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Walmart To Ask Ellisville For Extension
The controversial development project has been delayed in part because of a lawsuit filed last fall challenging the validity of a conditional use permit.
Wednesday night figures to be another proxy fight over the merits of placing a Walmart store in Ellisville, as the retailer prepares to ask the city council for an extension on a conditional use permit, first granted last September.
Developers for the project have worked largely around the edges of the plan to locate a Walmart store on Manchester Road just west of Kiefer Creek Road since a resident filed suit last fall challenging how the conditional use permit was issued.
Without an extension, the permit will expire unless a building permit is issued and construction begins.
In a letter sent last week to City Manager Kevin Bookout and City Council members, an attorney for the resident who filed suit over how the permit was issued, urged the body to allow the Conditional Use Permit to lapse.
Bookout told a West County Chamber of Commerce audience last week that the Conditional Use Permit was "fine" and that the lawsuit over it was "frivolous."
Bookout said an August 28 hearing was scheduled for the Missouri Court of Appeals.
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