The weirdness of a half-mile of Minneapolis lakeshore that is parkland but has become an extension of homeowners’ backyards.

Koerth: This land is our land. But it sure feels like their land.

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Here's the park they're talking about on OpenStreetMap. You can really see the weird tentacle there:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/18141868#map=17/44.955736/-93.318526
- You just know everyone with a dock thinks they own the land from house to water
Because it’s mostly unclear where the border between park and yard sits, we tried to keep toward the shoreline, eventually finding ourselves funneled onto the top of a foot-wide wobbly rock wall. On one side of us was a roped-off VIP lounge of perfect lawn. On the other side, there was a drop into the lake.
“When I look at this, I don’t see a park,” Tilman said, teetering on a rectangle of yellow stone. But I got a different perspective from Charlie Zelle. Zelle is the chair of the Metropolitan Council and also a homeowner on Cedar Lake who opened his door to me the same day I tried to walk the shoreline. Looking down at the lake from his house, he told me, “I think of it as parkland.”
why does this have Zionist energy
- I wonder if they'll try out some Adverse Possession by scaring people off and then claiming that nobody uses it