommendations at a City Council work session …
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The Neighborhood Identification Steering Committee is wrapping up their work on the Name Your Neighborhood project. As part of the final report, Committee member Bob Moore did an analysis of the maps created during the Name Your Neighborhood Process. To …
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St. Louis Park is one of the communities Edina has been referencing during the Name Your Neighborhood project. Marney Olson serves as their Community Liaison. One of her primary duties is overseeing St. Louis Park’s neighborhood program. I had a …
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Thank you to everyone who attended the community meeting last night! We received a lot of thoughtful comments that the committee will use as they continue to refine their recommendations for neighborhood boundaries and names. If you (or your neighbor) …
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By Hope Melton, Neighborhood Identification Steering Committee Chair In a recent Star-Tribune article, an editorial writer described good neighbors as helping them to “navigate the vicissitudes of life.” Fancy words – but they resonated with me. So what does “navigating …
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When the City does street reconstruction projects, they are usually named after the original subdivision plats. For example, the City is currently working on a street project called “Richmond Hills” for the residential area south of Grandview. From what I’ve …
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The second Name Your Neighborhood community meeting drew 42 residents to the Senior Center on Wednesday night. We appreciate the feedback from those who attended! Many of the attendees hadn’t been present at the first community meeting, when we spent …
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After a couple of meetings and a lot of hard work, our volunteer committee has developed draft map options with possible neighborhood names and boundaries. You can see one of the maps for the southwest quadrant of the city to …
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By Karen Kurt Assistant City Manager Some the data committee members are using to develop maps of potential neighborhood boundaries and names was gathered through a community survey. You may remember the survey from your April issue of the Edina …
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By Karen Kurt Assistant City Manager I was excited to receive an email from Marci Matson, Executive Director of the Edina Historical Society last week. Marci is going to be doing a series of blogs on the history of Edina’s …
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