Twin Cities: Planning For Growth

Revised estimates show that one million additional people are expected to become a part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro area by 2020.

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January 22, 2002, 2:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Minneapolis-St. Paul simply cannot prosper in the coming decades if it is choked by traffic, stuck with an obsolete transit system, diminished in natural resources, short on affordable housing and configured in a way that places vast distances between homes, jobs and shopping...Naysayers in the Republican-controlled Minnesota House have stood firmly against incentives for transit and quality growth. But now, with big business against them, they'll find it harder to buck the overwhelming evidence that they're wrong."

Thanks to Scott Allen

Read the full story: Editorial: Twin Cities' growth / How to handle a million more people?

Sunday, January 20, 2002 in Star Tribune

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