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City election fundraising update
Posted by Jacob Barker on Friday, March 5th, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized
*Correction: In a previous version of this post, I incorrectly reported the amount of in-kind contributions to Fourth Ward candidate Sarah Read. The correct amount is below.
OK, last week I posted a pretty incomplete campaign finance report for mayoral candidates Jerry Wade and Bob McDavid. Since then, I’ve managed to make the time to rummage [Click Here]
P&Z recommends against new commercial zoning on Grindstone
Posted by Jacob Barker on Friday, March 5th, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized
The Planning and Zoning Commission had different ideas than the Planning Department Thursday night, diverging from staff’s recommendation and voting against a proposed rezoning on Grindstone Parkway across from the Walmart center.
The request by Red Oak Investment Company, owned in part by Hugh Stephenson and his son Ted Stephenson as well as Robert Smith, was [Click Here]
Wade leads in campaign contributions, McDavid makes big strides
Posted by Jacob Barker on Friday, February 26th, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized
With the release of Mayoral candidate Bob McDavid’s first campaign finance report today, we now have an indicator of how the race between him and Fourth Ward Councilman Jerry Wade is shaping up.
Only those two candidates have reported any contributions or expenditures with the Missouri Ethics Commission. I’ll be updating this post after I make [Click Here]
New twist in Kroenke group, country club dispute
Posted by Jacob Barker on Friday, February 19th, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized
There’s a new twist in the effort to extend Conley Road from the Walmart shopping center through the Columbia Country Club to Business Loop 70. The Transportation Development District set up to fund the road extension project looks like it’s trying to get out of that obligation.
The Walmart property owners, known as TKG Conley Road [Click Here]
Planning on using those growth plans?
Posted by Jacob Barker on Thursday, February 4th, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized
There’s been a lot of talk about development in this town since I got here in the fall of ‘06 — smart growth, no growth, whatever you want to call it. And the talk has intensified now that we’re in campaign season. Bob McDavid’s entry into the race suggests some concern in the business community [Click Here]
Conley Road extension on shaky ground
Posted by Jacob Barker on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized
Have you ever found yourself at the eastern end of Business Loop 70, wishing you could just zip down past the Walmart to Broadway? Well, the city’s had that idea in mind for years, identifying an extension of Conley Road to Business Loop in its Major Thoroughfare Plan. The Missouri Department of Transportation has, too, [Click Here]
Large new commercial development in the works
Posted by Jacob Barker on Monday, January 25th, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized
If a rezoning proposal manages to wind its way through the city government, Grindstone Parkway could become an even more prominent commercial hub.
Red Oak Investment Company is applying to rezone 25 acres from agricultural to planned commercial on the south side of the street across from the Walmart. It would be one of the largest [Click Here]
McDavid gets business establishment backing
Posted by David Reed on Monday, January 25th, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized
Which candidate for mayor has the backing of Columbia’s business establishment?
Boone Hospital Center trustee chairman Bob McDavid, almost exclusively, according to the list of people who signed petitions to put candidates’ names on the April ballot. (Here’s a link to the Missourian Web site with the transcribed lists: http://thewatchword.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/candidate-petitions-have-some-familiar-names/
Sid Sullivan got Planning & Zoning Chairman [Click Here]
P&Z plans to crack down on late zoning requests
Posted by Jacob Barker on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized
With some huge projects on the Planning and Zoning Commission’s plate — the East Columbia Area Plan and the Comprehensive Plan to name a couple — they’ve opted to add one more: revising the commission’s bylaws to keep zoning requests from being changed at the last minute.
“This has been a burr under our saddles over [Click Here]
Columbia gets mentioned at U.S. Conference of Mayors
Posted by Jacob Barker on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized
Columbia and Mayor Darwin Hindman got a shout-out Wednesday from First Lady Michelle Obama during the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C.
During a speech she gave on preventing obesity, which she called “one of the biggest threats to the American economy,” she singled out six cities and their efforts to fight it.
“It’s why Mayor [Click Here]
Proposed change to city charter nothing but talk
Posted by Jacob Barker on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized
A proposed change to the city’s charter giving the City Council more power over the city manager’s hiring decisions fizzled out Monday night, but not without first attracting some of the usual suspects of city activists.
The motion would have asked voters yet another question on the April ballot about changing the city’s charter. This one [Click Here]
Visioning: light at the end of the tunnel
Posted by Jacob Barker on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized
The Columbia Vision Commission gave its first report to the City Council on the draft implementation report of the city’s visioning process Monday night, something of a milestone in the long-running process to gather citizen input on the direction of the city.
Commission Chair Dan Goldstein stressed the “living nature of the document,” and said the [Click Here]
CBT Business Calendar: The Week Ahead
Posted by David Reed on Monday, October 19th, 2009 Categories: Uncategorized
In Jefferson City this afternoon, Gov. Jay Nixon, Columbia Mayor Darwin Hindman and other public officials will take part in the dedication of a new renewable energy project. Landfill gas from the Jefferson City Landfill is captured and piped to the generation facility next to the City Correctional Center, where it is used to generate [Click Here]
Columbia Business Community: The Week Ahead
Posted by David Reed on Monday, October 5th, 2009 Categories: Uncategorized
Should the city use federal funds to build a bike boulevard on the northeastern edge of downtown? That’s one of the big questions the city’s elected officials and administrators will answer this week.
The City Council will consider the bike boulevard proposal during the public hearing segment of its meeting tonight at City Hall. The boulevard would [Click Here]
Time for a change?
Posted by Scott Wendling on Monday, July 27th, 2009 Categories: Uncategorized
Columbia was incorporated in 1826 and was originally managed by 5 trustees. This system must have worked well for some time because it was used for 66 years. In 1892 Columbia switched over from trustees to a mayor and council organization. I would assume this was done in response to a growing city that required [Click Here]
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