HomeMy WebLinkAbout1973 01-02 Maplewood Orders Plans for Water System Project DISPATCH Mapléwoàd Plans
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By JIM BROEDE to a $30 million divg
decision on a Ma- Miller said he has al- tial assessment bonds.
Staff Writer fied shopping center due p I e w o o d (versus) re- ready conferred with en-
to open in September maining with the St. gineering and fiscal con- The m a n a g e r also
Preliminary p 1 a n s 1974. Paul system." sultants about financing asked the council to con-
the projects. sider financing water-
have been ordered for The other major proj- On the manager's rec- "We feel that by as-
an estimated $1,161,110 ect, c o s t i n 339 360forworks improvements
in water: system im- would g $3ld be for
thearea ommendation, the coun- sessing normal (wa- partly under a "new con-
provements in Maple- northwest of McKnight cil voted 4-0 to order the ter) lines . . . the village cept" used in Denver,
wood. g could get back approxi- which he described' as
Road and Larpenteur preliminary plans. mately 30 per cent of the an availability charge.
And all ,. but Avenue, serving mostly costs,"he explained.$35'200 residential d e v e 1 o p- Presumably, the pro- p The charge would be
worth of the project pro- ments. posals will be scheduled He said the village levied on new connec-
posals havef1973 by Vil-
been labeled
musts for for'public hearings early would have to issue spe- tions.
m
[age Manager Michael Miller also told of a this year.
Miller. me e d, not necessarily
this year, for a $35,200
He cited a need for a project if the village de-
n86,550 project for the cides to divorce an area
:ommunity's c e n t r a l of Maplewood from the
area, including service North St. Paul water
system.
The village has under
consideration a proposal
to establish a completely
independent w a t e r-
works.
Now the Ramsey
County community con-
tracts primarily with St.
Paul and to a lesser de-
gree with North St. Paul
for water.
Miller said the two
major projects he pro-.
poses for 1973 can be de-
signed to tie in with ei-
ther an independent sys-
tem or continued con-
tracting with St.Paul.
"T h e r e are other
areas in the community
that need improve-
m e n t s," he admitted.
"But these are the ma-
jor ones where steps can
be taken without reach-