Land and buildings in every sector of Phillips have been challenged by large institutions, smaller non-profits, businesses, public schools, parks, and the City and County since the City was founded. The colonizing of this land and its people centuries ago seems to have set a pattern that is extremely difficult to overcome. Phillips has suffered many losses throughout the large, 21,000 population neighborhood, but the southeast corner of Phillips has had an unequal amount of threats and (a few successes) like the 12-year-long Garbage Transfer Station struggle (with HN County and the City of Mpls.) and a second Incinerator threat (with a private enterprise having “complicated” ownership) a few years later. An arsenic superfund site existed on land connected to the Roof Depot site. The defeat of building a Garbage Transfer Station avoided 750 garbage compactor trucks driving through Phillips every day. Now the City with a different City Council is threatening Phillips by adding 494 trucks driving through Phillips everyday and not conforming to state and environmental regulations to do it. Phillips is continuing the six-year long struggle to use at least a portion of the Roof Depot 7-acre site if not the whole parcel as originally planned.… Read the rest “City Council and Staffs opposing plan ”“ Phillips seeks jobs, food & housing that are green and community-guided”
