Council votes down housing development at Gustafson Park

Council votes down housing development at Gustafson Park

BRAINERD — Gustafson Park will remain a park. Brainerd City Council members voted unanimously on Monday, Feb. 2, to officially dedicate the space as a park — which has not yet been done — and to discontinue conversation about developing it into housing. “I originally didn’t think this park was as important as it obviously is to the neighborhood,” Council President Mike O’Day said, “but when the neighborhood comes and speaks out like that, we’ve …