HomeMy WebLinkAbout1974 05-02 Mall Road Plans Bring Threat to Quit Council DISPATCH Mall Road Plans Bring
Threat to Quit Council
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Anderson joined in to
Staff Writer make the vote unani-
Maplewood Council- mous on the five-mem-
man N o r in Anderson ber council.
threatened to resign last But he predicted that
week unless the city ; too many road improve-
council takes steps to ments—such as I a t e r
plans for making Lydia
Maplewood ? ' and Beam avenues
through streets east of
protect the Maplewood White Bear A v e n u e—
will prompt some resi
Heights neighborhood
from"destruction." ANDERSON dents to vacate their
He shouted and used homes.
prof a n i t y in making neighborhood a n d the 1 can in no way sit be-
: known his views. Maplewood Mall shop- fore you people," he told
And Councilman Don ping center. about 100 spectators ,at
Wiegert accused him of The council ordered fi the hearing, "and let us
"grandstanding." nal plans for part of the (council) administer the
The e x c h a nge was first phase of the con- destruction of a neigh-
part of a public earing s t r u c t i o n program, borhood."
on a seven-phase. $8.4 mostly to accommodate He asserted that
million road and utilities traffic increases expect- "s o m e councilmen,"
improvement program ed with the g r a d u a 1 stopping short of identi-
in the northeast Maple- opening of the mall and fying them by name,
wood area that includes nearby businesses this "think (commercial) de-
the Maplewood Heights year. See Anderson page 3
1h
Anderson . l
Continued From Page 1
velopment is the great- move too fast with u n-
est." provements, citing this
"But we need residen- as one reason why he
tial neighborhoods like ran for council last fall.
we have in Maplewood "I stood before this
Heights," he continued. council before," he re-
called, "when it tried to
improve Frost Avenue."
His reference was to
the east-west road that
he lives along, proposed
for improvements over a
year ago.
The residents were
overwhelmingly against
a... ' such a project.
"If the people in this
city cannot have a say,"
... ° Anderson commented,
WIEGERT "I'm going to get the
"You people have built hell out of this . . damn
up a good neighborhood council."
and taken care of it. You Wiegert responded:
are just as . impor- "Did Frost Avenue go
tant as the Maplewood through,Norm?"
Mall." Anderson: "No, it
He suggested that the didn't, because I put up
council was trying to a damn good fight."