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• Star Tribune - - • Monday • • Mar1 1994 . Pleasech2read/ and recycle 1 B w .21414 • • • Scott County's neve to control size may not stop projects 2 By Dennis Cassano StaffWriter parcel of 160 acres, into'2.5-acre lots • AThere's going to be for 54 houses across Natchez Av. Under pressure from eager home development out from the Scottdale Golf Course. builders and an anxious Metropoli- , tan Council, Scott County recently there, there s no "There's going to be development • became the first Minnesota county toout there, there's no question about ban new residential development on question about it. It's it," Bill Feldman said. "It's a ques- lots smaller than 10 acres in rural a question of when." tion of when." areas. The development pressures that Bill Feldman, flooded into Lakeville with the corn- Met Council planners say that the county never should have permitted Scott County farmer pletion of Interstate Hwy. 35 already such development and that the new are creeping westward across the prohibition is a long overdue effort Holding the development door o en county line into Credit River. Com- to comply with council planning pol- are Bill and Pete Feldman, brothers pletion of the new Bloomington Fe now under on ices. who have been farming in Credit across he Minnesota River at Shako- River more But despite the year-long morato- of Scott County,, y,,,allipitheir laves Thethe esternyy ccommutersfropee will m the northnd-hungry rium on smaller lots that began farm the 800 acres they own and March 1, at least two developments more than 1,000 acres on top of that. The issues surrounding the morato- already in the planning stages might still be built. About 14 months ago they decided to rium and the proposed projects are Q' subdivide one of their holdings, a Development continued on page 2B r • • • .••�1 ,..r =•�.:. .1—`J.:;.�/rLnfy