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<br /> Revi si on i ng colors and Crayolas,16 designers are however, it seems much closer to the city.
<br /> getting frantic.Trail master plans are Suburban development is happening in the
<br /> Lake Wobegon completed and labeled, lakeshore surrounding township,and the downtown
<br /> mitigation graphics are being col- has been all but shuttered by better shop-
<br /> The Minnesota Design Team ored, community goals have been ping opportunities at the suburban fringe,
<br /> written and illustrated,and regional a mere 20 miles away.
<br /> provides volunteer assistance
<br /> context maps are getting their fin- Big Lake was worried about its down-
<br /> to communities statewide. ishing touches. town commercial core, so the Minnesota
<br /> It is the downtown commercial Design Team(MDT)was enlisted to help.
<br /> Is it a model for other states? core everyone in Big Lake is worried This happily ad hoc group of landscape ar-
<br /> about. And that, in a less literal chitects, architects, planners, engineers,
<br /> BY ADAM R E G N A R V I D S O N, A S L A sense,is how this story begins. and other community design profession-
<br /> als has been assisting Minnesota commu-
<br /> ig Lake,Minnesota,started out as a nities for 20 years by facilitating two-day,
<br /> resort community,located the per- on-site charrettes,designed to explore lo-
<br /> fect distance(in the early 1900s) cal desires and translate those desires into
<br /> from the Twin Cities.It was close enough a tangible vision.
<br /> he deadline looms:7:00 PM.In to be a great weekend spot but too far away Communities apply for MDT visits and
<br /> less than half an hour,about 200 communi- to become a bedroom community.Today, are selected based on community-wide
<br /> ' ty residents will take seats in the Big Lake letters of support,evidence of community
<br /> High School multipurpose room and watch The unabashedly casual nature of an preparedness,and demonstrated need.The
<br /> their community vision unfold before their MDT visit, above,draws designers and MDT Steering Committee then enlists two
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<br /> eyes. Before then, the presentation boards community members together with or three volunteers to act as coleaders for
<br /> need to be finished. So, in the art room, community work sessions, hand-drawn the visit. It is their duty to organize a de-
<br /> amidst the last remnants of a hastily con- graphics, presentations in school sign team, drawing from a pool of hun- Z,
<br /> sumed dinner and a maelstrom of Prisma- gyms,and general camaraderie. dreds of professionals.The coleaders meet
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