The Metropolitan Airports Commission has now submitted plans for expansion of Lake Elmo Airport, a plan which has drawn the ire of airport neighbors.
MAC wants to relocate and lengthen the airport’s smallest runway, which would require a “safety area” that crosses what is now 30th Street. That would require moving 30th Street. Read more →
What’s happening in Lake Elmo is happening all over America. People move near a small airport and, inevitably, they begin to object to alleged property value declines caused by the airport. Read more →
Lake Elmo, a city famous for its insistence to remain a pre-sprawl town, has taken a big club to sprawl with its refusal to allow bus rapid-transit stations in its community.
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An opponent of expanding the runway length at Lake Elmo Airport probably has a point about why the Metropolitan Airports Commission wants to get the project approved now. Read more →
The soap opera in Lake Elmo has taken another turn. The sixth member of the city’s government is quitting, adding to the perception of a city in turmoil following the election of a voting bloc on the City Council. Read more →
Lake Elmo is a mess, but like most things in Minnesota government these days, the particulars are officially a secret.
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Can’t we all just get along? Not in two communities in the East Metro, which have become the poster children for dysfunctional government and might provide some insight into why reasonable and talented people don’t want to take on jobs in city government.
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But Lake Elmo didn’t want to be like everyone else and today it finally won a battle against the Metropolitan Council’s order that it needs to get bigger. Or did it win? Read more →
Bob Collins