HomeMy WebLinkAbout1973 03-22 Maplewood Criticizes Metro Council for "Non-Involvement" DISPATCH Maplewood Criticizes Metro
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Maplewood's adminis- sponse come during the tire plan — to accommo- community n o t i c e of
trative staff has flayed preliminary planning date for no interchange, plan adoption hearings.
the Metro Council for al- process, when metro-lo- administrators said. "I h e (Maplewood)
leged "non-involve- c a I "inconsistencies" "There were issues in staff believes that the
ment" in local hearings could have been conven- the proposed plan which Metro C o u n c i 1 should
on t h e community's iently resolved? admin- were significant enough reevaluate its policy,"
comprehensive plan. istrators asked. (for) Metro Council con- the Maplewood adminis-
Instead, t h e council The Metro C o u n c i l cern and hopefully input trators commented.
and its representatives called for no future in- or comments at the . . . "The Metro Council
ignored notices to attend terchange on Hwy. 36 required p u b 1 i c hear- policies of non-involve-
the
on involvethe hearings and provide between Hwy. 61 and ing," the administrators ment at the local hear-
input, the administra- White Bear Avenue. stated. "particularly re- ing reflect a dilemma
tors said in a recently- But the comprehensive garding the transporta- which strikes at the very
released written report. plan was developed on tion and land use ele- issue of metro planning
The plan was eventual- the presumption t h a t ment." and coordination," they
ly forwarded to the Met- there would be an inter- The Metro Council a d d e d. "The practice
ro Council for the re- change there. staff indicated that as a is to allow a com
quired 60-day review. Now Maplewood has to "matter of policy" it munity to expend unnec-
But according to the revamp virtually the en- doesn't respond to local essary energy."
Maplewood administra-
tors. the council took 134
days to respond.
And the response in-
cluded criticism of cer-
t a i n wide-ranging as-
pects of the plan.
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