Welcome to this blog, my name is Tom Hunt and I live on Kuhlman Lane. We may have met when I went around our neighborhood last week giving out maps and response forms. Everyone I spoke to that day and at the meetings held by the St. Louis County Dept. of Highways and Trafic were concerned about our neighborhoods and the impact this project will have. Many individuals gave me their email addresses, I thought this would be a good way to hear from everyone. I sent an invite to every email that I had received that day and since.
Couple of items: We have asked for more actual color maps and response forms from John Hicks who is the Transportation Development Analyst with St. Louis County Dept. of Highways & Traffic. We talked with Mr. Hicks at the meeting in Shrewsbury, and he was very helpful and seems to be the go-to person for information and help.
Also we emailed Gerry Welch, Mayor of Webster Groves, who is now on board and is asking for an additional meeting for Webster residents who were unaware of the impact this project may have.
Please share this blog with anyone and everyone.
Thanks Tom
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Channel 5 has linked images of the plans.
The Link
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=262177
Forgot to mention, If you have not made comments on the comment forms, the deadline is July 8th.
Tom and Lori, perhaps we should think about using something like www.Change.org to create an online petition to gather signatures from people across Webster?
Barry this is a great idea.
I will set it up, if you don't mind writing the text.
Tom
Couple of other ideas,
Gather photos from various times of day proving that this project is not for current traffic needs.
create a slide show of the houses that would be affected. If you see your house, you might be moved to do something, my reasoning.
Great ideas! I would like to add another. It is more old school, but I think some letters to the Webster Kirkwood Times would be a good idea.
Oh, something to be said about all of the proposed maps is that none of the ramps that would connect to and from Highway 44 are shown on any of the drawings. At the meetings, the project team indicated that the ramps would have complicated the drawings. That is probably true. However, the absence of the ramps may understate the potentially affected areas since they are not shown.
There is a meeting at city hall on June 29th in Webster Groves, i am going to check on the times.
Please let your neighborhood.
Meeting on June 29th is from 5-6 p.m. at city hall
http://www.websterkirkwoodtimes.com/Articles-i-2011-06-24-175720.114137-County-Connector-Meeting-June-29.html
We are thinking of making signs today to announce the meeting and put them on the ends the streets effected.
Any one want to help?
We know that some of the houses in the neighbhorhood are historic, but even the houses built in the 1930s and 1940s may be subject to review uner Section 106 of 36 CFR Part 800 (historic preservation). .
Here is the link to that information;
http://www.acjp.gov/citizens guide.html
Sorry, I must learn to proofread! The link to historic preservation information is:
http://www.achp.gov/citizensguide.html
Webster's City Council has a meeting Tuesday (7/19) at 6:45pm and a resolution to oppose the South County Connector routes is on the agenda. Members of the audience may make remarks if called upon (up to 3 minutes in length). Here's the link to the agenda:
http://www.webstergroves.org/Archive.aspx?AMID=31&Type=Recent
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