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Minneapolis YIMBYs Go to the Mat for Zoning Changes
Activists turn to creative videography in their efforts to allow fourplexes throughout the city.
For Minnesota’s “Yes In My Backyard” advocates, zoning is a blood sport.
Minneapolis lawmakers are weighting a proposal to change the city’s zoning regulations governing the construction of fourplexes—small apartment buildings with four units. As the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported, this would be “a historic rewriting of the zoning rules that would allow property owners to build fourplexes on any residential property in the city. The city’s current zoning prohibits them from roughly two-thirds of Minneapolis and more than 80 percent of its lots.”