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