Every Lowry Hill News story tagged Bryn Mawr.

The lowest-commitment way to get involved on Lowry Hill is a Saturday morning: the neighborhood association's monthly Service Saturdays meet at Sebastian Joe's, 1007 W. Franklin Ave., on the third Saturday from 10 to 11:30 a.m. for a walking litter and storm-drain cleanup, with no sign-up required.

Minneapolis Public Schools cut about 400 positions, including roughly 116 teachers, to close a $75 million shortfall in its 2025-26 budget.

Bryn Mawr, a neighborhood of about 2,768 people, runs a full year of neighborhood events through its volunteer-led association, from a December street festival to a summer ice cream social.

The crossing guards who staff corners outside lakes-area schools are among the least celebrated public-safety workers in the neighborhood, and among the most missed when a corner goes uncovered.

The Bryn Mawr Neighborhood Association runs a year-round calendar of volunteer-staffed events, from its summer Ice Cream Social to a neighborhood garage sale that dates to the 1970s.

Three neighborhood associations team up for a free evening on the ice.

Bryn Mawr's Saturnalia, the neighborhood's December winter festival, drew residents to Penn Avenue South for music, crafts and bonfires.

Mayor Jacob Frey asked for a 7.8% levy increase in August; the City Council adopted 8% in December.

The Minneapolis City Council adopted a roughly $2 billion 2026 budget on Dec. 9, 2025, on an 11-0-0-2 vote.

The Minneapolis Park Board adopted a $160 million 2026 budget on Dec. 9, 2025, after two public hearings that let residents weigh in on the plan and its tax levy.

The Park Board adopted its 2026 budget in December, built on a property-tax levy of $95,524,537 and focused on caring for aging park assets.

The City Council amended Mayor Jacob Frey's 2026 budget before adopting it, and rejected his proposed cuts to the mayor's own office.

Mayor Jacob Frey moved to end "double-time" police overtime in 2026, a change the city says will save about $3.64 million a year and help hold down the property-tax levy.

Council Vice President Aisha Chughtai and Mayor Jacob Frey jointly announced the 2026 budget agreement that held the city's property-tax levy flat.

The independently elected Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board levies property taxes separately from the city, so homeowners pay toward two budgets on one statement.

The Metro Green Line Extension's planned Bryn Mawr Station sits beside the Cedar Lake Trail near downtown, with an opening targeted for 2027.

An ordinance amends the binding Minneapolis Code of Ordinances; a resolution only states the council's position or directs city business.

A Minneapolis council item moves from a subject-matter committee, where the public can testify, to a Thursday vote of the full council.

Four new members joined the Minneapolis City Council in January 2026, and the progressive bloc lost its veto-proof majority.

Crews kept working on Hennepin Avenue South after its late-October reopening, finishing punch-list items and underground utility work that outlast the ribbon-cutting.

Elizabeth Shaffer won the Ward 7 council seat outright in the first round, taking 52 percent of first-choice votes.

The Ward 7 contest between Katie Cashman and Elizabeth Shaffer was the most expensive single City Council race in Minneapolis this cycle, drawing outside money into Lowry Hill and the lakes neighborhoods.

Four newcomers joined the Minneapolis City Council in January 2026, costing the progressive bloc the nine votes it needed to override Mayor Jacob Frey.

Jacob Frey won a third term as Minneapolis mayor by 50.03% after ranked-choice tabulation, even as the council that checks him lost its veto-proof majority.

The rebuilt Hennepin Avenue was designed around the METRO E Line, which opened Dec. 6 and largely replaced Route 6.

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board owns about 180 park properties and nearly 7,000 acres, and it also maintains roughly 200,000 boulevard trees on the residential streets outside many residents' doors.

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board won the 2024 National Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Park and Recreation Management, its first such honor since 1989.

Bryn Mawr, a neighborhood of about 2,800 ringed by some 650 acres of parkland west of downtown Minneapolis, has been sold as a garden suburb since the 1800s.

The Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation set the Park Board's 2026 maximum levy $1,061,413 above the mayor's recommendation on Sept. 17, 2025, flagging the money for Graco and Upper Harbor parks on the north riverfront.

The Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation set the Park Board's 2026 maximum property-tax levy at a 6.11% increase on Sept. 17, 2025, adding $1,061,413 above the mayor's recommendation for two north-side riverfront parks.

The Neighborhood Super Sale and a lakeside ride headline a September Saturday.

Mayor Jacob Frey proposed a roughly $2 billion 2026 budget with a 7.8% property-tax levy increase in an Aug. 13, 2025 address, and the City Council adopted an amended version in December.

Mayor Jacob Frey's 2026 budget proposed a 7.8% levy increase and the elimination of police double-time overtime pay, and the council adopted a roughly $2 billion budget on Dec. 16.

A practical guide to reading a Minneapolis development notice: what is being built, what the zoning allows, and whether a real public decision point exists.

Minneapolis's built-form districts translate the 2040 plan's growth goals into specific height and scale limits, parcel by parcel.

A comprehensive plan such as Minneapolis 2040 sets the city's long-range vision, while the zoning code is the binding law that decides what can be built on a given lot.

A school capital levy pegged to net tax capacity tracks neighborhood property wealth rather than student need, a resident argues.

After the Minnesota Court of Appeals lifted the 2040 Plan injunction in May 2024, the city resumed issuing permits for multifamily projects that had stalled in court.

The city was the first major U.S. city to eliminate exclusive single-family zoning, a change tested and sustained in court.

Opponents argued the state environmental rights act required deeper review of the housing plan.
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