Newspaper Clipping - Newspaper Clipping Scan - Eagan Council approved rezoning NE corner of Lex Diff - 6/15/1994
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undeveloped for years.
corner rezoning It was Connelly's third try
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Saying they weren't thrilled other proposals for the same
but it was the best alternative, plot.
the Eagan City Council on June The land surrounding it con-
7 approved changing an eight- tains single-family homes, two
acre plot on the northeast corner churches, a city well, a U.S.
of Lexington and Diffley roads West utility building, apart-
from a single-family residential ments and a proposed athletic
II~ designation to a neighborhood field.
I business. The city generally frowns on
The decision will eventually adding more land to the com-
make way for Ray Connelly to mercial designation - believing
turn the land into a medical of- there is enough - but other uses
fice, daycare center, drug store, seem even less appropriate for
restaurant and convenience the site, which was once part of
store and gas station. a 190-acre plot intended for a
The city had zoned the proper- shopping center, said Mayor
ty kitty-corner from it as com- Thomas Egan.