Politics & Government

City Looks For Best Way To Engage Public In Comprehensive Plan Review

The document that has been used as a guide for making land-use decisions in Creve Coeur will be re-evaluated.

A joint session of Creve Coeur's city council and the city's Planning and Zoning Commission Monday night did not reveal any hints regarding possible changes in direction as far as the future of the city's Comprehensive Plan, but instead focused on just how city leaders should go about getting input from the public.

The overall process of evaluating the plan, which city officials use as a guidepost in making decisions about land-use and zoning, will pick up in March and gain steam in May. Community Development Director Paul Langdon has said that the document itself remains relevant today but is starting the process off with no assumptions about what will happen.

You can find the Comprehensive Plan on the city's website.

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Ward 3 Councilman Bob Hoffman pointed to the community-wide meeting the city held in 2011 as it considered the idea of deerhunting program and asked if it could be replicated. Langdon said he was concerned that a meeting which was too large, could lead to something of a free-for-all.

Ward 2 Councilwoman Tara Nealey, who played a lead role in the deer debate, pointed to the fact that the deer meeting included an expert from the Missouri Department of Conservation who was able to answer questions. The suggestion was made to try and include the Missouri Department of Transportation in the public education process to provide the public with data showing how traffic counts have changed in the time since the plan was first adopted in 2002. Other meetings with a "theme" could also be held.

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Monday's work session itself did not include public comment. A few residents of the Ladue Road area near Interstate 270 were in the audience following along with the discussion. Residents there cited the Comprehensive Plan as a chief form of evidence to oppose the Delmar Gardens development project, which was withdrawn last month before it would have likely been killed by a final City Council vote.

While the Comprehensive Plan has been top-of-mind with those residents in particular in recent years, Mayor Barry Glantz offered some perspective Monday, reminding the meeting that the plan is a city-wide document and not just regarding a specific area. Hoffman added that he wanted to make sure that the city's business community, which swells Creve Coeur's daytime population threefold during the day, is involved in the process.

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