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Star Tribune/Wednesday/May 24/1995
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Plymouth voters,
back city plan •
to protect forest,
and wetlands ,
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Plymouth residents overwhelming y
approved a $3.2 million reference:
Tuesday to buy 120 acres of woods'
and wetlands in an effort to prpetk
some of the few remaining open,.
• spaces in the booming suburb.
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According to unofficial returns,3,663 ,
voters, or 85 percent, approved the:-
i measure. It was opposed by 641;14t
ers.Officials said about 1I percent-of
registered voters cast ballots.
The city will issue $2.2 million,'n
bonds and add another$I miilio iA;
existing community-improvement
money to buy four parcels of maple.
and basswood forests,cattail mai• ii.
and tamarack wetlands. a•�. .
Construction also will be moved:tip,.
five years on 11 miles of hiking'ana,:
biking trails already planned.
Residents won't see their taxes rise
because this bond issue will replace;
another being paid off. Rejection-of.;
the bond issue would have resulted
in an annual tax savings of$8.31;0n-,
a house valued at$150,000, which'3s.•
the approximate median valuer of-
homes in Plymouth.
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OUR PERSPECTIVE
ity arkland
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AIuxury' that repays its costs
n listing city spending priorities, at least not expanded any further. Oth-
; p.t;i could easily be relegated to the erwise, they fear, the city will have to
lour part of the list. How important, cut back so far on park maintenance
of&all, is a patch of grass, a stand of that the whole system will suffer.
tre +s,;or a softball diamond compared
to.:. ,police and fire protection?Pub- The city, indeed,cannot afford to let its
li4alth and safety should come first parks fall into disrepair. And some of
t luxuries like parks take what's the money-saving changes being made
leairer. in grass-mowing schedules and other
wow maintenance programs are worrisome.
Eqpt that in crowded urban centers,
pa $ and green spaces may be no less But neither can park officials confi-
vi to people's well-being than an effi- dently say Minneapolis has all the park-
qf iy run police department or sew- land it will ever need.One might argue,
ag disposal system. Far from being for example,that with its chain-of-lakes
• l ` �ies, parks—especially well-sited, parks, the city was able to get along for
we_ designed and well-maintained a century without developing its Mis-
pa — provide much-needed relief sissippi riverfront as recreational green-
an` , s'escape from the crowded, often space— and should not spend money
11*"'` c and confrontational urban scene. on such an effort now. Yet surely it
' would be as tragic to pass up today's
. erieapolis has lived by that precept opportunity to develop riverfront parks
farA ore than a century—developing — especially through relatively park-
a j 'ik system that not only brings ex- poor north Minneapolis—as it would
ti~a "dinary beauty and recreational op- have been a century ago to fail to set
patinity to the lives of its citizens,but aside the south Minneapolis lakes for
intLrnational recognition to the city it- public ownership and recreation before
self. Such is the high importance given they were swept by private devel-
1 to parks.in Minneapolis that the city opment.
ieven puts them under the protection of
an independently elected governing All the more reason for the Minneapo-
I board. Other city priorities may rise lis Park and Recreation Board to be
ancd*fall with the political winds, but turning to entrepreneurial and, other
the position of parks is expected to creative financial schemes for supple-
remain constant and inviolable. mental revenues,even as it seeks to cut
costs without putting either the existing
Yet today, Minneapolis' park system system at risk or failing to provide
seems as vulnerable to fiscal pressure as needed expansion. Parks don't pay
any other city department. With recent property taxes, but by making the city
i deelines in both city population and tax more livable and attractive they do
1 ba§e, some are wondering whether much to enhance the value of the pri-
- Minneapolis' park system has grown vete properties that do pay them. Gov-
too.large and should be pared back, or ernment offers no better bargain.
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SUBURBS WEDNESDAY,MAY 24 199
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WEST ST.PAUL - ,
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Not In my front yard' comment
greets Marie Avenue hiking trail
.BILL GARDNER STAFF WRITER `.....
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YY est St. Paul residents whose yards i AIiL
would be crossed by the proposed North r•�Q
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Urban Regional Trail told the City Coun- ® 149 x
cil this week that the trail should go 149 ® �.
somewhere else. Kaposta
"Why Marie Avenue?" Robert Sack "
• asked the council Monday night. "We .. A'COUNTY P 56
don't want it on Marie Avenue. It doesn't Wentworth Ave. "`R
belong there."
