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The Metro Council ills- what's known as the Ila- of Hwy. ''1'? through Ma- the center of (another)
agreed with itsreferral z e I w 0 o d residential plewood. neighborhood."hesaid. 1 11th (venue alignin
ommittee la s t week neighborhood — leaves "The result is that the Ile said the frontage hesaid.
Ind suggested no future M a p 1 e w o o d Village traffic does not disap- road will be blocked by Wiegert also predi, '
nter•change on b u s y Councilman Don \Vie- pear. but moves to Hwy. Hwy. 61 on the west, that h e c a u s e of
'Iwy. :.16 between IIwy. Bert aghast. 36."he stat ed. where the state won't al- creased traffic on ii.
;1 and White Bear Ave- ''Inc Metro Council Hwy. 36 will have to be low access. wool Avenue it will I.
mein Maplewood. . . . has utterly and abvs- widened to a six-lane It'll have a temporary to be widened to
The referral commit- molly failed to grasp the freeway to handle the outlet at White Bear Av- lanes north to C nu;:
ee had recommended scope of the traffic prob- traffic, he predicted, a enue on the east. \Vie- Road C. forcing remo,
in interchange in the vi- len ''he said. widening that will take gert noted, but only until of still more homes
inity of Hazelwood Ave- ll'iegert said he's not houses oil the southern R a m s e y County pro- the Hazelwood neight _
me. about in the middle opposed to saving the edge of the neighbor- cads with a plan to hood. I
►,the two-mile stretch. neighborhood. consid- hood. close it there.
Earlier. Maplewnod's creel a "model" because The Metro C n u n c i 1 So traffic will have to On the south side
,illage Council called i t 's racially-integrated. said an English Street move a half mile to the Hwy. 3t� the councri,...
or the interchange at Black families r e s i d e interchange was unsuit- north to North St. Paul's Turn to Page 3,Col. 1
:nglish Street. about a there. able because it conies
i u a r t e r mile east of Only an English Street too close to Ilwy._61. con-
lwv,61. interchange w i I I keep trary to a metro devel-
The issue has been a the neighborhood intact, opment guide.
ource of controversy in the councilman con- .That. too, will lead to
laplewood for rears, tends. complications. accord-
-Until now, the debate Going w i t h o u t any in; to 11•ieeert. because'
as been not over wheth- kind of an interchange of heavy traffic in the
r there should be an in- will disrupt the neigh- English Street area.
.rchange. but w h e r e borhood eventually, he v Among other things,
hould it go? insists. it'll create a need for a
The Metro C 0 u n c i l Ile said this is partly four-lane remote east-
tand tor absolutely no due to still another Met- west frontage road along
iterchan;e — for the ro Council action. disap- Gervais .‘venue. "goug-
tated reason of saving proval of any extension ing out homes through
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Continued from -•-1 • tersections. Wiegert publicly by the council
says. people can gain ac- said. for"only six minutes."
cess by two methods: So the Metro Council's In that time, the coun-
MOVE EAST to White alternative of no inter- cil "destroyed several
Bear Avenue on Cope change at all is really no years' work and study
Avenue or County Road alternative, he c o n- by Maplewood in trying
B. eludes. to solve serious traffic
MOVE WEST to Hwy. Wiegert also said that problems,"he said.
61 on County Road B. the Metro Council deci- Another Maplewood
That would necessitate sion appears "arbitrary "councilman. Don Olm-
widening County Road B and capricious.'- s t ea d. said he had
to four lanes and the im- M an example. he said doubts that any Metro
proverrlent of various in- the issue was discussed Council member actual-
"" lv read the detailed com-
prehensive Maplewood
plan and the reasoning
behind it.
He also said that the
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