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CAP Board approves next step in USS Ward gun removal review
Summary
The Capitol Area Architectural and Planning Board voted to advance a removal request for the USS Ward gun, finding that staffpreliminary analysis and public comment support moving the application to a commemorative-artwork review committee and a further public comment period.
The Capitol Area Architectural and Planning Board on April 3 voted to accept staff's preliminary finding that the USS Ward gun removal application meets condition C of the board's commemorative-works rules and to convene a commemorative-artwork review committee to continue the review process.
Board staff fellow Tina Chabuzu summarized the application, staff analysis and public comment at the meeting. She told the board that the gun, installed on the Capitol grounds in 1958 and owned by the U.S. Navy, had been the subject of a removal request from Randall Dietrich, executive director of the Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum, seeking…
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