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• IWO <br /> • <br /> Star Tribune/Wednesday/May 24/1995 <br /> •TS. <br /> :a;� y <br /> Plymouth voters, <br /> back city plan • <br /> to protect forest, <br /> and wetlands , <br /> wountY <br /> aUitin7 <br /> Plymouth residents overwhelming y <br /> approved a $3.2 million reference: <br /> Tuesday to buy 120 acres of woods' <br /> and wetlands in an effort to prpetk <br /> some of the few remaining open,. <br /> • spaces in the booming suburb. <br /> r.ru.• <br /> According to unofficial returns,3,663 , <br /> voters, or 85 percent, approved the:- <br /> i measure. It was opposed by 641;14t <br /> ers.Officials said about 1I percent-of <br /> registered voters cast ballots. <br /> The city will issue $2.2 million,'n <br /> bonds and add another$I miilio iA; <br /> existing community-improvement <br /> money to buy four parcels of maple. <br /> and basswood forests,cattail mai• ii. <br /> and tamarack wetlands. a•�. . <br /> Construction also will be moved:tip,. <br /> five years on 11 miles of hiking'ana,: <br /> biking trails already planned. <br /> Residents won't see their taxes rise <br /> because this bond issue will replace; <br /> another being paid off. Rejection-of.; <br /> the bond issue would have resulted <br /> in an annual tax savings of$8.31;0n-, <br /> a house valued at$150,000, which'3s.• <br /> the approximate median valuer of- <br /> homes in Plymouth. <br /> �;•y.v R <br /> i <br />