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<br /> = „S1.0 tate recreation trails Woodbury/ Some houses in $450,000 range
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<br /> •Tite state has developed 224 miles of trails with asphalt or crushed rock
<br /> �stirfaces for biking and other nonmotorized sports. Here are the major Continued from page 3B ville had more. Woodbury still has "We know people in some of those On the social front, beyond block
<br /> • If?creational trails being developed by the DNR or local groups.Some of the 5,000 lots ready for development, projects, and they're nice people,” parties, there are hopes that a new
<br /> i''• Council a good laugh with his pro- enough to last at least five more Hargis
<br /> routes shown,especially in northern Minnesota, posal to build $110,000 homes there. said. "Some of our friends' school and an 80-acre city athletic
<br /> are unpaved and are used mainly for snowmobilyears,Picha said. children who are just out of college complex will
<br /> z is p y Prices in Woodbury'sg p promote community
<br /> handful of sub- and some divorced couples
<br /> ing,hiking or off-road biking.Not shown are local) divisions at that time topped out ■Soaringlandprices in western sub- stayin town, but it's tough h ton find beha jpro ect of ththree oschool
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<br /> ' developed trail corridors in the Twin Cities area. y gjointproject
<br /> under$50,000. urbs similar distances from Minne- housing they can afford. So we arc districts that divide the city.The$6.8
<br /> apolis. "It's hard to find a lot in open to a diversity of housing stock." million athletic complex, being built
<br /> I ' This year, Dolan is selling the last Plymouth for less than $70,000," on Bielenberg's old farm,will include
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<br /> 1 nine of 408 single-family homes in said Anne Hurlburt, that city's com- Construction began this month on a lighted ballfields and domed hockey
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<br /> •'' i his development graced by hundreds munity development director. In 36-unit low-income apartment
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<br /> — , i of towering evergreens. Prices range Woodbury, lot prices start at ject, only the second of its kind in
<br /> t _._.r 1 Taconite .• up to$450,000. $32,000,Picha said. Woodbury. Meanwhile, Hargis vow;; City officials say the planning review
<br /> t:. I • Grand j North to develop scattered-site subsidized now underway will consider scenari-
<br /> Shore Evergreen and Wedgewood, a vast 111 Woodbury's emphasis on upscale, housing, and the City Council has os ranging from full development to
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<br /> planned development of Minnesota single-family homes as Baby Boom moved to ease some zoning and no more growth. As in manysub-
<br /> Heartland I Mutual Life Insurance Co. that cov- families shop for dream houses. building codes that discourage low- urbs, a significant faction of ood-
<br /> �J Willard Munger: K--�-_._ ers one-tenth of Woodbury's 36 cost construction. bury residents opposes further
<br /> 3'1 Carlton-West Duluth — Developed square miles, set a conservative,cor- That emphasis has been so strong growth: In a 1993 survey, 23 percent
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<br /> trails porate tone for the town that persists that even Bielenberg had to move to "Those are steps in the right dices- called it the worst thing about the
<br /> • •. Duluth •••. Partially today. House designs tend to be more Maplewood to find a townhouse after tion," said Jim Heltzer of the Wash- town.
<br /> I Brainerd • developed traditional than in the western sub- he sold the family homestead in ington County Housing and Redevel-
<br /> 0 : --- Acquisition urbs. And 30 percent of Woodbury's 1992. opment Authority. The authority's But officials say Woodbury's future
<br /> authorized breadwinners are 3Mers, includingApartmentsproject will depend largely on economics.
<br /> 1 ( Willard Munger: � - Tamarack 11
<br /> Hinckley Fire , ---- the past three mayors. According to the 1990 census, Wood- "took considerable discussion," he; While it would cost an estimated $40
<br /> ti i Willard Munger: bury had the region's lowest percent- said, but is "sort of a breakthrough million to extend roads and utilities
<br /> 9 Woodbury's median household in- age of low-income housing. And a for us." to Woodbury's rural edges, officials
<br /> '' i F I Boundary come surpassed that of west-subur- 1994 studyof 10 developing Twin
<br /> ••• P 8 are countingon taxes from the new
<br /> 'i'ii l Twin ban strongholds such as Edina and Cities suburbs found that Wood- Woodbury also gets improving development to pay for existing in-
<br /> hi t Luce Line Cities Willard Munger: Minnetonka during the 1980s, even bury's development rules and politi- grades from a state official who less frastructure.
<br /> i .;, b I Gateway while its population was doubling to cal climate hampered construction of than two years ago criticized the city _
<br /> ' 20,000. The housing boom of the low-income housing. for letting unchecked development Hargis said the current review was
<br /> i Minnesota Valley r'� O Red Wing 1990s has added 10,000 more resi- cause severe water runoff After a delayed when Sara Prow, the city's
<br /> I I dents in just five years. Former Mayor Kenneth Mahle, who mile-long lake suddenly appeared, longtime senior planner, was asci-
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<br /> • 50 miles resigned in 1993 and pleaded guilty flooding a principal road and killing dentally shot and killed by her hus-
<br /> �r Iles Mankato O -� t Dou las Experts cite several reasons for such to solicitingsex from a I4-year-old 100 century-old bur oaks, the city band in January at their Woodbury
<br /> w,• i 9 rapid growth: boy in south Minneapolis,vehement- bought two houses to relocate the home. Now a report is expected by
<br /> ' __ I I '+ Austin ly opposed low-income housing in families so the water could be fall.
<br /> Sakatah Singing Hills ' ., - � ' Root River III The opening of the final legs of Woodbury.Advocates of one project, drained.
<br /> Interstate Hwys. 494 and 94 in 1986 he said, wanted to "invite all of the Schilling, for one, has few doubts
<br /> and 1987, respectively, linking indigent people walking the streets in Since then, the city has hired an about its findings. When his wife,
<br /> Star Tribune Map Woodbury to the rest of the Twin downtown St. Paul to come and live environmental planner and is coop- Betty, complains that the farmhouse
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<br /> Bike trail in Woodbury. We don't need that." crating with the state Department of needs new siding,he says:"We aren't
<br /> Natural Resources (DNR) on man- going to live here long enough to pay •
<br /> Continued from page 2B ■Woodbury's large supply of land His successor, Bill Hargis, said cur- agement of its many wetlands, said for it."
<br /> inside the Metro Council's sewer rent officials don't share Mahle's Molly Shodeen,a DNR hydrologist.
<br /> i The DNR estimated almost 19,000 But development comes with a price. boundaries.At last count, only Lake- hard-line views.
<br /> people used the trails in 1990, a "Property values have skyrocketed," _
<br /> f figure some think has doubled, with said city administrator Stephen •
<br /> overnight weekend trail users spend- Sarvi. "There's a critical housing
<br /> 1 ipg almost $50 per person per day. shortage," affecting young families -
<br /> Lodging receipts in Fillmore County the most. Tourism and a new cheese
<br /> i jumped eightfctween 1986 and plant strain the city's sewage plant. • •
<br /> 1992; the nuc.•
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<br /> nesses leaped from eight to 30. "It was generally accepted that peo-
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