Update: The rezoning of 250 Commerce failed its first reading before city council last week and seems to have little hope of moving forward in the near term. There's more work to do. Original Story On Thursday night, Kirkwood's newest zoning distinction began its first real test. The R-MM zone (Residential-Missing Middle) created last year,… Continue reading 250 Commerce Ave: A Test for R-MM
Update 05/22/2025 After a very long wait, work finally seems to be underway on 144 W Adams. The lot has been leveled and the site shed is in place. Here’s to hoping things go vertical soon! The site as of May 2025 Update 06/07/2023 The fourth unit is back, and the design has changed as… Continue reading West Adams Missing Middle Set to Rise at Last
Update 01/07/2021: The Starbucks was unanimously voted down upon first reading. I'll keep you updated if Starbucks comes back to the drawing board as I suspect they will. Previous Story: First of all, I just want to say sorry for going AWOL for a couple months. The end of the semester got sort of busy… Continue reading The Starbucks Project is Really Bad, Actually.
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.
I recently read a couple articles that have been weighing heavily on me. The first was one outlining what actions climate scientists are undertaking to reduce their own personal impact on climate change in light of what they know. Some of the scientists featured in the article have stopped flying or have switched to a… Continue reading Election 2020: For all the Marbles
