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A 'controversial rezon- •have the backing of Ma-. change on a busy section' office building :develop-
ing proposal, opposed by :plewood Village Council. of White Bear Avenue ments.
at least 58 directly in- may be delayed indefi •
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volved or nearby proper- But there's still a good nitely. As a result, .Ramsey
ty owners, , appears to possibility that the zone County will insist on lim-
The council wants cer- ited access to White
tain conditiorLs met be- . Bear Avenue, the ad-
fore the area on the west ' ministrators warn.-
side of White Bear Ave- .
-me f r o m Larpenteur • Now each of the home
Avenue north to a few owners has direct 'ac-
hundred feet short of cess to the street, which.
Frost Avenue becomes a has a daily traffic count
limited business com- of about 14,000 vehicles.
mercial zone. It's single James W. Bothwell,
family residential now. • 1704 Flandrau St., pre-
The . biggest stumbling sented the Village Coun-
block seems to be that cil with a petition which
each of the a p p r o x i_.he said was signed by 58
mately 28 property own property owners op-
ers along the route posed to the rezoning.
should, voluntarily give Theyinclude 43 own-
40-foot wide easements ers oFlandrau Street,
for a frontage road. . he said, where the rear
Based on current pub- of the lots touch on the
lic opposition,that seems land up for rezoning.
to be 'an impossible im-
mediate task, council- Other signers were 10
men admit. landowners on White
• Bear Avenue and five on
However, the council Larpenteur Avenue, he
introduced an ordinance reported.
that would change the
zone. Bothwell said that five
White Bear Avenue
Adoption could come property owners who
whenever the conditions, • once favored the rezon-
including the acquisition ing changed their minds
of easements,are met. in recent weeks.
About 25 single family In an interview after
residences, all of which the council meeting,
"would become non-con- Bothwell said "it didn't
forming uses, are in- appear that they (coun-
volved in the rezone pro- oilmen) looked at the pe-
posal. tition very closely."
The original proposal "The homeowners feel
extended all the way
north to Frost Avenue, the council isn't listening
including 30 homes, but to the people,"he added. .
that will be scaled down Flandrau street resi-
on council orders as a dents, he said, are most-
concession to some of ly fearful that the rezon-
the rezone opponents. ing would change the
Village • administrators residential atmo-
seem to have convinced sphere" of their proper-
councilmen that the ties. t •
frontage road would be
an absolute necessity in
a limited business zone,
mostly because of traffic
generated by what's ex-
ted to bessional