Star Tribune Thu, 29 May 2008 18:25:10 GMT
Voters will decide fate of Eagan golf course in November
Development plans for the Carriage Hills golf course have fueled untold hours of public debate in Eagan, stiff opposition from the city and a four-year court battle that went all the way to the Minnesota Supreme Court. But when Wensmann Realty, the would-be developer of the golf course, came back to the city Tuesday night with a proposal to build up to 480 homes on the site, the Eagan Planning Commission took less than two hours to sign off on preliminary plans. But that doesn't mean a single one of those houses will ever be built. Instead, Eagan voters will decide the fate of the golf course at a referendum in November, part of a contingent legal settlement reached this spring in a dispute that has pitted the city against Wensmann and the golf course's owner. Many neighbors of the golf course, which closed in 2004, have fought development, arguing that it would destroy valuable green space in the largely built-out city and put too much traffic on area roads.
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