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4. What things stand in the way of achieving the opportunities or maintaining our <br />strengths? What threatens the community or city from achieving their goals? <br />Comment / Theme <br /># of People <br />Overpopulation / population growth rate / too much <br />development <br />5 <br />State Legislature / Met Council <br />3 <br />Provincial thinking / resistance to change and progress <br />3 <br />Middle School / High School — Keep our kids in our <br />community <br />3 <br />Closing Withrow Grade School / Expansion of Washington <br />County School District <br />2 <br />Need a main business district / lack of developer for <br />business growth <br />2 <br />Government makes it hard to start a business here <br />1 <br />Infrastructure (parks, trails, city feel) hasn't caught up with <br />development (p37) <br />1 <br />Unwillingness to focus on community needs vs personal <br />appropriation <br />1 <br />[Not enough] property close to 35 E for development <br />1 <br />Access to 35 E and 35W as community grows <br />1 <br />Not sure of our identity as a town — are we a rural small <br />town or a suburb of the Cities? (p37) <br />1 <br />Property taxes are too low <br />1 <br />More trails on lakes <br />1 <br />Need more corporate business <br />1 <br />Road maintenance <br />1 <br />The City getting too hung up on their plan. Need to work <br />with residents, be creative <br />1 <br />Council against growth. The area west of Festival should <br />have been developed more. <br />1 <br />Gun club <br />1 <br />Hugo Open House, April 19, 2017. Page 4 <br />�. CITY OF <br />e� <br />