Crossroads Advisory Commission

Crossroads Special Business District Advisory Commission MEETING MINUTES APPROVED MEETING DATE: Thursday, February 20, 2020 LOCATION: City Hall CALLED TO ORDER: 8:05 AM MEETING ADJOURNED: 9:07 AM NEXT MEETING: Thursday, July 16, 2020 NAME PRESENT ABSENT Bob Springer, Chair X Heidi Butts-Wiegand X Christi Johaningmeyer X Joshua Tonnies X Kelly Ruesing X Alison Kinderfather X Chris Westmeyer X David Franklin, Council Liaison X Mara Perry, Staff Liaison X Also in attendance: Police Officer Ahmar Rasool – WGPD Traffic Unit Fran Sudekum – Administrative Support APPROVAL OF MINUTES Motion to approve the January minutes was made by Kelly Ruesing, seconded by Christi Johaningmeyer and unanimously approved. VISITOR COMMENTS Lisa Lenning – Owner of a new business in the Crossroads District introduced herself. Her new business is a women’s clothing store called Descendants; it’s next door to Lark. STREETSCAPE PROJECT Bob Springer and Chris Westmeyer met with Rachel and Jason at East/West Gateway for feedback on Crossroad’s previous two grant applications for a streetscape project that were not awarded to receive funding (See Appendix A). Mara Perry shared information from St. Louis County; they have changed their position on the project and have a list of changes and additional items that need to take place before they would support it (See Appendix B & C). Commission Members would like to determine if the District could pursue some basic changes, possibly thru St. Louis County permitting and not as a part of an East/West Gateway funded project. Mara will ask Todd Rehg, Webster Groves Director of Public Works, to attend next month’s meeting to discuss options. Page 1 of 7 BUDGET Commission Members reviewed and discussed updated budget sheets for 2020 (See Appendix D) and proposed 2021 (See Appendix E). MOTION: Bob Springer made a motion to approve the proposed 2021 budget. Josh Tonnies seconded the motion and it was unanimously approved. SOUTH PUBLIC PARKING LOT A reminder letter on will be sent to building owners to share with tenants about the legal parking areas and time constraints for the south public parking lot; illegal parking will be ticketed. CITY UPDATE • Crossroads - Descendants, a women’s clothing store opens next Saturday, and a new retail business will open in the former Porter Paints location. • Old Webster – In the spring, Olive + Oak will move to its new location in the former Auto Beauty Specialists location and Perennial Artisan Ales will open at that location as well in the summer. • The City is working with a developer looking at a portion of Old Webster north of the railroad tracks. • City Staff is working on updating text amendments for such items as parking and residential codes. NEXT MEETING Invite Todd Rehg to next meeting to discuss streetscape project. ADJOURNED Meeting adjourned at 9:07 AM. Page 2 of 7 APPENDIX A Page 3 of 7 APPENDIX B Page 4 of 7 APPENDIX C Page 5 of 7 APPENDIX D Page 6 of 7 APPENDIX E Page 7 of 7