urbanSTL

What a lame time to be alive.

Seriously.  ***** car washes and gas stations, it's all the creativity left in this world for passive income for lazy investors.

What would be the step in the right direction to reframe our land use? At least in the City?

Form based code.
Remove parking mins.
Cap on total number of gas stations/pumps.
New gas stations need to get sigs from neighbors like for a liquor license or forbid them within X feet of residential.
Make auto-oriented land uses a conditional use everywhere.

Who do we ask to do so? This surely could not be a ward-by-ward thing, it needs to be city-wide.

NextSTL - Dutchtown Special Use District Proposed

https://nextstl.com/2022/06/dutchtown-s ... -proposed/

^All sounds pretty good to me.

$192k building permit application submitted for rehab of 4021 Nebraska

^That will sure help us get past $1 billion in permit value for 2024. Too bad Stray Rescue would have to pay 10x their likely actual entire construction budget just for the $15 million permit fee on that if it were true.

Weird. I think that site would be best staying industrial. 

I thought work started on this long ago. At least enough that thieves broke in and stole a bunch of copper wire that had been installed.

Copper worth thousands stolen from Stray Rescue of St. Louis build site

I swear I remember that place having a few big doberman pinschers behind the fence that would run down from the building as we'd walk by. We were young, 3rd-4th grade, and many times, those gates would be open, so we stayed away from that place mostly sticking to the other side of the RR tracks.  The wonderland we played in back then, and were allowed to play in back in the day compared to kids today, unbelievable. I remember going inside & exploring the closed Alligator factory and even climbing up the old chimney off Baisch Lane, until one of the rungs pulled out. Even those old viaducts, we used to go down in those things as young kids. Sure did beat suburban life!

$180k building permit application submitted for a new two-fam at 4021 Nebraska

^Fabulous!

$300k building permit issued to rehab 4711 VIRGINIA

^ We should absolutely increase fines on vacant properties, and attach unpaid ones as liens that get paid out upon sale.  Hopefully the Roosevelt can still be fixed up.