HomeMy WebLinkAbout1972 11-28 Maplewood Won't Revive Subsidized Housing Project DISPATCH a d Won't pewookevive
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•Maplewood's Village find the necessary ma- xolved in the future. At,
Council has refused to jority support, they did least if we gave him That one already has
from
revive a proposal for a have Councilman Don (E r r i o) preliminaryconcout approval from
,government - subsidized Olmstead on theirside. a roval e udgoto the1m council.
housing project. Olmstead dissented on approval,
D (Department of 0 I m council appointed
By the motion to deny the Housing rbanDevel- to the Aug. term to
y a 4-1 vote, the coun- archdiocese request. opment) fora approval." fill Pat unexpired
him-
dl rejected a request At the meeting, he in se ropo, called from the Archdiocese of didn't state 'his rson- view, also 'said thhee r pre- holusin proponent of "236
St. Paul-Minneapolis to• ing, but in a subsequent (erred the archdiocese His (reference was to
remove the • controver- telephone hone i n t e r view
ria, ue from the table . proposal to another. 169- projects financed under
sal consider finalta stated: I agreed with unit subsidized housing Section 236 of the Na-
p- the points Errigo was proposal near Larpen- tional Housing Act.
proval and a special use • bringing up. The utility teur Avenue and Mc- The archdiocese pro-
permit for a 175-unit question could be re-'
low-moderate i n c o,m e Knight Road. poses using '236'funds.
apartment complex at
the `southwest corner of
Century and Larpenteur
Avenues.
The proposal has been
before the •council since
last spring.
But after a.'p u b l i c
hearing June 29, action
was tabled indefinitely,
mostly because of the
lack of public utilities at
the site.
'Joseph Errigo Jr., as-
sociate director of the
archdiocese's Urban Af-
fairs Commission, asked
for a council declaration
of intent to serve tthe site
with sewer and water
eventually.
"I t 's a worthwhile
project," Co u.n cilman
Harald Haugan conced-
ed. "But I'd be hesitant
to give a, commitment
that may not be ful-
filled."
"We'd like the cor-
,mitment anyway." Erri-
go responded, "W e 'I 1
take our chances."
Errigo went on to
point out that comple-
tion of the project, even
if approved now, would
be at least two years
away.
B
they village lhe could suggested,
how best to serve
the site with utilities.
"We've taken flyers
before," Councilman
Don Wiegert interjected.
"But we had a little
more information to go
on."