HomeMy WebLinkAbout1973 01-25 Miller Favors H-Shaped Shopping Center Only DISPATCH MAPLEWOOD MANAGER
Miller Favors H -Shaped
Shop . ina Center Only
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Maplewood V i 1 I a g e in a written report to the. T h e department of
Manager.Michael Miller Village Council. public works, he said,
scants approval for an Among other things, a d v i s e d that public
con-
"H-shaped" shopping the manager said, the streets should be con
center only at the north- main building, which structed around the en-
east corner of White contains a 60,000 square tire site, not only to
Bear and Lydia Ave- foot department store, a serve the prop •
osed de-
future
nues. 40.000 square foot gro- yelopment, but menus
But developer Maple- , cry -store and other re- as weilnt developments
wood Plaza Inc. has sub- tail shops, ought to be as well.
milted a plan for an I,- 11-shaped. Ile also referred to
. "only minimal landscap-
shaped main building. He said an L:shape ing planned for the
That could be a hang- tends to create la one-sid- boundaries of the site,
tip in the current hot is- ed use of buildings, simi- Improved screening
sue over the latest coin- lar to nearby 'Shoppers should be provided on 1
mercial development City. That's undesirable, the site's east side. he
proposed in the Ramsey headds. said, in order to screen
County comm unit V. But 'David Parkhill, a off-street parking and
Maplewood Plaza's 're- spokesmin<-for the de- the -service side of the
quest for rezoning of the r e 1 o p e r. said the I, center . from residential
16-acre tract, which pre- shape" has been proved property.
sumablv would open the acceptable in many oth- Landscaped islands
door for the shopping er shnp tg center. should he included in the
center, is up for a public I lis emrerits. which parking area. he added,
hearing tonight. came off-the`cuff at a re- to break up the monoto-
The session, at the V'il- cent Planning Commis- nv of the large .parking
lage Hall. 1380 Frost sion meeting. w er•e en- lot
Ave.,starts at 7:30 p.m. dorsed by Commissioner
Manager Miller says Roger Singer.
that any rezone, from Singer suggested , the
the present farm resi- village had little if any
dential to shopping c•en- experience that proves
ter. should also be linked II-shaped buildings , sa-
to approval of the site perior to L-shaped build-i
plan. ings.
And Miller intends to Meanwhile, Miller was e
fight the site plan pro- critical of other_ aspects!
poral, based on remarks of the site plan. s