Linden Hills Small Area Plan

Challenge

Minneapolis' Linden Hills neighborhood needed a community supported vision and comprehensive plan to help get out ahead of growing market pressures for redevelopment while enhancing and preserving their neighborhoods’ unique character and sense of place.

Solution

The multidisciplined SEH team facilitated a collaborative planning process to create a comprehensive, long-range plan for guiding context-sensitive change. This plan provides a 20-year vision for the three commercial districts of Linden Hills – 43rd and Upton, 44th and Beard and 44th and France – and the corridors of 44th Street and France Avenue in the Linden Hills neighborhood. The intent of the plan is to provide policy framework within which Linden Hills can continue to evolve as an exceptional neighborhood and to provide a contextually and environmentally sensitive framework for guiding developers or business owners wishing to propose expansion, renovations, or new development. This same framework is meant to assist residents in evaluating development proposals and guide residents in the design and implementation of public improvement projects, allowing neighborhood members to shape or influence future growth in the areas studied.