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• <br />on <br />N R TTY- SA NL tM �f l sE <br />coE, <br />y <br />D� <br />�f. <br />CCE(09 Si0 Tlf�' <br />()NE DvT A SALE <br />W i4a <br />I? <br />SPECIAL <br />c Revenues per square foot. an important measure, <br />store was a respccmble 5221. By contrast, the department <br />stores of May Department Store CO.. St. Louis, <br />tion- recorded sales per foot of 5179 (though its Lord & <br />d Taylor division stood at S212). Dillard Department <br />,ly go Stores Inc., Little Rock. generated sales per foot of <br />$142. <br />the And one could probably credit the sale - bonanza <br />ran And <br />with blunting the penetration of Nordstrom <br />une Inc. th tWashington. g D C market in the lat retailer 980s, <br />to a <br />st lit- it romped all over local, established chains there. <br />last <br />l W9 <br />Dayton's has done a credible job detending its turf. <br />Still. Nordstrom Inc. has won over a lot of local <br />customers. Nationally, it recorded sales per square <br />foot of 5381 in 1993. Importantly, it has accom- <br />Forum <br />FannIand's top <br />isnIt residential taxes <br />By Lee Ronning <br />Arguments for saving fertile <br />farmland from being destroyed by <br />urban sprawl often centbr on the <br />environmental and social impacts of <br />rampant development patterns. But <br />for better or worse. it's the financial <br />bottom line that carries real weight <br />with decision - makers. As a result, <br />the envhonmental and social havoc <br />by specific land uses. On average, <br />farmland adds twice as mine t to <br />loc tax bases as It eman k <br />loin serTvuesices according to the study. <br />Using data gathered from the <br />Minnesota Department of Revenue. <br />Office of State Auditor and the <br />Minnesota Department of <br />Education, the anal sis found that <br />in those three communities, or <br />every Z in taz revenue <br />generated y residcn- <br />tta eve opment, on <br />average S 1.04 was <br />spent to provt a ser- <br />vices such as sewers <br />an s_trcots. Arco ing <br />to a study conducted in <br />Wright County by the <br />Minnesota Department <br />of Agriculture, the fur- <br />ther away from exist- <br />ing infrastructure <br />development is locat- <br />ed, the more costly it is <br />to provide services. <br />We conducted the <br />&rce- community study <br />A providing the kind of <br />bottom -line information <br />lready been well -docu- <br />mented in other states. we hope <br />this data will help city officials bet- <br />ter evaluate the impact of land use. <br />decisions on municipal and school <br />district finances. <br />The three communities studied <br />were chosen because they represent <br />cities undergoing various stages of <br />development within 25 miles of the <br />Minneapolis -St. Paul downtown <br />area. Independence is growing <br />FORUM to page 9 <br />That wasstt ie conclusion of a <br />study recently conducted by the <br />Land Stewardship Project and the <br />American Farmland Trust in three <br />metro -area communities: <br />Farmington, Lake Elmo and <br />Independence. <br />Entitled, Farmland and the Tact <br />Bill: The Cost of Communih= <br />Services in Three Minnesota Cities, <br />the study traces the flow of rev - <br />enues and expenditures generated <br />Stuart A Chamblin 111288.2135 <br />an a . <br />Editor. Kevin Maler 288 -2102 <br />Middspeed projects cdKW- AM Nes 2118 -2108 <br />Sud repotw, Svc m Euity 2&1104 <br />,ldwteinG Marle� Mad�t �°��, Aetot <br />Volume 12, Number 37 <br />February 17. 1 995 <br />Director of Advertising Sales; <br />Mark Neulahr 288 -2123 <br />Senor Account hwei C lot i ka- <br />Accow &=Wver Jolene K 8dt Nta&- Haupt nldacl <br />HeAk�.I d Johnson, ovia Aare <br />Business Mvitwout A=aunt Enuthe: fturten Tubbs <br />Ad•adyer Cowd'uutor Ross Pouet 288.2136 <br />