Fridley, Minnesota

FR IDLEY , MINNESOTA trail system. “We have been working very hard, now, to go back and make the connections,” Hickok says, “and we have concentrated on finding those gaps in our trail system that would keep you from being able to get out and travel long distances. It’s been very successful – the idea of getting out and walking loops or walking some distance on the trails.” In addition to its many established residential neighborhoods, Hickok reports that the city of 28,500 has a number of new developments planned that should increase its population, substantially, over the next several years. “We have a commuter rail that runs through Fridley, and we’ve created a Transit Oriented Development district around the train station,” he notes. “Within a half mile of that train station is a development called Cielo, with 267 residential units in a three-building complex. It was designed in an atypical fashion in terms of its setbacks; it’s closer to the road than you typically see. It puts the emphasis on taking