Update 11/20/2020 Last night, a proposal recently redubbed "The Hutton", Savoy's twelve unit condominium proposal for 134-138 West Madison was approved 6-1. Pitched as the"last of it's kind" by Savoy, this project completes their rapid transformation of this block long stretch that up until very recently had been dominated by small businesses located in small… Continue reading The Hutton
Well, it's been a while, but we finally once again have news on the development front. Next week, after more than a three month layoff, Kirkwood's Planning & Zoning Committee will meet for double session: once on Tuesday and once on Wednesday. They will have a jam-packed agenda to take on when they do so.… Continue reading Starbucks, Flats, and Banks, Oh My!
On Saturday, June 6th, I participated in the Kirkwood Teachers of Color-organized, Black Lives Matter Peace Walk. Early in the week leading up to the event, it seemed like the walk would be a somewhat controversial and divisive event for a pretty quiet, wealthy suburb; one likely attended by no more than a couple hundred… Continue reading Our Zoning is Racist: a multi-family housing story
Six candidates for three spots. This week I focused on the six. I tried my hardest to sort through the six candidates for Tuesday's city council election; to get them to say the quiet part out loud. If you haven't done so already, I encourage you to go back and read those profiles and interviews… Continue reading 3 Spots. 6 Candidates. 14 Prairial.
I've spent a long time trying to get this Maggie Duwe article right. It's been hard to find something new to say. Duwe didn't respond to my email requests to participate in an interview; I've been hard on her voting record in the past. Those two things are probably related. But you can't commit to… Continue reading Maggie Duwe.
Ellen Edman respectfully declined to be quoted for this profile. While outwardly she cited a desire to remain objective in light in the fact she is still currently a member of the council, it's hard to imagine that political calculations didn't play a role. At the beginning of March when I had first asked if… Continue reading Ellen Edman.
Sandy Washington has had what I think most would call an inauspicious start to this campaign. She has put few signs in very few yards, I have yet to see a mailer with her face on it and, perhaps most damningly, Washington was the only candidate who failed to submit a response to the Post-Dispatch.… Continue reading Sandy Washington.
ou can tell Bob Sears has been here before. Serving on the council from 2010 to 2018 before being term-limited out, unlike everyone else I've written on so far, Sears has a real life voting record to run on. That record, at least from an urbanist perspective, is decidedly mixed. In 2018 Sears joined four… Continue reading Bob Sears.
If there's a candidate out of this year's field of six that you've never heard of, it's probably Joseph Vogelgesang Fuchs. He has no discernible campaign website, maintains no dedicated facebook page to his election and I have yet to see a yard sign. So what do we know about Joe? Well there's the Post-Dispatch… Continue reading Joseph Fuchs.
So I've waited until less than a week before to roll out my analysis and profiles of and interviews with six candidates in an a election that is likely to be decided by mail-in ballots. Is it ideal? No. But ballots aren't due until the day-of, and here I am, and here you are! There's… Continue reading Liz Gibbons.
