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Maplewood M a y o r i several citizens, He said he will try to things back to them that
Robert Bruton said last with planning commis- get support for the corn- we kind of handicap
week he would "strong- sion members as chair- mission from the hous- them."
ly urge" the city plan- men. The subcommittee ' ing and redevelopment Councilman Donald
ning commission to con- would report back to the authority and personally Wiegert suggested that
sider forming subcom- planning commission as will help to find volun- the mayor meet with the
mittees in order to get a whole,he said. teers for the proposed planning commission to
more work done. subcommittees. see if his proposals are
BRUTON proposed .1 Maplewood Planning Commission feasible.
that the subcommittees Chairman Les Axdahl "It involves the educa-
The mayor said he is said commission mem- tion . of the w h o 1 e
"disappointed" to see bers recognize the prop- (group),"he said.
that the commission's lems mentioned by Bru
goals for 1975 do not in- ton, but that the goals
dude several items that for the previous year
were not accomplished "came out unduly opti-
in 1974. mistic."
THOSE ITEMS in- The commission want-
dude a capital improve- ed to put the 1975 goals
ments program and rec- "in some kind of range
ommendations for zon- of practicality,"he said.
ing of the entire area THOUGH the capital
around the Maplewood improvement program
Mall,Bruton said. was not a goal for this
"There's no reason Year, Axdahl said, the
why you can't do more planning commission
in 1975 than what you has taken up the study
have in the plan," he of priorities with items
said. such as the ice arena and
"There's a lot to be golf course proposals.
done," Bruton said. "We There is a "crying need"
really need you . . . We to determine "what do
desperately n e e d the we need first,"he said.
direction so we can get "We've tried to lay out
out of some of this fire- a program that might be
fighting and get more able to be a c c o m
into the physical plan- plished," Axdahl said.
ning." "You can't promise the
moon if you can't deliver
it."
In defense of the com-
mission, Councilman
Norman Anderson said,
"We refer so many