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TV Crew Comes for Pumpkin; Gets the Whole Enchilada
Outlet's pumpkin color walls were too much for Councilmember Fults.
A conference room at Chesterfield City Hall was jammed for a Planning and Public Works Committee meeting earlier this month, with pumpkin farms, outlet malls, snow, roads, and dump trucks on the agenda. But first, most cities have a Planning and Zoning Commission that makes recommendations to the City Council or Board of Aldermen on new developments and zoning issues. A good example of how this system is not supposed to work is the new Schnucks store on Clarkson Road at Kehr’s Mill. The Ballwin P&Z Commission voted against the Schnucks. But the Board of Aldermen ignored entirely their own Planning and Zoning Commission, and approved the store construction. (The Schnucks is in Ballwin, but the street is in Chesterfield, and across the …
parkwaydad
3:10 pm on Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Speaking of 'entrance', I agree. Entrances impact the perceived value (and often are indicative of real value) of neighborhoods. Consequently, home values are impacted by the desirability factor of Chesterfield. Homebuyers ask, "Do I want to live here and does the home price reflect the neighborhood?" Chesterfield should not allow Ward I to become an East St. Louis or East Chesterfield. … more ›