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Aerial view of the proposed Missouri Bluffs development area.
Developers seek to amend plan for
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development near Missouri Bluffs
By BRIAN FLINCHPAUGH
The developers of a proposed housing
development on about 400-acres just south
of the Missouri Bluffs Golf Club are seeking
to revise the development plans that
are currently before the St. Charles County
Planning and Zoning Commission.
Brad Goss, an attorney for NT Homebuilders,
LLC, one of the developers,
told the St. Charles County Council at its
Feb. 12 meeting that they plan to amend
their rezoning request and development
plan for the 396.72-acre tract that would
allow the development of more than 300
homes and other multi-family units. Goss
spoke during the public comment portion
of the council meeting, saying he wanted
the council to be aware of the developer’s
plans. The rezoning was not on the council’s
meeting agenda.
The property has been zoned agricultural
since 1959. The University of Missouri has
owned the property as part of the Missouri
Research Park, which it developed along
Interstate 64. The tract is near the village
of Weldon Spring Heights and the city
of Weldon Spring. The developers listed
in the rezoning request are the Missouri
Bluffs Golf Joint Venture and NT Home
Builders, LLC.
Goss told the council that the developers
want to amend the zoning request from
an R3-B multi-family residential district to
an R1-A planned unit development overlay
classification that will limit multi-family
dwelling units. He said no apartments are
allowed under the R1-A classification. The
number of multi-family condominiums
and villas also may be cut in half, he said.
Gross noted that the county allows
developers to amend their proposals either
[St. Charles County photo]
when the planning and zoning commission
submits its recommendations to the council
or when the commission considers the
proposal, in this case at its Feb. 21 meeting.
The commission makes recommendations
on rezoning proposals to the council,
which makes the final decision on them.
In addition, Goss said the developer
wants to officially exclude Spur Trail from
the development plan. Spur Trail is located
on about 10-acres in the western part of
the tract that leads to the Katy Trail. It was
included in the legal description of the
property owned by the University of Missouri
that was submitted to the county but
is not part of the development plan.
“It was never our intention to include that
property as part of our plan,” Goss said.
The original proposed development plan
for the property calls for 315 single-family
homes on about 200 acres of property
and 12 attached housing units near the
golf course clubhouse. The property is
bounded by the Katy Trail to the south and
the Missouri River.
The county planning staff recommended
approval of the earlier zoning request
that is on the agenda for the commission’s
Feb. 21 meeting but suggested that
improvements may have to be made to the
intersection of Research Park Drive and
Research Park Circle because of increased
traffic. However, the development has run
into opposition from nearby residents at
hearings before the commission, many
of whom worry about the development’s
impact on the forested hilly property that
borders the Katy Trail and whether apartments
would be part of the development.
The rezoning request was continued and
not acted on in December and January by
the commission.