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One day after I complained that the Council had not yet decided on a Public Works development plan, details of a plan finally surfaced in last night's Planning & Zoning agenda. There are still a ton of details we're waiting to learn, but here's my initial write-up from over the weekend:
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202 Homes Proposed for Former Public Works Site
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Well folks, after nearly a year of waiting, the results of the Request for Proposals on the former Public Works site have finally surfaced via this week's Planning & Zoning agenda. The selected proposal comes from St. Louis-based Double Eagle Development and calls for 202 homes across six four-story buildings, accompanied by 247 parking spots. Double Eagle's description of the …
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- The highlights of tonight's City Council meeting agenda are the second public hearing on the Pitman Place development proposal at the former Commerce Bank site and a related public hearing on the zoning code text amendment to allow residential uses on the first floor of mixed-use projects. Excited to see these things pass in the next couple of weeks.
- A few highlights from last week's edition of the Webster-Kirkwood Times on Kirkwood Electric:
- There's a follow-up story on the Kirkwood Electric rate hikes on pg. 1. My take on the story got delayed by the Public Works site news, but it should be out in the coming days
- On pg. 4, there's a story on a $2 million water main replacement that ends with CM Rheinnecker stating that "it's expensive to own a water company". You get the sense that our heavily Republican City Council is just absolutely itching to privatize one or both of our publicly owned utilities. Privatization can make some sense in competitive sectors, but by definition, private utilities are monopolies, so I think this would be bad and dumb, and my preference is that we manage them better.
- Also on pg. 4, enrollment in Kirkwood Public Schools is down this year. As Kirkwood becomes more expensive, we can expect it to have fewer families and more retirees. That's not a great recipe for future economic growth.
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