A Visit from the City Planners

We were blessed to have the city planners from St. Peters, Ken Braunfeld and Julie Powers here to talk to our class today.  Here are some thoughts from class bloggers:

Trevor N.:

Hello today some planing commissioners have told us about that

: the city tax rate has gone down but it depends on the house and size

: some buildings compete to get customers like Home Depot vs Loews (MENARDS is coming to town)

: LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design  that means that you have to have
. Sustainability
. Water Efficiency
. Energy and Atmosphere

: More land is turning into more urban area

: and the city hall and the recplex took 1 1/2 years to build


NOTE TAKERS:  Ashley V, Angel F, Elizabeth S, Erika R.

• Julie Powers- 17 years of experience
• Ken LAST NAME?????- Masters degree in Urban Planning 21 years
• Things change and they help with problems like that
• New Projects- Freddy’s Frozen Custard, Fire Station- Shorter time for less traffic by Mid Rivers, McDonalds, CVS, Carmax

Mcdonald's is 30 years old on Harvester.  
-CVS, Tries to compete head to head with Walgreens!
-Carmax is coming to car dealerships. Carmax does not negotiate its only one price!  
-EVIRONMENTAL- LEED- leadership energy environmental design.
-Library was built for 6 million dollars and it was actually 40% off!

-Weren’t many ways to get into St.Charles county, since we’ve grown they built more roads and highways.
-People might want metrolink so they don’t have to drive and gas prices to high!
- Neighbor complaints have really nothing to do with them they just try to council people with complaints.

• Many complaints from neighbor to neighbor, not getting along, want what they have
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Photographer Emily S.