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Two rival developers ty to public utilities. have an equal chance." ties to the archdiocese.
are vying for approval But executive director But the chance of coun- property," he reported,
for the first and what Joe Errigo of the arch- cil reconsideration of the "and I don't know when
may be the only housing diocese's Urban Affairs archdiocese project, at that problem can be
project in Maplewood Commission has contact- least in the near future, solved."
subsidized under Section ed individual councilmen seems remote. Givens' proposal in
236 of the National Hous- and village administra- "If all conditions were •
ing Act. tors to ask for resurrec- equal," Councilman Har- eludes apartments de-
So far Archie Givens tion of the proposal. . lad Haugan stated, "I'd signed mostly for elderly
Sr., Minneapolis, seems "I'd like to see the two prefer the archdiocese ' Persons on limited in-
to have the inside track. (archdiocese and Giv- proposal to Givens'." comes.
He recently gained vil- ens) proposals submitted But, like other council- The archdiocese proj-
lage council approval of to the Department of. men, he went on to de- ect would be open to a
the "concept" behind his Housing & Urban Devel- scribe conditions as une- wider range of age
proposal for a 169-unit opment (HUD) at the qual. groups, but almost ex-
apartment complex near same time," he ex- "It's going to be quite elusively to low-moder-
Larpenteur Avenue and plained. a problem to extend Will-. ate income persons.
McKnight Road. Errigo said there"isn't
An earlier proposal — a chance" that HUD will
for a 175-unit apartment approve both projects,
project near Larpenteur mainly because they're
and Century Avenues — in locations only one mile
was submitted by the apart.
Archdiocese of St. Paul- "Whichever pr o j e c t
Minneapolis. goes before HUD first
But the village council has an advantage," he
tabled action on it, citing stated. "If they went at
no immediate availabili- the same time, they'd