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By JIM BROL E The Vi11Age Council vote Councilmen Don Wie- klede
th council for ta- as lack of municipal utili•
Staff Writer was 3-2. gert and John Greavu op- bling the matter. ties and a transit system
A citizen-arousing pro- The action means that posed the tabling. They They called for outright —to deal with.
posal for a 175-unit low- the project-townhouses had urged denial of the rejection. But Mrs. Olson and
moderate income housing and 'apartments at the proposal submitted by the Director Joe Errigo of Haugan insisted that the
project in east Maplewood southwest corner of Lar- Archdiocese of St. Paul- the archdiocese's Urban problems could be over-
was tabled indefinitely p e n t e u r and Century Minneapolis. Affairs Commission said come.
last week. Avenues—remains alive. Council members Pat the council's tabling ac-
' Olsom and Harald Hau- tion was "a victory."
gan talked for conditional "I'm disappointed that
approval. the project wasn't ap-
But they successfully proved," he explained.
"But I feel confident we
moved for tabling—as a
compromise—by picking can obtain approval in the
up support from Mayor future. Most of the council
Les Axdahl. has an open mind in re-
The mayor's comments gard to the proposal."
Axdahl, Greavu and
prior to the vote were Wiegert generally de-
against the project. scribed the proposal as
But he agreed to with- "premature."
hold a decision until more They said there were
information can be ob- too many problems—such
tained.
Axdahl said he wants
Maplewood to consider es-
tablishing a Housing &
Redevelopment Authority
(HRA) in order to proceed
with public housing proj-
ects.
The housing authority
would be-a preferable al-
ternative to government-
subsidized "236" housing
programs,he suggested.
The council voted 5-0 to
send the HRA concept to
the Human Rights Com-
mission for study.
Citizens opposed to the
archdiocese proposal hec-