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A developer was told abandon his plans for Woods, a sprawling 76- do of four apartments to
by Maplewood's Village • townhouse construction, acre housing develop- ' each townhouse.
'council last week- that Charles Cox, the prin- - ment at the northeast.' Under the r e v i s e d
le won't be allowed to cipal owner of Maple c o r n c r of Larpenteur plan, he noted, the ratio
Avenue and McKnight would have gone to 11-.
Road, had argued that • to-1, which he described
townhouses weren't sell- as unfavorable.
ing. - The townhouses should
But the council, by a serve as a "buffer" to
5-0_. vote, told him to surrounding single fami-
build 'townhouses any- 1 y neighborhoods, he
way. said.
Cox•had asked for per-'' Wiegert indicated ha ,
mission to erect 435 wasn't personally ruling
apartments in the sec- out some changes in the
and phase of his develop- second phase plans. but.,
ment. nothing as ."drastic" as
In 1969, he had prone- .Lox's current request.
ised 86 townhouses and
300 apartments in the Opposition to Co x 's
second phase. __ proposal also was based
Cox said that less than . on a change to five-story
-20 of 60 townhouses apartment buildings.
erected in the first phase Originally, the develo-
had sold. -- per had agreed to a
lie called the -town- maximum three-story or
house market"glutted." 35-foot height for any
. Councilman Don W'ie- building.
gert, -in defending the Wiegert urged Cox to
council's action, said the -remember that the origi-
original concept for Ma- nal c o n c e p t approval
pee Woods was for a ra- was based on a "design
with some respect (for)
the neighbors." •
As for lagging town
house sales. the'council-
' man suggested that Cox
wait awhile.
lie said that only a few
y e a r s`ago apartment
rentals were slow, but
that the demand had
picked up recently.
The same trend may
occur with townhouses,
he predicted.