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By MARY LEE HAGERT the council, "I don't care how you do it, \''
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Although the temperature in the city The council approved the project
council chambers was a chilly 62 degrees unanimously.Bid letting will probably be
on Feb.28,soon after the public hearings in April.
began that evening many members of the Citizens'tempers did not cool down any
audience seemed to have reached the for the Radatz Avenue and Southlawn
boiling point. Drive Improvement project. On a four to
The Maplewood city council conducted one vote, the council denied this am-
three public hearings, each of which bitious$591,300 project.Councilman Earl
attracted a large, and seemingly hostile Nelson cast the sole yes vote.
group of citizens. The project called for street im-
The council on a unanimous vote ap- provements along Radatz and for the
proved a public improvement project to extension of Southlawn. It also included
correct drainage problems in the Lar- Radatz watermain, Southlawn sanitary
penteur Avenue and Howard Street area. sewer main and storm sewers.
On a 4-1 vote, the council denied a
project calling for improvements along DESPITE THE. FACT that federal
Radatz Avenue and Southlawn Drive. Housing and Urban Development Grants
The council also turned down the third were available to help offset some of the
improvement project along Beam costs on this project, there was stiff
Avenue, west of Highway 61. Council neighborhood opposition to the im-
members asked the consulting engineers provements.
to draw up cost estimates for installing The HUD grants were contingent on the
part of the sanitary sewers called for in construction of a low and moderate in-
this project. The council will re-examine come housing project known as the Maple
this phase of the project at its March 13 Knolls Townhouses development. The
meeting. townhouses are planned to be built in the
center of the block bounded by Kohlman,
TEMPERS FLARED at the first public White Bear and Radatz Avenues and the
hearing on the Larpenteur and Howard proposed Southlawn Drive extension.
Storm Sewer Project. The council first Frank Yoch, 1826 Radatz Ave., said he
conducted a hearing on this project in was concerned about the water problems
1975. Cost estimates for the needed im- that the development might create. "I
provements have risen substantially have ponding problems now. I'm con-
during the past five years. cerned there will be more water on my
Most members of the audience seemed land if the project goes through."
to be in agreement that this project is Roland Erbst, 1892 Kohlman Ave., said
necessary. However, most thought the the ponding planned in the program was
council should pick up the extra costs of not reasonable. "We pump water now. If
the project because of the delays. They the water gets any higher,who is going to
also seemed to believe that the city pay for this?I'm perfectly willing to have
created the drainage problems in this expansion, but let the developers pay for
area and was therefore responsible for the problems it will create."
correcting the situation.
Dennis Kelly, a former resident of the MANY OTHER neighbors expressed
Howard Street neighborhood,outlined his concern that the townhouse development
belief that the city had blocked the will create traffic congestion problems on
natural drainage system in the area. He Radatz.
said the Townhouses of Maplewood The third public hearing was scheduled
complex and the small shopping center at to begin at 8 p.m. Due to the length of the
the corner of Larpenteur and McKnight two earlier hearings,the last one began at
Road had caused water to build up in the 11:15 p.m. u '* a
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