This petition is being launched by the 3000 Minnehaha Coalition, a collective of neighbors, business owners, and community organizations who are campaigning to take community control over the former MPD Third Precinct ruins to re-imagine them into a public space:

The Mayor is misrepresenting community survey data collected by his office to push through a proposed "democracy center" to be built at the former Third Precinct site. His plan does not have authentic popular support from residents of our communities, business down the block from the ruins, or key city council members whose wards will be home to what is built next. Act now by signing this petition to let the city council know: the mayor's survey does not represent me or my neighbors! I reject the Mayor's current proposal for the Third Precinct and demand a community-led redevelopment of the former precinct site.

If we leave the Mayor's misinformation campaign unchallenged, he will waste our tax dollars, valuable public space, and a necessary opportunity for community creativity to shape the future. The Mayor claims that there is overwhelming citywide and neighborhood support for his plan: but he is basing that statement on a digital survey which only has data from residents who chose to, or knew they could, participate. Over 100,000 people live in the neighborhoods patrolled by the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct. The Mayor's Office has not publically shared how many people participated. By signing this petition, you are letting the City Council know you are amongst the many people in the Third Precinct neighborhood who do not support the Mayor’s proposal.

At the end of the day, the Mayor's proposal for his "democracy center" is undemocratic. Residents have only been presented options chosen by the Mayor’s office, not once have visions from our own neighborhood been a central focus of what will be built atop the ruins of the Third Precinct. We are fighting to change that. Please sign this petition and support the 3000 Minnehaha Coalition’s campaign to win 100% community control over the reimagining and redesign of the former third precinct site into a true Democracy Center made for residents by residents.