The trail proposed by Dakota County MENDO HEIGHTS Dodge ,
ficials would run 7.7 miles from Men- Nature .SOUTH Si
ota Heights to South St. Paul, connect- center PAUL
ing the Big Rivers Regional Trail on the steer ., Marie Ave ` -
west with the South St. Paul Riverfront H Existing qty trail
Trail on the east. It would use existing 110 111 Existing county trail—�-�-
city and county trails for more than half Mend.to Rd. Proposed trail—
its route. Disputed area P
The controversial section involves the i r (
proposal to construct a new 10-foot-wide PIONEER PRESS
blacktop trail along the south side of •
Marie Avenue between Charlton Street Gordon Waldhauser said real estate The trail would run 7.7
and Delaware Avenue in West St. Paul. It brokers have told him the value of his
would cross the front yards of about six property would decrease by $15,000 to miles from Mendota
homes. $20,000 if a blacktop trail is placed in his Heights to South St
"Everyone on Marie Avenue opposes front yard. If there must be a trail, Wald-
it," Sack told the council. He suggested hauser said he hoped it would be only six Paul, connecting the Big
placing the trail on Mendota Road, the feet wide and be placed next to the curb.
first through street south of Marie Ave- "I think I could live with something six Rivers Regional Trail
nue. feet from the curb," he said. with the South St. Paul
The West St. Paul Parks and Recre- Mayor Mike Bisanz said the city could
ation Commission has recommended the pay for the trail out of a capital improve-
Riverfront Trail
city build the trail along the south side of ment fund and would not assess residents
Marie Avenue but make it only six feet for the cost.or require that they do any ficials to discuss the trail further before
wide instead of the 10-foot width pro- upkeep. the City Council takes formal action on
posed by the county. Bisanz agreed to meet with county of- the proposal.
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INFCiii'llATION
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, J SAINT PAUL PIONEER PRESS
TUESDAY.JUNE 6. 1995
SUBURBAN EDITOR: Les Suzukamo
FAX: (612)228-5 5 LJ BU R BS
FAX: (612)228-5500
ice, is\ oodbury arena on schedule
■ Ho ckey, figure-skating - 8o acre complex at Bailey Road and "We want the place open to the entire
_,. ,,. . Tower Drive. community during much of the winter,"
rink opens in November "We are on schedule to play indoor Klatt said. "Everybody from kids to se-
soccer;and hockey this winter," Wood- nior citizens will be invited in to walk
"JIM BROEDE STAFF WRITER bury,recreation director Bob Klatt said. and run and work out" x
`Contracts have been let for the ball- The fieldhouse and ice arena are ex-
ome get their winter kicks skiing, fields. But it takes longer to grow real pected to be self-sustaining. ,
grass than the artificial stuff in the field- _ "There's a big demand for ice time,"
snowshoemg.and ice fishing. house." Klatt said. "We'll charge the going rate
But Woodbury b t: c�.residents will have More than 1,400 youngsters joined soc- of $120 an hour."
more,to boot: soccer. cer,teams sponsored last summer and The ice arena will be the home of.the
'''''',C new :$lu g a ion city for hock fall by the Woodbury Athletic Associa- Woodbury High School hockey team.
compldx,increding an ice arena for hock tion. "We've had inquiries from Tartan and
dy,and figure for o c er,a fieldhouse But association officials said winter Mahtomedi high-schools," Klatt'-said.
to open Novy for soccer, is expected. . 'soccer has been limited to the small and "Time also will be set aside for,girls'
to,open in November. few-and-far-between indoor facilities out- hockey." I-
Softball and baseball enthusiasts will side the city. The recreation complex is being paid
have to wait until.1997 for the first full ' The new 180-by-270-foot fieldhouse through a bond issue approved by voters
season of play on new ballfields at the won't be limited to soccer. in June 1994.
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P.O.BOX 338 • ELK RIVER,MN 55330 • PHONE(612)441-1722 • FAX(612)441-2264
May 23, 1995
Mr. Pat Klaers
City Administrator
Elk River City Hall
13065 Orono Parkway
Elk River,MN 55330
RE: CSAH 1 Improvements
Dear Mr. Klaers:
110 As you requested, enclosed is the information I passed out at the May 15, 1995, meeting at the Elk
River Country Club. As I explained to the Country Club members,neither the construction details
nor scheduling are final. We are open to any comments or suggestions they or any other affected
parties may have regarding this project.
I have also contacted Mr.Brandy from the School District and will be meeting with him on Thursday
of this week to discuss this construction project.
If you have any questions or require any additional information,please feel free to call.
Sincere ,
oran M. Cote,P.E.
Assistant County Engineer
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