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by Scott C A change to the Courson
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scope," Bannigan said.
which is Designex- In other business the council gave final improvements,residences would not be assessed for the
petted to speed up the approval to the$1.14 million road plans to improvement isovement Collier said, "
businessmen's requests for processing ssing ofWe feel the
or small remodelingsignpermits upgrade Conway ave.,between McKnight the residences nces and that they
projects,has rd. and Century ave. improvement for
first reading by a unanimous vote of the Jim should not be
Maplewood cityMurphy, an engineer for assessed."
council.
Howard, Needles, Tammen the
In recent weeks of the North- Bergendoff firm, told the council thatbecausebecause of the road
east Area Chamber of The staff's reports also indicate that
withIrtecene t
staffekand the membersDof the North-
met Conway ave. will become
a four lane of the divided road.The improvements ch em nts w Il also within five antes' construction several
Board to voice their complaints abo Review include street lighting, nearby trees might die
board restrictions which they felt were turning lanes. g channelization and Mrs. Years.
unreasonable. BobbyRussell Dornseif, 2651 E. Conway
The businessmen feltrD. Collier, ave., ed with
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many of the Maplewood Public replaced with trees of ourheartythe trees be
requests could be handled byWorks Director, said that costs for the that we
the staff. improvements will be financed half by size in order
The city's present ordinance,which will state aids and half by segregatedfrom
homes relatively
not be officially changed until the council Collierd addeddthat e city3M Com the commercial view.
passesosecond readingobtain federal funding has retrceived ing
to sfomf that wehi are losing beau it fu]oak trees
change, states, of the proposed federal funds we "but in receivin so
the councfl the prop the would have to g she added.which will,
hundreds of
The board may increased design s meet "Ityears
ac old,"w
recommende
coor ofthat the Community "There would be ac two specifications."
onthreeguarantee of thelbea however,
or to be modified,
to getting give us some
modified,Development delay in ettin the funds," year enjoye now." Y and e taken to
applicationsapprove, or causer proposedbadditions gn Explaining to the council henearby
The staff said steps
remodelings not exceeding $1000 why nearby maintain the would be
construction valuation." in citizens' to
After meetingprivacy.
with the businessmen,
the Design Review Board recommended
that the city raise the minimum amounts
to$5,00o for s buildin
for sign permits atg and keep the imit
$1,000. That recom-
mendation was adopted unanimously by
the council.
Manager Michael Miller and his city
staff had recommended that the limits be
set at$2,500 for both buildings and signs.
City Attorney John Bannigan told the
council that he wanted to check the
legality of the ordinance change
language.
"You can delegate authority to a point
but you can't do this unless you define the