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The Maplewood City Council south of Beam in the district. al of a project.
will seek yet another solution to "You're playing the game and
zoning of property south of the ALTHOUGH several spokes- then making the rules, one resi-
Maplewood Mall, council mem- men for property owners south dent said.
bers agreed Thursday. of Beam said they did not object Councilman Burton Murdock
to the overlay provisions, others agreed. "This ordinance puts
BUT, SAID Councilman Bur- north of Beam said the addition- too much power in the hands of
ton Murdock, "That's the last al restrictions would.make it im- officials of this city," he said.
one. Any more discussion on possible for property owners to City planner Robert Reed re-
this thing,the hell with it." ' sell their land. minded the council that council
The council Thursday rejected Dick Schreier, 2125 DeSoto, members have said they do not
rezoning of the property south who owns property on the north want "another South Robert
of Beam Avenue, between White side of Beam and west of the. Street" south of the mall.
Bear Avenue and Hazelwood mall, said the overlay ordinance If the council approves a re-
Street, to a business commercial would be the last straw, added zoning of that land to BC, with-
(BC)classification. to assessments for Beam Avenue out the "flexibility" of the over-
It also rejected a proposal for improvements that will total lay o r d i n a n c e, he warned,
an "overlay" district there and $1.30 per square foot. ''You're going to have to allow a
throughout the diversified cen- "We might as well just mail drive-in restaurant on each piece
ter. The "overlay" d i s t r i c t you a deed for that property and of property that requests it.'
would have provided develop- save ourselves some headach- The only alternative, he said,
ment controls in additon to the es," he said. is to "eliminate a lot of the BC
base zoning of the property in Other property owners said that's already there," rezoning it
the district. the very flexibility of the pro- back to farm residence (FR).
Previously, the council had re- posed ordinance, which would Councilman John Greavu, the
jected rezoning of the property ,allow the council to vary from only council member voting in
south of Beam for limited busi- its provisions and those of the favor of the BC zoning Thurs-
ness commercial (LBC) use. City zoning ordinances, wilt "scare" day, argued that the cost of the
officials then created a new zon- developers, who will not know land and assessments will con-
ing for the area, commercial of- whether they can expect approv- trol"what goes in."
fice (CO), which also was reject- ___
ed.
THE COUNCIL Thursday ,
agreed to meet with the city
planning commission to come
up with a zoning that will per-
mit most'commercial uses but
exclude some businesses the
council does not want on Beam
Avenue — for example, used car
lots and fast food chaims.
In effect, the council would be
creating several categories of BC
zoning. Such zoning classifica-
t•ons are used by many other
communities, Councilman Don-
ald-Wiegert pointed out.
Council members said the
proposed overlay district was
too restrictive and contained too
many "loopholes." They also
questioned the inclusion of
property other than the area