HomeMy WebLinkAbout1973 12-25 Majority of Townhouse Owners Favor maplewood Apartments DISPATCH Majority o Townhouse Owners
Favor Maplewood Apartments
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A m a j o r i t y of the Woods complex which "Cox's revised plan," like other people in the
townhouse owners in a contains 60 townhouses he insists, "is much im- single family neighbor-
Maplewood housing de- and 300 apartments. - proved over the original, hoods."
velopment f a v o r eon- Developer Charles Cox
P at least in the view of Although the council
struction of five-story said he encountered dif- most of the present voted down Cox's re-
apartmentbuildings vir- ficulty selling the other townhouse owners." vised plan 5-0, the issue
t u a I 1 y in their back- 39 townhouses. He said the new plan of an expanded develop-
yards. So he wants to• back 1 e a v e s "much more" ment isn't dead.
"We'd rather have the out of the Maple Woods open space and provides Cox, has indicated he
h i g h-r i s e buildings," expansion •proposal, . ap- for the, planting of addi- will submit still another
said their spokesman, proved in 1969 by the tional treesand under- plan ' to the Planning
Jerry Markie, "than an- M a p 1 e w o o d Village ground rather than .the Commission early next
otother row of townhous- Council, .that includes once-planned above- year.
construction of an addi- ground parking.
Markie owns one of tional 86 townhouses.
the 21 townhouses that I n s t e a d, he prefers Those are the "main
reasons,"" he says, why
have sold in thMaple proceeding wit h 435 11 Maple Woods town-
apartments 87 in'each houses owners support-
of five separate five-sto- ed Coy at a public hear-
ry buildings. . ing.
The Village Council, Eight opposed him and
earlier this month, said two stayed out of it.
"no," partly because of "W e 'r e affected by
protests from residents t h i s development as i
in surrounding s i n g l e much as anyone." Mar-
family home neighbor- kie commented, "but the
hoods in the vicinity of council •doesn't seem to
Larpenteur Avenue and listen to us."
McKnight Road. • He asserted that town-
Meanwhile, M a r k i e h o u s e residents were
,suggests that the council treated as "second-class
should listen more to the citizens"in Maplewood.
present townhouse own- "We o w n our own
ers. homes," he added, "just