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Maplewood's first BUT THE city council the Maplewood area. ranging from $132 to
government-subsidized last week agreed to im- The complex's second $184 per month, will be
low and moderate in- mediate installation of a building, with 100 apart- mostly for families. It
come apartment complex watermain, on a tempo- ments of one to three- will open in February,
will have residents by rary basis. bedrooms, with rents Miss Givens said.
January, despite talk in That will provide
recent weeks that the enough water to satisfy
opening may be delayed Schadt,at least for now.
a year. Meanwhile, Roxanne
FIRE MARSHAL Al Givens, project manager
Schadt had recommend- for Rainbow Develop-
ed against issuing occu- ment Co., the developer
pancy permits for the of Archer Heights, des-
' 168-unit Archer Heights c r i be d the apartment
Apartments at Beebe and complex as "probably
North St.Paul Roads. the last of its kind in the
x y He told of inadequate Twin Cities area."
water flow, with pres- She said it was fi-
sure insufficient to fight nanced under Section
fires. 236 of the National
Housing Act, which was
And City Engineer B.
D. Collier said the neces- recently scrapped by the
sary water improvements federal government.
would take about a year. The 236 program was
designed for low and
moderate income fami-
lies and for elderly per-
sons.
MISS GIVENS said
the first of the two
buildings to open will
be mostly for the elderly.
The three-story facility
has 68 apartments,51 for
the elderly and 17 for
handicapped persons.
Rents, Miss Givens
said, start at$125 month-
ly,including utilities.
She described that as
"considerably b e 1 o w"
the average monthly rent 1
of about $185 for one-
bedroom apartments in