Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The appeal is against the City Council's approval of a conditional use permit for a Walmart development.
A citizen's appeal was submitted to the Ellisville City Council Wednesday regarding the development of a Walmart on Manchester Road near the Kiefer Creek intersection, according to an email from Elizabeth Schmidt, Article 9 Alliance interim chair. The Article 9 Alliance consists of Ellisville residents working to recall city council members who had voted in favor of the Walmart-TIF project. Until late August, when the recall language of Article 9 in the Ellisville City Charter was deemed unconstitutional in a lawsuit brought forth by Councilmember Matt Pirrello, Alliance members had been petitioning for a recall vote in an upcoming election. The appeal cover letter suggests a lack of formal analyses have been conducted and that the Sansone…
Saturday, September 8, 2012
The city council held a special meeting Friday to decide on the two items.
In a meeting that took place in less than half an hour Sept. 7, the Ellisville City Council approved two ordinances on a special meeting agenda. With little discussion involved, a temporary moratorium passed 5 to 1 (Councilmember Matt Pirrello was absent) preventing the redevelopment of a lot at Manchester and Kiefer Creek roads for six months. Mayor Adam Paul was the only opposed. The moratorium, the length of which can be changed at any time with council action, was originally suggested by City Attorney Paul Martin as a time allowance for a city-issued request for proposal (RFP). City Planner Ada Hood said the RFP was in a draft stage at a Planning and Zoning meeting earlier in August, and that the issuance would be seeking a "high …
Friday, September 7, 2012
Ellisville's City Council will hold a special meeting for expected final passings of legislation Friday.
The final plat for Sansone Group's pending Walmart and a temporary moratorium that would halt redevelopment on a neighboring lot are on a special meeting agenda for the Ellisville City Council Sept. 7. Both items went through first reading "in title only" during the regular meeting Wednesday, but were objected to second reading by Mayor Adam Paul. Paul said he felt more time was needed to digest the proposed legislation. Councilmember Troy Pieper requested the special meeting to move forward with the ordinances before waiting for the next council meeting Sept. 19. The Walmart's conditional use permit passed Wednesday, with the final plat as one of the recent remaining ordinances requiring approval for the project. The meeting will take …
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The decision on the Walmart's final plat was postponed for a special meeting Friday.
The Ellisville City Council approved a conditional use permit for a Walmart development on Manchester near the Kiefer Creek intersection. The second reading for the conditional use ordinance took place at the council meeting Sept. 5 after final passing was postponed following the first reading at the August meeting. Additional traffic studies and safety measures were included in an amended bill that passed by the council 5 to 2, with Mayor Adam Paul and Councilmember Linda Reel the opposed. Councilmember Dawn Anglin said she received three phone calls in the past week opposed to the Walmart TIF project, but seven combined emails and calls in favor of it in the same time frame. Paul added the decision was cut and dry for him, considering …
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Ellisville's City Council meet Wednesday and some of the final decisions surrounding a potential Walmart will go to a vote.
Walmart continues to take up the majority of the Ellisville City Council's agenda for its meeting Sept. 5. On the table are reports from last week's Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, at which positive recommendations were made for the preliminary and final plats of a contested Walmart development. The commission also voted to push through a temporary moratorium, preventing redevelopment for at least the next six months on a lot adjacent to where the Walmart would stand. Public hearings will be held on both the moratorium and the final plat, preceding a council decision on the legislation. Also up for vote is Walmart's conditional use permit, on a second reading from its first appearance on last month's agenda. Approval of this …
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
City Attorney Paul Martin said the only way the plats could be denied is if the plans failed to comply with city ordinances.
A temporary moratorium halting redevelopment on the lot neighboring a potential Walmart development, as well as a preliminary plat and final plat for the Walmart, received unanimous positive recommendations from the Ellisville Planning and Zoning Commission. The items were on the agenda for a special P & Z meeting Aug. 29, highlighting a public hearing on the moratorium. The temporary, 180-day moratorium would mark RPA2 -- a lot of land at the southwestern corner of Manchester and Kiefer Creek Roads -- without the ability to redevelop without approval via a request for proposal (RFP) process during that time. Ada Hood, Ellisville director of planning and community development, said an RFP for the area was in the draft process, adding that …
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
A special Planning and Zoning meeting has been called for Wednesday to discuss petitions from Sansone Group as well as a temporary moratorium on the controversial plat of land where the proposed Walmart would stand.
Ellisville's Planning and Zoning Commission will have a special meeting Aug. 29 to cover more ground on the proposed Walmart deal. With the upcoming Sept. 5 city council meeting -- where the Walmart conditional use permit is set to appear on the agenda again after a second reading for the ordinance was postponed during August's meeting -- Planning and Zoning is holding a public hearing on a temporary moratorium involving Walmart's potential new site. The petition reads as follows: City initiated legislation declaring an immediate temporary moratorium and cessation upon the consideration and final approval of matters relative to development of RPA-2 at the southwest corner of Manchester and Kiefer Creek Roads until such time the city issues…
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The law suit comes from Ellisville Council Member Matt Pirrello against recall petitions for five council members based on recent decisions surrounding a potential Walmart.
Ellisville City Council Member and former mayor Matt Pirrello filed suit Aug. 27 against the City of Ellisville, five Ellisville residents and Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster. The suit protests the "constitutionality" of Article 9 of the Ellisville City Charter, which describes the recall process for elected officials. Recent recall efforts stem from a potential Walmart development in the city and the council's approval of a TIF for the Walmart. The city issued recall petitions, spurring the suit action according to an STLtoday article, for council members Roze Acup, Dawn Anglin, Troy Pieper, Linda Reel and Pirrello. Pirrello is the sole plaintiff in the case and has also issued a request for a temporary restraining order against …
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Patch sat down with Ellisville city officials to confirm or dispel some of the myths surrounding the controversial development. Part four of a series.
The Clarkchester Apartments and Eminent Domain On May 25, about a dozen residents of the Clarkchester Apartments took to the streets to protest a developer’s takeover of their living quarters. The developer, Sansone Group, plans on purchasing the lot of land where the apartments currently stand and combine it with an empty lot next to it to build a Walmart. Several residents accused the city of Ellisville and the Sansone Group of engaging in the "threat of eminent domain" in order to take over the apartments. Ellisville Finance Director Don Cary said, however, that there is no such threat of eminent domain. Cary said all of the property owners of Clarkchester Apartments negotiated directly with the Sansone Group, and thus the purchase of …
Thursday, August 16, 2012
The City Council held a special meeting Thursday to discuss the issue, but the Council moved to have the sole agenda item withdrawn.
After a roughly four-hour meeting Wednesday, Ellisville City Council's special meeting Thursday to consider a proposal to amend Article 9's recall process lasted less than 25 minutes. Council Member Troy Pieper moved to amend the agenda and withdraw the Article 9 proposal within the first few minutes of the meeting. "I really feel this is not the right time for this," Pieper said. "We all have a lot going on." The withdrawal passed unanimously by present council members including Mayor Adam Paul. Council Member Matt Pirrello was absent from the proceedings. Residents and business owners continued to voice opinions during public comments following the withdrawal. While some admitted to changing their original comments based on the council's…
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E. Schmidt
9:31 am on Saturday, November 10, 2012
It's one thing to ignore the objections and arguments of those most affected by this big box, tax subsidy sucking behemoth when you believe they won't fight back...and quite another matter when you have to do it in court. We'll see how well the corporate welfare queens and courtiers do in front of a judge. more ›