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Tuscarora, IL – A St. Louis County judge issued an order Tuesday to stop a private company’s plan to build a wine bar on a 30-acre vacant parcel in a troubled urban farm town on the Riverwalk.
The town of Tuscarora was considering the site for a planned 300-barrel warehouse. County planners told the St. Louis County Planning Commission that a wine bar would present a large financial risk, because the property’s potential use is so uneconomic.
But the commission voted 4-2 to keep the wine bar at stake, and ordered the property owner to turn the land over to the county. The St. Louis County Planning Commission’s action is an example of its approach to the development of St. Louis County land.
Dianna Miller, a developer from St. Louis with plans for a hotel and residential development, sued the county, alleging that zoning requirements would have the impact of reducing a residential property from being developed into a commercial and rental development.
Miller argues that her development is not economically feasible and could cause an increase in flood damage. The project would run from a 300-seat wi이천안마ne bar to a 150-seat retail, movie theatre and restaurant. The site,바카라 where the village uses to store and clean the wine, also was the main land-use in one of the county’s recent zoning changes that led to controversy.
Commissioners on the commission said the property owner’s plans to build a wine bar on the riverfront are not in keeping with the redevelopment plan for the historic site. But they also said they agreed with some of Miller’s arguments and did not rule out the project.
The commission on the board voted unanimously to block the project. St. Louis County Land Bank director Jim Ehrlich told the council that the land bank would help to pay the costs of legal work for the development, which would be “significant,” according to a letter sent to the county Tuesday night by Planning Commission chairwoman Kim Graziano.
Graziano said the project’s location, not just its economic impact, is the real issue.
“I want to assure the public and you as community members that the redevelopment plan is about protecting all of our valuable urban farm lands and we’ll proceed according to that plan,” she said.
Graziano said the county’s original economic analysis for the project did not include a wine bar or an 영천출장마사지 영천출장안마office development on the site, as she said the project could cause flooding, los
