The creek corridor trail and the north and south fork trails are currently closed between Parmenter Street and Deming Way, and all access points are blocked due the start of the long-awaited reconstruction of the Pheasant Branch Creek stream banks.
Airport: An unnecessary provocation?
At the start of the September 6 Middleton city council meeting, the chairman of the town of Springfield, Jim Pulvermacher, read a letter from the Springfield town board to the city's elected officials and the city administrator:
To the Honorable Mayor Brar, City of Middleton Council Members, & City Administrator Gadow.
I wanted to follow up after our last in-person meeting at town hall in Springfield [on July 28]. I believe that it was a good, informed meeting and allowed everyone to speak openly. As a Board, we decided to wait a little to see what the next steps would bring.
We didn't have to wait long until we learned that the Airport Commission is proposing a three-mile ring around the airport to stop or control growth in the towns. How unfortunate. Isn't this the very reason the City and Springfield signed a growth agreement twenty years ago? This again is a topic that elected officials should discuss and amend our agreement together collaboratively. If enacted, does this mean the 120+ acres of Springfield land being annexed for housing should not be developed as it is within a half-mile and due east of the main runway? I bet not.