Lake Elmo's new mayor looks ahead to tackle growth

Article by: NANCY CROTTI , Special to the Star Tribune
Updated: December 28, 2012 - 5:44 PM

Mike Pearson, who defeated three-term incumbent Dean Johnston for the mayor's job, wants the city to be deliberate in how it plans for and manages growth.

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Willy53Jan. 19, 13 7:01 AM

I question the growth statistics. MNDOT used fantastical growth projections to massage the need for a megabridge over the St. Croix when actually the opposite was trending as St. Croix County sent fewer cars over the bridge in the last decade. The east metro will have no LRT to attract huge numbers of multi-unit housing dwellers. I just can't see Lake Elmo exploding to 24 thousand in eighteen years. Population growth is being steered toward redevelopment and density in the metropolitan core rather than high commuter cost suburbs (like Lake Elmo where east metro legislators have declined investment in LRT and are now disadvantaged in attracting future growth). Are the city planners proceeding from the right assumptions?