trails

From the City website yesterday:

The City of Northfield has received a $150,000 grant from the MN/DNR to build a new multi-use path along the east side of the Cannon River. Northfield will work with the City of Dundas to develop a trail alignment between Dundas and the Peggy Prowe pedestrian bridge across the Cannon River. The City originally applied for $500,000 from the DNR grant program along with applying for a Rotary grant and money committed from other local sources. The City will be considering the scope of the project to fit within the funding received. A full project webpage will be published as the new trail plans and alignment are developed.

(Note: I don’t think the link above will be the permanent project link on the City website; I’ll try to remember to come back and change it later.)

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This week, the Planning Commission is reviewing the Transportation chapter of Northfield’s Comprehensive Plan. In addition to revising the language to include more references to multiple means of mobility (not just automobiles), we need to consider exactly how bike and pedestrian trails fit into the picture. Dundas Planning Commission chair Bruce Morlan had a piece in the StarTribune last week in response to the Strib’s nice but rather uninsightful article about Dundas development on May 16.

In our upcoming Locally Grown audio show, we’ve invited former City councilwoman Peg Prowe to talk about the MIll Towns Trail project, which just received $1M from the State. We’ll be doing our recording session downtown in the new James Gang Hideaway at 421 Division Street, Friday at 2:30 PM, in case anyone wants to be in the “studio audience.” We might even take questions/comments “live”. Please join us!