Minneapolis City Council Member Meg Tuthill caused a storm of controversy when she laid out new late-night noise restrictions for her Uptown district. Yesterday both bar owners and residents voiced their opinions on the proposed ordinance at City Hall; Tom Horgen at the STrib went to the meeting and recaps the events, including Tuthill’s resolve to despite opposition from neighborhood bars.
June 7, 2011 at 10:11 am
The Strib led the story with what looks like the picture of a Woo Girl. That’s great.
June 7, 2011 at 10:12 am
Turning down the volume, there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s usually too loud anyway. But Tuthil seems to be going a little far with the rest.
June 7, 2011 at 10:16 am
After reading the caption, it doesn’t look like a Woo-Girl. It’s actually a douchebag.
June 7, 2011 at 10:49 am
The Uptown residents upset about bedtime noise should have a talk with their fellow… (ROARING JETS) …in other nice neighborhoods around town. In fact, they… (roaring jets) …backyard barbeque in Tangletown.
June 7, 2011 at 11:05 am
Uptown’s always had this weird tension between the families that live sorta-nearby and the thing that keeps it a destination: the people who venture there for retail/restaurants/bars. Didn’t that bar Tonic get shut down because of this???? That place was pretty dang awesome.
For better or worse, Minneapolis has a yuppie-ish bar scene in Uptown. This is complemented by an increasingly-dense area for young-ish folks to live. This is good for the local economy. I don’t like the Cowboy Slim-style bars around there, but the area is growing because of it. Hopefully sooner rather than later the focus will be on making Uptown work for those who increasingly bring the $$ and people to that area, rather than making it a place that’s really, really concerned about loud music and whether people are too drunk.
June 7, 2011 at 2:02 pm
I seem to recall Tonic’s undoing was lack of food sales, but it was in every way as bad as Slim’s. As someone stated before, Uptown is not a place, but a time in your life.
June 7, 2011 at 5:57 pm
^^ totally, but that “time in your life” employs people and helps the local economy. making sure families a *mile away* rest easy is not something that makes the area stronger in what it does best: making money off of 20-somethings. maybe that’s why i thought tonic was great way back when — i was young and dumb.
it looked like it closed because of both clashes w/ the city council and too much booze compared to food, though: http://www.swjournal.com/index.php?publication=southwest&searchPubs=southwest§ion=84¤tIssue=7693&action=searchArchive&dateFrom=&dateTo=&searchString=%22Jim+Walsh%22&order=date&tag=9&page=152&story=8760&category=65
June 8, 2011 at 7:41 am
‘Tis true, we barbecue beneath the jets in Tangletown all the time. At least the jets pass quickly.