In reply to Matt Steele.

It's not as bad as you suggest. For starters, the "auto-oriented development" already exists along 36 (and has for 20 years), so we're not losing out any further on the Minnesota side. You won't see anything on half of 36 west of Manning because Lake Elmo is effectively zoned anti-development. We already have empirical evidence of what downtown Stillwater will be like from when the existing bridge was closed, as Reuben noted.