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<br /> Some wetlands were filled in to make way for the new Wal-Mart store in Fridley. I
<br /> Last year, for example,the Anoka Before long,six conservation officers
<br /> Conservation District gave Gerald were involved.Old aerial photos
<br /> • and Marge Sygulla permission to were studied to try to determine the
<br /> build a 300-foot driveway through a wetlands'original boundary.When
<br /> wetland to their new home in Colum- Woods told them to stay off the
<br /> bus Township—provided the drive- property,the county attorney was
<br /> way was only 24 feet wide."I'm asked for a legal opinion on whether
<br /> driving by later,and instead of a conservation officials could go and
<br /> driveway,he's got a runway through inspect the damage. Making matters
<br /> it."says the conservation district's more complicated,the suspected wet-
<br /> Chris Lord. The Sygullas complain land was a unique variety that looked
<br /> that the township is against develop- more like a forest than a wetland. •
<br /> ment and that the wetlands laws are
<br /> too rigid. The case finally ended a few months
<br /> ago with Woods being ordered to
<br /> Larger homebuilders are even more remove a single pile of brush."The.
<br /> frustrated."A 12-by-l2[foot]puddle area affected here is a few hundred
<br /> of water with a little bit of canary square feet,"said John Raetz,
<br /> grass around it. ..is not worth[pro- Woods'attorney."It's not that
<br /> tecting],"Anoka County builder Phil much."
<br /> Tetrault said. "It'll dry up anyway." As the new state law takes hold, it's
<br /> Even the smallest cases can have getter harder to find supporters of
<br /> unheard-of complications. In 1991, saving every wetland in Anoka
<br /> Charles Mears wanted to dig out a County."A tiny,tiny wetland
<br /> pond on his property and stock it doesn't make any sense to preserve,'
<br /> said Ron Henrickson, 's plan-,
<br /> with trout. He got an agreement from elop
<br /> ning and economic development
<br /> a neighbor to put part of the dirt on director.
<br /> her property to create a berm. But -
<br /> when she began divorce proceedings,
<br /> Henrickson has an all} in Gilbert
<br /> her husband, Michael Woods,said Menkveld,the developer in Ramsey
<br /> the agreement was void and drove'a who in the end reworked his new
<br /> bulldozer through the berm. subdivision to accommodate wet- '
<br /> Woods'bulldozer also cut through, lands when nearby residents com-"'
<br /> • what officials suspected was a plained."Actually,"said Menkveld.
<br /> wetland. "they're overdoing the wetlands deal
<br /> where we are—they're so
<br /> unreasonable." ..
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