[Winona Online Democracy]
On Apr 20, 2005, at 10:09, Phil Carlson wrote:
[Winona Online Democracy]
On one of Linda Fort's questions: � U.S. Census 2000: � * Winona County - pop. 49,985 (includes Winona City) * Winona City - pop. 27,069 � So, County population outside the city is 22,916 as of 2000.
To add a detail to the above number, the Rural Population of Winona County would be about 17,000 with the remainder balanced between Goodview, Saint Charles, and et cetera.
From U.S. Census web site: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/27000.html � Phil Carlson, Mpls
Source:
http://www.demography.state.mn.us/DownloadFiles/sdc_prof02/Winona-SF3- Primary.pdf
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�I am wondering why he states "More than half of the residents of Winona County live within the city."� �If I understand this sentence correctly he is stating that there are 27,000 people within the city limits. (as posted on the sign when entering town).� Ok, does that mean in the entire rest of the County there are less than 27,000 people? �I would like the sources for these numbers.
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Are we again being told by the City that a development that causes traffic to increase to�nearly 4,500�vechiles per day is not going to damage the environment?
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Linda Fort Ridgeway
I am finding it a bit disturbing that Mankato Avenue seems absent from traffic discussions because Mankato Avenue and Huff Street, much less so, are logical extensions from the Cty 17 discussion.
I would also add a note to the discussion about traffic. Mr. Nelson notes that Cty 17 can handle the traffic from the development in question. I have no quarrels with that assessment, but what was missing from Mr. Nelson's editorial and other discussions about traffic that I have observed are the impacts inside the City of Winona* as opposed to the area around the proposed development.
Rather than questioning the impacts of the development externally where traffic densities are always lower. I question the impact of the development and about Mankato Avenue's capacity to handle additional traffic for the persons that will be traveling through the City of Winona* for their jobs and other functions. I would suspect that if asked, the answer to such a question would be a "yes" but, with an asterisk.
I would further merge my argument with Linda's point about environmental impacts, but within the City of Winona and specifically at Mankato Avenue/MN 43 and US 14/61.
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Another useful statistic to work with, or at least to understand my arguments; About 85% of the population of Legislative District 31A Works within the county of residence. Most of that is Winona County, and most likely, most of that 85% is in the City of Winona*.
Source: http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/datanetweb/LegProf/start.html By: Map, Legislative Districts, Choice 10.5 : "% Work in County of Residence"
* For this discussion when I state "City of Winona," I am referring to the river valley portion of Winona which excludes "external developments" such as Knopp Valley or Valley Oaks.
David Dittmann Winona...
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