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<br /> III UPDATE BRIEFINGS region to consider. Any of the options— Where will we be living?
<br /> or a combination--could be the basis for If trends continue, expect...
<br /> Welcome to Update! This is the first of guiding the location of future
<br /> several issues to be published this year development.
<br /> • Twice as many people in western half
<br /> by the Metropolitan Council on three of the region (compared with the
<br /> development options for future growth of A new summary brochure, Choosing an
<br /> 0 the Twin Cities area. The Council is Urban Development Option for the Twin eastern half.)
<br /> considering the options so it can add a Cities �(ea: 1995-2020, describes each
<br /> s� • MO VEIOpr) 8r .ewQ .„.uburb
<br /> development plan to its Regional option." The brochure helps guide T � < �l' �, „ : x 4,1 ..
<br /> Blueprint, the document containing the decision-making by local officials, R g - is
<br /> communityleaders and the • Lower,densit)i IargefiotS -,
<br /> Council's goals and policies for the general k a�
<br /> region's future. The next Update will public in planning the region's future. a= M e p `�� '
<br /> • Urban area will keep expanding; .
<br /> describe criteria to evaluate the three A1- '. V. _
<br /> outward. , _}
<br /> options. The options emerge from policy choices . ? „7i
<br /> already made in the Council's Regional ''
<br /> • Twice asmany mllestof congested ;
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<br /> freeways. G - ,.
<br /> iii HOW WILL REGION LOOK
<br /> The Spread Development option would,
<br /> IN 25 YEARS? • About 28 percent more travel.
<br /> as the name suggests, lead to a new
<br /> ring of development around the region.
<br /> .T.aginc ad:+ing 50 000 people to the • Most older people (age 70 and up) in
<br /> A ae i id option, Concentrated
<br /> Twin Cities area.* Tiey would make up Development, would limit where growth single-family homes.
<br /> the second-biggest county in Minnesota could be located. A third, Channeled
<br /> in population--more than twice the sizeDevelopment, would locate some of the
<br /> of Dakota County.The region is forecast new growth at high-activity centers of I THREE VERY DIFFERENT
<br /> to grow nearly 30 percent in the next 25 development along highways and transit OPTIONS FOR REGIONAL
<br /> years. Where will they all live? Or, where routes' resulting in some growth in the GROWTH
<br /> should they all live? rural area. .
<br /> i.. The three development options are
<br /> The Twin Cities area will grow to 3.1 Why should the region look at these conceptual and do not define impact on
<br /> million people by the year 2020, up from options? Metropolitan Council staff specific communities. The illustrations
<br /> today's population of 2.4 million, forecasts for the region add more people on the back page, exaggerated, will be
<br /> according to Metropolitan Council and households during the next quarter further defined later.
<br /> forecasts.The forecast increase exceeds century than originally thought.Also,the
<br /> 0 the region's growth during the past 25 region needs a regional\development Once an option is selected, the region's
<br /> years, when it grew by 575,000. plan. The plan will provide a,-framework growth pattern will slowly shift over time.
<br /> for investment decisions about the By the year 2020, land use changes will
<br /> Households are even more important region's transit and sewer services. The be evident.
<br /> than population for planning purposes. option selected will give- local
<br /> The seven-county region will grow by an governments and the private sector a Spread Development
<br /> estimated 330,000 households,*up from context for future growth\ and
<br /> 940,000 today. That's a sizable development decisions. This option is more market-driven than
<br /> ircrcase--m:re households than both
<br /> me otners. it iTie GIS the iegion.5 demand
<br /> Minneapolis and St. Paul have today. The brochure also summarizes new for housing and job locations wherever
<br /> forecasts and recent trends that off&a demand occurs.The Metropolitan Urban
<br /> Jobs are forecast to grow by 310,000*in glimpse of the future. In addition, likely Service Area (MUSA) would expand as
<br /> the next 25 years, up from 1.4 million costs of the region's sewer and transit needed to accommodate development.
<br /> today. That's well below the pace of job services are identified. The MUSA is the already-developed
<br /> growth in the previous 25 years, when urban area, plus land planned for future
<br /> 41) the region added 620,000 jobs.
<br /> urban growth.
<br /> II 20 YEARS FROM NOW--
<br /> The forecast growth raises two This option is the closest to what's
<br /> fundamental planning questions.Where What will we be like? P
<br /> will households and jobs locate? (This E
<br /> happening today. Growth would likelycontinue in a new concentric ring around
<br /> assumes a continuation of trends and • Average of 2 children per family. the already developed part of the region.
<br /> current public action.) The second
<br /> question is:Where should they locate? • Average household size of 2.5 people. Rural land near the region's urbanizing
<br /> I• More raciallydiverse. edge would be seen as land "on hold"
<br /> The Council has developed three for the next phase of urban expansion.
<br /> development options for growth for the Development density (the number of
<br /> • More older people. housing units per acre) would be low.
<br /> *Preliminary estimates.
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