Ross has the info in his blog post detailing Friday night’s Girls Nite Out (GNO) activities (PDF). What he fails to mention is that the veteran members of the Shop…
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Our guest this week was Lee Theis, president and owner of Motokazie, a motorsports race promotion and track-building company, and developer of the proposed MotokazieLand Recreation Park (PDF) in the…
When I saw the “This space for rent” signs in window of Anna’s Closet on Wed. morning, I wondered, “Oh no! Is one of Robbie’s favorite clothing store going out…
It was standing-room only at the Forest Township Hall in Millersburg last night. Lee Theis, president and owner of Motokazie, a motorsports race promotion and track-building company, made a presentation to area residents on the development of the MotokazieLand Recreation Park (PDF) in the highway commercial zone between I35 and Cty Rd 46 at Cty Rd 1 in Rice County.
Theis needs approval from the Rice County Board of Commissioners because this kind of organized motor sports is only allowed in agricultural and urban reserve zoning districts.
I stood at the intersection of Cty Rd. 1 and I35 and took this 22-second video to capture the sound of the freeway noise, as noise from the two motocross tracks is the concern raised the most by residents.
Next up: a public hearing on May 6th, 7 pm, at the Rice County Government Services building in Faribault.
See the website, Rice County Residents for Motorized Recreation (RCRMR) for more info on the MotokazieLand proposal. Supporters are asked to sign the petition and join the discussion on the Facebook group.
The Faribault Daily News has a good pro and con discussion page titled: In their own words: The Motokazie debate.
Other media coverage to-date:
Nfld News: Mayo announces $10 million facility in Northfield.
St. Olaf President David Anderson sent out this email earlier today
Dear Oles and Colleagues:
I am writing to inform you of a pending development that involves a parcel of land owned by the College on the far northern edge of campus.
Mayo Clinic is proposing the development of a radiation oncology treatment center in Northfield. The facility will be located near Northfield Hospital. The center’s patients will have access to services provided by the hospital.
Mayo is considering an approximately 3 1/2 acre tract along the south side of North Avenue, with the College leasing that land for construction of the new center. Once completed, the 13,000 square foot facility will allow Northfield area patients to receive oncology services close to home, where before many had to travel more than an hour away for their daily radiation treatments.
The boys from Cannon River Tree Care took down the 11 trees on 4th St. between Division and Washington this morning, marking the start of the 4th St. reconstruction…
I noticed that the HideAway Coffeehouse and Winebar put out its tables and chairs this weekend so it seems a good time to revisit the issue of sidewalk dining in Northfield (that’s a Tag link to all our blog posts on the subject since 2006.)
Plus, there are two more Division St. eating/dining establishments opening this year.
I blogged last November that “Northfield’s sidewalk dining ordinance has been in effect since early 2008 but only one establishment has taken advantage of the alcohol clause: the HideAway Coffeehouse and Winebar. Five others have not. It might be helpful to find out why.”
Ross sent me a link a week ago to a blog called cooltownstudios that has a series of posts on outdoor cafe districts. (The blog is part of the bigger CreativeCrowdSource project.)
One of those blog posts is titled How to crowdsource an outdoor cafe district and it links to a forum thread on related attempts. The overview of how to do it: