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Article: City council to delay new road; Eden Prairie's Riverview Road gets a reprieve from a city-style reconstruction after neighborhood residents appeal to the city.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 27, 2009
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Byline: LAURIE BLAKE; STAFF WRITER
Eden Prairie's Riverview Road will get a coating of new black top this year but not a modern upgrading with curb, gutter and sidewalk.
The Eden Prairie City Council voted 3 to 2 last week to postpone the more extensive reconstruction until the area fully develops and the city has had time to stop bluff-line erosion caused by rain running off the street.
The segment, between Homeward Hills Road and Parker Drive in southern Eden Prairie, carries 2,500 to 3,000 cars a day at the crest of a bluff near the Minnesota River. The city's Public Works Department recommended bringing it up to modern standards to improve ...