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We expect developers of Maryland Pointe to return with a conceptual plan for their big-box development in the next few months.  Stay on top of the news by re-subscribing! 

Come join us for a night of fun at our annual Trivia Night fundraiser. Grab your friends and neighbors and test your knowledge while supporting our efforts to save the floodplain by Creve Coeur Park from massive commercial development.

MHRRG has been partnering with the Open Space Council to help educate the community on the plans that Maryland Heights, St. Louis County and certain landowners have come up with to pave over farmland and wetlands adjacent to Creve Coeur Park. We will have more information available during the trivia night and have people on hand to answer questions before the event begins.

This event is MHRRG's main fundraiser for the year, please help us make it successful! There will be a Raffle and Silent Auction conducted throughout the evening as well as extra games thrown in for fun. Put together a table of 8 people and come have some fun!
For more information and registration form, go here.

When the Planning Commission let the Maryland Pointe developers go forward to the next stage, they set out a list of conditions the new plan must meet from the get-go.  This organization hosted a community meeting during which residents made their own comments and additions to the city's conditions.

Both documents were reviewed at the Oct. 25 meeting, but not everyone got a copy.  Click here to review a copy of the conditions and residents' comments.  Take a close look and let us know what you think.

Proving they care about their city and Creve Coeur Park, area residents packed the  Planning Commission meeting tonight to standing room only.  The commission voted to "approve with conditions" the Maryland Pointe plan to put big-box retail and office space in the Missouri River floodplain, next to Creve Coeur Park.  That's the bad news, but there is some good news, too.

First, the vote was not unanimous.  Commissioner Mark Madden voted against the resolution and received a standing ovation for it. 

Second, we applaud the conditions put forth by the city.  They set the bar for the developer very high in such categories as transportation, site design and stormwater management. 'If you're going to build there, you're going to make it state of the art' is the message.

The sustained voices of residents have made a big difference already in the quality of the ideas that will be proposed in the next step, the preliminary development plan.  There is no time estimate of when the developer will return with the plan.  But in the meantime, there is more work to be done to make sure we don't face similar disastrous proposals in the future.

Showing up and working together, we can continue to make Maryland Heights a better place to live. 

There is some confusion about what happened at the last Planning Commission meeting.  The commission was expected to vote up or down on Maryland Pointe, but they found a middle road.  They asked the city's planning staff to develop a third option by coming up with a list of conditions the developers would have to meet if the commission voted to "approve the proposal with conditions."

At the Oct. 25 meeting, the Planning Commission WILL vote one of three ways:
1. Denial 
2. Approval
3. Approval with conditions

Public pressure IS having an impact on the process!  Show up on Oct. 25 and urge the commission to deny the Maryland Pointe proposal.  It is easy to ignore people you can't see.  We need to make sure they see a packed house of concerned citizens.