Location (city/township; county): Brainerd; Crow Wing
Process: EAW
Step: EAW available
End of comment period: December 1, 2025
Project description: The Voyageur Heights Apartments project (hereafter referred to as "Project") is proposed on 49 acres and will be constructed in two phases. The Project includes five buildings with 38 units per building for a total of 190 multifamily housing units along with complimentary interior and exterior amenity spaces, and park/open space areas with public amenities. The main entrance will be from Greenwood Street.
Voyageur Heights Apartment Project project link provided by RGU
Location of public documents: Brainerd City Hall, 501 Laurel Street, Brainerd, MN 56401
First public meeting date, time, location: December 1, 2025, 7:30 p.m., Brainerd City Hall – Council Chambers, 501 Laurel Street, Brainerd, MN 56401
First public meeting virtual link: Join online meeting
First public meeting additional details: City Council will hold the public meeting for the EAW, review the document, and ask questions of staff.
Second public meeting date, time, location: December 15, 2025, 7:30 p.m., Brainerd City Hall – Council Chambers, 501 Laurel Street, Brainerd, MN 56401
Second public meeting additional details: City Council considers "Findings" document and makes one of the following recommendations: 1. Negative Declaration: EAW is adequate, and no EIS is required. 2. Positive Declaration: Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is required. 3. Additional information is reasonably available and needed to make a final declaration -process is extended up to 30 days.
Responsible governmental unit and contact: City of Brainerd, James Kramvik,
218-454-3408
Location (city/township; county): Livonia Township; Sherburne
Process: EIS
Step: EIS Scoping EAW and Draft Scoping Decision
End of comment period: December 1, 2025
Project description: Elk River Landfill (ERL) is an existing municipal solid waste (MSW), industrial waste, and construction and demolition (C&D) waste landfill five miles north of the City of Elk River, adjacent to U.S. Highway 169 in Sherburne County, Minnesota. In approximately three years, ERL will reach its permitted (SW-74) capacity. Elk River Landfill, Inc. proposes a northward expansion of the landfill (Project) into Livonia Township, where Martin Marietta Corporation has sand and gravel mining operations. The Project will involve an expansion of MSW capacity by approximately 26.67 million cubic yards over a 162.36-acre area (MSW Waste Limit), which includes a 7.21-acre overlap of previously permitted and filled C&D disposal cells. ERL will continue to accept C&D waste in the C&D permitted cells until those cells reach capacity. C&D and industrial wastes may be accepted in the NDA as permitted by the Industrial Solid Waste Management Plan. (ISWMP).
Location of public documents: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, 504 Fairgrounds Road, Marshall, MN 56258
Public meeting date, time, location: November 19, 2025, 5:30 p.m., Zimmerman Fire
Department, 26140 136th Street NW, Zimmerman, MN 55398
Responsible governmental unit and contact: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency,
Chris Green, 507-476-4258
Location (city/township; county): Cottage Grove; Washington
Process: AUAR update
Step: Revised AUAR
End of comment period: November 12, 2025
Project description: This 2025 update to the East Ravine AUAR and Mitigation Plan covers a 3,988-acre area north of 70th St, east of County Rd 19, and west of Lamar/Kimbro Aves. The proposed development aligns with the 2040 Comprehensive Plan, aiming for full build-out per future land use. It includes mostly single-family homes with some medium/high-density housing to support lifecycle needs. Two commercial nodes are planned: one in Cedarhurst at 70th & Keats with a neighborhood focus. A key goal is creating a safe, efficient, and connected local and collector street system.
Cottage Grove East Ravine AUAR and Mitigation Plan Update project link provided by RGU
Location of public documents: Cottage Grove City Hall, 12800 Ravine Parkway South,
Cottage Grove, MN 55016
Responsible governmental unit and contact: City of Cottage Grove, Emily Schmitz,
651-458-2874
