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A reminder that we will be having our Housing Holiday Happy Hour tomorrow (Friday) at PJs at 4pm. RSVP to/share the event on Facebook, come, bring a friend, talk housing, have a pint, and be merry; I'm excited to see you all there!
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In other news, I also published a new piece on Tuesday looking at the Southeast Kirkwood Connectivity Study. The ultimate aim of this study is to identify the preferred route for a mixed-use path that will eventually connect Meacham Park to Nipher Middle School. Come weigh in on which route you think is the best here:
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Meacham Park is an Island: Part 2
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In April 2023, I wrote a piece titled "Meacham Park is an Island: Part 1" that described the ways in which the historically Black neighborhood in the southeast corner of Kirkwood remained physically isolated from the rest of the community. The article seemed to resonate, and I even got a lot of comments from Meacham residents confirming its thesis, but …
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- One quick note on tonight's City Council meeting agenda:
- The big event tonight is the council's first reading vote on the sidewalk zoning text amendment we've been talking about the last couple of weeks and which I've written about extensively here. I expect this thing to pass, but remember, if everyone is there, the rewrite will need five yeas to pass rather than the typical four so it'll be interesting to see if there's any drama in the final margin
- Last week's Webster-Kirkwood Times:
- On pg. 1, there was a nice write-up of the Lindeman and West Essex streets projects as well as an update on the establishment of the Transportation Development District.
- On pg. 4, there was a very interesting juxtaposition between two recent Council decisions:
- On the left, the council rejected a rezoning to allow a tattoo businesses in B-3 Highway Businesses Districts after a new studio applied to open along Manchester under the auspices that such a change would amount to a "spot rezoning" (despite the fact that it would effect all of B-3, not just this particular property)
- Then, in the article three inches to the right, there's an article explaining how the council added a last-minute amendment to the first reading approval of Lou Fusz Toyota's expansion plan at 10725 Manchester Road that would require the dealership to construct a concrete sound-proof wall between the dealership and the adjoining neighborhood
- The fact that the council feels fine about increasing the costs and barriers on a project-by-project basis but claims its "spot zoning" when they lower the barriers to an entire zoning district feels telling. It's frustrating that a council that identifies as conservative has such few qualms about the ways in which red-tape get in the way of affordability
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