Monday, April 8, 2013
Maryland Heights staff members say other than potential adverse impacts on wildlife, there's no negatives to a treetop adventure course coming to Creve Coeur Park.
Though pockets of Maryland Heights residents might be opposed to a treetop adventure course in Creve Coeur Park, city staff is prepared to urge local lawmakers to green-light the project that is expected to bring zip-lines to the park's canopy. According to Maryland Heights documents, acting City Planner Michael Zeek will recommend approving a conditional use permit that would allow Go Ape to build an adventure park that could open as early as May. In late February, the St. Louis County Council approved the lease for the course to be built and operated by Go Ape—a Maryland-based company that has created similar parks inIndiana, Virginia and Maryland. However, the course still needed to clear city officials, which now appears likely. City …
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Readers and social media followers react to the new treetop adventure park that is planned for Creve Coeur Park.
Love it or hate it, a treetop adventure course is on its way to Creve Coeur Park in Maryland Heights. The St. Louis County Council approved the controversial zip-line-based course Tuesday night. Many St. Louis-area residents were unhappy about the project and more than a dozen made a last-ditch attempt to stop the project by organizing opposition during Tuesday's council meeting. The park will open in May and be built by a company called Go Ape!, a Maryland-based company that has created similar parks inIndiana, Virginia and Maryland. Most of the opponents, Fox 2 News reports, were Audubon Society members, who had concerns were about wildlife, especially birds that will be sharing the tree tops with zip liners. Just one spoke in favor of…
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The St. Louis County Council voted to green-light a proposed treetop adventure course in Creve Coeur Park on Tuesday night. The project had come under fire by concerned citizens for its potential to harm existing wildlife and habitat.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Members of the St. Louis County Council will vote tonight on a proposed treetop adventure park at Creve Coeur Park in Maryland Heights tonight.
- - - Updated at 9 p.m. - - - St. Louis County Council members approved a controversial treetop adventure course in Creve Coeur Park Tuesday night. That's according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Steve Giegerich's Twitter account. Many St. Louis-area residents were unhappy about the proposed zip-line-based course and made a last-ditch attempt to stop the project by organizing opposition during Tuesday's county council meeting. The park will be built by a company called Go Ape!, a Maryland-based company that has created similar parks in Indiana, Virginia and Maryland. - - - Original story - - - St. Louis-area residents unhappy about a proposed treetop are rallying in a last-ditch attempt to stop a proposed adventure course in Creve …
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Councilman Steve Stenger disagrees with the allocation for St. Louis County Parks as County Executive Charlie Dooley’s budget office reduces funding for the department.
The St. Louis County Parks Department is still $500,000 in the red despite laying off 20 employees and increasing revenue by $193,780. Those numbers were presented to the St. Louis County Council Tuesday in a plan meant to make the parks department more efficient. Acting Parks Director Tom Ott created a business plan that outlined a strategy to keep parks providing the basic services while reducing costs. The plan comes seven months after County Executive Charlie Dooley proposed closing 23 parks and laying off more than 100 employees because of a budget crisis. Early budget projections showed a $10 million deficit, according to the county executive. *At the end of the year, the county received unexpected revenues, leaving the parks open. …
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
The Parks Department will present a business plan to the St. Louis County Council after being the center of the 2012 budget discussion.
St. Louis County officials will hear a business plan for the Parks Department seven months after County Executive Charlie Dooley first threatened to close 23 county parks and lay off more than 170 employees, citing a budget crisis. The meeting will take place Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the St. Louis County Council conference room at 41 South Central Avenue in Clayton. Members of the county council—led by then-chairman Steve Stenger (D-Affton)—vehemently opposed Dooley’s initial 2012 budget proposal and questioned his office’s claim of a $10 million deficit. Parks activists also protested the closures, leading to several petitions and a rally outside county headquarters in Clayton. After forming a special budget committee, the council and …
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
A bill written by the St. Louis County Department of Health contained some surprises, market masters said, and they let the County Council know about it Tuesday night in Clayton.
The St. Louis County Council put on hold a comprehensive bill overseeing how farmers markets in the county do business during a meeting Tuesday in Clayton. Market masters have argued that vendor fees are prohibitively high and the application process lengthy. County Councilman Pat Dolan (D-Richmond Heights) introduced a bill written by the county Department of Health designed to address those and other issues. Market masters from Clayton, Webster Groves and Maplewood spoke to the council Tuesday night. They said the bill makes some fixes but leaves concerns. One concern is that the bill would limit markets to seven months a year, a component of the bill that apparently surprised even council members. Maplewood market master Brian DeSmet …
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
The economy and parks are high on his agenda for 2012.
Michael O’Mara (D-Florissant), District 4 was elected the new St. Louis County Council chair in the first council meeting of 2012. He takes the helm from Steve Stenger (D-Affton), the councilman for District 6. Kathleen Burkett (D-Overland), District 2, is now the vice chair. O’Mara is a Florissant native, and has been on the council since 2000. He was the chair, last, in 2007. He was an All-American soccer player before playing professionally in Kansas City and St. Louis. He joined the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 562, and is currently an international representative for the United Association of Plumbers, Pipefitters and Sprinklerfitters. O’Mara’s priorities for St. Louis County for the year are all about the economy. He said in a …
Thursday, December 8, 2011
County Executive Charlie Dooley said all St. Louis County Parks will remain open.
Less than five minutes into Tuesday’s St. Louis County Council meeting, County Executive Charlie Dooley made the announcement that all 23 St. Louis County Parks slated for closure in 2012 will stay open. “The things that we’ve compromised on is that we’re going to leave all of our parks systems open… we will keep the West County satellite office open as well, and we will keep the plowing in unincorporated St. Louis County,” he said. The county executive emphasized a team effort in not only adjusting the 2012 budget, but also looking ahead for long-term solutions to what he originally predicted to be a $26 million budget deficit. “There may be lingering issues in the future about how large a deficit was or wasn’t, or if it exists. Those don…
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Stenger said he did not say anything insulting.
County Executive Charlie Dooley called for an apology from County Council Chairman Steve Stenger (D-District 6) about his comments on the Mark Reardon Show Wednesday. “In trying to insult me, Mr. Stenger demeaned and insulted the people of St. Louis County—many of whom do not have a college degree,” Dooley said in a release Thursday. Stenger was a guest on the show and discussed the 2012 recommended county budget and the special committee he formed to create alternative suggestions to the proposed closure of 23 St. Louis County Parks. Reardon asked Stenger what background Dooley had specifically to the budget. This was after the two discussed Stenger’s 18-year history as a certified public accountant specializing in state and local taxes…
Ann Learner
4:28 pm on Monday, April 8, 2013
I would like to go Zip lining, but there is already a lot going on every day in already crowded Creve Coeur Park, while other parks are under-utilized. This passed the County Council when that Council was facing budget cut for parks. (I was at the meeting and this was a big consideration) This was before the recent passage of the sales tax to benefit parks. This spot, by being near a large … more ›