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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1974 04-30 CARE Says Mall Street Program Unacceptable DISPATCH CARE SaysMaIt Street P•ro arm Unacceptable ,.. ,„, A seven-phase p r o-v es from t e east to the idents'inter-e,1-" gram for $8.4 million in Maplewood Mall shop- I He also urged invoh e- street improvements in • ping center. ment of "commercial in- northeast Maplewood That would take shop- terests" in planning for has been called unac- ping center-bound traf- solutions to the "traffic ceptable "unless it can fic past homes with val- problems they are creat- be backed up with guar- ues m excess of$40,000. ung•" antees." And that's the main "Let's get them in- So far, according to reason CARE was or- volved in a community Chair man James St. ganized about a year • committee," he s a i d, Onge of Citizens Against ago — to fight any pro- "made up of local gov- Residential Exploitation posals that would chan- ernment, citizens and (CARE), there are no nel through traffic in the businessmen." assurances that, he pro- neighborhood, at least in Then, he argued, there gram will be -im lement- the near future. could be a "total corn- ed as presented at a pub- St. Onge, in a written ; mitment" to follow the lic hearing last Thurs- statement, said he wants ' seven-phase program, ,, day night. the city council to con- ' with no deviations. He suggested that if sider making the seven- • "C A R E especially the phases` become im phase construction pro- doesn't want Beam Ave- plemented "out of or- bgram part of the com- nue to become a through der," then` it'll play hay- munity's comprehsnsive • street to the Maplewood oc with the Maplewood plan. Mall," St. Onge report- H e i g h t s residential Then, he pointed out. it ed. neighborhood. can be altered only after "We don't believe resi Under the program, a series of public hear- dential areas should be the seventh and final ings. sacrificed," he added, phase calls for con- "We feel," he corn- "or suffer for the benefit structing links, of a few mented, "that no con- of commercial int e r- hundred feet' of Beam struction (of street s) ests." and .Lydia avenue s, should take place until . City Engineer B.D. making them - through assurances can be givenCollier has predicted streets and easy access- , of a plan to protect the • that the seventh phase of the program wouldn't be necessary until about 1995. But City Councilmen John Greavu and Norm Anderson warn that there may be pressure to complete the full pro- gram within three to five years.