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INFORil 0 1 ai SAINT PAUL PIONEER PRESS "�'""""""' ` • SUBURBS WEDNESDAY,MAY 24 199 5 WEST ST.PAUL - , • Not In my front yard' comment greets Marie Avenue hiking trail .BILL GARDNER STAFF WRITER `..... IWest YY est St. Paul residents whose yards i AIiL would be crossed by the proposed North r•�Q y 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. •