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WOODBURY TRIES TO M.ANAGE • EXPLOSIVE GROWTH
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<br /> Woodbury subdivision looms behind a construction site for single-family homes and town homes near the intersection
<br /> .f Woodlane Drive and Bailey Road.The city's rapid growth has slowed since the 1990s. (
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<br /> Id Minnesota's BY JUDY ARGINTEANU ulate school population growth Despite a steady saw I
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<br /> building program, classroom overcrowding is allege,
<br /> fastest-growing still a worry in District 833, which serves the John
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<br /> describe the city's building boom in the 1990s, school to another.
<br /> target of 600 new when the suburb's population virtually dou- The slower
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<br /> housing units a relative crawl,from 1,636 housing units per- services. That means residents won't face ing d
<br /> fe year in order awitted in 1999 to just 200 last year, huge special tax increases,and vehicles won't indict
<br /> Officials in the state's fastest-growing large clog roads before the e surfaceshas e said city they�
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<br /> 'of to regulate school city aim to keep their growth at a more man- money to upgrade ageable pace for the next few years.So far,the administrator Barry JohnsonDelm
<br /> populations, road city appears to be on track,although its target The slower rate will help storm water and confe
<br /> of 600 housing units a year in the city's devel- groundwater management,an issue of concern held s
<br /> i will construction oping east side is still a steady rat-a-tat-tat. in neighboring Afton, which is worried that 1
<br /> •affic Perhaps most important to the young fami A BREAK FROM BOOM,6B
<br /> and services. lies who flock to the area,the limit will help reg-
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