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," …
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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 ›