RE: Urban Sprawl and KARE Extra report.

2000-11-16 Thread Sheldon Mains
>Since the KARE report was brought up, I'll throw in my two cents worth. I find it interesting that KARE views it as balanced since they have the regulator (Met Council) and one side (the builders) represented. On their web site they have links to both. But they don't have links to the other si

RE: Urban Sprawl and KARE Extra report.

2000-11-14 Thread Gary C Bowman, Jr
Since the KARE report was brought up, I'll throw in my two cents worth. KARE's report is, to say the least, "editorial". Considering they are trying to pass it off as "news", I'd say editorial is a fairly complementary description. While the MUSA line probably plays SOME role in driving up pr

RE: Urban Sprawl and KARE Extra report.

2000-11-14 Thread Robb
Rich Ted Mondale, the head of the Met council was on MPR today commenting on the Kare 11 report. I did not watch it, regretably, but just looking at the ad, I could tell it was going to be of the editorial variety...as you put it. I think your analysis of the report is good. The council, whil

Re: Urban Sprawl and KARE Extra report.

2000-11-14 Thread John Rocker
The availability of sewer and water within the MUSA naturally increases the value of the land, because without public utilities the developer has to either pay to get utilities to the property or build fewer homes on a septic system. The land cost comparison made by KARE ignores the cost of the pu

Re: Urban Sprawl and KARE Extra report.

2000-11-14 Thread Luisa Pessoa-Brandao
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --6C9BEFB6D7D9C7377668DB4F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For anyone who is interested, Ted Mondale is on MPR right now and he just addressed the KARE 11 special. He is also addressing issues of u