The Cannon River Watershed Partnership has been selected by the MPCA to receive and Environmental Assessment Grant to work on Low Impact Development Ordinances in the Watershed. The grant will go into effect in July 2007 and run through June 2009.
The timing is fortuitous, since the City is updating its land use regulations. Though the [...]
February 3, 2007 – 12:40 pm
We’ve started inviting a variety of community leaders to submit commentary pieces here on Locally Grown. The first to respond is former Dundas mayor Glenn Switzer, co-owner of Switzer’s Nursery and Landscaping.
He sent us this audio commentary, touching on the Dundas Business and Professional Group, the County State Aid Highway 1 (CSAH 1) Corridor [...]
November 4, 2006 – 10:58 am
We have a winner. The first person to submit an audio comment via our new submit an audio comment gizmo is none other than Dundas Mayor Glenn Switzer. The prize? We’re working on it.
Click Glenn’s photo to get a better view of him modeling the new Dundas Historical Society t-shirt which says “Been Dare? Dundas!” Hizzoner [...]
November 3, 2006 – 6:02 pm
Kathleen Doran-Norton commented on my blog entry (”Now Where was that Transportation List?‘) by raising the Rice County Transportation Plan’s study of an east-west corridor study, mentioned by Tracy Davis in an earlier blog entry (”But Where does the Bridge Go?“). Kathleen’s comments actually raises an even bigger issue…the State’s transportation plans may have passed [...]
October 21, 2006 – 1:26 pm
Northfield’s LWV and the Cannon River Watershed Partnership are co-sponsoring two public events consisting of a candidate forum/moderated panel discussion. Candidates who have been invited to attend are are:
MN Senate District 36: Pat Pariseau, Carolyn Sampson
MN Senate District 25: Tom Neuville, Jessica Peterson
MN House District 36B: Pat Garofalo, Paul Hardt
MN House District 25B: David [...]
October 17, 2006 – 7:46 am
The focus of this week’s episode was transportation, specifically, County Highway 1 and the Corridor Preservation Study for Rice County. See Tracy’s But Where Does the Bridge Go? post last week for background, links, and a map. “The idea behind the study is to identify potential routes for an east-west arterial road south of Hwy. [...]
October 13, 2006 – 4:45 pm
Rice County, along with its “study partners,” including the City of Dundas, City of Northfield, Bridgewater Township, Northfield Township, and the Minnesota Department of Transportation, have initiated something called the CSAH 1 Corridor Preservation Study. The idea behind the study is to identify potential routes for an east-west arterial road south of Hwy. 19, [...]
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