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Monday, May 21, 2012

Chesterfield Leaders To Vote Over Outlets, Schoettler Road Fixes, Monday

City Council meets 6:30pm Monday at City Hall; Agenda includes outlets site plan, outlets tax district, stormwater management, roadway improvements, AT&T antennas, and more.

Chesterfield's City Council is to meet Monday night for its regular meeting, that will included a vote over a one percent sales tax hike for future St. Louis Premium Outlets stores, in Chesterfield Valley at the Missouri River. The council's agenda also indicates it would be approving elements on the outlet mall site plan. The proposed outlet stores shopping center would be a 55-acre development on former farmland along Highway 40/64. Site plans typically deal with landscaping, lighting, layout, buildings, and generally, the mapping out of the proposed development. In recent weeks, the city has heard some opposition to the developer's request for a Community Improvement District (CID) at the outlets center, which would add a one percent …

Sharon Tureen

12:27 pm on Monday, May 21, 2012

Improvements to Schoettler Road will hopefully include continuous sidewalks and a pedestrian bridge. This is something that we have looked forward to for years, now with the additional shopping and dining on Clayton Road we will be able to walk to our destination rather than drive.   more ›

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

City: No Outlet Mall Drainage Through Rombach Farm On File

City says it's up to developer, farms and others to work out a drainage plan, then bring to the city.

Media reports Tuesday that a longtime pumpkin patch farm in Chesterfield Valley will be gouged with an open drainage ditch in order to develop a 50-acre outlet mall had city officials in motion late Tuesday. "We are not forcing them to do that. I haven't seen anything," said Chesterfield city Planning and Development Services Director Aimee Nassif. She is typically the key city staffer dealing with this. However, a post Sunday on Rombach's Facebook page by Marcia Rombach said there are plans for a 100-foot wide drainage ditch across the farm. There are 66 comments from others, calling for a halt to anything that would destroy the popular farm. Rombach's post indicated the city was behind it. ("Developers) have to address stormwater, yes," …

Karen Rosner

10:43 am on Friday, April 20, 2012

No outlet malls in Chesterfield! We already have the one of the longest strip malls in the country, as well as Chesterfield Mall, only a couple miles away from both sites being considered for building new outlet malls. How much shopping does one city need, anyway? Chesterfield Mall could end up being another "ghost mall", sitting vacant in the future, if we keep building more and more stores for …   more ›

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