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Positioned to Thrive!
Lakeville, Minnesota
F
or a sense of peace, security and a small-
town atmosphere with the convenience
of easy access to the Metropolitan area,
check out Lakeville!
Lakeville is proud of our excellent schools,
community arts center, parks galore and
wide array of recreational activities. These
and additional amenities, add to the
community spirit and quality of life enjoyed
by residents and businesses.
Lakeville is home to several industrial parks
including Airlake Industrial Park, the second
largest in Minnesota.
Lakeville offers three award-winning school
districts within its boundaries. The largest is
District 194, which accounts for two-thirds
of the Lakeville area’s student population. All
three districts are committed to high-quality
education setting the community apart
from neighboring cities.
Lakeville is delighted with our years of
growth and development and celebrates
each year with Panorama of Progress,
affectionately known to locals as Pan-O-
Prog! This week-long summer festival
began in 1967 and has grown to over 60
events, tournaments, parades and more!
The City of Lakeville experienced a high
level of development activity in 2019, with
a record-setting annual building permit
valuation totaling $301,391,296. The City’s
previous highest building permit total was
$270,685,655 in 2017.
The Metropolitan Council estimated
Lakeville’s population to be 64,334 in 2018.
This equates to a 15% population increase
since 2010. Lakeville ranks #5 for population
growth numbers in the Twin Cities behind
Minneapolis, St. Paul, Blaine and Woodbury.
There were 25 ribbon cuttings for new
businesses in 2019 that included commercial
retail businesses, restaurants, medical and
other office developments, along with
churches, a memory care facility and an
independent-living market rate apartment
project for seniors.
Lakeville issued 521 single-family permits
in 2019 and this is the seventh year in a row
the City has been ranked #1 in residential
permit numbers in the Twin Cities. In addition,
the City issued 99 townhome permits and
8 apartment project permits. The variety of
housing types developed in Lakeville in 2019
is consistent with the Envision Lakeville goal
of providing housing choices for “people of all
ages and stages of life.”
The City Council approved an orderly
annexation agreement between Lakeville
and Eureka Township to annex the remainder
of Airlake Airport property. This annexation
was requested by the Metropolitan Airports
Commission (MAC) to allow the MAC to
extend City water and sewer infrastructure
to serve the entire airport and new proposed
private hangars.
The Metropolitan Council approved the City
of Lakeville’s 2040 Comprehensive Plan, that
guides development for the next 20 years. A
corridor mixed use (CMU) zone was added to
the updated comprehensive plan allowing for
mixed commercial and residential uses near
identified transit areas.
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