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YEAR IN REVIEW Continued from Page I <br /> January 2002. The process involved extensive input HUGO 7. Development in Bald Eagle <br /> from Hugo residents, and the visioning plan will serve Industrial Park. Two significant devel- <br /> as a guide for development in Hugo over the next 20REVMW opments in this industrial park were: <br /> years. (See related story on the new vision on page 1). Schweiters Properties, who developed 5 <br /> acres with 90,000 square feet of buildings; and <br /> mwo4. New Home Construction. Northrop Development, who developed a 4-acre site <br /> Community Development Director John with a 30,000 square-foot building. Both develop- <br /> YM iN Rask reports that building permits were ments are classified as office/light industrial and <br /> FMIEW issued for 142 attached and 185 detached accounted for a major part of the $7 million in build- <br /> homes in 2001. Rask notes that home building con- ing permit value for commercial and industrial projects <br /> tinued throughout the period of the residential build- in Hugo last year. Both Mayor Miron and Ericson <br /> ing moratorium because a large number of subdivisions commented that these projects are important for diver- <br /> had been approved prior to its enactment. (See related sifying the City's tax base and bringing jobs and busi- <br /> story on lifting of the moratorium on page 6.) nesses to Hugo. <br /> uuGO 5. New Well. Well No. 3 was complet- S. Grants of Over $478,000. These <br /> 200 1`_. ed, located just west of City Hall. Cityinclude: $305,000 from the Minnesota <br /> VM IN Engineer Dave Mitchell notes, "This is a I a 1N Department of Natural Resources (DNR) <br /> REVIEW major milestone for meeting the needs of to assist in the purchase of the Bernin prop- <br /> the City's water users and will provide Hugo with a level erty, a 21-acre site located on Oneka Lake, on which <br /> of comfort in 2002 as we move into the warmer tem- Hugo hopes to establish a park; $60,000 from thk <br /> peratures of summer." Metropolitan Council to conduct the Charrette <br /> process; $50,000 from the Metropolitan Council for <br /> em 6. Win-Win Result for the Everton the design of rain gardens and landscaping for the new <br /> 20 0 f Avenue Study. Approximately 1600 City Hall site; and $10,000 from the DNR to assist <br /> acres in the southwestern quadrant of the with land cover mapping and natural resource invento- <br /> City, the Everton Avenue neighborhood is ry work in the City. <br /> defined as the area located north of County Road 8 <br /> (Frenchman Road), south of 165th Street, east of muGo 1 9. Hugo Fire Department "Toys for <br /> Elmcrest Avenue, and west of Highway 61. After five Tots" Drive. The Hugo Fire Department <br /> meetings with residents and landowners in the neigh-g M NpjEVM and the Hugo Fireflies sponsored their <br /> borhood, the resulting development plan was approved annual "Toys for Tots" Drive, collecting <br /> by the City Council in May. In citing the win-win approximately 600 toys and $400 in cash donations. <br /> result, Rask notes, "We identified appropriate locations The toys were taken to local TV station KARE 11,who <br /> for new roads that had minimal impact on existing res- gave them to the U.S. Marines to distribute. A special <br /> idents, and we came up with a development plan that thank you to Hometown Auto, Firstar Bank, Embers in <br /> allowed those property owners who wish to develop to Centerville, and Nadeau's Market for providing drop- <br /> do so, but that minimized the impact on those proper- off sites for toys. <br /> ty owners who wish to retain their large lots." <br /> YEAR IN REVIEW <br /> Continued on Page 3 <br /> 2 <br />