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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1976 03-24 Council tables improvement THE REVIEW For McMenemy street 8244& 24 /.742 Counciltablesimprovement by Scott Carlson Construction of a 10-inch sanitary sewer has serious problems even without any Some citizens said they would not mind dug up for the sewer improvemeI line along a portion of McMenemy street more development. paying a fair assessment but they did not engineers noted it would be less cos in west Maplewood is being withheld until "The homes will do it too,"councilman want to pay more than others. make permanent street improvem :he city council decides whether it will Donald Wiegert said about future A DETERMINATION OF what kind of including concrete aprons and cur also construct a water booster station in development in the area. Mayor Robert assessments would be considered was one The city told the audience that Rai he Parkside area. Bruton agreed. of the most unsettled issues. City county would participate in that THE COUNCIL POSTPONED action "The system is already in trouble in- Manager Michael Miller said Friday that provement, if approved. st hursday night, t some 200 ependent of Ban-Con, hesald. the ucil would be studying new in- BUT 84 CITIZENS SIGNED a pet!izeswatching, thou h0 Benton a dg don the formation egd ng proposed stating that th j dot want igineers report that the sanitary sewer council vote to table. But councilmen assessments for the project. improvements. And Les Swanson, nprovement is needed to relieve sewer Norman Anderson, John Greavu and Among three improvement alternatives McMenemy, said that includes ^essure problems, Burton Murdock felt that by postponing offered, the city engineers felt the sanitary sewer. Some area residents, who paid for a action citizens who might be affected by a replacement of the existing eight-inch "We fail to seehow any finan wer improvement some 13 years ago, water improvement then would be aware McMenemy line with a 10-inch pipe would development could improve our liw amd the Ban-Con Corporation's sewer of any pending assessments against them. help to double capacity.Sewage would no Swanson said of possible Ban-Con act okup request for precipitating the need Under one proposal,citizens outside of longer flow north and then west, un- He noted there was not one construct • the sewer improvement. But city McMenemy street,but still benefitting by derneath Interstate 35E into the reason offered at an informatio icials responded that the area already the sewer improvement, would be Adolphous line and then south. meeting three days earlier for the charged on an area-wide assessment Instead,under the engineers' proposal, provements. basis of two cents per square foot or the 10 inch line would direct sewage flowShould there be a demonstrated ni roughly $50 per lot. Citizens on south and later connect up with an eight "we would like to be notified so we c McMenemy street, 700 feet north of line. This would relieve pressure on the save up for it," he said. Larpenteur avenue to Highway 36,would Adolphous line. Another gentleman said, "To be charged a heavier amount. At the same time that McMenemy is Continued on page gyp ''-' 4 ate, ``-" �` , tiot ,, lit - tee'ocr r ... sYe 1 ,.. .r • ..r. I DON ZETTEL,334 E.Roselawn,addressed the Maplewood city to either voice their concerns or merely watch the proceedings. council last Thursday night at a public hearing regarding a The council,after a couple of hours of public testimony,decided sanitary sewer improvement.Nearly 200 citizens were on hand to table action. McMenemy . . . Continued from page t assessed again is very unfair." During the discussion,the city admitted that even if the sanitary sewer is ap- proved Ban-Con development, if it is forthcoming,could still be prohibited if there would be problem in'sufficient water pressure. Robert Collier,city director of public works,said that any development would have to be approved on a case-by-case basis. Mayor Bruton said the council has established a building moratorium in all areas of the city where water pressure is inadequate. Further development could cause fire-fighting problems,he said. It was perhaps this fact, plus the citizens desire to know what the extent of their possible assessments might be,that triggered the three councilmen to support tabling of the issue until the council decides whether it will approve a water booster station for the area. Mayor Bruton,who heartily disagreed with the council's action,pointed out in discussion that the two improvements would be for entirely different projects. "If I was talking about the same water main down the same street it would be different,"he said.But he pointed out, "These are not the same physical im- provements." But Greavu, Murdock and Anderson maintained that there could be nothing lost in holding off action.