Legalectric

Comments on the Xcel/Northfield AUAR are due TOMORROW. Here’s the AUAR:

DRAFT AUAR HERE

Send comments to Northfield, and I’d recommend you also send to Xcel and Stantec:

• Northfield: Mikayla.Schmidt@ci.northfield.mn.us with Xcel/Northfield Draft AUAR in the subject line, or if hard copy, Mikayla Schmidt, City of Northfield, 801 Washington St., Northfield, MN 55057.
• Xcel Energy: Jacob.N.Ander@xcelenergy.com
• Stantec: Erin. Sejkora@stantec.com

The biggest issue I see is the proposal to allow for building a “technology center” without disclosing details of what’s planned, particularly in large energy load and infrastructure needed to support it, and also the noise that it would generate. Others will have other concerns, likely about the industrial area proposed, with or without the “technology center,” with traffic a likely concern, along 2-lane Hwy. 19 and maybe even through town from Hwy. 3 to Hwy. 19 heading west, not a great route for truck traffic. Would a shortcut around Northfield from Hwy. 3 be needed? And all this happening near the hospital, would there be impacts?

LET NORTHFIELD, XCEL ENERGY, AND STANTEC KNOW WHAT YOU THINK.