HomeMy WebLinkAbout1974 12-30 Councilman urges citizens to sue Maplewood council DISPATCH Councilman urges
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Maplewood council
Councilman John been for the last 10
Greavu has urged some years."
citizens to sue Maple- Other councilmen sug-
wood's City Council. gested that Greavu's ad-
HE ACCUSED the vice was too drastic.
council of stalling, to the COUNCILMAN Burt
detriment of property Murdock, as an example,
owners, a decision over asserted that the council
the future of the west opposed rezoning for
side of White Bear Ave- fear of "spot develop-
nue between Frost and ment" along the about
Larpenteur Avenues. half-mile strip of single
Two of the property family homes.
owners — Harry A.Jons- He said the council
son, 1717 White Bear was waiting for someone
Ave., and Gale Pate, 1865 to come in and say: 'We
White Bear Ave. — corn- have purchased the
plained at a city council properties from one end
meeting about failures to of the block to the other
rezone their land. and we are going to put
They said owners of in office buildings and
1,975 feet of frontage develop the whole
have asked the council thing.'
repeatedly for a change "Then," Murdock
in the current residential said, "I don't think you
zone so they can pursue will have any problem.
commercial de v e 1 o p- But it's not us who
ments. should take the initiative
Owners of about 500 and go out and do that."
feet of frontage oppose
rezoning along the heav-
ily-traveled roadway,
across from Aldrich Are-
na.
GREAVU, in the past,
has sided with the ma-
jority of owners who
seek rezoning.
"I think you people
ought to start taking le-
gal action,"he said.
"YOU AREN'T going
to get anything out of
this council," he added.
"I'll be honest with you.
I'll lay my cards on the
table. You are going to
be sitting for another
five years,like you have