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6B C FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2003
<br /> LOCAL NEWS
<br /> FROM PAGE 1B
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<br /> A break from boom Putting a lid on growth
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<br /> Woodbury's residential growth in 2002 fell to its lowest rate in more
<br /> than 20 years,a virtual standstill compared with its explosive pace in
<br /> (continued) tion of the city's growth. the 1990s.That number will rise again as the city begins a new phase
<br /> Although numbers bear out the of expansion to the east,but city officials say they are likely to stay
<br /> the rapid growth could affect city's claim, resident Ellie within their target of some 600 new housing units per year —not
<br /> the water levels of Afton wells. Schmidt still sees more and including some exemptions—until 2007.
<br /> City officials say they expect- more houses going up.She grew 1,800
<br /> ed last year's steep decline in up in Maplewood just across 1,600
<br /> ` growth.The year had the lowest Woodbury's northern border
<br /> number of housing permits in along Interstate 94,when Wood- , 400
<br /> more than 20 years. That's bury was more silos than ; zoo
<br /> because the land within the old streets. She and her husband
<br /> MUSA line,the boundary where bought three acres about eight N o0o Estimated_
<br /> municipal sewer and water years ago in the city's southwest s 800
<br /> service stops,is under develop- corner near Woodlane Drive d 600
<br /> and Military Road. z I '' ;`; `
<br /> ment now. ^ ."=�'-�'-"_
<br /> The number of units will rise She supports the growth tar 400 I I II r4,,
<br /> as major development begins in get,though she admits she does I I - : ;;
<br /> new zoo ,� ,;=u ,-
<br /> the new 1,400-acre MUSA expan- like the con enience of thane have 0
<br /> sion area on the city's eastern shopping 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006
<br /> end.But the city forecasts a tela- sprung up.
<br /> tively manageable clip,thanks to Still,she says,sometimes she
<br /> its growth management plan looks around in wonder at the Diego based Newland Com
<br /> passed in 2002,setting a target of changes she's seen. "They're opment director. SannDieg developedbased the 5d5 acre
<br /> 600 housing units per year, on just building and building and "It's a high level of activity,
<br /> average,through 2007.
<br /> building. I mean, sometimes I but it's what we've anticipated Eagle Valley project within the
<br /> The city will enforce the tar- just ask myself, `Gosh, where �d`N,We'vewe're
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<br /> a gmtten city'se owold
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<br /> • get through extension of utili- did all this farmland go?' ' 1,200-unit
<br /> close mill Farms,a developinge
<br /> ties,said Johnson. And 600 units a year still is a to over 1,000 units a year," development that will include
<br /> Even so, the planohas some brisk pace.n
<br /> Woodbury has. commercial-retail
<br /> stretch in it. For one thing, the Eagan, for example, which In Woodbury's case,yneigh- housing,community and
<br /> city grants "bonuses" to devel- saw its building boom from the lateboring towns growth are that ftightl regu-the space,parks and trails.Along center the
<br /> opens,or extra units outside the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s,
<br /> limit, for affordable housing, issued building permits for 723 north, the city of Grant has 459-acre, 1,150-unit Dmajor
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<br /> Parcels and green space. 1988,said
<br /> d units i��n,office size, whilear of enacted ae LakeeElmomum lot Waters site,and the projects that will start to fill the
<br /> Parcels of less than 20 acres also 1988,
<br /> are exempt. supervisor for Eagan community Met Council are wrangling over farms and fields east of Cottage
<br /> City officials also stress the development.By1994,'that`nu That the city's resistanceast, Aatcn to
<br /> proso t Grove Drive.
<br /> "on average" part, emphasizing ber had dropped announced stay Judy
<br /> in t the w ext an on area.Pro- on track for Lakeville bstill has ut 250 room to rural This its
<br /> effectivelytoboxes the cityrof Woodbury and
<br /> ine the new expansion growth of Woodbury in as a community Washington County schools.
<br /> jests still under construction expand and expects within the old MUSA line aren't 600 to 700 housing units a year, willing to accept growth. She can be reached at
<br /> subject to the limit. said David Olson, Lakeville's The housing limit hasn't jarginteanu@pioneerpress.com
<br /> That can skew the percep- community and economic devel- deterred developers' interest. or(651)228-5509.
<br /> Officers deny chares - : ,.y
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<br /> "It seems like every
<br /> =:,-:•:_;=• - �"" w� time we try to build
<br /> (continued) activist Clyde Bellecourt- "I'm M ';
<br /> really angry." a relationship an
<br /> The relationship between the , ' `'• '
<br /> the parking lot at the South °°
<br /> Minneapolis housing develop- department and the Indian corn- :� incident takes place.
<br /> ment,Delmonico said. munity has been a tense one
<br /> Earlier this week, witnesses historically, and it was particu- Robert Clyde really angry..”told police they saw the officers larly strained 10 years ago when Olson Bellecourt
<br /> leave the man on the ground in two officers were suspended for CLYDE BELLECOURT
<br /> the parking lot in frigid temper- transporting two men to the Avenue earlier that night but American Indian activist
<br /> atures. When they went to hospital in a squad-car trunk
<br /> recall much after offi-
<br /> check on him, he had urine in At a community meeting
<br /> 1 his hair and on his face and Thursday afternoon at the cers picked him up.
<br /> coat Franklin Avenue Safety Center, In the 3rd Precinct in South "There's already been
<br /> Olson said the officers, Bellecourt urged Indians to can- Minneapolis,where a large con-
<br /> whose names were not cel a planned socialedepart- cers havenworked for more lives,
<br /> t an offi- a lot of damage done
<br /> released, have been relieved of month withpolice
<br /> . - . -- .L-`^..,....44mon+ mini Precinct Inspector a year to improve relations with regardless of what
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