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By SCOTT CARLSON THE STRIP,located south of
Staff Writer I-94,is a mile wide and four
When it comes to annexation miles long. Some county park t'1
proppsals,the Maplewdod City land,a number of housing devel- b
Council takes a "tit for tat"atti- opments and some undeveloped a
a
tude. land are located there.
, 3z At least One St. Paul official called the
that's how strip"the most ridiculous piece t
°� Maplewood{ � P of land you've ever seen."Anoth-
/ City Council- er one added that dovetailing the I
ti men recently two city's road systems is diffi-
responded to cult. t
. an idea from
h • St. Paul city of- , "A sewer and street system is
ficials that a needed and it is not there now,"
,�,:4 °a tongue-like said James Bellus,a St. Paul
strip of Maple- planner.
Carlson wood adjacent BUT DESPITE initial objec-
to the High- tions from Maplewood Manager
wood area be annexed by St.
Paul. See East Wind,P g 2 (E)
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Continued from Page 1 George Latimer would like to
Michael Miller, St. Paul Mayor have some fun that he come over
George Latimer said the annexa- and play on some of our bocce
tion proposal"might be fun." ball courts —and not worry
about the southern portion of
However,Maplewood Mayor Maplewood."
Burton Murdock and his col Wiegert said, "I'm not all that
leagues did not find anything hu convinced that St. Paul can run
morous in the idea. He admitted what it has so damn well that
the configuration of land is unu they can take over more land
sual. and I don't know that they need
But Murdock added,"I'm as- any more land."
r' sunning those people who live
down there don't feel it's ridicu Councilman John Greavu
lous. speculated, "I think they(St.
•
Paul) are looking for that open
\) INSTEAD,maybe Maplewood space down there."
shogjd annex St. Paul's sliver of Interjected Wiegert, "I don't
land, Murdock suggested. "Possi know what they want. They
bly we could run their(St. could have had it years ago.
() Paul's)community as smoothly They annexed mile by mile out
and efficiently as I feel we are
running-Maplewood,"he added. there."
Responded colleague Donald BUT HE ADDED, "They (St.
Wiegert, "Well, they (St. Paul) Paul) left one mile hanging out
indicated that they have a prob there."Wiegert contended that
lem because they have a sliver now some problems have been
of land."Murdock's suggestion solved in the area, "they want to
would solve the problem, he take it over."
adri1itted. Who will win out in this possi-
Murdock later added, "I would ble annexation battle?Miller,
also like to suggest that if Mayor who believes that the issue has
been blown out of proportion
said, "My suggestion is that St.
Paul can not legally annex a por-
tion of Maplewood without us."
But Wiegert contended that it
is more important to find out
what the people in that area of —
Maplewood want.
"The only thing I've got to go
on is that up to this point, we get
some of the best participation
from people,"Wiegert said.
He concluded, "To my knowl-
edge,they consider themselves
;very much a part of Maple-
;wood."