Brush Creek
5 year old buck +
My home is in a quiet neighborhood in the SW corner of Inver Grove Heights MN. All of us neighbors have 5.5 acres mostly wooded and it is a gem of an area to live in. To the east and south there is a large contiguous piece of woods owned by Flint Hills Refinery. It is one of the last large forest areas around. You hardly can tell you are in the metro area. It is very quiet and peaceful. Even the airplanes fly around us for the most part.
Well, Dakota County seems to think they need a major road through the area to get people home 1 minute sooner every night. They have come down to two options for this major road. Both suck and will make the neighborhood much less enjoyable. One option turns a dirt road into a 4 lane paved road. This is 100 yards from my home. The second option is to put the road 500 yards to the east. This road would cut right through the large forest and within 150 yards of neighbors homes.
The kicker is that there is a major road the west 1.5 miles and a major road to the east 1.0 miles, but for some reason they don't want to make that road bigger. They could also go 700 yards to the east of my home and avoid most of the big woods but they don't show that as an option.
Anyone have any experience in this type of thing? How can we fight this? Is there a conservation group that would help out, like the Sierra club or anything like that?
Well, Dakota County seems to think they need a major road through the area to get people home 1 minute sooner every night. They have come down to two options for this major road. Both suck and will make the neighborhood much less enjoyable. One option turns a dirt road into a 4 lane paved road. This is 100 yards from my home. The second option is to put the road 500 yards to the east. This road would cut right through the large forest and within 150 yards of neighbors homes.
The kicker is that there is a major road the west 1.5 miles and a major road to the east 1.0 miles, but for some reason they don't want to make that road bigger. They could also go 700 yards to the east of my home and avoid most of the big woods but they don't show that as an option.
Anyone have any experience in this type of thing? How can we fight this? Is there a conservation group that would help out, like the Sierra club or anything like that?