The Board of Adjustment voted 4-1 to table the variances for 90 days. Also do a traffic study. Ridiculous.
Again, this is insane. As I pointed out in an earlier post the block to the west (and many in this part of the neighborhood) are built to a similar density as the proposed apartments, likely with higher on-street parking demand. And, if it was a fully functional middle school at capacity the parking and traffic issues would be significantly higher than the current proposal.quincunx wrote: ↑Oct 04, 2023The Board of Adjustment voted 4-1 to table the variances for 90 days. Also do a traffic study. Ridiculous.
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That school has a decent sized parking lot. I used it when that was my polling place for voting.
Also, these nimby neighbors suggest it should be a museum? Wouldn’t that cause more parking/traffic issues than an apartment building?
I agree that the City needs very strong by-right development standards to crush nimbys. Our city is bleeding residents and need all the development we can get.
Also, these nimby neighbors suggest it should be a museum? Wouldn’t that cause more parking/traffic issues than an apartment building?
I agree that the City needs very strong by-right development standards to crush nimbys. Our city is bleeding residents and need all the development we can get.
Ugh
StlToday - Fire causes 'extensive damage' at Stella Blues bar in Tower Grove South in St. Louis
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... bc378.html
StlToday - Fire causes 'extensive damage' at Stella Blues bar in Tower Grove South in St. Louis
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... bc378.html
$275k building permit application submitted for a new home at 4234 Wyoming.
Infill!
Fortunately the LRA didn't own this <4,000 sf lot. It was subdivided from a parcel which contained the one to the west.
Infill!
Fortunately the LRA didn't own this <4,000 sf lot. It was subdivided from a parcel which contained the one to the west.
$15M zoning-only building permit application submitted for conversion of Fanning School into apartments. Don't know if they've changed anything to placate the NIMBYs.
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^ At the last community presentation this past Spring, Screaming Eagle said it was able to satisfy parking requirements w/o the need for a variance or reserved on-street spaces... iirc only a variance for the proposed number of units would be required.
Elsewhere in the neighborhood, there's been a pretty nice burst of scattered site infill and of course rehabs continue apace.
Elsewhere in the neighborhood, there's been a pretty nice burst of scattered site infill and of course rehabs continue apace.
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Not a lot of other four story warehouses in that block, so . . . yeah? 
I've never really thought much about that building, but looking at those windows, it would make for great loft apartments (not much of a view, though).
I always thought that although it would be a bit of an island. The first few parcels on Khwy going south from Arsenal are for sale so if someone could grab those, this property, and maybe something in between and get multi story residential going I think it would make this area much nicer. Sidewalks and lights need to be improved for pedestrians though.framer wrote: ↑Sep 05, 2024I've never really thought much about that building, but looking at those windows, it would make for great loft apartments (not much of a view, though).
Likewise. Seems like an obvious Garcia rehab.framer wrote: ↑Sep 05, 2024I've never really thought much about that building, but looking at those windows, it would make for great loft apartments (not much of a view, though).
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CDA awarded funding to support two single-family for sale home projects. Four homes proposed for the former gas station that's now a vacant LRA lot at Morgan Ford and Oleatha and the other for two homes on a current industrial zoned site on the 4100 block Tholozan. I believe the Tholozan project has a few more homes planned at market rate.
Still a ways to go on both of these projects before any groundbreaking.
Still a ways to go on both of these projects before any groundbreaking.
Where are all the vacant housing units in TGS?
2000 2020 Change % Change
Total Housing Units 7,304 6,961 -343 -5%
Occupied Housing Units 6,313 6,227 -86 -1%
Vacant Housing Units 991 734 -257 -26%
2000 2020 Change % Change
Total Housing Units 7,304 6,961 -343 -5%
Occupied Housing Units 6,313 6,227 -86 -1%
Vacant Housing Units 991 734 -257 -26%
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As a former Tower Grove South resident, I can't help but wonder if a significant portion of the vacancy comes from the part of the neighborhood that is referred to as "the wedge."
South of Gravois, north of Chippewa, west of Grand.
South of Gravois, north of Chippewa, west of Grand.
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There is a sneaky homeless encampment on the Southside of the HD parking lot. It’s over the fence near the lumber yard entrance, towards the corner closer to Kingshwy. I bet they use the building on colder days or when the police make them move. Seems like they like the area because busy enough to beg, active freight rail nearby and access to bathroom at HD.
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Great Question! 377 of the 734 vacant units were in the two census tracts by the park, so a bit more than half. The remainder were in the TGS portions of the three southern tracts.quincunx wrote: ↑Sep 25, 2024Where are all the vacant housing units in TGS?
2000 2020 Change % Change
Total Housing Units 7,304 6,961 -343 -5%
Occupied Housing Units 6,313 6,227 -86 -1%
Vacant Housing Units 991 734 -257 -26%
Part of it is the large number of rehabs going on at any given time. Also, city records miss a significant amount of conversions and this makes its way into the census numbers as well. (I chatted a bit with a census taker in 2020 who was trying to track down non responses at a two-fam building that he still had listed as a four-fam; it was actually converted before the 2010 census!) Additionally, there are quite a few two-fams that are owner-occupied but the other unit isn't being actively rented out. Often times these are owned by older persons.
The most annoying ones are those that are being left vacant by speculators, but the good news is those seem to have been declining along with the number of vacant, distressed properties compared to what there was in the aftermath of the great recession.
And a wild card here is how short-term rentals in general play into vacancy/occupancy counts.... I wish I had a better handle on this, but I suspect the Census is counting a significant number of formerly occupied housing units as vacant but in reality have been turned over to str. The new City ordinance that will require (at least in theory) str registration will properly re-classify str use as commercial, and ideally off housing unit counts.
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