The attribute information for this layer includes links to the respective neighborhood associations. If there are questions regrading this data layer, you can either contact the City of Minneapolis Neighborhood & Community Relations office, or Minneapolis GIS.

The MPCA's What's in My Neighborhood contains a wide variety of environmental information about your community. This includes potentially contaminated sites, permits, licenses, registrations, inspections, and closed enforcement activities.

Potentially contaminated sites: Since the early 1980s when major federal and state cleanup programs were created, the MPCA has been aggressively searching for and helping to clean up contaminated properties, from very small to large. This website contains a searchable inventory of those properties, as well as sites that have already been cleaned up and those currently being investigated or cleaned up.

Environmental permits and registrations: This Web application also contains a searchable inventory of businesses that have applied for and received different types of environmental permits and registrations from the MPCA.

Methods for creating site locations have different levels of precision. The most accurate locations use coordinates from GPS (global positioning system). Coordinates are also derived using the site's street address, zip code or public land survey information. Some MPCA sites are not mapped. These are generally activities that are mobile, like ships with ballast water permits.

Feature layer generated from running the Enrich layer solution. Minneapolis_Neighborhoods were enriched

This EnviroAtlas dataset shows the boundary of the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN EnviroAtlas Community. It represents the outside edge of all the block groups included in the EnviroAtlas community. This dataset was produced by the US EPA to support research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas. EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas) allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the contiguous United States. The dataset is available as downloadable data (https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/ORD/EnviroAtlas) or as an EnviroAtlas map service. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this dataset can be found in its associated EnviroAtlas Fact Sheet (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-fact-sheets).

Feature layer generated from running the Buffer Features solution. Input from Minneapolis Neighborhoods - HENNEPIN.GIS.BOUNDARY_MPLS_NEIGHBORHOODS were buffered by [0.01] Feet

Race, Ethnicity, Gender - Demographic Indicators (From 2010 Census)Link: https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/census/2010/index.htm Household IncomeLinks:Poverty GuidelinesACS 2019 5 Year Estimates Household Income Disability - One or more people with disability per household vs no people with disabilityLink: ACS 2019 5 Year Estimates Disability by Household Sex and AgeLink: Sex by Age ACS 2019 5 Year Estimates

In 1934, the Federal Housing Administration created a financial mortgage system that rated mortgage risks for properties based on various criteria but was centered on race and ethnicity. This rating system propagated racial segregation that in many ways persists today.

The FHA Underwriting Handbook incorporated color-coded real estate investment maps that classified neighborhoods based on assumptions about a community, primarily their racial and ethnic composition, and not on the financial ability of the residents to satisfy the obligations of a mortgage loan. These maps, created by the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) were used to determine where mortgages could or could not be issued.

The neighborhoods were categoriezed into four types:
Type A : Best - newer or areas stil in demand
Type B : Still Desirable - areas expected to remain stable for many years
Type C : Definitely Declining - areas in transition
Type D : Hazardous - older areas considered risky

Neighborhoods shaded red were deemed too hazardous for federally-back loans. These "red-lined" neighborhoods were where most African American residents lived.

Many have argued tha the HOLC maps institutionalized discriminating lending practices which not only perpetuated racial segregation but also led to neighborhood disinvestment. Today, neighborhoods classified as Type C and Type D in 2934 make up the majority of neighborhoods in 2016 that are Areas of Concentrated Poverty where 50% or More are People of Color.

Feature layer generated from running the Enrich layer solution. Minneapolis_Neighborhoods were enriched

Feature layer generated from running the Summarize Within solution. MInneapolis Coffee Shops (with Latitudes and Longitudes') were summarized within Neighborhoods, Minneapolis

Feature layer generated from running the Aggregate Points solutions. Points from Police_Incidents_2019 were aggregated to Minneapolis_Neighborhoods

Feature layer generated from running the Merge Layers solution.

Imagine your street: the houses, the people, the community. Now imagine everything there gone, and a highway in its place. Starting in 1959, this was the reality for South Minneapolis. 35W, part of the interstate highway system, was routed straight through the neighborhood. Many homes were destroyed or moved, people were displaced, and the community changed forever. This map is an extension of ‘A Public History of 35W’, a community-engaged historical examination of Interstate 35W in South Minneapolis. The project centers the perspective of those who lived through its creation in the 1960s persevered through its fifty-year existence, and are now enduring its five-year reconstruction. This map seeks to answer a question our team has been grappling with; why the city of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota did not care to track the names of individuals displaced by the freeway. Instead, city and state officials kept careful records of the properties, including each home wrecked, moved, where each moving company moved them, and even the dates they were moved or wrecked. The goal of this map is to show the obliterating power of the 35W freeway. Every single home held a family, served as a home, and held irreplaceable memories covered by concrete.