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Residents of a north Their arguments were • this thing out." it and they can't afford
side Maplewood neigh- convincing enough for Councilman John it," he added. "A lot of
borhood said last week the village council to Greavu said he was re- elderly people live in
they would rather put up vote 5-0 to deny • the luctantly voting against that area. They will
with drainage problems_ $273,660 improvement the project. have to move if these as-
than pay the cost of a proposal, including con- "Turning it down," he sessments are placed on
cure, estimated at $3,082 s t r u.c tion of paved stated, "and just forget- their properties."
for a typical 80-foot lot. streets with curbs and ting about the (drainage McCullough also point-
They hired attorney gutters and storm sew- problem) doesn't help ed out that 13 of the 14
P a t McCullough, St. ers. the situation." property owners who pe-
Paul, to fight the project "If the people were Village engineer Bob- titioned for investigation.
proposal in an area split 50-50 I'd vote for by D. Collier, in outlin- of the drainage project
bounded roughly by Lar- it," councilman Harald ing the proposal, showed , were opposed to it.pentt e u r Avenue, St. Haugan commented. slides of high water in
Paul Water Department "But with 98 per cent the neighborhood due to
property, Jackson Ave- opposed," he explained, what he called poor
nue and Sylvan Avenue. "I see no reason to drag drainage.
But attorney Mc-
Cullough said the prob-
lems were relatively few
and isolated.
He said the council
should respond to the
wishes of the residents.
"I've never seen a
project in which the peo-
ple were so unified in
•.their opposition," he re-
ported.
"I think the reasons
are that they don't need