Star Tribune Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:44:04 GMT
Voters will have final word on Carriage Hills Golf Course
The question is: Should the city spend $10.25 million to buy the golf course and preserve the land? The alternative would allow a builder to develop the site. ... Dan Bailey, a neighbor of the golf course who has long opposed its development, wonders how the land came to be valued at $10 million. He thinks the price will prevent Eagan voters from protecting the site, which is no longer an operating golf course. Bailey thinks he'll probably vote against the referendum, so community members can once again persuade the City Council to turn down the development and go back to court. "The deal is great in the sense that the people get to make the choice," Bailey said, "but it's bad in that both choices are bad for the people." Bakken was careful not to say whether he'll support the referendum. "Carriage Hills has become a flashpoint for the pressures that a community of Eagan's age and stage of development finds itself in," he said. "That puts our community in the position of trying to decide, as a community, what do we want Eagan to look like."
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