St. Charles Aldermen Kill Corporate Reserve, Lexington Club
If the St. Charles City Council next week affirms the Planning and Development Committee votes, both projects are dead for at least a year.
Residents opposed to new apartment complexes in parts of St. Charles were able to breathe easier as the St. Charles City Council Planning and Development Committee dealt what likely will be fatal blows to both the Corporate Reserve and the Lexington Club developments. The full City Council is expected to take up both issues next week. If the aldermen maintain the votes they recorded Monday, neither project could be brought back before the council for a full year, barring a vote to reconsider. It was unclear late Monday what the City Council’s rules are governing the timeframe for a reconsideration vote, however unlikely such a vote might be. Each proposal has been wending its way through the municipal approval process, and like other …
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Steve Swanson
11:18 am on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Brian, those Plan Commission hearing on the Lexington Club PUD were held in the late Summer and early fall of 2011. The Patch article about the failings of the 2007 Comprehensive Plan Amendment was not published until the late Spring of 2012, and it is my understanding that much of it was based on documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act in 2012 and therefore it could not have come… more ›