The public hearings will be held tonight at the City of Clayton's board of aldermen meeting.
The Clayton Board of Aldermen is slated to meet tonight at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at Clayton City Hall. Items on the agenda include: REPORT FROM THE CITY MANAGER The meeting is open to the public.
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An expansion proposal by the church drew about 20 Davis Place residents to a Clayton Architectural Review Board meeting, resident Jennie Jeffrey wrote in an email interview.
Central Presbyterian Church has withdrawn one component of its expansion plans: A 12-space surface parking lot. The building is located in Clayton's Davis Place neighborhood, where residents previously have expressed concern about people parking in front of their houses to attend various church functions. In an email interview, Davis Place resident Bob Kuehn provided a synopsis of discussion about the plans. That conversation happened last week during a meeting of the Clayton Architectural Review Board (ARB). Fellow resident Jennie Jeffrey shared the attached document, which outlines Davis Place residents' concerns about the proposed expansion. How many Davis Place residents attended Tuesday's ARB meeting? I'd say about 20. What public …
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Plans for the Davis Place church include a two-level parking structure and a three-story addition to the church, a city document states.
Central Presbyterian Church is planning to expand in Clayton with a two-level parking structure, a three-story church addition and more, information posted to the city's website states. The church is located in the Davis Place neighborhood. Limited details about the plans were included in an agenda for this week's meeting of the Clayton Plan Commission and Architectural Review Board. Aldermen will review the plans at a later date. (Download the agenda that includes Central Presbyterian Church plans.) The following changes are proposed at the site: The church has said it needs additional parking, while neighbors have expressed concern about added traffic in their area. In February, aldermen unanimously approved an ordinance that eased …
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Before aldermen unanimously adopted the measure, several Davis Place residents expressed continuing reservations about available on-street parking and home values.
An ordinance to update parking restrictions in Clayton's Davis Place neighborhood passed Tuesday night during a meeting of the Board of Aldermen. The ordinance won approval with a 7-0 vote. It marked the second reading of the ordinance. Earlier this month, aldermen agreed to postpone a decision on the measure after several residents said they hadn't had enough time to provide feedback. Discussion about how to balance a request from Central Presbyterian Church for additional parking with residents' desire to preserve several church-owned houses and on-street parking has been underway for months. Under the agreement adopted Tuesday, the church will leave the homes in place for the foreseeable future and instead build a parking lot along …
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Members of the Clayton Board of Aldermen said they will review parking restrictions on Mohawk and West Biltmore drives before voting on the ordinance Feb. 28.
Officials agreed Tuesday to take a second look at Mohawk and West Biltmore drives before voting on a bill that would update parking restrictions in Clayton's Davis Place neighborhood. The decision came after three residents blasted the Clayton Board of Aldermen and Central Presbyterian Church in comments and expressed dismay that they didn't have more time to get input on the changes from neighbors. (Read the proposed Davis Place parking changes by downloading a PDF of the Clayton Board of Aldermen's Tuesday agenda.) Discussion has been underway for months about how to balance a request for additional parking by the church with neighbors' request for the preservation of three residential buildings that the church owns. Robert Kuehn said …
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Numerous congregations in Clayton and Richmond Heights are hosting services Saturday in conjunction with Christmas Eve.
Several congregations in Clayton and Richmond Heights will host special holiday services or participate in volunteerism on Saturday and Sunday. Please add your events to our calendar and let us know about them by posting a comment to this article. A Christmas schedule and volunteer opportunity will be posted Sunday. SATURDAY, DEC. 24 4 p.m. Gospel pageant and Holy Eucharist featuring the choir at The Church of St. Michael & St. George in Clayton 5 p.m. Family worship service in the Sanctuary at Central Presbyterian Church in Clayton Mass will be celebrated at Little Flower Catholic Church in Richmond Heights Candlelight worship service at First Congregational Church of St. Louis in Clayton featuring stories told by children, traditional …
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But a majority of respondents also said there should be no connection between parking restrictions in the Clayton neighborhood and a Central Presbyterian Church proposal to tear down three of its buildings.
While residents surveyed in Clayton's Davis Place neighborhood place a priority on saving three buildings at risk of being razed, a majority don't think their preservation should be tied to parking restrictions in the area. That's the conclusion of a report the neighborhood's trustees plan to release Wednesday night. The survey also allowed respondents to write out their thoughts on the issue. Comments ranged from one-sentence answers to paragraphs. (Also on Clayton-Richmond Heights Patch: Where Would Jesus Park? Davis Place Survey Respondent Asks) Trustees now plan to convene a meeting next Monday or Tuesday between residents and Clayton Board of Aldermen representatives Mark Winings and Steve Lichtenfeld. "Any decision will be in the …
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Patricia Johnson, who owns a house in the neighborhood with her husband, recently expressed her concerns about the survey in an email to Ward III aldermen Mark Winings and Steve Lichtenfeld.
The results of a parking survey conducted earlier this month in Clayton's Davis Place neighborhood are being processed, trustee Debra Rabinovich said Monday. No additional information about the outcome of the survey was immediately available. On Wednesday, Clayton Board of Aldermen member Steve Lichtenfeld said he and fellow member Mark Winings had not yet seen the survey results. Responses to the online questions were due Tuesday. "This is a process driven by the Davis Place trustees, and the leadership of it is by the trustees themselves," said Lichtenfeld, who along with Winings is a Ward 3 representative. The recent survey asked whether people in the neighborhood would be willing to relax on-street parking restrictions in exchange for …
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Davis Place resident Ed Rader said parishioners at Central Presbyterian Church aren't using space available to them in two parking lots. Meanwhile, resident Margaret Murphy said she would favor looser parking restrictions.
Ed Rader opposes the idea of relaxing on-street parking restrictions in Clayton's Davis Place neighborhood in exchange for keeping three houses owned by Central Presbyterian Church. "It's a coercion," Rader said. He is against both the loosening of parking restrictions and the demolition of the buildings, even though he thinks the latter is inevitable. His comments come following the issuance of a neighborhood survey last week by the Davis Place trustees. It asks residents for their thoughts about the idea of saving the buildings in exchange for looser parking rules. It also allows them to say that the two issues shouldn't be linked. That is the option Rader chose. Parking at the church has been on Rader's mind for a long time. Since …
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Among the questions being considered: Do residents of the Clayton neighborhood favor easing on-street parking restrictions in exchange for the preservation of three houses owned by Central Presbyterian Church?
An online survey issued Thursday asks Davis Place residents whether they would consider having on-street parking restrictions eased in exchange for the preservation of three houses on North Biltmore Drive by Central Presbyterian Church. "We would like your input on whether you prefer tighter on-street parking restrictions or retaining the houses for now, assuming that it is not possible to have both," Davis Place trustees stated Thursday in an introduction to the survey. "We understand that you may decide that neither is an optimal choice." Responses to the survey were requested by Sept. 6. The church has discussed tearing down the three houses it owns as part of an effort to expand its parking lot. Discussion of parking-restrictions bill …
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