The City of Maple Grove didn’t bulldoze Dawn Cooper’s home, but what came instead might’ve felt close. A new housing development next door forced the Minnesota homeowner into a surreal position. Her only path home now runs along a former city road turned private, 1,000-foot stretch of driveway she has to take care of on her own dime.
Cooper bought the property in 2022 after a death in the family, determined to keep the home that had been in their lineage for more than 60 years.
The lot sat quietly along Fernbrook Lane, a familiar road that for decades had been her family’s access point…