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Published February 11, 2010

Letter: No to ‘Sportsplex Jr.’ chat

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MN M.
02/16/2010 7:22 AM

To ensure I was comparing apples to apples I used one data source from the state demographer dated July 24, 2009. It is on The League of Minnesota Cities website. The document is titled 2008 City Population Estimates. I used this as it was the most current comprehensive population document I could located. Clearly ALL population counts are estimates and reflect only that particular moment in time and in many cases it all depends who is doing the counting and how a resident is defined. Just trying to keep to one source, one method of counting and one set of facts as we all have plenty of opinions. http://www.lmc.org/media/document/1/citypop08.pdf

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jim p.
02/12/2010 9:37 PM

MN M You need to recheck your numbers on population for Farmington. Go to the city of Farmington web city.

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two g.
02/12/2010 4:45 PM

I am a young father who is the sole breadwinner for a family of four. I pay my mortgage, my taxes, and played hockey throughout my school years. But I voted against the sportsplex as it was excessive and I believe that this also is excessive. This town spends money like it grows on trees and it usually ends up being wasted (i.e. the bridge to nowhere on Spruce St. which also "had" to be done). Let us young people build our nest eggs before you tax us for them, excesses are a very dangerous thing to teach our children.

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MN M.
02/12/2010 9:32 AM

Indeed. A comparison of the number of sheets of ice to overall population for cities in Dakota county the median ratio is .0005% which is exactly where Farmington, Lakeville and Inver Grove Heights are. Adding an additional sheet would give us the highest sheet to population ratio in Dakota County surpassing Lakeville even if they added a 4th sheet of ice. Burnsville/2 sheets/61,081 pop/.00003%; Eagan/2 sheets/65,847 pop/.00003%; Apple Valley/2 sheets/49,983 pop/.00004%; Rosemount/1 sheet/20,956 pop/.00004%; Farmington/1 sheet/18,735 pop/.00005% /if 2 sheets .0001%; IGH/2 sheets/33,917 pop/.00005%; Lakeville/3 sheets/54,328 pop/.00005%/if 4 sheets .00007%; Hastings/2 sheets/ 22,491 pop/.00008%; South St. Paul/2 sheets/20,250 pop/.00009% Expecting the citizens of the smallest city in Dakota County with an ice arena to pay for a new sheet of ice through taxation from the city and/or the school district to achieve the highest sheet of ice to population ratio in the County makes absolutely no sense. Fix our current arena and call it a day.

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