Residential building trends for the last half of the decade show the fastest growing areas are providing townhouses and multifamily units in addition to single-family homes -- in fact, more than half the newhousing in Woodbury, Plymouth and Eagan is in this form.
Overall, the Twin Cities metropolitan area added 413,029 people in the last decade, increasing the total metropolitan population to 2,868,847. By 2020, the Twin Cities metro area will include 500,000 more people, 270,000 additional households and 285,000 new jobs, according to census estimates.
The data shows that aside from the development suburbs, each of these three areas contributed 8% of the growth:
* The central cities, where gains followed sharp population declines for the last three decades.
* The fully developed suburbs, which continued a dramatic slowdown that began in 1970 as families matured and children left home.
* Rural cities continued to grow at a rapid rate, accounting for 8% of the growth, and towns added another 6%.
Metro area communities experiencing the most growth in population are:
Woodbury, up 131% to 46,463.
Lakeville, up 74% to 43,128.
Andover, up 75% to 26,588.
Savage up 113% to 21,115.
Eden Prairie, up 40% to 54,901.
Eagan up 34% to 63,557.
Plymouth, up 29% to 65,894.
Maple Grove, up 30% to 50,365.
St. Paul, up 5% to 287,151.
Minneapolis, up 4% to 382,618.
The top ten high-growth cities together account for nearly 44% of the region's population growth in the '90s.
The Metropolitan Council argues the latest results from the US Census on population and development trends in the Twin Cities underscore the need for its Smart Growth Twin Cities initiative begun last year.
The state planning agency for the metropolitan Twin Cities area has been pursuing such strategies as increasing affordable housing, preserving parks and open space, cleaner lakes and streams, and expanding transit service. The launch of Smart Growth Twin Cities initiative is aimed at developing more walkable neighborhoods and transit-friendly communities, so the council is trying to link together transportation, housing, environment and land use policies, investments and actions.
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