HomeMy WebLinkAbout1974 03-07 Maple Woods Apartment Project Again Rejected By City Council DISPATCH Mdple Woods Project
a� ReIete By City. Council
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For second time in The latest
plan was for Ma+le Woods, Inc. had townhousero ects are
p J like a fantastically suc-
ssthan six months, 386 apartments, 87 in p
has voted 5-0 to deny buildings at the north-.City Coun- each of five four-story
roposed a similar plan doing. They just aren't cessful market," Bruton
pl — for 435 units in five the thing in this part of commented. "Tow n
hbuildings, each five sto- the country — at least at houses may be a little
ontroversial housing east corner of Larpen- ries. the present time." bit overbuilt now. But
ect, mostly because tear Avenue and Mc-developer refuses to Knight Road.
Mayor Robert, Bruton But Mayor B r u t o n we had that situation
q called the latest plan challenged Cox's asse.r with apartments a year
9 de townhouses. Last year developer "better" than the first tions. orso.ago."
one. • As an example, the "That 15 per cent,"
"The city council is mayor referred to a re- Cox responded, "repre-
grateful for that," he port indicatiing that ents an awful lot of
told the d e v e 1 o p e r. townhouses presently empty townhouses."
"You're moving in the constitute 15 per cent of Cox argued that the
right direction." housing in planned unit current plan was "an up-
But the major hang-up developments in the sev- grading" over the 1969
appeared to be the de- en-county Twin Cities plan — in that it includ-
veloper's.refusal to con- metro area. ed additional open
struct townhouses along That compares with space. The 1969 plan had
with the apartments. only one per cent five 26 buildings on the site,
He had promised years ago,he stated. compared to five pro-
townhouses in the sec This sounds to me posed now.
and phase of the Maple - - - -
W o o d s development,
when the council ap-
proved the concept in
1969.
Charles\ Cox, spokes-
man for the developer,
said "townhouses don't
make sense any more. '
Only 24 of the 60 town-
houses in Maple Woods'
first phase, he reported,
have sold.
"That's bad," he com-
mented. "Yet it's much
better than most other